Attraction (Pages 25-36)

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, discussion between friends in a New York apartment reveals a lot about their current marital relationships and how they came to be. It is funny to me how openly they talk about what their feelings are at the current time face to face because of the lack of face to face contact in today's world. I also find it humorous that they, just as we do today, get together and consume alcohol and then proceed to complain about how the relationships in our lives are not as we wish they were to be. The reminiscing floods the characters with remorse about ether how quickly they acted or how they wish they would have acted. I felt sad when reading that even back then people found themselves in situations to be unfaithful to their spouse and grasped the opportunity. On page 36 when Mrs. Wilson found herself thinking, "You can't live forever; you can't live forever"(Page 36), I felt horrible for the man that she married. She was so ready to move on from this man that she once loved that she later even exclaims that she never loved him at all! The characterization of both Mr. and Mrs. Wilson was interesting because of the descriptions of appearance and how attractive they appeared. Mr. Wilson seems a boring fellow while on the other hand Mrs. Wilson comes off as having a beauty that draws you in, instead of being blown away at first glance.