Comparing Love In The Great Gatsby And The Dark Horse
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, The Dark Horse directed by James Napier Robertson, and A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin love brings out the worst in characters. Some characters are selfish in love, they use love as justification for their questionable actions, and they love power more than other people.
The main story line in Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is that Amy is framing her husband Nick for her murder. She sets up an elaborate scheme to hurt him and to exact revenge for making her move away from her great life in New York for a small town life that she doesn’t fit into and because he is having an affair behind her back. . Amy believes she should not be treated in this way and deserves …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald, many characters are primarily thinking about themselves in relationships. Tom and Daisy, a seemingly lovely married couple are both having affairs behind each others back. Tom says “I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out” in reference to Daisy’s affair with Jay Gatsby even though Tom has no problem with flaunting his affair in public “the fact that he had one [a mistress] was insisted upon wherever he was known. His acquaintances resented the fact that he turned up in popular restaurants with her and, leaving her at a table, sauntered about, chatting with whomever he knew.” Tom was rubbing the fact he had a mistress in and after expressing his distaste for the idea of his wife having an affair, it is very hypocritical. Tom is selfish if he thinks he is the only one who is entitled to be unfaithful and it's hypocritical of him to think he is allowed to be unfaithful to his wife while she is still only with him. It's understandable that because of the time period this book is set (1920’s) there were social standards to uphold and that it might not have been possible for Tom and Daisy to leave their marriage but it doesn’t change the fact that they were both making choices about their relationship that were
The main story line in Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is that Amy is framing her husband Nick for her murder. She sets up an elaborate scheme to hurt him and to exact revenge for making her move away from her great life in New York for a small town life that she doesn’t fit into and because he is having an affair behind her back. . Amy believes she should not be treated in this way and deserves …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald, many characters are primarily thinking about themselves in relationships. Tom and Daisy, a seemingly lovely married couple are both having affairs behind each others back. Tom says “I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out” in reference to Daisy’s affair with Jay Gatsby even though Tom has no problem with flaunting his affair in public “the fact that he had one [a mistress] was insisted upon wherever he was known. His acquaintances resented the fact that he turned up in popular restaurants with her and, leaving her at a table, sauntered about, chatting with whomever he knew.” Tom was rubbing the fact he had a mistress in and after expressing his distaste for the idea of his wife having an affair, it is very hypocritical. Tom is selfish if he thinks he is the only one who is entitled to be unfaithful and it's hypocritical of him to think he is allowed to be unfaithful to his wife while she is still only with him. It's understandable that because of the time period this book is set (1920’s) there were social standards to uphold and that it might not have been possible for Tom and Daisy to leave their marriage but it doesn’t change the fact that they were both making choices about their relationship that were