ENG364Y5 Lecture 6: Oct 14.docx
Document Summary
Depiction of beauty is in editing murder scene would not typically beautiful, but the way it is written in gatsby does not make it seem violent of ugly. Aesthetic is the process of making things appear beautiful. Idealized/perfected: american desire to see the past as an ideal, old ny defined itself on heritage new was seen as vulgar. Depiction of historical past is prominent in this novel. Daisy has two pasts tom and gatsby, has a child with tom which complicates things. Gatsby wants to believe that daisy only ever loved him. Confrontation at the plaza hotel reveals that gatsby is worried that he does not have. Daisy"s past can"t accept only have present and future with him he wants all of her. He wants to scrub clean her past so that he is only involved in it. Daisy says she never loved tom makes her seem more pure, acting as though gatsby is.
