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This 5 page report discusses what is called “jungle fever” which occurs when the attraction is so strong between people who are so patently wrong for one another, either because of social conventions of class or racial differences, the attraction often grows more heated, more intense, more feverish. The works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tennessee Williams are considered for the examples they present of the “fever.”
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racial differences, the attraction often grows more heated, more intense, more feverish. "Jungle fever" takes over in ways that simple lust cannot even approach. It is a fever that consumes
every aspect of a persons being and lights them on fire with sexual longing and desperation. In much the same way that malaria or "yellow fever" consumes a person with
fever, physical anguish, and delirium, "jungle fever" infects every aspect of its victims. There is no cure and all that a person can hope for is that the fever will
break before it burns him or her to cinders. "Jungle fever" is what the socialite Daisy Buchanan and the onetime social nobody Jay Gatsby experienced in F. Scott Fitzgeralds "The
Great Gatsby." And another Fitzgerald couple, Tom Buchanan (Daisys husband) and the unfortunate Myrtle Wilson (wife of a gas station owner) also demonstrate the "heat" that rises between a couple
that has to cross an enormous social chasm in order to connect. Another example of the fever that takes hold between a man and a woman and consumes their senses
and their sensibilities is seen in Tennessee Williams "A Streetcar Named Desire." In that dramatic work, the audience sees the tension that takes place between Stanley and Jungle
Fever in New York The wealthy elite of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanans world were the people who most believed in the essential and appropriate "natural order" of social and
class separations. And yet, Daisy is undeniably attracted to the rakehell Gatsby and Gatsby would do anything to gain her favor . . . in fact he demonstrates that fact
which only serves to repel him for his crass attempts to become a person of "quality." Ultimately, she is unable to commit herself to him because he falls so far
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