ENGL 2024 Chapter : Reader Response 3, Competition In Great Gatsby
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The idea of competition has been around for centuries and is constantly being used to get further ahead in ones career, power and status. It is a natural instinct that we as human beings have to want to do and achieve more than previously owned. Tyson writes about many different ideologies that take place throughout many cultures, and believes that these ideas are programmed into our thinking. Criticism believes that competition is a form of ideology, this belief system that we as individuals form in order to establish ideas or ideals which are cultural products (tyson. Specifically in the great gatsby, we as readers notice how characters like the narrator, tom buchanan and even gatsby himself struggle and compete with one another to be a part of a higher society known as. East egg; which just like in real life some achieve and others do not.
