If you are like me, your day starts with a stupidly generic alarm that wakes you up from your refreshing four hours of sleep you got wondering how well you retained the information for the four tests you had the next day. You try to shake that mild headache away and carry on with your morning routine. You try to eat breakfast even though your body is telling you is is two hours too early to be eating but you slowly but surely force the meal down your throat and tell yourself that it is a start of a new day. You then proceed to get on the bus and the bus driver looks on to you and says, "Have a nice day, with a voice that is the absolute sound of death"(Wallace, 235), and look on to the numerous zombies that also heard the same, "have a nice day." As you then walk into the doors of Troy High, you are pleasantly greeted with by some bald guy telling you to, "have a nice day," but never actually means it because he never makes eye contact to say it. As you walk in you are bombarded with stupid amounts of bright lights as you come in from darkness simulating symptoms of a concussion. You are then put into autopilot as your feet take you through the never ending hallway and on to your next destination limping on some steps as your leg still has not woke up. After you go through the whole day of school, your sixth hour teacher tells the class after the bell rings, "have a nice day," and at this point stop and question if you really had a nice day.
In The Great Gatsby, Nick has a peculiar way of describing Gatsby by making his description of him somewhat ambiguous. I feel that this is foreshadowing later into the book in some ways because of how little we know about Gatsby. The ambiguous description of Gatsby through Nick's eyes was, "[he] represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn." After reading this, I became more interested in Gatsby as throughout the reading, some of what Gatsby says and does is in contradiction to where he lives and what he does. After our discussion in class about him living in the West Egg, this can imply that Gatsby did not inherit his wealth from his family because the city that represents old money, East Egg, is the place that he should be tied to if that is the case. With the lie that he brought up, it can also be assumed that there are other lies that are in place to keep his character mysterious. Because of the reason the Gatsby wants to hide how he obtained his we...
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