No compassion

''Do you want me to?

Looking hard at him.

I'm not going to hire you Webb.

Jesus I don't want your fucking money!

I don't want your fucking compassion Webb. If you look for

him then do it for yourself, not for me.

I'm very fond of him.

I know that Webb.

He's a great talent.'' (pg. 20)

Quite a fight there. Nora apparently doesn't really care about his husband, and Webb does more than her. A clear view of how life was back nearly a 100 years ago, and apparently a lot of people still speak the dirty words said by the prostitutes in New Orleans in the early 1900's. Webb clearly has some compassion for the insanely strange Buddy Bolden, in which I really don't see anything special, apart from his obsession with death, women, alcohol and violence. Webb is the real hero of the story.

Coming Through Slaughter Passage 1

''Right on my head. But I still have the razor and we stand looking at each other. The blood drooling off his chin onto the wet shredded shirt. He takes a quick look at himself in the mirror and the tears just rush out of his face. I am exhausted, sorry for him. ''

Pg. 73

This line of the book clearly shows Buddy Bolden fighting against his friend Tom Prickett, and making him bleed with his razor. Buddy at this point of the book shows a much more aggresive side to him, in which he becomes so violent, that while cutting of the beard of his friend Tom, he attacks him and injures him severely on the face. Later we would discover how his wife, Norma would enter and see the fight, and end up being shocked at the horrible bloody scene.

The symbol: Gatsby's death

The Great Gatsby, tends to have a great variety of symbols some more important than others. The death of Gatsby is a symbol of the death of the American Dream, since it showed how this excessive luxury, lack of morals and values, which is evident throughout the relationships of the main characters in the book. Eventually, these extramarital affairs lead to a car accident which kills Myrtle Wilson, Tom's lover. Tom then in revenge tells George, Myrtle's husband, that it was Gatsby who had killed her, when it was actually Daisy who was driving the car. And while Gatsby rests in his backyard pool, George gives the death blow that ends Gatsby's life, and eventually the American Dream. Somehow the message of the story tries to portray how excessive consumerism and pleasure will never make you satisfied and its desire for more will only lead to destroy their own lives.

The picture

The picture in the blog, resembles the idea behind the poem we read, called the Role of Elegy. The skull obviously represents death, and as it is surrounded by a group of fruits, we can tell the message it is displaying: How the death of someone close to us is remembered all the time, no matter in what situation or activity you are doing in your life.