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The Great Gatsby by F. Schott Fitzgerald

Chapter 1, pages 5-21

The introduction of Tom and Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker brought me to compare the people of Gatsby to the people of Mirth. Much like the people of Mirth, the people of Gatsby gossip about everything. In this quote, "We heard it from three people, so it must be true" (Fitzgerald, page 19), Tom and Daisy seem to back up their idea that Nick must be engaged because they heard it from three people. Recently while watching television, I came across a commercial that seemed to display this same idea. The State Farm commercial plays with the idea that some people can believe that everything they read on the internet is true:

Likewise, in another sense, I believe that Daisy has a habit of liking to hear herself. In this quote, "Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it" (Fitzgerald, page 11), I felt as if Daisy just wanted to speak just to hear herself speak. After I first noticed this, I kept reading and realized she seemed to do this frequently when speaking to other people. 

Lastly, I find myself feeling the same feelings as Nick the narrator. He is in disbelief at what types of conversations and conning goes on during one dinner at his cousins house. Likewise, I felt the same way while reading Mirth and yet again while reading this. In the same way, our society today can sometimes baffle me in the same way where I am taken back at how we believe every ounce of gossip and news we read or hear.