Blog Entry #2 (Ch.1 pgs. 11-22)
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
This segment of the novel mentioned rumors and gossip, which
reminded me of the halls of Roncalli High School. In high school, rumors and
gossip travel faster than the blink of an eye. Our generations’ obsession with
social media and the internet fuel the speed of the rumors. Even in the 1920s,
rumors traveled incredibly fast without the internet. Rumors seem to travel
just as fast as the internet by mouth. The
House of Mirth displayed how rumors and social gossip can control a persons’
life. In just the first chapter of The
Great Gatsby, rumors have caused the action in Nick’s life. For example, “The
fact that gossip had published the banns was one of the reasons I had come to
the East. You can’t stop going with an old friend on account of rumors, and on
the other hand I had no intention of being rumored into marriage,” (Fitzgerald,
19). People always seem to believe rumors without questioning it or consider
asking the person of whom the rumors are about. False rumors are especially abundant
in high school.
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