Blind In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and was published in 1925. The book is placed in 1920s, New York. The story is about Nick Caraway and how he met the millionaire, Jay Gatsby. According to Samuels, ”The book's chief characters are blind, and they behave blindly.” It is evident that Samuel is correct in his assertion because Gatsby, Nick, and Wilson are all blind in their own ways.

Jay Gatsby behaves blindly in the book the Great Gatsby written by F Scott Fitzgerald because he thinks Daisy never loved Tom and that he could be in the same social level as Tom. One reason why jay gatsby was blind is because jay left daisy for along time- and daisy thought Gatsby was dead so she fell in love with another man. Gastby responds to nick by saying “I don’t think she ever loved him.” Gatsby turned around from a window and looked at me challengingly. “You must remember, old sport, she was very excited this afternoon. He told

One reason why his wife doesn’t love him is because she cheats on him with Tom. Wilson doesn’t know anything about it tom says “Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive” (22). This explains that Wilson is blind to the fact that tom is sleeping with his wife and that his wife is not happy with him. Wilson was also blind by thinking that his wife actually loves him. Wilson’s wife does not love him because she loves money and that’s why she is cheating on him with tom. Wilson wife thought he was someone else when she married him she even says “I married him because I thought he was a gentleman,” she said finally. “I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe” (29). this explains that all Myrtle cared about was money, she had believed that Wilson was rich but when she found out that he was not, she thought he was useless. She never loved