Identity/Self Construction 1

Both Fitzgerald and Eliot portray identity as fragmented and artificially constructed, suggesting that the instability of the modern world prevents individuals from developing an authentic sense of self.

JayG.

Jay Gatsby... sprang from his Platonic conception of himself

Thetruth.

The truth was that Jay Gatsby... was really James Gatz.

hehad.

He had changed it at the age of seventeen

aheap.

A heap of broken images

ican

I can connect / Nothing with nothing

Can’trepeat.

Can't repeat the past?... Why of course you can!

hewasrun.

He was running down like an overwound clock

theremust.

There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams.

unreal.

Unreal city

acrowd

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many