My questions...

1.Why doesn't daisy leave Tom even after she knows about his affair? 2. How does Gatsby and Daisy know each other? 3. Who is the letter that Daisy reads before getting married from? 4. Why does Gatsby leave Nick when he was going to introduce him to Tom?

Birth to a new life

It’ll show you how I’ve gotten to feel about — things.

 Well, she was less than an hour old.

 Tom was God knows where.

 I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling.

 I asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl.

 She told me it was a girl.

 I turned my head away and wept. 

‘All right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl.

 And I hope she’ll be a fool.

 That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world.

 A beautiful little fool. ( Fitzgerald pg.21 )

Money = Happiness?

Money does give people the happiness they desire and they can get it anytime they want because they have the wealth to do it. If the rich were to be sad they could easily buy something and make themselves happy right away and if it kept on occurring then the more things they would have. I think the people with money have less worries than people that struggle to put food in their homes day to day. The rich ones don't have to worry about what they're going to eat the next day or how they're going to get any food at all. If the rich people were ever to have a hole in their heart they could easily fill it by buying what is missing or buying something close to it. By being rich you don't have to worry about your dreams because you would be able to reach everyone of them with money. People say that money doesn't buy happiness but it does buy an amount that resembles it or is close to it because the rich person would be satisfied with that closeness to happiness. If they were ever to get to a point where they would be depressed emotionally they could easily pay a psychiatrist to treat them and they would be cured. The rich people are happier than poor people even though it would take more happy moments of the rich ones to make one true happy moment of the poor.

Outward Appearance

Outward appearances are deceptive because it's not always what they seem to portray.When i go to stores with my friends or family i see a lot of deceptive people. I have seen moments when there's girls who are very pretty and have the best clothes on ,laughing and enjoying themselves with friends, and it may seem that their lives are almost perfect but they're not. Then the boyfriends shows up and you see the faces change. Every smile they had on turns into a sad frown. I can tell by the way they look at the floor the whole time their talking with him. The intimidation they give them to where they flinch with every little body movement their boyfriends make. You can see now that their lives are not as perfect as they seem to portray. We personally are concerned with some outer appearance because it's the way we judge the people we decide to talk too. I know that before we talk to someone sometimes we base it on their looks. If that person is dressed weirdly we don't take interest in starting a conversation with them. On the other hand when their is a cute boy/girl we don't think twice about meeting them. I think what we value in America is substantial because we know how to appreciate the things we have. Others money to me does not matter because i don't seek people because of their wealth but because of the way they treat me. I wouldn't care if i was sitting next to the poorest person on earth i am not the one that will judge their lifestyle.