Examples Of Eulogy For The Great Gatsby
Brock Stegeman
ELA 11
Schulte
3 December 2014
Dear father, You may remember me as your son, James Gatz, but I write to you now as Jay Gatsby. Living as a poor boy in North Dakota, I learned to despise poverty. I dropped out of college at St. Olaf’s because I could no longer work as a janitor to support myself through college. I was also dismayed at its ferocious indifference to the drums of my destiny. After I dropped out, I met a man, Dan Cody, at Lake Superior. Cody invited e on his yacht trek and became my mentor. I changed my name to Jay Gatsby when I was seventeen and Cody taught me the ways of the wealthy over the next five years. At twenty-seven, I joined the military, and when I was training I fell in love with a girl name Daisy Fay who only seventeen at the time. I was a …show more content…
very decorated military man and reached the rank of Major.
After the war, and while briefly attending Oxford College, I received a letter from Daisy stating that she had married Tom Buchanan who was a very wealthy man. From that moment on, I devoted my life to becoming a rich man with much dignity. I wanted to become the type of man who I believed would win Daisy’s heart. I made my fortune from bootlegging and I built connections with many men, one who went by the name of Meyer Wolfsheim. With my recently acquired wealth, I purchased a mansion in West Egg across the bay from Daisy’s house in East Egg. Hoping to attract Daisy as one of my guests, I through parties every weekend. Then, a young man, who later became my friend, moved in right next door to me. His name was Nick Carraway, and he turned out to be the cousin of Daisy. Through Nick, I reunited with her and tried to convince her that she was unhappy with her marriage with Tom. Over the next few weeks, Daisy and I fell in love again. Then at a hotel party in New York City, I forced Daisy into confronting Tom. I insisted that she had only ever loved me and not Tom, and that she only married him for
his wealth; however, Daisy went on to say she loved us both. After a tragic series of events involving the death of a woman, I decided to back off and to stop forcing Daisy into admitting something she believed wasn’t true. I came to realize that even though I loved Daisy, I needed to accept her opinion. She needs to agree on love; I cannot force it on her. If I truly love her, which I do, I should let her decide where her heart should go.
Your son,
Jay Gatsby
ELA 11
Schulte
3 December 2014
Dear father, You may remember me as your son, James Gatz, but I write to you now as Jay Gatsby. Living as a poor boy in North Dakota, I learned to despise poverty. I dropped out of college at St. Olaf’s because I could no longer work as a janitor to support myself through college. I was also dismayed at its ferocious indifference to the drums of my destiny. After I dropped out, I met a man, Dan Cody, at Lake Superior. Cody invited e on his yacht trek and became my mentor. I changed my name to Jay Gatsby when I was seventeen and Cody taught me the ways of the wealthy over the next five years. At twenty-seven, I joined the military, and when I was training I fell in love with a girl name Daisy Fay who only seventeen at the time. I was a …show more content…
very decorated military man and reached the rank of Major.
After the war, and while briefly attending Oxford College, I received a letter from Daisy stating that she had married Tom Buchanan who was a very wealthy man. From that moment on, I devoted my life to becoming a rich man with much dignity. I wanted to become the type of man who I believed would win Daisy’s heart. I made my fortune from bootlegging and I built connections with many men, one who went by the name of Meyer Wolfsheim. With my recently acquired wealth, I purchased a mansion in West Egg across the bay from Daisy’s house in East Egg. Hoping to attract Daisy as one of my guests, I through parties every weekend. Then, a young man, who later became my friend, moved in right next door to me. His name was Nick Carraway, and he turned out to be the cousin of Daisy. Through Nick, I reunited with her and tried to convince her that she was unhappy with her marriage with Tom. Over the next few weeks, Daisy and I fell in love again. Then at a hotel party in New York City, I forced Daisy into confronting Tom. I insisted that she had only ever loved me and not Tom, and that she only married him for
his wealth; however, Daisy went on to say she loved us both. After a tragic series of events involving the death of a woman, I decided to back off and to stop forcing Daisy into admitting something she believed wasn’t true. I came to realize that even though I loved Daisy, I needed to accept her opinion. She needs to agree on love; I cannot force it on her. If I truly love her, which I do, I should let her decide where her heart should go.
Your son,
Jay Gatsby