The Great Gatsby : Sight

The Great Gatsby: The Façade and Realities of Sight Sight is such an important sense to our everyday livings; not only to how we survive, but how we judge; the fronts we are meant to see, and the realities we are not. To see is to know the absolute truth, but to missee is to have the allusion of truth, which would eventually prove itself to be merely a cloudy façade. In F. …

…the story. Although tainted by corruption, the characters are not themselves the ones to blame for their corrupt and superficial ways. As Nick says about Gatsby (but which pertains to all the other characters of the novel)“ Gatsby turned out alright in the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men (6)”.