text connections

Many people can make several different text connections in this book. For me

though it would have to be text to self and text to text. For text to self, I think that at

times everyone has had a “crush” on someone they know they cannot like. Just as Gatsby

is in love with Daisy but Daisy is married to Tom. This is a perfect example of feelings

that many people now a days have had for others, whether they are in a relationship or the

other person is the one in the relationship. Also the strong love that Daisy and Gatsby

share is something that I have experienced, and even though it is not with a boyfriend I

love my family so much and would do anything for them just as Daisy and Gatsby love

each other very much. And a text to text connection would be the forbidden love that

Romeo and Juliet share in the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet. In this play Romeo

and Juliet are from two rival families and fall in love which is a love that is doomed from

the start just as Daisy and Gatsby. And at the beginning the ironic thing is that both

Romeo and Juliet die in the play and although Daisy doesn’t Gatsby

does die towards the end of the book.