Barriers to love

Question 1

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(TGG + WSLTH)

Answer 1

The difference in social class and status act as a barrier to love in that they prevent any poetic justice from happening to the main characters.
TGG-
1) “Certainly not for a common swindler who’d have to steal the ring he’d put on her finger”
2) “Took her because he had no real right to touch her hand”
3) ‘“They’re such beautiful shirts” she sobbed’
WSLTH-
1) “And graven with Diamondes in letters plain”
2) “Noli me tangere for Ceasars I ame”
“I ame of them that farthest cometh behinde”

Question 2

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(TGG + GOL)

Answer 2

Another barrier to love is the inability to express sexuality without being stigmatized for it.
TGG-
1) “She carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can”.
2) “Tom’s got some woman in New York”
3) “Her mouth was wide and ripped at the corners”
GOL-
1) “Where is used to play in the green”
2) “And ‘thou shalt not’ writ over the door”
3) “That so many sweet flowers bore”

Question 3

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(TGG + WSLTH)

Answer 3

A final barrier to love is the unrequited love and the idealization that can come with that.
TGG-
1) “He felt married to her”
2) “She vanished into her rich house, into her rich, full life, leaving Gatsby - nothing”
3) “There was an unmissable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together” (Daisy telling Tom that she killed Myrtle)
WSLTH-
1) “Sithens in a nett I seke to hold the wynde”
2) “The vayne travaill hath weried me so sore”
3) “Yet by no meanes my weried mynde Drawe from the Deere”