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The Great Gatsby Empathy Quotes

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The Great Gatsby, Empathy The Great Gatsby, chapter one is a very important chapter in the book. This chapter introduces the concept of Empathy. Not only the first chapter but the first paragraph shows the use of empathy in a major way. For example, one of the first sentences shows empathy , “He told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” He didn’t say any more” chapter one of The Great Gatsby, This is just one example in the entire chapter of the great use of empathy. The Great Gatsby has many themes but empathy is one of the main themes in not only the first chapter but the entire book, the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, uses empathy to draw you into the book and keep you invested. …show more content…

“He told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” He didn’t say any more” chapter one of The Great Gatsby Pg 1. In the sentence the narrator's father tells him in a way to not judge people because everyone has had different advantages. The way the father is telling this brings Empathy to not only the narrator but the reader as well. He is showing his son through words how to not only show empathy but to truly feel it. There are more than just one quote showing the use of empathy in this chapter, for example “ Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.” The Great Gatsby pg 14, this shows the narrator's empathy for Tom. He is saying that after the dinner with his cousin he feels that Tom has something on his mind that is in a way eating at his mind, and making him feel maybe sad or as if something is missing. The idea of Empathy in this book stems from the very first paragraph, it sets up the idea of empathy for the whole

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