No matter who you are and how much you love or hate to read, everyone at some point in their lives comes across a passage in a book that touches them, grabs hold of their core, opens their eyes and shows them reality, takes them to a place they're not particularly fond of but needed to be revealed and acknowledged. The book that did this for me was F. Scott Fitzgerald's
The Great Gatsby. Not just one, not two or three quotes, but this entire novel was discovery after discovery from cover to cover, I didn't just turn the pages I would fling them in desperation of finding out what would happen next. The ending in particular was simply outstanding, though. It tells the cold hard truth, the astonishing realization of how self centered people in this world really are. One of the ending quotes reads:
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and
creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast
carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other
people clean up the mess they had made.”
I related to this because I have dealt with careless people who's ignorant decisions affected my life, and I alone was forced to figure out how to handle it. This really just reminds me of how some people refuse to grow up and take responsibility, and it's disgusting.
Daisy even aspires for her young daughter to become oblivious and careless, although I believe it is to protect her innocence from people like herself.
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