Infidelity

Question 1

P1: Tom uses his masculine power to pursue as many women as possible as there is a lack of consequence for him

Answer 1

C1: ‘Tpm’s got another woman’
C7: ‘Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself but I always come back to Daisy’
Critical however of breakdown of traditional marriage (irony)
C7: ‘‘Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions’

Question 2

P2: Daisy’s affair with Gatsby shows her detachment to romantic love as she commodifies it as another thing to collect

Answer 2

C5: ‘He revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well loved eyes’
C6: ‘The whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval of her eyes’
C7: ‘You resemble the advertisement of the man’

Question 3

Abesent from thee - The speaker finds his infidelities painful but cannot stop himself from commiting

Answer 3

‘The straying Fool ‘twill plainly kill’
‘Faithless to thee, False, unforgiv’n and lose my everlasting rest’

Question 4

Absent from thee - male desire allows for the speaker to pursue his desires while the women he pursue are insignificant

Answer 4

‘Some base heart unblest’
‘When wearied with a world of woe’

Question 5

The Scrutiny - The speaker believes that he must have a variety of affairs to find what he is looking for

Answer 5

‘Like skilful mineralists that sound for treasure in un plowed up ground’

Question 6

The Scrutiny - There is a sense of impatience around the speaker as he desires to find more women

Answer 6

‘A tedious twelve hours’ space’
Women are also viewed as objects for the speaker to work his way through
‘But all joy in thy brown hair’/‘I must search the black and fair’

Question 7

Nom sum - The speaker reminisces over a past love as he is sleeping with another woman

Answer 7

‘Mine arms in love and sleep she lay’
‘I cried for madder music and for stronger wine’