Today in class we began by discussing 4 different examples and we were meant to determine which example was the most "tragic." My group had agreed upon the example of a Dr in her thirties who had been in a severe car accident and could never have full function of her hands again was the most tragic, however with adding contextualization and background to the other examples there were arguments as to how they could be just as tragic. Throughout the rest of class we continued to go over the endings of stories and went through an overview of a romantic and modernist point of view for them. Romantics will always have an absolute to the story whether it be happily ever after or a tragic ending depends on the story. A modern view on stories would have a more complicated explanation as to why it would be ending like that, with no clear distinction if it was a happy or tragic ending. We briefly went through this until we ended upon going over some possible happy endings for Gatsby. The romantic and absolute endings consisted of: everyone finding a matched love, everyone being given more wealth, and The Valley of Ashes rising up out of poverty. However the modern side to these endings would be that their would be sadness, divorce, and complications with everyone finding love. The wealth does not buy the happiness, more money does not mean more happy. Tonight for homework we have to read chapter 7 of Gatsby and to analyze where the Fitzgerald mostly builds the tension through the chapter whether that be at Tom and Daisy's house, in the car to the city, or at the NYC hotel.
Here is an example of an old tragic play that was very popular... Romeo and Juliet
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