Forgiveness / Compassion Flashcards
For Tom, forgiving Daisy for her affair is easy; because he doesn’t value their marriage or her love
“Go on. He won’t annoy you. I think he realizes that his presumptuous little flirtation is over.”
Nick can’t forgive Tom
Tom always thinks he is right
“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.”
Nick has much compassion for Gatsby after he’s gone, he seems heartbroken that his friend has been abandoned by everyone. For a man who was so generous and loyal, no one is loyal or kind to him in return.
This says something about Gatsby’s relationships with everyone around him and the shallowness of the society he was in.
“‘I’ll get somebody for you, Gatsby. Don’t worry. Just trust me and I’ll get somebody for you–’”
The man who was staying in Gatsby’s house, won’t even show up to the funeral. Not only that, but he has the audacity to ask Nick to ship his shoes to him. Nick’s compassion for Gatsby spurs him to hang up, and not a moment too soon.
“‘How about saying you’ll come?’”
”‘“What I called up about was a pair of shoes I left there.’”
The owl-eyed man is the only party-goer who comes through to say good-bye to his periodic host.
His final comments show his compassion
“The poor son-of-a-b**,”
Gatbsy’s legacy has crumbled following his death. Nick is the only person to give compassion
“I went over and looked at that huge incoherent failure of a house once more.”
