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Is it just me or are all the men in Great Gatsby a little not right in the head? See you can summarise all the girls with one statement: want money, but the guys, ohhh they are so much. (I am sorry the girls also have a lot of characteristics that can be talked about but I wanted to focus on the guys)

Let's start with Gatsby.
I mean imagine you had a boyfriend, five years ago, he goes to war and in his absence you marry a different guy.
Fast forward to the present and all of a sudden your ex-boyfriend buys a house right across the river from yours, and starts throwing lavish parties with illegal substances (alcohol) just to meet you. and when all this fails he tries to befriend your second cousin once removed (how did he even know that they were related?) to convince you to unknowingly meet him. This is not counting the ways he achieved his wealth, which also was just to impress you. I don't know something would stop me from trusting that dude.

The next Tom
Do we even need to talk about this dude. he has a proposes to a woman with an expensive pearl necklace, which can also be translated as 'hey guess what, this is me essentially buying you'. After getting to married to this woman he goes ahead has a child but also a mistress on the side, but oh you can't mention his wife or he'll physically hurt you. Yeesh. Again this is not counting the fact that Tom goes to meet Myrtle and plan their rendezvous when her husband is close enough, while your wife's cousin is listening. Normal behaviour. Oh also I almost forgot, Myrtle and Tom's first meeting was so romantic, you know with his doing everything that makes a woman uncomfortable and then practically forcing that woman into a cab.

Wilson
Well we don't really know the guy so I don't know, he seems like a solid fellow. Let's wait may have to update.

Finally Nick.
How can our beloved, non-judgmental, completely unbiased, honest narrator possibly be anything but sane. Well I mean apart from the part where he saw a woman almost run over people, and then say that she is entitled to the entire road and if anyone dies because of her awful driving it is their fault not hers, and then think 'yes this is the girl I want to be with for the entirety of my life'. Also the part where he sees his cousins husband cheating on her, but says nothing about it, and also doesn't feel all that guilty about it. He also find Gatsby's 'love' romantic. So I don't know....

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