Amory's Impact On The Relationship With Others (Sociological Impact)
2. Impact on The Relationship with Others (Sociological impact)
Related to his relationship with people around him, literacy can gives positive and negative impacts. Amory in TSOP was able interact with people around him who had the same reading interest. Literacy unifies him with Burne, Kerry, Tom, Eleanor and Clara who have the same basic education or the same literary hobby. Yet, it also creates a gap on his relationship with some people. His self-confident and believe that he is one of the superior because of his reading ability making him hated by Mr. Reardon when he went to school in Minneapolis.
He had shown off one day in French class (he was in senior French class) to the utter confusion of Mr. Reardon, whose accent Amory damned contemptuously, …show more content…
Reardon ability in teaching France and by showing off in his class, he unconsciously shows his disrespect to his teacher which made his teacher choose to give him a lesson, which in Amory’s point of view is rather ‘taking revenge in verbs’. His knowledge ability makes him questioned the authority of his teacher. Beside with his teacher, Amory also creates gaps between him and his friends in St. Regis at his first term. In this place, he is considered “conceited and arrogant” (Fitzgerald, 2013b:30) making him discouraged and lonely before he is able to build his way to popularity there using his ability in writing and reading in his second …show more content…
(Fitzgerald, 2013a:13)
In this quotation, Anthony believes that his grandfather does not have the intelligence to be able to have the power to control people, yet he has it. Just like Mogre in Nelson (1999) stated “role of the aged becomes weakened because of the literacy and the literate persons who are knowledgeable questioned the authority of the old”, Anthony’s grandfather’s role in controlling Anthony’s life is weakened as Anthony questioned his grandfather’s authority to make him working. This is what eventually led Anthony to his life destructions in the end; unwillingness to listen to someone opinion.
Similar with the negative affect of literacy happens to Amory and Anthony, Gatsby in GG also unconsciously creating a gap between him and his own father.
He told me I et like a hog once and I beat him for
Related to his relationship with people around him, literacy can gives positive and negative impacts. Amory in TSOP was able interact with people around him who had the same reading interest. Literacy unifies him with Burne, Kerry, Tom, Eleanor and Clara who have the same basic education or the same literary hobby. Yet, it also creates a gap on his relationship with some people. His self-confident and believe that he is one of the superior because of his reading ability making him hated by Mr. Reardon when he went to school in Minneapolis.
He had shown off one day in French class (he was in senior French class) to the utter confusion of Mr. Reardon, whose accent Amory damned contemptuously, …show more content…
Reardon ability in teaching France and by showing off in his class, he unconsciously shows his disrespect to his teacher which made his teacher choose to give him a lesson, which in Amory’s point of view is rather ‘taking revenge in verbs’. His knowledge ability makes him questioned the authority of his teacher. Beside with his teacher, Amory also creates gaps between him and his friends in St. Regis at his first term. In this place, he is considered “conceited and arrogant” (Fitzgerald, 2013b:30) making him discouraged and lonely before he is able to build his way to popularity there using his ability in writing and reading in his second …show more content…
(Fitzgerald, 2013a:13)
In this quotation, Anthony believes that his grandfather does not have the intelligence to be able to have the power to control people, yet he has it. Just like Mogre in Nelson (1999) stated “role of the aged becomes weakened because of the literacy and the literate persons who are knowledgeable questioned the authority of the old”, Anthony’s grandfather’s role in controlling Anthony’s life is weakened as Anthony questioned his grandfather’s authority to make him working. This is what eventually led Anthony to his life destructions in the end; unwillingness to listen to someone opinion.
Similar with the negative affect of literacy happens to Amory and Anthony, Gatsby in GG also unconsciously creating a gap between him and his own father.
He told me I et like a hog once and I beat him for