How does Fitzgerald tell the story in chapter 3? In chapter 3 Fitzgerald introduces us to the main character of his book‚ and we finally get an insight into what Gatsby is like (albeit through the eyes of Nick Carraway) during the party he throws. Even though we meet the character himself‚ Fitzgerald continues to entice us with rumours of Gatsby‚ which is significant because it shows just how artificial his entire life is – he couldn’t dispel the rumours even if he wanted to. Throughout the
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Write about the ways Fitzgerald tells the story in chapter 7 (Page 132 onwards) Chapter 7 mirrors chapter 1 in setting and structure‚ of the travelling to New York and the necessity to pass through ‘The Valley of the Ashes’ symbolic of the mythological River Styx and “The Waste Land” by T.S. Elliot. Also‚ the many separated sections in chapter 7 are reminiscent of the structure of chapter 1‚ used as a key way for Fitzgerald to effectively and emotively convey the story‚ by framing the two chapters
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crash in front of Wilson’s gas station. After recognizing the body Tom displays the proper amount of remorse. Before this‚ however‚ he approaches the situation with an amused tone‚ “Wreck! That’s good. Wilson’ll have a little business at last” (Fitzgerald 137). Even in jest this reaction not an appropriate response. A death being referred to as a favorable event can never be ethically uttered. Furthermore in The Awakening‚ Edna has undergone her sexual awakening. She appears
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In The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald creates a divide amongst the characters by separating them into different layers of society in terms of wealth. New Money is the category in which characters have previously been poor but have gradually earned vast amounts of money; old money is the situation of some characters that have always been rich through generations. Some money and no money are clear; certain characters simply have either some money or no money. Jay Gatsby falls under the category of New
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for these reasons alone‚ Nick is the perfect choice to narrate the novel due to his relationship with both of these characters. However‚ Nick also attempts to give the reader an unbiased opinion of the characters and the events as they unfold. Fitzgerald makes Carraway his own person and not just a character speaking the words and feelings of the author‚ the reader can feel that they are reading Carraway’s views and not Fitzgerald’s. Nick Carraway is the first character we meet‚ and appropriately
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First-Rate Intelligence F. Scott Fitzgerald said that “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” XXX I think this statement is very true. XXX Intelligence is a very broad term that can mean lots of things to lots of different people‚ to F. Scott Fitzgerald intelligence means accepting not just your opinion but other people’s as well. Once you realize someone else’s point of view on something
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Throughout ‘The Great Gatsby’‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald arguably presents marriage as counterproductive and disadvantageous‚ often hindered by the characters’ own selfish desires. Critics‚ such as Perrett in ‘America in the Twenties’‚ describe the 1920s as a time where writers “steadily derided marriage as an outmoded institution‚ something the modern world could well do without” and this would certainly seem to ring true of Fitzgerald’s novel. The relationships can be shown to be corrupted by materialistic
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Carelessness is the beginning of all evils; Carelessness is the flaw of the upper class of society. In The Great Gatsby‚ the characters are adored for their status‚ but their carelessness is ignored. Every character exhibits carelessness in different ways. Jay Gatsby is careless in his want of love; Nick Carraway is careless in his judgment of others; and Tom Buchanon‚ Daisy Buchanon and Myrtle Wilson are symbols of the carelessness of wealth in American society. Money and love corrode people’s minds
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Discuss the Ways in Which Fitzgerald Develops the Theme of Image vs. Reality in the Great Gatsby One of the main ways in which this conflict between what is real and what is simply a facade is presented is in the form of James Gatz‚ or Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald emphasizes the theatrical quality of Gatsby’s life‚ which is an important part of his personality and one of his major character traits. Gatsby has literally recreated himself‚ even changing his name to one of his own invention. It is never
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Gatsby’s "social mask" begins to slip as he gets rejected by Daisy‚ one can discover that the main purpose of Gatsby’s parties are not for pleasure but rather for the hope that Daisy will notice the extravagance and come back to him. Nick’s "curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night- and his career as Trimalchio was over . Gatsby puts on a show for Daisy and the people‚ one can notice that Gatsby is emotionally unstable without Daisy
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