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    Great Gatsby chapter 3 analysis Austin‚Connor‚Uday‚Andre‚Josh Chapter Summary Nick Carraway- Narrator describes Gatsby’s parties (who goes‚ what kind of people are there‚ what food and drinks are served‚ what music is played etc.) Nick gets “actually” invited to Gatsby’s party. He explains that people who are not invited‚ end up showing up anyways Nick arrives at the party and he describes the things he sees. Nick meets Jordan Baker at the party and meet new people (rumours of Gatsby begin)

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    “We trust Nick as Narrator of this story because of his honesty” With reference to the first three chapters of the novel‚ to what extent do you agree? Throughout the first three paragraphs of The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald subtly builds Nick up as a narrator that the reader can trust. He presents Nick as an honest person and well respected gentlemen and through this essay I will discuss to the extent of which Fitzgerald presents Nick as a narrator we can trust through his honesty. In the opening

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    Should We Care-Away or Care-For Nick Carraway? When pursuing relationships in The Great Gatsby‚ we are introduced to the characters with a sort of step-by-step process. Unfortunately‚ as our knowledge about the characters expands‚ our feelings of enchantment soon transform to that of disenchantment. Initially overlooking their flaws or putting them off to the side‚ it is only later that we realize the peril of each of their imperfections. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the journey

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    The Great Gatsby Paper The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is told from the perspective of one of the main charactersNick Carraway. Nick tells the story of a man named Jay Gatsby‚ who is his neighbor in the West Egg. Fitzgerald portrays Gatsby as a man who everyone wants to know and copy but deep down are very envious of him. Gatsby trusts few people and those whom he trusts know his life story. To everyone else‚ he is a mystery. Everyone seems obsessed with Jay Gatsby. For this reason

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    In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s‚ The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby completes a decline from his carefully crafted image of greatness to his exposed‚ unsightly‚ and lonely death. The story of the novel is really the deconstruction of this image‚ and the various ways in which the true “Jay Gatz” is uncovered. Hailing from a middle-class‚ rural family‚ Gatsby… The Great Gatsby: Nick vs Gatsby - The Great Gatsby: Nick vs Gatsby Mainframe computers analyze information and present it so that the observer is able

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    At the beginning of the novel I had certain beliefs about certain characters. Jay was someone I sympathized highly with at the start‚ as he was attempting his uttermost finest to get Daisy back. I likewise‚ sympathized with Daisy as I felt she had been forced to abandon Jay and that she was not happy with Tom. Then slowly‚ but surely my views began to change. I began to dislike Daisy and began to loathe Jay. Daisy I felt was helpless in the start‚ but after she allows Jay to take the culpability

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    Junior English 12/12/12 Gatsby Character Analysis Essay Outline The color yellow can be interpreted in both positive and negative ways. In the Great GatsbyGatsby is described by the color yellow multiple times to portray how he is rich and corrupt. Gatsby is also described as “new rich” and near the end of the book we find out how he came to become rich. In the Great GatsbyGatsby is often associated with the color yellow which indicates his wealth and corruptness. Gatsby is represented by the

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    Constantly Changing Gatsby In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ there are many fascinating and dynamic characters. The character that appeals and changes most throughout the text is Jay Gatsby. At the beginning of the novel‚ when the reader officially met Gatsby for the first time‚ Gatsby is an attention-grabbing and confident man who is mysterious and is a complete enigma to the audience. As the novel progressed‚ the reader learned more and more about what type of man Gatsby is and the mysteries

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    evident in The Great Gatsby through several of its characters and is mirrored in the east coast society of the twenties. The characters in The Great Gatsby though spoiled with riches‚ do not stray far from their self-serving goals to do anything other that to look out for their own self-interests. It seems as if no character in the book‚ besides Nick‚ ever give thought to the results of their actions beyond their own initial perceptions of the situation. All discernible characters in this book project

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    The Great Gatsby Essay “Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues‚ and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known" (Page 59). So writes Nick Carraway in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”‚ characterizing himself in opposition to the great masses of humanity as a perfectly honest man. The honesty that Nick attributes to himself must be a nearly perfect one‚ by impression of both its infrequency and its "cardinal" nature; Nick stresses

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