Negligence is apparent in several characters. Living in his own dream world ultimately to the end, Gatsby was careless with his life. Jay Gatsby neglects the truth of his own life. He denies the fact that Daisy is not a virgin. He alters his own reality and at times buries it e.g. changing his own name. Gatsby ignored the truth and lived the life he dreamt up in his own mind. Gatsby chased a dream not worth chasing this is shown when his home of opulence diminishes when Daisy is prese

Purposelessness is seen in the rich. What is an accumulation of wealth for? Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby represent the rich in the novel. None of them ever achieved any goal in their life. They were drifters. Tom and Daisy moved from place to place, never able to establish themselves. This was because they could not be satisfied. They were not on any mission and did not identify their own problems. Daisy was always presented as a drifter, from the beginning of the novel when she sat on the couch to very the end. "She hesitated. Her eyes fell on Jordan and me with a sort of appeal, as though she realized at last what she was doing-and as though she had never, all along, intended doing anything at all (139)." Daisy had no intentions of ever being with Gatsby but she did it anyway. Gatsby is also a drifter. Gatsby could not and did not establish his own culture e.g. change of his name. The parties are also a symbol of drifting. Going from one party to the other, the rich people had no meaning in their life. The most remote sight of meaning was superficial

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)