legalities did not matter as long as the people got what they wanted. The people sought to use the new-gained wealth to make their fantasy ideals to become a reality and the “American Dream” was the popular phrase used to describe their mindsets. Gatsby is longing to reunite with his love‚ and he spends a fortune to have it all setup and does not even stop at the face of her husband. To put the novel into a sum‚ the people of the Jazz Age flare up their monotonous life with corrupted love and the
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Chapter one of The Great Gatsby begins with Nick Carraway‚ the book’s narrator‚ introducing himself to the reader and describing his upbringing. Nick immediately describes himself as a man of sound ethics and claims he is “...inclined to reserve all judgments...” because of his father’s admonition that “...all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” This statement is the beginning of one of the book’s major themes; morality‚ especially its absence in people of wealth
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Daisy Of The Great Gatsby Chapter One of The Great Gatsby is not extensive‚ however still reveals a great deal regarding the individuals in the novel. The narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ sets the novel on the shore of Long Island during the 1920’s. He introduces and analyzes the people who drift into his life throughout this chapter. Daisy‚ a well-off young woman who is Nick’s cousin-twice removed‚ is introduced as a morose‚ shallow‚ and realistic character. Initially‚ Daisy Buchanan comes off as
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Analyse F Scott Fitzgerald’s presentation of his first person narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ in Chapter 1 of “The Great Gatsby” Fitzgerald casts Nick Carraway as our narrator and guide throughout the Novel‚ The Great Gatsby. Immediately we discover that he is from an affluent socio-economic background and makes attempts to prove that he is from “good stock”‚ boasting about his family being descendant from “The Dukes of Buccleuch” illustrating the American obsession with lineage‚ and how it was often
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work. The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s On the surface‚ The Great Gatsby is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman. The main theme of the novel‚ however‚ encompasses a much larger‚ less romantic scope. Though all of its action takes place over a mere few months during the summer of 1922 and is set in a circumscribed geographical area in the vicinity of Long Island‚ New York‚ The Great Gatsby is a highly symbolic meditation on 1920s America as a whole‚ in particular
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in Chapter 4 Fitzgerald opens the chapter with more rumours around the infamous Mr Gatsby that we still know little about‚ such as ’he once killed a man’‚ we met him briefly in the previous chapter but still find him mysterious‚ as even Jordan ‚who claimed to know him didn’t believe he was’ an oxford man’. Nicks own perception of the character is not fixed as he juxtaposes between flattery and resentment. Nick goes on to name and describe all the characters he has met whom had visited Gatsby‚ the
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The Great Gatsby is set during the roaring 20’s smack dab in the Empire State. Told from the perspective of the Midwestern transplant Nick Carraway‚ the story centers around the mysterious and suspiciously rich Jay Gatsby--his next-door neighbor. In the first chapters of the novel‚ Nick is seen reuniting with his distant cousin‚ both in gene and mind‚ Daisy Buchanan. She and her ridiculously rich husband Tom introduce him to their dear friend‚ Jordan Baker‚ an excellent golfer‚ but a notorious cheater
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the most important themes in The Great Gatsby. The success story is that hard work allows a man to become incredibly wealthy. Fitzgerald shows how the American Dream can fail in The Great Gatsby. Even though Gatsby has worked hard‚ he makes his money by bootlegging. His purpose is in attaining the love of Daisy‚ a girl whom he had a relationship before the war. The multiple people who attend Gatsby’s parties show the greedy want for wealth. As Nick explains in Chapter 9‚ the American Dream was originally
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In chapter 4‚ Nick explained the trip he and Gatsby took for New York. In the car‚ Gatsby tells his past to Nick. Gatsby said that he is from the Middle-West‚ but that makes Nick doubt later because Gatsby also said he is from San Francisco. He talked about some important events in his life; for example‚ the fact that he graduated from oxford‚ and that he received some awards in World War I. When Gatsby and Nick entered New York‚ they went to a lunch where Nick met Meyer. Nick thinks that Meyer
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chapters 1 2 3 4 Chapter four opens with Nick attending another of Gatsby’s parties. Nick uses this as a starting point and begins recounting some notes he claims to have taken‚ listing some of the more notable people he encountered that summer. His point is to prove that Gatsby’s party attract the most notable people of the time. He also describes one man‚ Klipspringer‚ who never seems to leaves Gatsby’s parties and has come to be known as the "boarder‚" which suggests he is living in the
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