The Great Gatsby Personal Response

Personal Response
A man had been standing at the blank intersection for a while now wearing a brown worn-out shirt and baggy pants, not quite appealing to anyone but yet caught the attention of many. He was not moving, not even an inch, like something had grabbed on to him purposely making him immobile and blankly staring across the distance. The streets that had been walked on by million people a day looked empty, according to how his eyes viewed it, still and calm. It seems like nothing could make him move from his position except for by his own will. In the far distance there was a factory, where individuals work in order to provide the necessities for their family and nothing is different for this man. He stood there for a couple of minutes,
During his years in high school, he had gotten a fine job in the factory which paid more than almost double the amount of what an average high school student could earn. He remembered bragging to his friends about the money he had earned and officially decided to earn more instead of focusing in school and also pursuing his dream. He worked from the moment he woke up, to when the sun began to set, making him a horrible student in school, but someone that earned a large sum, but only to the extent of his high school years. Since his clock had completely shifted, his time to write began to decrease every day, sometimes one word per day or even worse, none at all. His only thought was that his old desire could wait and without him knowing, his new desire became the accumulation of wealth. His excuse was always that after he had the money to support himself, he would continue to write but he didn’t exactly realize how much time he had wasted in his
His friends all went to universities or college to pursue their own desires but he couldn’t since school was never something he had valued. After some time, he realized that the factory he now works in, the wages was never high. Yes, it was high compared to a high school student, but not that he’s an adult, the wages in his mind went lower and lower. His friends had jobs that earned much more but to him, that was the only path he could’ve taken because that’s all he had ever known. But he was happy at that time, because again, that was all he had known during that time, to make money, to make himself rich. If he were to repeat his life again, this situation will probably not change. In his mind, he was content with his new desire, but that brought new consequences that he wouldn’t have if he chose to do what the others did, he had brought the consequences on