5 Things To Learn From The Great Gatsby
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5 Things To Learn From The Great Gatsby

Life Lessons from the Great Gatsby

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5 Things To Learn From The Great Gatsby
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After reading The Great Gatsby for about the fourth time now, I started to notice that there are some life lessons we can learn from this amazing book.

1. A girl being a fool is not okay-

A popular line from the book is when Daisy makes the statement "That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." No matter how "blonde" I may be, I never want to be a fool. A fool can be known as a silly person, but the word fool is also defined as someone who acts unwisely. If anything why should girls be labeled to act unwisely? I mean who wants to be a beautiful women with no brains? Looks can only get you so far in life, and I think as women we rely too much on how we look instead of the knowledge we should be retaining instead. All the time we hear about how boys are breaking our hearts and we as girls fall for the wrong boys. I mean sure Daisy loves Gatsby, but she stays with her awful husband Tom in the end, but why? Because she thinks it is perfectly fine and thinks she has it all with him


2. Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply-

As much as we have hate being blamed for things, we hate being lied to. Just because we are women does not mean we should not also take guilt for our actions. A lot of women though do have the need to over care and over think situations in their lives which causes them to react. No matter a woman or man, all dishonesty should not go without being acknowledged.


3. I am one of the few honest people you may ever know-

Oh are you? Do not ever say this no matter how honest of a person you may think you are. If you have to state that you are honest, trustworthy, or whatever then it sounds to me you are not only trying to convince me, but also convince yourself. As we get older we should know what type of person we are in life (or at least the type of person we want to be). I should be willing to trust people on my own and not by having them tell me to trust them.


4. Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall-

Boy is this true. I feel like the person I am in the summer is not the same person I am once fall comes around. I get a new excitement in me that I only feel during the fall. In the fall there are so many things that just cannot take place during any other time of the year. From football season to that of pumpkin carving there is no other time this can happen. Depending on where you live, the fall and winter are the months that allow you to change the person you were in the summer.


5. Every young girl wants to be looked at like that some time-

Gatsby may have been a criminal and pretty much a stalker, but if anything he cared for Daisy deeply which is something that can be admired by just about anyone. A lot of us get caught up in the idea that love is dead and that there is no more hope for humanity. People look towards Gatsby with his fascination of Daisy that we all want a love as strong as the one he had for her. Having a guy that would do so much to impress a girl, but keep it calm and cool can be admired.

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