Araceli's Thoughts 💆🏽

  Is Gatsby’s desire for success—however we define it—evidence of the American dream, obsession, a personal sense of honor, or something else? Does Gatsby symbolize our culture and even our own desires, or is he an outlier?      Gatsby to me looks like the typical American man in the 1920’s, not that I’ve ever met one from that era. He was rich, he liked to party, he loved, and he even felt lonely nothing out of the ordinary. I feel like Gatsby does symbolize our culture and our desires. Everyone wants to be rich, have money, buy an infinite amount of materialistic things and that’s exactly what he wanted and did do in fact. Gatsby was rich and threw parties everyday to captured Daisy’s attention, the celebrities now throw parties for attention because if they didn’t want attention they would throw secret parties. Everyone especially in this generation wants to be famous and they want to have brand things to “flex” on social media to show that there so much better than any regular

I personally think the assembly was useful too me but it did make me feel confused. I felt confused because a couple days ago I spoke to my counselor and she gave me options of universities and so that was my state of mind. I thought those were the only options but I saw today that their was many more schools and that they all provide different things and all good. Although I ended up a little confused I thought it was really useful.