Selective blindness is one human condition both Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Shakespeare’s Hamlet portray. Being with a loved one can create selective blindness. This is very true for Daisy in The Great Gatsby where she answers Nick with, ““Why-” she said hesitantly, “Tom’s got some woman in New York”” (Fitzgerald 15). Although Daisy may only be staying in this relationship with Tom for the money, Daisy still chooses to look past her husbands adultrusness. Not only can selective blindness be found in relationships, but can also be found in one's own self. A character in Hamlet, Gertrude, chooses to not realize all the wrong actions she has made such as, marrying her husbands brother after he murdered her husband and decided to not be
