A confidant is a character‚ often a friend‚ whose role is to be present when the hero or heroine needs a sympathetic listener to confide in. Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby is an excellent example of a confidant‚ as well as a narrator. He is not only a confidant for one character‚ but many. Nick Carraway’s prime reason for being such a good confidant is that he is so honest‚ sympathetic‚ compassionate‚ and open minded. He states at the very beginning of chapter one that his father told him “whenever
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Character analysis Daisy Buchanan Daisy is a beautiful young woman originally from Louisville‚ Kentucky. At first we know her as Nick’s cousin and later on find out she’s the object of Gatsby‚ his determination in getting wealthy just to impress her. Fitzgerald presents her as the ‘American Dream’‚ who for the matter of fact Myrtle is extremely envious of and is always desperately trying to climb that social scale‚ by having an intimate relationship with her husband Tom Buchanan. She is portrayed
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The character I find the most interesting in The Great Gatsby is Nick Carraway‚ the narrator. He has an extraordinary ability to see through peoples’ insecurities and analyze them based on who they really are. He looks at the world from an unbiased and straightforward viewpoint‚ making him the perfect narrator. Nick also has a very peculiar relationship with Gatsby. Carraway’s emphasized ability to “reserve all judgments‚” his straightforward point of view and his relationship with Gatsby all make
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Great Gatsby Character Development Thesis: While money will always be important to lives‚ but money alters the way people think‚ identity and character‚ and the actions people would take. Our surroundings affect who someone becomes because money influence how people think and act. Why did Daisy marry Tom when she clearly loved Gatsby back then? Well she had married Tom because he had money and power‚ Daisy wanted someone to pay for the lifestyle that she had wanted to have. When Gatsby was trying
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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 contradicted later in the novel‚ he says nothing about a tragedy that had an effect on multiples people’s lives‚ and is bias towards some characters. At the start
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In the book‚ The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the main character‚ Nick Carraway‚ changes significantly. He goes from being tired and worn out in the Midwest to being social and outgoing in the east. He goes from being intrigued about Jay Gatsby to seeing his true colors and feeling mixed emotions. Finally‚ he goes from being optimistic and hopeful about life in the east to being ashamed of the way he lives there. In the beginning of the story‚ Nick moves to West Egg‚ Long Island to start
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leader compile the information into one final presentation. Team assignment: * Your team will select one of the following characters from The Great Gatsby: * Nick Carraway * Jay Gatsby * Daisy Buchanan * Tom Buchanan * Jordan Baker * Myrtle Wilson * George Wilson * As a team‚ create a profile for that character as if he /she is a member of a modern day social networking site‚ such as Facebook or MySpace. * Your team’s final presentation
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The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ contains many literary devices. One of such devices is characterization‚ the author’s method of describing characters. In this novel‚ the author creates many of the characters to be superficial. Through their actions‚ comments‚ and descriptions‚ Fitzgerald gives the reader an idea of the characters. One such character proves to be Daisy. Although she had fallen in love with Gatsby when she first met him‚ when he was at war she quickly
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The Great Gatsby “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall‚” (Fitzgerald). In “The Great Gatsby” there are so many provocative and cryptic characters that have secrets to hide. A static character is a character that stays the same from beginning to end which in this case are many from this particular book. Tom Buchanan and Jordan Baker are two characters from this story that are “static characters”. A character that shows a lot of change in their personality is a dynamic character
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CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT In a novel the narrator is the vehicle‚ the one telling the story to the reader. Laying out critical information‚ describing the setting‚ creating mood and atmosphere‚ and generating information upon which we create our opinions on characters and events in the novel. These are classically what we associate the narrator with regard to the novel and its progression. The characters that the author describes are the major focus of the novel. Characters change and develop over
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