The Great Gatsby. Character Analysis
THE GREAT GATSBY
What are your first impressions of Daisy, Tom & Nick?
Within the first line of the chapter there is a rich sense of imagery, for example ‘..white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered alone the water’ the line gives the impression that this novel is set in a city full of wealth and the positive attitude towards the place provides us with strong content imagery. The first paragraph describes how the narrator is going to visit his friend and cousin; by describing such a glamorous place I am automatically aware that his friend and cousin must be wealthy individuals.
Tom is Nick’s cousin, Daisy’s, immensely wealthy husband the first description we here about him was; ‘he had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven’. This shows that Tom must be a wealthy and powerful figure, football players in the modern age earn millions and this would be no different in the 1920’s. ‘His family were enormously wealthy’ reinforces the idea that Tom has been brought up in an environment full of riches; therefore he has only been surrounded by an affluent lifestyle and prosperous individuals.
From the first psychical description we receive about time we get the impression that he is an arrogant alpha male ‘Tom Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch’. ‘Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance’, this is a description made by Nick, this shows that Nick is aware of how confident and egotistical Tom is and we now gain the impression that Tom thinks he is better than everyone else. This is followed through when Tom says to Nick ‘Just because I’m stronger and more of man than you are”, this is a very arrogant comment to make and I start to get the impression that all the fame and wealth Tom has been surrounded by has created a big headed and overconfident individual. Tom could make such a comment because he thinks he is superior to Nick, Tom has a beautiful wife, plenty of money,
What are your first impressions of Daisy, Tom & Nick?
Within the first line of the chapter there is a rich sense of imagery, for example ‘..white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered alone the water’ the line gives the impression that this novel is set in a city full of wealth and the positive attitude towards the place provides us with strong content imagery. The first paragraph describes how the narrator is going to visit his friend and cousin; by describing such a glamorous place I am automatically aware that his friend and cousin must be wealthy individuals.
Tom is Nick’s cousin, Daisy’s, immensely wealthy husband the first description we here about him was; ‘he had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven’. This shows that Tom must be a wealthy and powerful figure, football players in the modern age earn millions and this would be no different in the 1920’s. ‘His family were enormously wealthy’ reinforces the idea that Tom has been brought up in an environment full of riches; therefore he has only been surrounded by an affluent lifestyle and prosperous individuals.
From the first psychical description we receive about time we get the impression that he is an arrogant alpha male ‘Tom Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch’. ‘Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance’, this is a description made by Nick, this shows that Nick is aware of how confident and egotistical Tom is and we now gain the impression that Tom thinks he is better than everyone else. This is followed through when Tom says to Nick ‘Just because I’m stronger and more of man than you are”, this is a very arrogant comment to make and I start to get the impression that all the fame and wealth Tom has been surrounded by has created a big headed and overconfident individual. Tom could make such a comment because he thinks he is superior to Nick, Tom has a beautiful wife, plenty of money,