1.8 Significant Connetions

Every guy has had a Golden Girl in their life that would seem to fit perfectly with you. She’s smart, Charming, beautiful and everything you would want in a woman. She is always ever so elusive when you’re about to have a grasp on her she slips through your fingers. Everyone who fell under the charm of a Golden Girl would go to the end of the earth to get what they desire. Throughout the different texts of Fitzgeralds, he has a golden girl that the main protagonist can’t resist. The Golden girls in each of the texts are Kismine, Daisy, Daisy and Judy. The texts that I will be depicting are The Great Gatsby, The curious case of Benjamin Button, Winter Dreams and The Diamond As Big As The Ritz. The Golden Girls have very similar attributes throughout the texts.

The Great Gatsby is a big example of the “Golden Girl” Daisy Buchanan is Gatsby’s Golden Girl throughout the whole book he is striving towards the goal of them being together. It was his hopes and dreams, it filled his ambitions. When Nick says ” That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it. . . . high in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl. ” It shows what she meant to everyone she is the ideal golden girl. She has an inexhaustible charm. which says that her charm is very plentiful never able to be used up always working its ways into peoples desires and dreams. She especially filled Gatsby’s life she was his only obsession. This inevitably leads to his downfall. Daisy was everything that Gatsby wanted which is why that she is his golden she has reputation beauty money and she has charm everything that he wants. Gatsby says “Can’t repeat the past why of course you can” This shows that he wants to be able to change the time for her for his enemy is the unhelpful timing of there whole situation. Then the Gatsby tries to oppose one of the colossal forces of the world time for the golden girl. Gatsby throughout the text believes that it is possible to go back in time and forget that the last 5 years had happened. which in the end was never able to happen.

The Curious Case of Benjamin button also has a golden girl named Daisy she is desired by Benjamin Button who lives backwards so he’s getting younger whereas she gets older. Throughout the film, they encounter each she was his first crush. When Benjamin said, “I never forgot her blue eyes ” this shows how big of an impact she was to him. for him to so vividly remember her eyes. This shows that she was always on his mind because he would always think of her. She was the perfect match for Benjamin. She didn’t care if he aged backwards or the life he lived. She was his golden girl. Just like Gatsby, They met when they were younger then after many years, he comes back to see her. Benjamin also had time as an enemy when he says “I was thinking how nothing lasts and what a shame that is” at this stage benjamin button and daisy where around the time where they were the same age the crossing point of their lives. He realizes that sooner or later he will have to move on with his life and leave daisy. He accepts that as a part of life. Gatsby also had time going against him because when they separated for five years all he could think about her and how when he gets back to her everything will be how it was and they will just erase all of those years that he missed with her as if they don’t matter. When Gatsby returned he and Daisy fell in love again. then he pushed her too hard and she left and he died. this shows that Gatsby and Benjamin both wanted their Golden Girls. They had their respective Daisys but then some small piece of information of time drew them apart. for Gatsby it was the fact that they couldn’t go back to what they were like and for Benjamin, it was that he was getting younger and she was getting older.

Winter Dreams also has a Golden has a Golden Girl Judy Jones and Dexter the main character ever since he meets her has a complete devotion to her from the first time he meets her. which was when he was caddying on a golf course. she is very superficial and very wealthy which makes Dexter want to change himself for her. when Judy says 
“You’re not. I like you. But I’ve just had a terrible afternoon. There was a man I cared about, and this afternoon he told me out of a clear sky that he was poor as a church-mouse. He’d never even hinted it before. Does this sound horribly mundane?” this just shows how superficial she is even though she cared about a lot this man she had to end it because he was poor. when Dexter says 
“It did not take him many hours to decide that he had wanted Judy Jones ever since he was a proud, desirous little boy.” this shows that he has always really liked her since the day he meet her and she has been playing on his mind since then just Benjamin button they were both affected by their golden girls at a young age and from that point on. They both try to work it out with their golden girls then realize they had to wait. Then they tried again which for both of them went well until the inevitability faced them that they didn’t work for different reasons Dexter problem was that he didn’t really like Judy he liked the idea of the golden girl and what she represented.

The Diamond As Big As The Ritz also has a golden girl this story is about a boy from a wealthy family called John. Than there Kismine who is from a family who are the richest family in the world both Kismine and Percey are very materialistic. when John says  “I’m glad. I like very rich people.” it just shows how much he cares about the money so when it comes to Kismine he also really enjoys that he is marrying into the richest family in the world. John thinks that kismine looks absolutely amazing when this is said “John was critical about women. A single defect- a thick ankle, a hoarse voice a glass eye- was enough to make him utterly indifferent. and here for the first time in his life, he was beside a girl who seemed to him the incarnation of physical perfection” this shows how much he really thinks Kismine he thinks that she is the only person he has seen in all his life that’s fits his criteria of being perfect which means that she is his golden girl. he strives to get her throughout the whole book. He faces death to be with her because at the end of the summer he would be killed just like all the other people that went to kismine Washingtons house. John out of all the protagonists that went after the golden girl he was the only on that succeeded this is because where everyone else failed and generally walked awa

John was tested he passed the test everyone else had their golden girl and then a problem came along. Such as Benjamin faced the problem of Time. He walked away because he realized he couldn’t handle that strain in their relationship whether that was the best decision is up to them. Then Dexter he finally was with Judy Jones his problem was that he didn’t want the life she wanted then he walked away. Gatsby had his Golden girl Daisy for a brief time their problem was also time Gatsby wanted to erase 5 years but Daisy just wanted to live with life from that point on. the fact that Gatsby couldn’t compromise killed. John had his Dreamgirl Kismine and he kept her even though they faced adversity. When he Kismine told him he was going to die at the end of the summer. He was angry, yes but when they were under attack he took kismine with him and he didn’t walk away he compromised and forgave kismine. This shows that everything in life has to be worked for nothing comes for free. Throughout all of Fitzgeralds work everyone has to work for what they want and once they became tested it sees how important it is to you.