Aspects of Tragedy in The Great Gatsby
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- Aspects of Tragedy in The Great Gatsby
- Tragic Protagonist
- Gatsby
- Unsympathetic
- Criminal
- Inmoral
- Criminal associations
- Meyer Wolfsheim
- Criminal
- Sympathetic
- Romantic readiness
- Moral purity
- Loyal to his image of Daisy
- Loneliness
- Class snobbery: East Eggers
- No one comes to the funeral
- No one comes to the funeral
- Rumours: Nobody knows or wants to know the real Gatsby
- Romantic readiness
- Death
- Fate
- Army
- Made it possible to meet Daisy
- Dan Cody
- Army
- Hubris
- Car
- Villain
- Daisy
- Didn't wait - Easily moved by money
- Doesn't own up to being the driver
- She destroys Gatsby's hopes by retreating into her money
- Abandons him again after death
- Wilson
- Victim of Tom - 1) His wife's affair 2) Leads him to Gatsby
- Daisy
- Fate
- Unsympathetic
- Gatsby
- Fatal Flaw (Hamartia)
- Waiting for Daisy - Dedicating his life to one dream
- The dream is flawed in that it was based on obtaining entry to the class who would never accept him
- Daisy is unworthy of such admiration as she is superficial, vapid and too easily persuaded by others
- Waiting for Daisy - Dedicating his life to one dream
- Recognition (Anagnorisis)
- Gatsby
- Does not reach the moment of recognition as he is still waiting for her phone call before his death
- Nick
- Seems to have come to some degree of recognition
- He admires the man he would previously scorned
- The American Dream is a delusion for most people
- Seems to have come to some degree of recognition
- Gatsby
- Conflict
- Gatsby against the state - Illegal activity
- Acceptable because the audience sympathises with his purpose
- Family and social classs
- Old money vs New money/Setting of East egg vs West egg
- Gatsby rejects his family and background
- Gatsby against the state - Illegal activity
- Tragic Protagonist
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