Text Connection Assignment 4

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” one of the main character’s, Jay Gatsby, throws lavish parties and shows off his wealth in order to impress the love of his life, Daisy Buchanan.  A text-to-self connection can be made here.  When I was in middle school, you were not cool unless you wore the coolest clothes and hung out with the coolest people.  I would buy the coolest clothes in order to impress the “popular kids” and by doing so, that would make me cool.  Like Gatsby, I wanted to be something I was not, and to be thought of as someone to look up to and someone to envy.  But also like Gatsby, I did not achieve my dream.  Gatsby could not achieve his dream of winning Daisy’s love, no matter how many luxurious parties he threw.  And I could not obtain popularity no matter how well I dressed, and how “cool” I acted.  I did not fit in with the “popular kids” at my middle school anyway because most of them were mean.  This also relates to Gatsby’s life because even though he throws fancy parties, he does not fit in with the “rich” people.  They are uptight, and care about no one but themselves, but Gatsby however does care about others and is nice to people.  Mine and Gatsby’s dreams are lost, but it is most likely for the better, even though Gatsby does not know it.