Euphemism In The Great Gatsby

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Since Gatsby is now a completely new wealthy person he strongly believes that he has a chance to win back Daisy and her love, but the problem is that Daisy knows that they can not be together due to their social status. For instance, in Gatsby’s party Daisy didn’t enjoy the type of people that were invited or “simply force their way in”, “But the rest offended her-and inarguably, because it wasn’t a gesture but an emotion. She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented “place”... appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under old euphemisms… she saw something awful in very simplicity she failed to understand” (107). As a result, she can never see herself in the way how the New Money are in compare how she is, (Old Money) from displaying off their raw and rigor personalities no matter how ridiculous they’ll look she knows she can’t be around those people. …show more content…
Including with Daisy, her husband, Tom is a person who has no morals he will speak out his mind without realizing what it can do to others or himself. In like manner, when Tom and Gatsby were discussing, Gatsby confidently asserts him that he and Daisy were in love for the five years that they haven’t even seen each other and he never knew about. With this being said Tom exasperated and claimed him, “You’re crazy…-and I’ll be damned if I see how you got within a mile unless you brought the groceries to the back door. But all the rest of that’s a God damned lie”
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