Didion aspect of how people with and without self-respect act are explained many different times in this article. He first starts out by explaining his own situation that he had when he was rejected to Phi Beta Kappa. Although he somewhat expected it but never thought that he'd actually be rejected to it, he had lost self-respect for himself as well as that innocence he had since a child. He'd been growing up with the innocent belief of children such as if you try hard, things can always work out for you, which is not true in the real world and this brought him down. As he gives his own example of not having self-respect, he moves back and forth to give various explanations of when a person does with and without self-respect. "Self-respect is ... a certain discipline, the sense that one lives by doing things one does not particularly want to do, by putting fears and doubts to one side, by weighing immediate comforts against the possibility of larger, even intangible, comforts".
Because not that many of us hear lectures on self-respect, I think Dordion was very passionate about thoroughly explaining what self-respect is and what is when not haveing self-respect. He gave so many definitions and exaples to make the readers understand as he relied on his own experience and the characters of The Great Gatsby. By the end of the article I felt and learned so much about the importance of self-respect. Dordian used long, lengthy sentences, listing all the facts and providing reasons to prove his aspect of self-respect. I think this article is very successful because the author did a very well done job of conveying his main point of the message to the readers, and made sure not to just explain one side of self-respect but both, securing the definition that he gives of self-respect.
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