Eww.. Jealousy..

What do you think about Jealousy? Silly question, i know, but sometimes, people get side tracked by jealousy, weather we know it or not! In the Great Gatsby, the entire book seems like it is always centered aroundd jealousy or gossip. (both should seem fitting under this category.) To start out, jealousy is pretty clear just by the way people act in East Egg. When they attend Jay Gatsby's parties, the talk of the town are always rumors, and not very nice ones, i might add. While all are mingling about, getting their fair share of drinks, gossip that suggests that Gatsby had once killed a man, that he was a bootlegger (which turned out to be true) and several others, show a sign of jealousy of Gatsby's wealth and abundance, and the only way for these people to forget about there sorrowful lives is to talk about him. Now- that's only my opinion, but i do believe that some do in fact believe that. I absolutely love this harry potter "jealousy" picture to the right. This shows that such talented writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby) and J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter), create such a personal connection with characters, even if they do differ from us with their immense wealth or their ability to cast spells and fly broomsticks. Characters like Myrtle show us in Chapter 7 that she mistakes Jordan Baker as Tom Buchanan's wife instead of Daisy, therefore conjuring up this jealousy for her. I guess it's true when they say that no one's perfect!

I love that picture of Hermione's jealousies twords Ron's new girlfriend. do you have a favorite scene from a book, or just a book in general, that explains jealousy really well? Tell me!