Kiss Marry Kill - Gatsby

 I believe that for me to approach this in a fair way in which the volume of character development throughout an entire book can surpass the descriptions of a writer through volume, I am choosing to describe characters and the organization of their individual orders for kissing, marrying, and killing, within a limit of wording for each character. For each character, I have set myself a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 125 words.

    To discuss the less diseased set of characters, I am choosing the discuss the women’s set. I would firstly, kiss Myrtle. Myrtle is the lover of Tom Buchanan whilst being married to Mr. Wilson. Because this cheating isn’t a very healthy trait of a relationship I believe that I would simply kiss Myrtle. She is a very beautiful woman in my opinion as portrayed in the lines saying “she carried her surplus flesh sensuously.” This description of the character portrays that she isn’t seen to have much more to her than her looks, with the word sensuous coming most forwardly to me showing that she is less appealing in the personality side of things, with her shining most bright in the perspective of physical looks. I then most obviously chose to marry Jordan as she is the more normal out of herself and Daisy. Jordan by physical appearance is beautiful as well from what I read and imagine her as, “slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage…” As for her personality, I believe I can say the same. In the end, she even lied to Nick about being engaged to peak his jealousy, something I admire, purely due to the lasting showing of her love for someone who has been true to her. This quality along with the truth and harshness she can speak at like saying “I thought it was your secret pride.” Essentially calling Nick out for his judgment of others and questioning his credibility in its entirety. Finally, I am choosing to kill Daisy. Daisy not only cheated, was not only materialistic, didn’t just kill someone out of wreckless anger, but broke the heart of someone who truly loved her and was a large catalyst in that same man’s murder. Daisy had loved two people at the same time, and if the decision had split, could have broken either heart. Daisy hid behind wealth, this is most apparent in the context of Nick speaking about both Tom and Daisy saying “they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money of their vast carelessness…” She too was behind the death of Myrtle, which imminently got Gatsby pinned for the murder. These qualities fit her for death, which I chose.

    For the male side of the filings, (without bias towards gender) it’s in my best interest to kiss Tom. In generality, to follow suit with the choice that physical appearance is what defines someone to be the best fit to kiss and not to marry. Tom is physically dominating, with undesirable personality traits. He has a “large, muscle-bound, imposing frame… enormous power” something physically attractive. To start with his personality, it is quite evident that Tom is in fact, a racist. “... if we don’t look out the white race will be- will be utterly submerged.” This line of text alone drives home the pitch. Beyond this, he is physically abusive, onlookers may argue it was only abuse to someone he didn’t love but abused nonetheless. Next, I choose to marry Gatsby. Gatsby is obsessed with his lover. He leads an affair with her which makes me question him, but since he is not the one cheating, I see no foul play. He is as some would describe “crazy” over Daisy. This is something I heavily desire in a marriage. For someone to love someone forever means they must be obsessed with that person no other way around it. Gatsby holds a beautiful and powerful smile, powerful physically not in the way we saw Buchanan, but powerful in the expression of feeling through the facet of his smile. Nick described the smile as “rare... Full of eternal reassurances…” You must learn to love the things that are special to you. Unfortunately, we have to kill Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson was “spiritless…” the type you wish not to kill I guess. He is almost naive in many situations, he was essentially controlled by Tom and was blinded by rage to kill Gatsby, he lost what he loved most. In even heavier disheartenment, her death was so close to them moving away from the dust bowl. His sadness portrays his decision in suicide. I kill George rather than Tom due to the fact that if George had grown as a person and as a character in our book he could have stopped a lot of catalyst events throughout the book. He could have kept his wife to himself, kept his wife alive, and kept himself alive. Something that Tom in contrast did, Tom did seem to grow from his discovery of Gatsby and Daisy’s affair. He wanted to keep the true love of his life in his life, and for that growth, I put Mr. Wilson to sleep.