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    How does Fitzgerald tell the story in Chapter 3 of the “Great Gatsby”? In chapter 3 Fitzgerald uses structure to tell the story by his order of the chapter. Fitzgerald starts off with Nick providing social commentary about the developing scenes at one of Gatsby’s parties emphasising his contempt for the people who seemingly use Gatsby for his party but also emboldens Nick’s role as an outsider in the book. Nick then prides himself as ’one of the only guests who was invited’ by being invited Nick

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    How does Fitzgerald tell the story in Chapter 5? In Chapter 5 Nick organises a get together at his house for Gatsby and Daisy to meet again and Nick deliberately asks Daisy not to bring Tom. Once at Gatsby’s house they endure an awkward greeting‚ but then Gatsby gives them a tour‚ displaying his possessions and takes particular care showing off his expensive‚ imported clothes. Fitzgerald uses Chapter 5 as an important turning point for Gatsby and Daisy‚ Fitzgerald uses setting to emphasis and

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    Chapter One: The novel begins with a personal note by the narrator‚ Nick Carraway. He relates that he has a tendency to reserve all judgments against people and that he has been conditioned to be understanding toward those who haven’t had his advantages. Carraway came from a prominent family from the Midwest‚ graduated from Yale and fought in the Great War. After the war and a period of restlessness‚ he decided to go East to learn the bond business. At the book’s beginning‚ Carraway has just arrived

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    Gatsby Seminar Instructor Simionescu Angela Mona‚ 3A Mihaela Precup English-Russian‚ group 2 Seminar of American Literature Nick Carraway’s Narrative Voice The narrator’s influence plays a fundamental role in a novel that every reader takes into account when getting involved in the story . In

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    personality. Additionally‚ it captures the manner in which Gatsby appears to everyone in the outside world. His smile seems to be both an important part of the role in the character. Here‚ Nick describes Gatsby’s rare focus—he has the ability to make anyone he smiles at feel as though he has chosen that person out of “the whole external world.” “With an effort I managed to restrain my incredulous laughter.”  This is when Gatsby is telling Nick about his life. Nick is trying to restrain

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    Owen Marshall Honors Language Arts‚ Lohman March 27‚ 2013 Chapter 8 This chapter begins with Nick talking to Gatsby after the horrible events of the night before. Gatsby tells Nick how he spent his night waiting for Daisy to see him just for her to ignore him the whole time. He then tells Nick about why he fell in love with Daisy‚ and why he is still so deeply attached to her. Nick then leaves for work‚ shouting to Gatsby reassuring words seeing as he is obviously lost and depressed. After Nick

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    Nick in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald wrote this story in first person narrative‚ from the viewpoint of Nick. The interesting thing about this narrative structure is that Nick is not the main character‚ but rather a witness of the main character. He is proven unreliable and biased many times throughout the story by concealing particular events‚ revealing his judgments of other characters and lying. Nick writes

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    The chapter starts out with Nick writing and depicting the burial service two years after Gatsby died. Nick describes the swarms of columnists‚ writers‚ and gossipmongers at the house after the murder. They take the information that they received and write up insane‚ edgy stories about Gatsby and the ways of his relationship to Myrtle and Wilson. Nick feels that Gatsby would not want to have a memorial service alone‚ so he attempts to hold a substantial burial service for him. From Nick’s attempt

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    Parker Helms Lit & Comp2 Mead 3/22/13 The Missing Girl I saw Gatsby walk across his freshly cutgrass and on to my over grown‚ weed infested‚ disordered mess I call my lawn. He made his way to my door. When I answered it he said cheerfully “Hello old sport would you like to come to my place and have a drink”. I would love to I said. Once we got to his estate we took a seat on his handcrafted cathedra. We started to talk about the war we both served in together. He had spoken about how he

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    NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Jane Austen uses the following narrative techniques in her novel "Pride and Prejudice" : 1. The Third Person Omniscient Author Technique: In this method of narration the author Jane Austen is in complete control of the narration of the story. Whatever she says we have to accept unquestioningly and wherever she leads us we have to follow. The opening remark of the novel is a good example of this narrative method: "It is a truth universally acknowledged

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