Part one of term paper
Pathetic is a term used to describe someone who is pitifully unsuccessful. Success is not necessarily measured in wealth or fame, but it is measured by how much one has accomplished in life. A successful person is one who has set many goals for himself and then goes out in life and accomplishes some of them, but goes on living even if fail ...

Part two of term paper
... like her sophistication, is a pose."(Aldridge 36) The fact is, Daisy has almost all of the things that a woman could want out of a marriage. She is very wealthy, she has a beautiful daughter, and her relationship with her husband is of a comfortable nature. It is true that her life is not very exciting, but it is unreasonable to think that she would trade all that she had in her marriage to Tom Buchanan for Jay Gatsby. At that time, divorce was very uncommon, and it was very unlikely that an ...