Struck by wealth, men and women scamper down the streets with dashing necklaces, jingling watches, and sparkling shoes proud of there glamarous strut to the struggling dismaye onlookers. These characters live smugly in their own bubbles of conceitment, visiting lavish parties, drinking abundently, and dashing down streets in flashy cars while the jumbled world strives to survive. Wealthy friends of Toms "...both in white, their dresses rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blow back in after a short flight around the house" (8). Feathery and delicate descriptions of the clean pure dresses depict these women as peculiar china resting on a platform of supremacy with a small flutter of a dress and a sway as they raise their chins high to the world. However, giving a sense of confusment and brainlessness they are shaken and fluttered by their "flight" through life. Perhaps, this sense of bewilderment has come to this generation in a constant adventure to exploit themselves to find a taste of this wild extravagence, forgetting and pushing aside anything and everything who stands in the path of fortune. Fitzgerald sets a tone about this generation as self centered and egotistical people only exploiting eachother. He describes them in a way of corruption and manipulation prying off eachother to discover the pot of gold at the end of this sly diluted rainbow of manipulation.
At these exquisite parties, "When the Jazz History of the World was over, girls were putting their heads on men's shoulders in a puppyish, covivial way, girls were swooning backward playfully into mens arms, even into groups, knowing that some one would arrest their falls..."(50). Mimicking Daisy, the girls at the party search desperately for money and porsperity from the staggering rich such as puppies to their aiding mother. They swoon towatds the rich, throwing themselves at any man with a lump of cash in their hand. However, without a sense of true love of eachother, these relationships sould surely fail. With a already failing relationship and only a struggle to live the largest luxury the men and women of this curse have become disconnected from true love and living their lives for an honest reason. Perhaps they are not concealing their dismay too easily though, for "her gray sun-strained eyes looked back at me...out of wan...discontented face" (11). This women shows signs of sadness and most importantly discomfort. She symbolizes a faction of the generation who seek splendor but frankly are still hindered by their true feelings for love outside of wealth. She is strained by this life-depleting search, and while she soothes herself to believe the unreality of its value, she is caught up in the love of life, discontented by her position. While, Fitzgerald does give a mocking tone towards the people who live their lives out in misjudgemnt, he gives each a sense of mercy and hope in how he reveals the true heart and discomfort for their own harmful needs. He shows a true side of each human, giving each a conscience and a chance again for redemption.
At these exquisite parties, "When the Jazz History of the World was over, girls were putting their heads on men's shoulders in a puppyish, covivial way, girls were swooning backward playfully into mens arms, even into groups, knowing that some one would arrest their falls..."(50). Mimicking Daisy, the girls at the party search desperately for money and porsperity from the staggering rich such as puppies to their aiding mother. They swoon towatds the rich, throwing themselves at any man with a lump of cash in their hand. However, without a sense of true love of eachother, these relationships sould surely fail. With a already failing relationship and only a struggle to live the largest luxury the men and women of this curse have become disconnected from true love and living their lives for an honest reason. Perhaps they are not concealing their dismay too easily though, for "her gray sun-strained eyes looked back at me...out of wan...discontented face" (11). This women shows signs of sadness and most importantly discomfort. She symbolizes a faction of the generation who seek splendor but frankly are still hindered by their true feelings for love outside of wealth. She is strained by this life-depleting search, and while she soothes herself to believe the unreality of its value, she is caught up in the love of life, discontented by her position. While, Fitzgerald does give a mocking tone towards the people who live their lives out in misjudgemnt, he gives each a sense of mercy and hope in how he reveals the true heart and discomfort for their own harmful needs. He shows a true side of each human, giving each a conscience and a chance again for redemption.
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