Veeksha's Vibes

      If you're walking through the hallways of Troy High whilst eavesdropping, you might hear a few people here and there saying, "I have so much work I’m gonna die" and we don't take this seriously and just laugh it off and maybe ask them if they need help in one of their classes. This is how the wealthy people in The Great Gatsby and Diamond as Big as the Ritz view and react to real death. They treat it as something they don’t need to worry about and a future that they are ultimately safe from with their wealth as an impenetrable shield. When Myrtle died, the most anyone did was check if she was alive. No one felt any sorrow. Except Wilson…who clearly took it too far.  Even Tom who had an affair with her was satisfied with her death, just because it would bring some downfall to Wilson who isn't even a direct rival.       When I was younger it didn’t occur to me that death was such a deep concept and process. I just thought that only the ph...

    The one thing I admire most about the plot and story of The Great Gatsby is Nick and Gatsby's friendship. The last thing thing Nick tells Gatsby was "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." (Fitzgerald 154). To talk to a friend like that about how much they mean to you, and what you think about them is something that sometimes even best friends don't say to each other. Nick was being completely unbiased and judged based on only what he saw and experienced which makes him a great person. Gatsby knows this too and that's why he takes his Nicks words very sincerely.       A friendship built in that little time with that much trust and flexibility is very rare. Nick and Gatsby's friendship seems to have benefitted Gatsby throughout the novel too. In the very beginning, he spoke to Nick only to get to Daisy but then started spending time with him because he genuinely liked him.     Gatsby and Nick both don't seem to have problems with ...