The Great Gatsby Chapter 5 Summary
In Chapter Five How Does Fitzgerald Add To Our Understanding Of Gatsby?
During the 1920’s, America was full of gilded appearances; glittering on the surface but decaying underneath. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, written in 1925, The Great Gatsby, is a paramount example of fabricated presentations. This is especially evident through the character that the novel receives its namesake: Mr. Jay Gatsby. According to an English critical scholarly article ‘the key feature of the narrative structure of Gatsby is the fragmentary, sporadic, and sometimes non-chronological way in which it releases information (and misinformation) about its title character’. This is evident throughout the glimpses of information in the chapters leading up to chapter …show more content…
Throughout chapter five, and in fact the entirety of The Great Gatsby, Nick is an outsider due to Gatsby’s frequent vanishing – both emotionally and physically. This is especially evident at the end of chapter five when Gatsby and Daisy are enveloped in their rekindling. Nick realises this trait of Gatsby’s during the last paragraph of chapter five, in which is states ‘Gatsby didn’t know me now at all’. This dismal of Nick, once Gatsby has obtained his goal of possession, illuminates that Gatsby only associates with people in order to help him achieve his …show more content…
When discussing Gatsby’s home, the topic of money arises; ‘‘it took me three years to earn the money that brought it’’. This is the first divide in Gatsby’s previously immaculate persona, and Nick notices instantly - ‘‘I thought you inherited your money’’. Jay Gatsby, since the day he created himself, has been working towards becoming the idealistic man of the 1920s – effortlessly wealthy, intelligent, and full of leisure. Yet, with this newfound information, Gatsby has begun to dissolve. John W. Bicknell said that ‘the American Dream was, after all, little more than a thinly veiled nightmare’. This description of the American dream is similar to Gatsby’s thinly veiled persona – both are covering the true phantasm
During the 1920’s, America was full of gilded appearances; glittering on the surface but decaying underneath. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, written in 1925, The Great Gatsby, is a paramount example of fabricated presentations. This is especially evident through the character that the novel receives its namesake: Mr. Jay Gatsby. According to an English critical scholarly article ‘the key feature of the narrative structure of Gatsby is the fragmentary, sporadic, and sometimes non-chronological way in which it releases information (and misinformation) about its title character’. This is evident throughout the glimpses of information in the chapters leading up to chapter …show more content…
Throughout chapter five, and in fact the entirety of The Great Gatsby, Nick is an outsider due to Gatsby’s frequent vanishing – both emotionally and physically. This is especially evident at the end of chapter five when Gatsby and Daisy are enveloped in their rekindling. Nick realises this trait of Gatsby’s during the last paragraph of chapter five, in which is states ‘Gatsby didn’t know me now at all’. This dismal of Nick, once Gatsby has obtained his goal of possession, illuminates that Gatsby only associates with people in order to help him achieve his …show more content…
When discussing Gatsby’s home, the topic of money arises; ‘‘it took me three years to earn the money that brought it’’. This is the first divide in Gatsby’s previously immaculate persona, and Nick notices instantly - ‘‘I thought you inherited your money’’. Jay Gatsby, since the day he created himself, has been working towards becoming the idealistic man of the 1920s – effortlessly wealthy, intelligent, and full of leisure. Yet, with this newfound information, Gatsby has begun to dissolve. John W. Bicknell said that ‘the American Dream was, after all, little more than a thinly veiled nightmare’. This description of the American dream is similar to Gatsby’s thinly veiled persona – both are covering the true phantasm