Semester #2 Blog #11

Quote: "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...."

Source: Chapter 9, Pg. 179, The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald

Original Context: In the lines before the quote above Nick says, "I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy..."

At this point in the book, Gatsby had already died and Nick had decided to move back to the Midwest, because he was sick of the East and its empty values. Then one day when he was in New York City he encounters Tom. He told Nick that he had been the one that told Wilson that Gatsby had been the one that ran over Myrtle and he was the one that owned the car and told him where he could find Gatsby. Tom didn't care that Gatsby had died, he felt like he deserved it and he didn't even feel guilty that is why after Tom left, Nick says the quote above. He says that Tom and Daisy are careless and uncaring, they destroy things and do whatever they want because they have a lot of money and it works as a shield that protects them against anything and anyone. They do what they please and let other people pay the consequences while they live their empty lives hiding behind masks of something they are not.

Artistic Vision/ Ideas/ Plans: I was thinking of having each couple of words in different fonts and sizes and colors and kind of stacking them over each other, but in a way that the viewer is able to see and understand what it says. I think the quote might be a little too long so I might just pick the most important words in the quote, and I would most likely do this in photoshop. Or maybe having a visual representation in the background like money or something like that, that represents the quote and the book and the setting in the 1920s.