Does disillusionment strike the individuals who deem themselves to be the most intellectual and charming or does it happen to slither into just about anyone’s life? Amory Blaine’s life has been pretty much all about the world around him & his many expectations about it. Amory has expectations to prosper. He has expectations to be charming. He even has expectations about women and how his social life will come about. Expecting a certain outcome is not perhaps a good quality to have due to the fact that it most often causes an individual to be quite oblivious to what is in fact actually going on around them. It also could potentially stunt an individual from seeing their full potential in the life they live or the person…show more content… Amory never really had that fatherly figure as stated above. However, throughout the book this unexpected guardian becomes a great part of Amory’s life. “A personality is what you thought you were, what this Kerry and Sloane you tell me of evidently are. Personality is a physical matter almost entirely; it lowers the people it acts on’ (Fitzgerald 171). Monsignor Darcy is trying to get Amory to understand that personality is just a front that you share with people and in fact it matters little compared to an individual's personage. He is trying to get it across to Amory that a personality is simply the superficial part to a human being; it’s the front you put on for people to discover. What really matters? To Monsignor Darcy, it’s the spirit behind the person that really counts to one’s worth. “Now a personage, on the other hand, gathers. He is never thought of apart from what he’s done. He’s a bar on which a thousand things have been hung-glittering things sometimes, as ours are, but he uses those things with a cold mentality back of them” (Fitzgerald 171). To Darcy, personality is how you appear and personage is far more important to one’s self. A personage gets to the person’s inner core to really discover whether or not they are a good person or a bad person. Unfortunately, Amory spends almost all of the entirety of the novel worrying about his personality opposed to focusing on his personage and becoming a better person than he currently is. This ties into today’s society because everyone is worried about how others will perceive them, and not worried about what they will perceive of themselves. Individuals need to focus on what’s inside of them, and not focus on the outside and what others may believe or perceive of you. In a sense, Monsignor Darcy was trying to tell Amory that his expectations and what others think aren’t really deemed as important as he believes them to be or
