valley‚ making several stops along the way. One day‚ as Nick and Tom are riding the train into the city‚ Tom forces Nick to follow him out of the train at one of these stops. Tom leads Nick to George Wilson’s garage‚ which sits on the edge of the valley of ashes. Tom’s lover Myrtle is Wilson’s wife. Wilson is a lifeless yet handsome man‚ coloured gray by the ashes in the air. In contrast‚ Myrtle has a kind of desperate vitality; she strikes Nick as sensuous despite her stocky figure. Tom taunts Wilson
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the events‚ as does Nick. He has a vivid imagination that he uses to interpret peoples feelings and thoughts‚ however this makes him gullible. Nick also has a limited experience of life which may lead him to misinterpret events‚ his puritanical (very strict in moral/ social beliefs) upbringing that has shaped his opinions and beliefs. Structure: Modifying the narrative Fitzgerald uses Nick as a framing devise to help hold the novel together. The first few pages introduce him and the last tell
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this by using techniques such as symbolism and setting. The symbolism in the first few chapters of the novel is very important as it prepares the reader for the rest of the novel. A good example of this is in the first chapter when Daisy‚ Tom and Nick go into Daisy’s garden. " ’Why candles?’ objected Daisy. She snapped them out with her fingers." This is important as light represents Gatsby’s hope‚ which Daisy is snapping out. This also shows how Gatsby is associated with light and Daisy is associated
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Chapter One‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald mainly uses detail to introduce the setting and characters. For example‚ when introducing the main setting of the book‚ he describes his house as squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season. (9). One of these houses was Gatsby’s. This detail gives the reader an idea of what kind of town this was‚ and what kind of people lived in it. Fitzgerald also uses detail to introduce characters. When introducing Daisy‚ one of the
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initiation in which young Nick Adams accompanies his father‚ a physician‚ on a call to and African American or “Indian” camp‚ where the father delivers a baby by Cesarean section using only his jack-knife. The violence and pain of the birth contrast sharply with the ease of the suicide of the pregnant women’s husband‚ which was brought on by her screams and introduce Nick to the realities of birth and death. At the beginning of the story‚ Dr. Adams‚ Nick’s father‚ takes Nick and his uncle George on
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Gatsby’s Journal #1 Chapter 1 (Pages 5-26) Summary: In this chapter‚ Nick is reveals as the narrator of the story. Nick’s actions show that he is a non-judgmental and respectful person because other characters tend to tell him their life stories. Nick is a “Carraway‚” a person in a family with wealth and class. Nick introduces the setting of New York City and the two “egg-like” islands called West Egg and East Egg in Long Island. Nick resides on the West Egg‚ which is not as rich and sophisticated as
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the story‚ Nick Carraway‚ has just returned from war and goes east to work. In flashbacks he reveals the story of Jay Gatsby‚ his next-door neighbor. The nine chapters develop around seven parties interspersed with flashbacks. Nick meets Jordan Baker‚ Daisy’s friend from Louisville‚ who reveals that Tom is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson‚ the wife of a garage owner in the Valley of Ashes. Nick is shocked at the lack of morality in every level. At the second party‚ Tom introduces Nick to Myrtle
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alert movement of the man brought no attention to the fact‚ little does he know‚ his wife carelessly killed his lover. Nick Carraway is the first person narrator in the novel Great Gatsby. This story being told through Nick’s eyes can skew how we perceive the characters and the love story between Daisy with Gatsby and Tom. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ Nick is an unreliable narrator. This is because in chapter 1 he says he refrains from passing judgement on anyone‚ which is
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from World War I named Nick Carraway. He had decided to return home as his way of beginning a career. Being impatient‚ Nick had decided to move to New York so he could learn the bond business. Now we are in the setting of 1922 in West Egg‚ Long Island. Nick was then living in a rented house that is neighboring the Gatsby’s mansion. Daisy (Nick’s cousin) and Tom (who has been in the same senior society at Yale) had invited Nick to a dinner at their mansion. At the dinner‚ Nick meets a young lady named
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Notes Great Gatsby Planned 1922 Written 1924 Revised 1925 Published 1926 Chapter 1 p. 1 Nick doesn’t want to make judgments critical‚ harsh judgements about Myrtle p.28‚ Catherine p.32 avoids making moral judgments for example – tom racist p.18 * tom having an affair p.20 * tom beats Myrtle p.39 Nick is unreliable narrator‚ not always honest p.24 didn’t tell his girlfriend he was leaving p.10 life with ambition is much easier‚ Gatsby has one thing
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