There are many things that can push people to their breaking point and through out Maus Art has been pushed time and time again to his breaking point because of his own father. Art has been very short tempered around his father and a good scenario of this is on page 20 when in the series of panels, Art has been narrow minded because of his personal bias towards his father when is comes to him criticizing Art. Art takes this to heart and this is how the inter-generational trauma effects Art. As a result
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...
I think it's really important that you emphasized the close-minded tendencies of Art, and how he in part plays a role in affecting his father's trauma.
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