The Values Of Jealousy Found In F.Scott Fitzgerald Novel The Great Gatsby

THE VALUES OF JEALOUSY FOUND IN F.SCOTT FITZGERALD NOVEL THE GREAT GATSBY

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ABSTRACT

This paper is entitled “The Values Of Jealousy in F. Scott Fitzgerald Novel The Great Gatsby”. It is about the causes of Gatsby’s jealousy found in The Great Gatsby Novel that written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The writer aims to explains about a feeling where someone cannot accept the presence of third person in a relationship. In this Novel the writer found the jealousy caused by love, money, and wealth. In composing this paper the writer uses qualitatif research and library

ABSTRAK

Kertas karya ini berjudul “The Values Of Jealousy in F. Scott Fitzgerald Novel The Great Gatsby”. Ini adalah tentang penyebab kecemburuan Gatsby yang terdapat dalam Novel The Great Gatsby yang di tulis oleh F. Scott Fitzgerald. Penulis bertujuan untuk menjelaskan tentang sebuah perasaan dimana seseorang tidak dapat menerima kehadiran orang asing dalam sebuah hubungan. Di dalam Novel ini penulis menemukan kecemburuan dapat di sebabkan oleh cinta, uang dan kekayaan. Dalam penyusunan kertas karya ini penulis menggunakan metode kualitatif dan penelitian kepustakaan dengan membaca beberapa buku yang berhubungan dengan judul ini.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Siagian for supporting, loving, caring, praying, financial support, time and believing in me. I present this paper for them.

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affection and supported me to finish my paper.

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Culture.

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Diploma Study Program,who gives me advices to finish this paper.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

AUTHOR’S DECLARATION ...i

COPYRIGHT DECLARATION ... ii

ABSTRACT ... iii

ABSTRAK ...iv

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ... v

TABLE OF CONTENTS ... vii

1. INTRODUCTION ... 1

1.1 Background of the Study ... 1

1.2 Problem of the Study ... 4

1.3 Purpose of the Study ... 4

1.4 Scope of the Study ... 4

1.5 Reason for Choosing the Topic ... 4

1.6 Method of the Study ... 5

2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERARTURE ... 6

2.1 Literature ... 6

2.2 Novel ... 9

3. THE DESCRIPTION OF THE JEALOUSY ... 13

4. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ... 23

4.1 Conclusion ... 23

4.2 Suggestion ... 24

REFERENCES ... 26

ABSTRACT

This paper is entitled “The Values Of Jealousy in F. Scott Fitzgerald Novel The Great Gatsby”. It is about the causes of Gatsby’s jealousy found in The Great Gatsby Novel that written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The writer aims to explains about a feeling where someone cannot accept the presence of third person in a relationship. In this Novel the writer found the jealousy caused by love, money, and wealth. In composing this paper the writer uses qualitatif research and library

ABSTRAK

Kertas karya ini berjudul “The Values Of Jealousy in F. Scott Fitzgerald Novel The Great Gatsby”. Ini adalah tentang penyebab kecemburuan Gatsby yang terdapat dalam Novel The Great Gatsby yang di tulis oleh F. Scott Fitzgerald. Penulis bertujuan untuk menjelaskan tentang sebuah perasaan dimana seseorang tidak dapat menerima kehadiran orang asing dalam sebuah hubungan. Di dalam Novel ini penulis menemukan kecemburuan dapat di sebabkan oleh cinta, uang dan kekayaan. Dalam penyusunan kertas karya ini penulis menggunakan metode kualitatif dan penelitian kepustakaan dengan membaca beberapa buku yang berhubungan dengan judul ini.

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study

History, mystery, and fact of the life are always interested to be discussed. This is not only because everyone has his or her own life in various ways, but also because life has its answer for each individual question. Therefore, life and literature have a close connection.

Literature can be defined as the attempt to describe human experience by means of written language. The authors can convey their expression of ideas or mind and their imagination of life to the readers through literary works. Taylor (1981: 1) says, “Literature like other arts is essentially an imagination act of the writer’s imagination in selecting, ordering, and interpreting life experience.”

Thus, literary work is able to enlarge human knowledge about life, social problems, and philosophy because there are some literary works describe certain situation and illustrate something important for us, as Wellek and Warren (1956:111) say that to be sure, literature can be treated as a document in the history of ideas and philosophy, for literature parallels and intellectual history. Frequently either explicit statements of allusion show the allegiance of a poet to a specific philosophy once well known or at least that he is aware of their general assumption.

Literature, as a discipline, has its own characters, which makes it different from other disciplines. It has literary elements, which convey direct object of sense and perception such as color, shape, and texture. Literature also has its

complex expression of actions, characters, setting, point of view, and style. These elements arranged in such a way in order to make sense and have a direct relation to actual life.

Taylor in Understanding the Elements of Literature (1981:2) says that more than, any other arts, literature reflects or comments on actual experience; social, philosophical, psychological, and more concern. By analyzing a literary work, we also learn about moral lesson. It describes about human attitude more than psychologist can do as what is written in Theory of Literature by Wellek: The novelist can teach you more about human nature.

Literature is mainly divided into three genres classified in accordance with certain characters and features. The common genetic divisions are prose, poetry, and drama. And in Richard Taylor’s opinion, that narrative fiction including novel is the only genre that is meant to be written down for private reading.

Jealousy plays a huge part in The Great Gatsby. Not only is it a theme, but it is what the whole story is based upon. The definition of jealousy is a "jealous resentment against a rival, a person enjoying success or advantage, or against another's success or advantage itself." It is wanting or desiring something that is not yours or something that you cannot have. In The Great Gatsby, different types of jealousy exist such as jealousy with money, jealousy with other people's spouses, and jealousy of being wealthy.

In the story, jealousy is heated up in the affairs that the characters have. In the beginning, Tom receives a call from his mistress, Myrtle and Daisy follows right after him. She acts like nothing is happening when it is obvious that he is

having an affair. Daisy is oblivious even though she knows something fishy is going on with her husband. Unaware of his wife's past relationship with Jay Gatsby, Tom breaks off when he finds out about Daisy and Gatsby's affair as well. In the end, jealousy is in each of the character's hearts and also regrets with having an affair and cheating on their spouses.

Jealousy with money and wealth is also another big theme in The Great Gatsby. Most of the people are not content with what they have even if it's already a luxurious life because they just want more and more. For example, the West Egg people are jealous of the inherited wealth of the East Egg because they didn't have to work for it to earn it. While on the other hand, the West Egg people had to obtain all their riches some way of working or illegal business. Nick is also another good example for jealousy. At first, he meets Gatsby and envies Gatsby's mansion and luxurious life. Then later on, he accepts it and becomes very close to Gatsby. Although Nick has a very beautiful home, he wishes he had a little more riches, though he is a content person and grateful for what he has.

Jealousy plays a big part on the Great Gatsby because it truly shows the true colors of people. Whether it's jealousy of other people's wealth and riches, or desiring some other else's spouse, we learn that we should be content with what we were given and not envying others.

1.2 Problem of the Study

The problems of the study that the after discussed is that:

2) What the causes of jealousy in The Great Gatsby novel?

1.3 Purpose of The Study

The purpose of the study in this paper, as follows:

1) To describe the values of Gatsby jealousy in The Great Gatsby novel

2) To find out the causes of the jealousy in The Great Gatsby novel.

1.4 Scope of The Study

The focus of the study in this paper is to analyze the values of jealousy of The Great Gatsby novel, and the writer limits the analysis just on this problem that about causes of jealousy. The Great Gatsby is taken as the context of this paper because of its jealousy. And the other topics which have no relation to the context will not be included in this paper.

1.5 Reason for Choosing the Topic

The writer is interested to analyze this title because of several reasons. First, the story in this novel is very interesting and easy to understand. Second, the novel tells about the affair that happened in a marriage. Third, the writer is amazed by a loyalty of a man, Gatsby, who keeps a long lasting love to the woman, Daisy. As we know, it’s really rare that a man can be stuck in one woman, nowadays.

1.6 Method of the Study

In writing this paper, the writer collected some research methods, such as data collecting method and method of data analysis. In data collecting, the sources of data were taken from books and other sources such as internet and literary criticism. Since this research is focused on documented data, the research is better known as library research. The method of analysis is descriptive in terms of describing the intrinsic elements as portrayed in the novel The Great Gatsby.

The writer has two steps in writing this paper. First, the writer read the novel The Great Gatsby several times to make her understand about the story. Then, the writer selected to find out the strategies to fight against injustice in Suzanne Collines Novel. The last, the writer browsed data from internet to look for the compliment sources and also to know the biography of the writer, and then the writer made interpretation and analysis before coming to the conclusions about it.

2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

2.1 Literature

Literary work classified into four categories or genres namely prose fictio, poetry, drama and nonfiction prose. Usually the first three are classed as imaginative literature. The genres of imaginative literature have much in common, but they also have distinguishing characteristics. Originally fiction meant anything made up, crafted, or shapped, but today the world refers to prose stories based in the author’s imagination.

The relationship between literature and ideas can be conceived in very diverse way. Wellek (1976: 115) says that literature is not philosophical translated into imagery and verse, but that literature expresses a general attitude towards life. Rudolf Unger classifies literature and ideas such as: The problem of faith, by which it means the relation of freedom and necessity, spirit, and nature; the religious problem, including the interpretation of Christ, the attitude toward sin and salvation; the problem of nature which would include such question as the feeling for nature but also question of myth and magic; the problem of man, which concern questions of the concept of man but also of man relation to death, man concerns of love, finally there are a group of problem of society, family and state. Literature can be treated as document in the history of ideas and philosophy, for literary history, parallels and reflects intellectual history. History of ideas is simply a specific approach to general history of thought using literature only as document and illustration. It recognizes that thought is frequently determined by assumption.

Roberts and Jacobs (1993: 1) say that literature refers to compositions that tell stories, dramatize situations, express emotions, analyze and advocate ideas. Through literature, everybody may not just get entertainment but also ideas contained in the literature itself. As generally known that literary works contain various aspects in human life such as culture, social or moral that readers may get some lesson and knowledge from them. Furthermore, literature brings many essential meanings for human’s life. It helps human to grow both personally and intellectually because literature lets human see and learn more about a lot of different points of view, ideas, culture and so many more which may open, increase their knowledge, grow their intellectuality and personality to be better. Literature makes human as a human.

Peck and Coyle (1984:38) basically divide literature into three genres, namely poetry, drama and novel. Poetry is dominated by the rhythm and melody; drama is the combination of dialogue and stage; and novel is a narrative kind of fictitious writing.

Roberts and Jacobs (1995:3) elaborate the kinds of literature by stating that literature may be classified into four categories or genres: (1) prose fiction, (2) poetry, (3) drama and (4) nonfiction prose. Usually the first three are classified as imaginative literature. The genres of imaginative literature have much in common, but they also have their distinguishing characteristic for instance, the distinguishing characteristic of prose fiction or narrative fiction is depicted by myths, parables, romances, novels and short stories.

nowadays ‘fiction’ refers to prose stories based on the author’s imagination. The essence of fiction is narration relating or recounting of a sequence of events or actions. Works of fictions usually focus on one or a few major characters that undergo a change of attitude or character as they interact with other characters and deal with problems. While fiction, like all imaginative literatures, may introduce true historical details, but not the real history. For instance, Dicken’s which describes revolutionary era in 1834 when the child exploitation occurred but the character ‘Oliver Twist’ did not exist. Its main purpose is to interest, to stimulate, to instruct and to divert, not to create precise historical records.

Non-fiction prose is the literary genre that consists of news reports, feature articles, essays, editorials, textbooks, historical and biographical works and the like, all of which describe or interpret facts and present judgments and opinions. Major goals of nonfiction prose are truth in reporting and logic in reasoning. Whereas in imaginative literature the aim is the truth to life and human nature, in nonfiction prose the goal is truth to the factual world of news, science and history.

Wellek and Warren (1997:1) says that literature can be treated as a document in the history of ideas and philosophy for literary history parallels and reflects intellectual history. So it is clear that if someone wants to know further about the history or the real condition in certain era, it is better to look at the literary works in the period itself because a literary work is a directly reflection of social structure, class struggle and others.

2.2 Novel

A novel is a fictional piece of style and presented as a bound book. Novels tell stories, which are usually defined as a series of events described in a sequence. The novel has been a part of human culture for over a thousand years, although its origins are somewhat debated. Regardless of how it began, the novel has risen to prominence and remained one of the most popular and treasured examples of human culture and writing. Its form and presentation tends to change with the times, but it remains an essential part of the literary cultures of nearly all societies around the novels are different from stories, poems, and narratives in a number of key respects. Though they are presented in the form of a book, they are much more than that — in most cases, any bound paper constitutes a book. All novels are books, therefore, but not all books are novels.

There are some methods of characterization. The rendering of creation of character far more than the commonplace ideas of direct description and reported dialogue: what the character says and does or what others say about him. Directs statement of character analysis and motive are often stated by authors or narrators, but more subtle methods are also used in every work of fiction. The simple fact of choosing a name is a real indication of character. Repeated mannerisms, such as oddities of speech and movement or an obsession, which is peculiar to one figure

and physiques of individuals are generally explicit indications of character or personality and an author may even include physical elements, which have conventional associations or meanings in order to build up the desired qualities of personality. Characterization through association with physical setting is another effective method for authors who wish to imply and suggest qualities of personality, while the use of figurative language and patterns of images associated with different character is still another indirect way of investing a fictional creation with character. Regardless of what methods are used in characterization, all characters are not developed to the same degree or depth. For the purpose of a particular plot and theme, the author may need a character or characters of great psychological complexity, or, on the other hand, characters of great are of little interest in themselves but who represent a particular attribute or quality. There are two kinds of character. The first include those fictional creations who have complex many-faceted personalities and an independent inner life which invites the reader’s interest, while flat characters are those who exhibit only one character trait or motivation and whose main claim to the reader’s interest is in the actions they perform or the quality they represent.

Novel is devided into two forms namely popular and serious novel. Popular novel or better known as ‘pop novel’ is a popular novel of it’s time and has a lot of fans, especially among young readers in which is displays the actual problem.

Popular novel does not show the problem in a more intense life, it does not try to penetrate the nature of life. Popular novel is generally artifficial, temporary

quickly outdated and does not force people to read it again. It is usually quickly forgotten especially with the emergence of new novel that more popular in the period there after.

Taylor (1981:460) says that novel is a form of literary work. Novel is normally a prose work of quite some length and complexity, which attempts to reflect and express something of the quality or value of human experience or conduct.

Rees (1973:106) says that novel is a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length in which characters and action representative of real live are portrayed in a plot of more or less complexity.

Most literary scholars define novels by what they contain and how they are presented. First, a novel must be written down rather than told through an oral account. Many ancient stories were passed down from generation to generation through story tellers, and though many of these may have been long enough or complex enough to be novels, they do not qualify unless they are recorded in some permanent way.

The work must also be wholly fictitious. Personal reflections, recounting of actual events or historical reports do not qualify; neither do myths, which tend to have their basis in reality or theology. So long as it is written down and is entirely a work of the author or authors’ imagination, it will usually qualify. There is no universally established guideline for a novel’s length, point-of-view, or even establishment of a moral or philosophical point. Most of the time, though, the storyline must be somewhat complex, and there must be several angles to the

narrative. The main differences between a short story and a novel are length and plot development. As a general rule, works up to 100 pages are short stories; longer works cross the line into novel territory.

The only exception to this rule is the novella, which is usually held to be a work o no defined rule for when a work transitions between these phases, and much is left up to the discretion of the reader. Novellas are typically shorter than ordinary novels and often contain only a few characters, but not always. The distinction is usually quite fluid.

3. THE DESCRIPTION OF THE JEALOUSY

The Great Gatsby novel is a love story; it tells sweet and bitter journey of a relationship between humans including many elements such as sacrifice, loyalty,

honesty, trust, and jealousy−which is going to be explained further. Jealousy is

among the most human of all emotions. It can be defined as the thoughts and feelings of insecurity, fear, concern and anxiety over an anticipated loss or status of something of great personal value, particularly in reference to a human connection. You feel jealous when you think you are going to lose a relationship you really value. It often results in worried and mistrustful behaviors and strikes men and women with equal fury. Jealousy itself can take on a sort of wicked presence in our lives. Actions taken on its behalf have been known to crush a budding romance, slowly erode a longstanding union or even lead to serious abuse. In a blog I recently wrote for The Huffington Post accessibility of technology now breeds even more distrust and couples. Email, text messaging and forging new connections. And as the floodgates of communication open, the green waves of jealousy begin to flow.

Jealousy isn't something we have much control over. In truth, it is a natural, instinctive emotion that everyone experiences at one point or another. The problem with jealousy is that it masks other feelings and attitudes that are even more hurtful to us and those closest to us. Its intensity is often shielding deep-seated feelings of possessiveness, insecurity or shame. I believe that what lies at

the heart of jealousy very often isn't the threat itself, but a drive we have within us to torment ourselves and berate ourselves with self-critical thoughts.

Think about the thoughts we have when we feel jealous. Lurking behind the threat, are often critical thoughts toward ourselves. Thoughts like, "What does he see in her?" can quickly turn into "She is so much prettier/thinner/more successful than me!" Even when our worst fears materialize and we learn of a partner's affair, we frequently react by directing ruined or unwanted. For example, when we end up searching our partner's cell phone for suspicious texts or restricting our partner from having friends of the opposite do with current circumstances.

Even if we do then find a text message from an ex in our partner's phone or hear that our partner hung out with an attractive co-worker at a company event, we may overreact in a way that neither we nor our partners are likely to respect. Accepting these negative attacks and not challenging them can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy by creating actual distance between ourselves and our partners, pushing them further away from us, perhaps ultimately into another person's arms. Even when our "worst fears" are realized, no act of dishonesty or even has been leveling against us feelings of jealousy is an important part of maintaining a healthy relationship. To do this, we must be aware of the critical inner voices driving our uncertainties and

self-doubt. If we can them as the "smiling enemies" they are, the ones that want us to wind up alone. We can act against the thoughts that tell us to be suspicious, mistrusting and accusatory. Though challenging these thoughts may initially make us anxious and may even intensify the voice attacks in the short run, in the long run it will strengthen us as individuals and improve our trust and communication with our partners. The more we weaken this internal enemy, the more we strengthen a positive sense of self. This will enable us to accept the reality that we are loved and reject the misperception that we are going to be betrayed. And if there were an infidelity, we would be much better able to get through it if we weren't letting our critical inner voice get the better of us. I want to correct some assumptions here – because it is obvious, if you look around you enough, that there are people who do not ever really feel jealousy. I am one of them. Such people do not have shallower emotions; rather, they have an inbuilt understanding that channels negative emotions away from feelings of jealousy. This holds a lot of hope for those other folks who tend to become prisoner to jealousy’s grip: it’s not an inevitable process.

Some people even think jealousy is a healthy thing, because it means that you care. You know that you are in love, it is said, when you feel tremendous pangs of jealousy about that special love that you share being shared with somebody else. Without jealousy and other associated negative involuntary emotions, the relationship might as well end, it is said, because then you have no more passionate divine spark. If you don’t ever get jealous, it must mean that you

can turn your emotions on and off at a whim, and thus no more organic drive exists to feel.

Jealousy is different; it is an altogether negative, regressive state of mind. The jealous thought says “I want what you have, and thus until I have it, you shouldn’t have it either.” This is very different from simple envy, because now the emphasis is not on you moving forward, but rather on keeping the other person back. That’s why jealousy can be so destructive and all-consuming; the jealous individual gets into a state of mind that presumes the right to control other people’s pleasure! Yikes. Even if they say nothing at all, the feelings are still there, and the air becomes heavy with them.

Little feelings of jealousy are understandable sometimes, and I will talk about why in a minute. However, once we get into a situation of chronic jealousy, I don’t think it is extreme to say that there is potential abuse down the road, since jealousy involves that sense of entitlement to control. There’s definitely a really big incentive out there for folks that are prone to jealousy to work on themselves to minimize the recurrence of such all-consuming feelings. Jealousy is not an emotion that should be embraced as a sign that strong love exists. In fact, it’s the opposite; jealousy comes from a perspective of self-preservation, not love towards others. Now let’s talk about why that is.

professor in The University of Michigan states that jealousy comes in two very common forms: reactive jealousy and suspicious jealousy. This distinction is important, because almost everybody feels reactive jealousy when one realizes

that a partner has been unfaithful. However, people vary in their tendencies to feel suspicious jealousy in the absence of any real threat. Reactive jealousy occurs when a person becomes aware of an actual threat or danger to the relationship - for example, when one of the partners realizes that the other has, in fact, been unfaithful. This type of jealousy is always in response to a realistic danger. Suspicious jealousy, meanwhile, occurs when your partner hasn't misbehaved. There is no proof that a relationship partner has engaged in any behavior that would significantly and perhaps legitimately threaten the future of the relationship. For example, you are seated at a bar and notice that an attractive stranger across the way is smiling at your partner. A victim of suspicious jealousy might perceive such a gesture as a threat to his or her stature in the relationship and get angry at the partner for it so often is in books, movies and on TV, this brand of jealousy frequently is followed by a punch in the nose or two partners arguing about the suspicions.

There are some values of jealousy found in The Great Gatsby novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The author shows that this jealousy sometimes becomes the main cause of complicated conflicts in the story. It’s proved by some sentences that expresses the jealousy itself which make the story get hotter and hotter to the end.

“The butler came back and murmured something close to Tom’s ear whereupon Tom frowned, pushed back his chair and without a word went inside. As if his absence quickened something within her Daisy leaned forward again, her voice glowing and singing.” (The Great Gatsby, 2013:17)

Here it is clear that there is jealousy daisy on Tom, this is beginning to suspect daisy Tom had a mistress.

‘Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!’ shouted Mrs. Wilson. ‘I’ll say itwhenever I want to! Daisy! Dai...; Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand. (The Great Gatsby, 2013:41)

Here is jealousy. Myrtle brings up Daisy's name most likely because she is jealous of the girl and her close connection to Tom. Tom, while he loves Myrtle and not Daisy, feels like Daisy is turf to be defended, and so he reacts very aggressively when Myrtle dares to bring her up. This also highlights Tom's possessiveness once again- he wants to keep Myrtle in her place, and so he does so with force.

"I was immediately struck by the number of young Englishmen dotted about; all well dressed, all looking a little hungry and all talking in low earnest voices to solid and prosperous Americans. I was sure that they were all selling something; bonds or insurance or automobiles. They were, at least, agonizingly aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced that it was theirs for a few words in the right key." (The Great Gatsby, 2013:46)

In this part, Nick describing what he saw when he first enters Gatsby's party. The Englishmen described here are very jealous and desire the Americans' money. They were so jealous because Gatsby is very rich in this place.

"As the waiter brought my change I caught sight of Tom Buchanan across the crowded room; Come along with me for a minute, I said. I've got to say hello to someone; When he saw us Tom jumped up and took half a dozen steps in our direction; Where've you been?' he demanded eagerly. Daisy's furious because you haven't called up; This is Mr.Gatsby, Mr. Buchanan; They shook hands briefly and a strained, unfamiliar look of embarrassment came over Gatsby's face." (The Great Gatsby, 2013:59)

This is the first time in the novel that Nick, Tom and Gatsby are all together in one room. Obviously, Gatsby feels a sense of jealousy towards Tom. Tom has Gatsby's ultimate dream: Daisy.

"In one of the windows over the garage the curtains had been moved aside a little and Myrtle Wilson was peering down at the car. So engrossed was she that she had no consciousness of being observed and one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture. Her expression as curiously familiar- it was an expression I had often see on women's faces but on Myrtle Wilson's face it seemed purposeless and inexplicable until I realized that her eyes, wide with jealous terror, were fixed not on Tom but on Jordan Baker, whom she took to be his wife." (The Great Gatsby, 2013:131)

Myrtle is jealous not of Jordan, but of Daisy. She just believes Daisy to be Jordan in that moment. Myrtle is obviously jealous because Daisy is married to the man that Myrtle believes she loves, and also who she believes loves her. She wants to be in Daisy's place, both because of her husband and also because of the riches she could have.

"Crossing his lawn I saw that his front door was still open and he was leaning against a table in the hall, heavy with dejection or sleep.Nothing happened, he said wanly. I waited, and about four o'clock she came to the window and stood there for a minute and then turned out the light.” (The Great Gatsby, 2013:154)

This is when Nick comes over to Gatsby's house the day after Tom figures out Daisy and Gatsby's affections for each other. Gatsby had told Daisy that he would be waiting for a signal should anything go wrong in her house and she needed him, but she ended up not needing him. There might be a touch of jealousy there: Daisy chooses to stay with Tom instead of Gatsby.

"What if I did tell him? That fellow had it coming to him. He threw dust into your eyes just like he did in Daisy's but he was a tough one. He ran over Myrtle like you'd run over a dog and never even stopped his car." (The Great Gatsby, 2013:187)

Even at the end of the novel, Tom was what he was at the beginning: a jealous and possessive man who only thought of himself and not others. He was jealous that Gatsby had stolen his wife's affections and his possessiveness led him to rat out Gatsby to Wilson, ultimately causing Gatsby's death. While knowing that, Tom still doesn't apologize.

There are some causes of the jealousy; insecurity, fear, competition. The writer will explains the causes of jealousy. Feelings of insecurity usually arise when one member of the relationship questions the feelings of the other. Insecurity often has roots in low self-esteem but can also stem from a lack of attention from one's partner. If one partner has low esteem or little self-confidence, feelings of jealousy become easily triggered by seemingly harmless stimuli, such as one's partner talking to a member of the opposite sex or glancing at someone who passes by on the street. People who compare themselves to others or constantly try to live up to unrealistic expectations of themselves may find these feelings arise frequently.

“Did you give Nick a little heart to heart talk on the veranda? demanded Tom suddenly. Did I? She looked at me. I can’t seem to remember, but I think we talked about the Nordic race.” (The Great Gatsby, 2013:38)

Here Tom gets lack of confidence on Daisy knowing that she used to have a relationship with Nick in the past. The fear of losing one's partner remains a main trigger for feelings of jealousy. The BBC's article points out that sometimes

feelings of jealousy can prove natural and can encourage a couple not to take each other for granted. Having an awareness that one can lose one's partner can actually strengthen the bonds between couples, but not when this feeling of fear becomes obsessive or irrational. People may fear that their partner want to replace them with someone "better" or more desirable. Providing or seeking reassurance can help to assuage some of these fears.

“I saw them in Santa Barbara when they came back and I thought I’d never seen a girl so mad about her husband. If he left the room for a minute she’d look around uneasily and say ‘Where’s Tom gone?’ and wear the most abstracted expression until she saw him coming in the door.” (The Great Gatsby, 2013:40)

It’s shown here that Daisy’s jealousy on Tom comes from a sense of fear.

When Tom suddenly went without telling a word, many question were crossing her mine: Where did Tom go? Why didn’t he tell me? Did he meet another woman? Is he cheating on me?; which freak her out.

Feelings of competition are normal human emotions from which jealousy can stem when felt on an extreme level. An article by James Park of the University of Minnesota points out that many people suffering from jealous feelings waste energy trying to be better than others instead of trying to be their "best" self by becoming unique individuals. They may constantly compete with others and they may view anyone as a potential threat. Competitiveness can sometimes help one to do one's best, but can result in constantly questioning oneself, wondering what others have that they don't.

In the novel, it’s clearly shown that Tom and Gatsby are racing each other to win Daisy’s heart which proves that competition is a major factor that causes jealousy.

4. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

4.1 Conclusion

The Great Gatsby novel is a love story; it tells sweet and bitter journey of a relationship between humans including many elements such as sacrifice, loyalty,

honesty, trust, and jealousy−which is going to be explained further.

Jealousy is among the most human of all emotions. It can be defined as the thoughts and feelings of insecurity, fear, concern and anxiety over an anticipated loss or status of something of great personal value, particularly in reference to a human connection. You feel jealous when you think you are going to lose a relationship you really value. It often results in worried and mistrustful behaviors and strikes men and women with equal fury.

There are the causes of jealousy found in The Great Gatsby novel:

1) Insecurity

Feelings of insecurity usually arise when one member of the relationship questions the feelings of the other. Insecurity often has roots in low self-esteem but can also stem from a lack of attention from one's partner. If one partner has low self-esteem or little self-confidence, feelings of jealousy become easily triggered by seemingly harmless stimuli, such as one's partner talking to a member of the opposite sex or glancing at someone who passes by on the street. People who compare themselves to others or constantly try to live up to unrealistic expectations of themselves may find these feelings arise frequently.

2) Fear

The fear of losing one's partner remains a main trigger for feelings of jealousy. The BBC's article points out that sometimes feelings of jealousy can prove natural and can encourage a couple not to take each other for granted. Having an awareness that one can lose one's partner can actually strengthen the bonds between couples, but not when this feeling of fear becomes obsessive or irrational. People may fear that their partner want to replace them with someone "better" or more desirable. Providing or seeking reassurance can help to assuage some of these fears.

3) Competition

Feelings of competition are normal human emotions from which jealousy can stem when felt on an extreme level. An article by James Park of the University of Minnesota points out that many people suffering from jealous feelings waste energy trying to be better than others instead of trying to be their "best" self by becoming unique individuals. They may constantly compete with others and they may view anyone as a potential threat. Competitiveness can sometimes help one to do one's best, but can result in constantly questioning oneself, wondering what others have that they don't.

4.2 Suggestion

After describing the values of jealousy found in The Great Gatsby Novel, the writer of this paper knows that jealousy has to be natural behavior of humans,

because it is so widespread. No matter where you go in the world you encounter it. The jealous person always wants to deny the other person whatever it is that desired. One’s sense of security rests on being the sole owner something, or the only person in a particular position or relationship.

The writer hopes this paper will make the reader understand about novel and the values of jealousy in this novel and those are not read the novel will set interested and get more knowledge about how important the values is in a novel. So many things found in this novel that are very interesting to analyze further. The writer realizes that the paper is still far from being perfect and in writing this paper, the writer only used simple word. There will be more can be studied from this novel in relation to life, for instance. The intrinsic approach is only a part from many that can be explored more. So, the writer hopes this paper will be starting point for further analysis. The writer hopes so.

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APPENDICES A.The Biography of the Authors

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, and named after his ancestor Francis Scott Key, the author of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Fitzgerald was raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. Though an intelligent child, he did poorly in school and was sent to a New Jersey boarding school in 1911. Despite being a mediocre student there, he managed to enroll at Princeton in 1913.

Academic troubles and apathy plagued him throughout his time at college, and he never graduated, instead enlisting in the army in 1917, as World War I neared its end.

Fitzgerald became a second lieutenant, and was stationed at Camp Sheridan, in Montgomery, Alabama. There he met and fell in love with a wild seventeen-year-old beauty named Zelda Sayre. Zelda finally agreed to marry him,

but her overpowering desire for wealth, fun, and leisure led her to delay their wedding until he could prove a success. With the publication of This Side of Paradise in 1920, Fitzgerald became a literary sensation, earning enough money and fame to convince Zelda to marry him.

Many of these events from Fitzgerald’s early life appear in his most famous novel, The Great Gatsby, published in 1925. Like Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway is a thoughtful young man from Minnesota, educated at an Ivy League school (in Nick’s case, Yale), who moves to New York after the war. Also similar to Fitzgerald is Jay Gatsby, a sensitive young man who idolizes wealth and luxury and who falls in love with a beautiful young woman while stationed at a military camp in the South.

Having become a celebrity, Fitzgerald fell into a wild, reckless life-style of parties and decadence, while desperately trying to please Zelda by writing to earn money. Similarly, Gatsby amasses a great deal of wealth at a relatively young age, and devotes himself to acquiring possessions and throwing parties that he believes will enable him to win Daisy’s love. As the giddiness of the Roaring Twenties dissolved into the bleakness of the Great Depression, however, Zelda suffered a nervous breakdown and Fitzgerald battled alcoholism, which hampered his writing. He published Tender Is the Night in 1934, and sold short stories to The Saturday Evening Post to support his lavish lifestyle. In 1937, he left for Hollywood to write screenplays, and in 1940, while working on his novel The Love of the Last Tycoon, died of a heart attack at the age of forty-four.

he dubbed “the Jazz Age.” Written in 1925, The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest literary documents of this period, in which the American economy soared, bringing unprecedented levels of prosperity to the nation. Prohibition, the ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1919), made millionaires out of bootleggers, and an underground culture of revelry sprang up. Sprawling private parties managed to elude police notice, and “speakeasies”—secret clubs that sold liquor—thrived. The chaos and violence of World War I left America in a state of shock, and the generation that fought the war turned to wild and extravagant living to compensate. The staid conservatism and timeworn values of the previous decade were turned on their ear, as money, opulence, and exuberance became the order of the day.

Like Nick in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald found this new lifestyle seductive and exciting, and, like Gatsby, he had always idolized the very rich. Now he found himself in an era in which unrestrained materialism set the tone of society, particularly in the large cities of the East. Even so, like Nick, Fitzgerald saw through the glitter of the Jazz Age to the moral emptiness and hypocrisy beneath, and part of him longed for this absent moral center. In many ways, The Great Gatsby represents Fitzgerald’s attempt to confront his conflicting feelings about the Jazz Age. Like Gatsby, Fitzgerald was driven by his love for a woman who symbolized everything he wanted, even as she led him toward everything he despised.

B. Summary of Novel

First-person narrator, Nick Carraway, introduces the novel, insisting that he strenuously avoids judging people based on advice his wealthy father once gave him; however, he admits that this habit often causes him problems, with particular reference to events concerning a man named Gatsby. Nick leaves NewYork—where these events took place—to return to the Midwest. Toward the end of the novel, Nick says that a year or two has passed since the story took place.

Nick opens his story by recounting that he, a young Minnesotan, has moved to New York, renting a low-cost cottage located in West Egg, the less fashionable of two fictional seaside communities alongside one other on Long Island Sound (the other one being East Egg). Nick visits his second cousin, Daisy Buchanan, whose husband, Tom, is a phenomenally wealthy former college athlete. The Buchanans have an opulent mansion in East Egg. Here, Nick meets Jordan Baker, a lady friend of Daisy's and well-known golfer.

Nick is the next-door neighbor of Jay Gatsby, an extremely wealthy man known for hosting lavish soirées in his own enormous mansion, where every Saturday, hundreds of people come. Although many of the guests are uninvited, Nick is soon personally invited by a rather formally written letter by Gatsby himself to one of Gatsby's parties and finds himself becoming involved in this party scene, although he states that he despises the entire concept of mindless entertainment.

Gatsby seems to be a mysterious character whose great wealth is a subject of much rumor; none of the guests Nick meets at Gatsby's parties know much about his past. A man begins a conversation with Nick by asking him if they had been together in the Third Division during the war. Nick affirms that he was in the Division, and remarks on the strange absence of their host. The man reveals himself to be Gatsby, surprising Nick who had expected Gatsby to be much older and not as personable. In fact, Nick and Gatsby begin a close friendship.

Nick is initially confused as to why Gatsby throws parties without introducing himself to his guests, and even more so when Gatsby drives him to New York and tells Nick all about his seemingly far-fetched version of his own up bring without letting loose of any of his intentions. Jordan eventually reveals to Nick that Gatsby was holding these parties in hopes that Daisy, his former love, would stumble into one of them by chance. Also through Jordan, Gatsby requests Nick to arrange a meeting with Daisy. After an initially awkward reunion, things appeared to turn more communicative when Gatsby begins to relax, and so Daisy and Gatsby soon begin an affair. In the meantime, Nick and Jordan Baker, whom Nick re-encounters at one of Gatsby's parties, start a relationship, which Nick already predicts will be superficial.

Eventually, in an explosive scene at a hotel in Manhattan, Tom notices Gatsby's love for Daisy and alleges that Gatsby is a bootlegger. Tom claims that he's been "researching" about Gatsby and expresses his hatred towards Gatsby by tactlessly accusing Gatsby of illegal activities. During this scene, Gatsby attempts to force Daisy to claim that she has never loved Tom in hope of erasing the last

five years of her past so that she may simply come back to him. Daisy says what Gatsby tells her to say, but hesitantly. Tom, noticing this uncomfortable bond between Daisy and Gatsby, orders them to drive back home from the hotel back to Tom's house on Long Island together, mocking Gatsby by saying that he knows nothing can happen between Daisy and Gatsby. Tom takes his time getting home with Nick and Jordan.

George Wilson, owner of a garage on a desolate road between Manhattan and northern Long Island, and his wife, Myrtle (with whom Tom is having an affair), are also arguing. She runs out of the house, only to be hit by Gatsby's car, driven by Daisy; and she is killed instantly. On the way back home, Tom, Jordan, and Nick notice the car accident. Tom remarks that Wilson, who is an auto repairman, will finally have some business, but stops shortly after noticing something wrong. Tom soon realizes that his lover is dead. During this grotesque scene, Wilson comes out of his shop, half-insane and half in shock, and talks about a yellow car. Tom leads Wilson into a private place and tells him that the yellow car was not his; that Tom was driving Gatsby's yellow car earlier when the were driving to the hotel and stopped by at Wilson's for gasoline. Wilson does not seem to listen and after the confrontation, Wilson seems to become insane. He stays up all night rocking back and forth, muttering nonsense, while his neighbor patiently watches over him. He finally makes the connection that whoever was driving that yellow car must have been the man Myrtle was having an affair with and makes up his mind to find the yellow car.

By this point, Nick has abandoned his role as an outsider observing the drama and has instead become Gatsby's closest friend. Nick finds himself returning the bond of loyalty Gatsby has for him, and when he finds out about the accident, he advises Gatsby to run away for a week, for his safety. The two end up having breakfast at Gatsby's pool, with Nick telling him "They're (Daisy, Tom, Jordan) a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." Upon hearing this, Gatsby smiles his trademark smile, which Nick described as "It faced—or seemed to face—the whole world, then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.

Wilson finds himself in Tom's house with a gun and Tom, while packing for an escape trip with Daisy, gives Gatsby's name to Wilson. In the meantime, Gatsby is floating in his pool, overwhelmed with depression, thinking that Daisy no longer loves him. While he is still hoping for a call from Daisy, Wilson comes and shoots Gatsby. He then commits suicide on the lawn not far away. With Gatsby dead, Nick tries to find people who will attend his funeral, only to find that not even his crooked business partners will be there to mourn for him. Finally, Mr.Gatz, Gatsby's father (Gatsby apparently gave himself a new name after leaving home) comes to the funeral, apparently still trapped in the past. He shows Nick a well-worn photograph of Gatsby's house and a notebook that Gatsby wrote in as a child.

Only three people attend Gatsby's actual funeral: Nick, Mr.Gatz, and "Owl Eyes," a random man who had enjoyed one of Gatsby's parties earlier that summer, but whom Nick hadn't seen since. After permanently severing

connections between himself and Jordan, Tom, and Daisy, Nick leaves New York and goes back to the Midwest, reflecting on Gatsby's desire to recapture the past.

he dubbed “the Jazz Age.” Written in 1925, The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest literary documents of this period, in which the American economy soared, bringing unprecedented levels of prosperity to the nation. Prohibition, the ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1919), made millionaires out of bootleggers, and an underground culture of revelry sprang up. Sprawling private parties managed to elude police notice, and “speakeasies”—secret clubs that sold liquor—thrived. The chaos and violence of World War I left America in a state of shock, and the generation that fought the war turned to wild and extravagant living to compensate. The staid conservatism and timeworn values of the previous decade were turned on their ear, as money, opulence, and exuberance became the order of the day.

Like Nick in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald found this new lifestyle seductive and exciting, and, like Gatsby, he had always idolized the very rich. Now he found himself in an era in which unrestrained materialism set the tone of society, particularly in the large cities of the East. Even so, like Nick, Fitzgerald saw through the glitter of the Jazz Age to the moral emptiness and hypocrisy beneath, and part of him longed for this absent moral center. In many ways, The Great Gatsby represents Fitzgerald’s attempt to confront his conflicting feelings about the Jazz Age. Like Gatsby, Fitzgerald was driven by his love for a woman who symbolized everything he wanted, even as she led him toward everything he despised.

B. Summary of Novel

First-person narrator, Nick Carraway, introduces the novel, insisting that he strenuously avoids judging people based on advice his wealthy father once gave him; however, he admits that this habit often causes him problems, with particular reference to events concerning a man named Gatsby. Nick leaves NewYork—where these events took place—to return to the Midwest. Toward the end of the novel, Nick says that a year or two has passed since the story took place.

Nick opens his story by recounting that he, a young Minnesotan, has moved to New York, renting a low-cost cottage located in West Egg, the less fashionable of two fictional seaside communities alongside one other on Long Island Sound (the other one being East Egg). Nick visits his second cousin, Daisy Buchanan, whose husband, Tom, is a phenomenally wealthy former college athlete. The Buchanans have an opulent mansion in East Egg. Here, Nick meets Jordan Baker, a lady friend of Daisy's and well-known golfer.

Nick is the next-door neighbor of Jay Gatsby, an extremely wealthy man known for hosting lavish soirées in his own enormous mansion, where every Saturday, hundreds of people come. Although many of the guests are uninvited, Nick is soon personally invited by a rather formally written letter by Gatsby himself to one of Gatsby's parties and finds himself becoming involved in this party scene, although he states that he despises the entire concept of mindless entertainment.

Gatsby seems to be a mysterious character whose great wealth is a subject of much rumor; none of the guests Nick meets at Gatsby's parties know much about his past. A man begins a conversation with Nick by asking him if they had been together in the Third Division during the war. Nick affirms that he was in the Division, and remarks on the strange absence of their host. The man reveals himself to be Gatsby, surprising Nick who had expected Gatsby to be much older and not as personable. In fact, Nick and Gatsby begin a close friendship.

Nick is initially confused as to why Gatsby throws parties without introducing himself to his guests, and even more so when Gatsby drives him to New York and tells Nick all about his seemingly far-fetched version of his own up bring without letting loose of any of his intentions. Jordan eventually reveals to Nick that Gatsby was holding these parties in hopes that Daisy, his former love, would stumble into one of them by chance. Also through Jordan, Gatsby requests Nick to arrange a meeting with Daisy. After an initially awkward reunion, things appeared to turn more communicative when Gatsby begins to relax, and so Daisy and Gatsby soon begin an affair. In the meantime, Nick and Jordan Baker, whom Nick re-encounters at one of Gatsby's parties, start a relationship, which Nick already predicts will be superficial.

Eventually, in an explosive scene at a hotel in Manhattan, Tom notices Gatsby's love for Daisy and alleges that Gatsby is a bootlegger. Tom claims that he's been "researching" about Gatsby and expresses his hatred towards Gatsby by tactlessly accusing Gatsby of illegal activities. During this scene, Gatsby attempts to force Daisy to claim that she has never loved Tom in hope of erasing the last

five years of her past so that she may simply come back to him. Daisy says what Gatsby tells her to say, but hesitantly. Tom, noticing this uncomfortable bond between Daisy and Gatsby, orders them to drive back home from the hotel back to Tom's house on Long Island together, mocking Gatsby by saying that he knows nothing can happen between Daisy and Gatsby. Tom takes his time getting home with Nick and Jordan.

George Wilson, owner of a garage on a desolate road between Manhattan and northern Long Island, and his wife, Myrtle (with whom Tom is having an affair), are also arguing. She runs out of the house, only to be hit by Gatsby's car, driven by Daisy; and she is killed instantly. On the way back home, Tom, Jordan, and Nick notice the car accident. Tom remarks that Wilson, who is an auto repairman, will finally have some business, but stops shortly after noticing something wrong. Tom soon realizes that his lover is dead. During this grotesque scene, Wilson comes out of his shop, half-insane and half in shock, and talks about a yellow car. Tom leads Wilson into a private place and tells him that the yellow car was not his; that Tom was driving Gatsby's yellow car earlier when the were driving to the hotel and stopped by at Wilson's for gasoline. Wilson does not seem to listen and after the confrontation, Wilson seems to become insane. He stays up all night rocking back and forth, muttering nonsense, while his neighbor patiently watches over him. He finally makes the connection that whoever was driving that yellow car must have been the man Myrtle was having an affair with and makes up his mind to find the yellow car.

By this point, Nick has abandoned his role as an outsider observing the drama and has instead become Gatsby's closest friend. Nick finds himself returning the bond of loyalty Gatsby has for him, and when he finds out about the accident, he advises Gatsby to run away for a week, for his safety. The two end up having breakfast at Gatsby's pool, with Nick telling him "They're (Daisy, Tom, Jordan) a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." Upon hearing this, Gatsby smiles his trademark smile, which Nick described as "It faced—or seemed to face—the whole world, then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.

Wilson finds himself in Tom's house with a gun and Tom, while packing for an escape trip with Daisy, gives Gatsby's name to Wilson. In the meantime, Gatsby is floating in his pool, overwhelmed with depression, thinking that Daisy no longer loves him. While he is still hoping for a call from Daisy, Wilson comes and shoots Gatsby. He then commits suicide on the lawn not far away. With Gatsby dead, Nick tries to find people who will attend his funeral, only to find that not even his crooked business partners will be there to mourn for him. Finally, Mr.Gatz, Gatsby's father (Gatsby apparently gave himself a new name after leaving home) comes to the funeral, apparently still trapped in the past. He shows Nick a well-worn photograph of Gatsby's house and a notebook that Gatsby wrote in as a child.

Only three people attend Gatsby's actual funeral: Nick, Mr.Gatz, and "Owl Eyes," a random man who had enjoyed one of Gatsby's parties earlier that summer, but whom Nick hadn't seen since. After permanently severing

connections between himself and Jordan, Tom, and Daisy, Nick leaves New York and goes back to the Midwest, reflecting on Gatsby's desire to recapture the past.