Jake's Experiences In The Great Gatsby, By Ernest Hemingway

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Although Jake’s adamancy and self-absorption prevent him from considering how to get his opinions to be understood, his isolation that stems from those urges him to try to communicate with other laborers. In a mill district, he talks about his ideas to factory workers and often experiences being scorned (154), but he does not aim to improve the ways of speaking. This obstinacy, which is the attitude that refuses to see himself through others’ eyes, results from his firm belief that he is right. The significant experience in which he was recognized as an individual, not just a cog in the society, was that Miss Clara taught him how the world functioned (151). It motivated him to read and study, and then he began to have a sense of perquisite

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