substantial homes. Tom and Daisy represent the corruption and materialism of the East. Those that lived in West Egg were more of the newly rich people who were starting to acquire money. Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway were unsophisticated and innocent. Gatsby lived in an extravagant mansion‚ while Nick lived in a small cottage. Those that lived in the Valley of Ashes were people who were hopeless and impoverished. George and Myrtle Wilson lived above the automobile repair shop‚ which was Mr. Wilson’s
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the main themes‚ if not the main theme in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. In the novel Fitzgerald gives us a glimpse into the life of the high class during the 1920’s through the eyes of the narrator‚ a moralistic young man named Nick Carraway. It is through his dealings with high society that readers are shown how modern values have transformed the American Dream’s pure ideals into a scheme for materialistic power and self-betterment‚ how the new world of high society lacks any sense
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and their actions‚ as small as some are‚ help to prove this. Daisy Buchanan is Jay Gatsby’s love interest in the story. However‚ it is known that she is married to Tom Buchanan‚ and that they have a child together. The narrator of the story‚ Nick Carraway‚ describes Tom as an aggressive‚ arrogant‚ self-absorbed‚ man. His aggressiveness leads him to verbally and physically abuse Daisy. One may believe that the best situation would be for her to simply leave Tom in order for her to have a better
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Chapter five of Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby focusses on the afternoon tea in which Jay Gatsby is to reconnect with Daisy Buchanan as planned in chapter four. The chapter begins with Nick coming home to West Egg seeing his neighborhood in “ablaze” and leading him to fear his home had caught on fire (Fitzgerald 86). It turns out the “fire” was simply Gatsby’s monstrous mansion illuminating light which highlights the actual multitude that is the Gatsby estate. As the chapter
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Nick grows up in a very prestigious family. For three generations his Family graduated from New Haven and later went on to graduate from famous colleges. Nick graduated Yale and moved from the midwest to the city life. He came to New York to hopefully find a career in the bond business. He is wealthy enough to afford a cottage in West Egg next to Jay Gatsby. Nick has really great friends like Jay Gatsby‚ Tom and his cousin Daisy that live just across the bay. Nick even finds himself
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The Views of Nick Carraway F. Scott Fitzgerald writes his novel The Great Gatsby through the point of view of Nick Carraway‚ a young adult who finds himself in New York City after serving in the war for many years. His point of view changes throughout the story significantly‚ but it changes especially about Jay Gatsby‚ his neighbor. Gatsby is a mystery to all‚ but Nick becomes intrigued as he is introduced to the rumors about him. At first‚ there is a major confusion about who Gatsby truly is and
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| |Plot Summary (include in-text citations): | |The Great Gatsby‚ from chapters one to three‚ opens with the narration of Nick Carraway‚ the main character. He begins to describe his advice that his father told | |him when he was younger. A piece of advice that has changed the manner in which he thinks about any situation. His father told him to refrain from jumping to
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everything seems to stay the same‚ some movie scenes differ. Nick’s character is tweaked and Gatsby’s parties are not the same. The movie also creates more false hope than the novel does. Nick Carraway is the first character introduced into the book and movie‚ but in a different aspect. F. Scott Fitzgerald introduces Nick right away as the narrator. He is giving a monologue about a life lesson he has been taught by his father. He states‚"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice
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Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald About F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24‚ 1896‚ the only son of an aristocratic father and a provincial‚ working-class mother. He was therefore the product of two divergent traditions: while his father’s family included the author of "The Star-Spangled Banner" (after whom Fitzgerald was named)‚ his mother’s family was‚ in Fitzgerald’s own words‚ "straight 1850 potato-famine Irish." As a result of this contrast‚ he was exceedingly
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we hear from Nick Carraway the narrator of the novel who‚ himself reveals that he has a tendency to be quite cynical towards others. This is because he has “feigned sleep‚ preoccupation‚ or hostile levity”1 when he realises that for “some unmistakeable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon”1. This shows that he would rather have no close attachment‚ or contact with others. Not only does the quote show this but‚ it also highlights the fact that Nick Carraway is quite a single
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