Nick Carraway Chapter 1 Summary

In chapter two alone, Tom Buchanan's role is to demonstrate to the audience, what a stereotypical, rich, 1920’s man lives like. Tom exemplifies wealth and dishonestly in most of his actions with his unfaithfulness towards his wife, and abuse with his mistress. Readers can see the Tom is a dominant figure in many of the other characters lives, for he creates a lot of the drama in the chapter himself.

Also the conflict that was announced in the parking lot where the bad older character was hit with a tire iron and the three young teenage boys were fighting with this man. For the most part the narrator consistently talks about his wild life style. He chose even though he was from a well off family and he didn't have to take that road, but we all have the choice and every generation goes though it. The narrator also tips of his rebirth and baptism in the lake while he was running from his fight that he just encountered with the tire iron he trips over a body floating in the lake. All in all I thought this story was super fun to read and relate to in the sense of being wild and ruthless, but the song that came along with it was pretty awsome and was fun to listen to and get a feel for the time period and style back in the day where it was good to be

Tom Buchanan is a villain, there's too much he’s done to deny the name. He has a mistress, and Daisy knows it: she barely conceals her knowledge of it. Completely being hypocritical, he suspects that Daisy may have a novel that angers him. He is a supremacist, and a pompous “thug” who has more money than values. And Tom sends Wilson after Gatsby, accusing Jay of Myrtle’s death (when Gatsby was innocent), and Wright kills Gatsby.

In the first two pages of Chapter One Nick Carraway’s tone is for the most part haughty. The first sign of Nick’s arrogant tone becomes evident when he mentions the advice given to him by his father when he was younger. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”(Fitzgerald, 1). Although the idea of being tolerant is a positive one on its own, the way Nick portrays it makes it seem as his high-class upbringing gives him an edge over everyone else. Further on in the novel Nick mentions that “in consequence”(Fitzgerald, 1) to his reservation of all judgement he receives a lot of attention from “wild, unknown men”(Fitzgerald,

Through the means of characterization, Fitzgerald expresses Tom Buchanan as another immoral character. Tom is portrayed as an egotistical, hypocrite who advocates white supremacy. His hypocrisy is shown when he speaks to Gatsby, he conduct himself as a “high” class citizen but dwells as a “low” class citizen. “I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn’t far wrong.” “What about it?” said Gatsby politely. “I guess your friend Walter Chase

The one thing I have to say I enjoyed the most about the book was one of the themes of the book, acceptance. I liked this theme because majority of people can relate to the theme easily. All characters in the novel went through an adventure once the carnival arrived. In the beginning Charles Halloway did not see himself as the a good father to his son, William. Mr. Halloway was in his mid 50's and by being that old he could not connect with his son like a younger father could. “That’s Charles Halloway, thought Will, not grandfather, not far-wandering, ancient uncle, as some might think, but…my father” (14), Will didn’t see much in his father, just an old man and that was only because that was how Mr. Halloway showed himself. In Something Wicked This Way Comes it seems like people have a terrible time accepting their age. When the carnival comes into town it takes full advantage over that. Mr. Dark and his freaks can’t get to everyone though, Charles soon realizes the what the carnival’s weakness is. Charles Halloway destroyed the carnival, “All because he accepted everything at last, accepted the carnival, the hills beyond, the people in the hills, Jim, Will, and above all himself and all of life, and, accepting, threw back his head for the second time tonight and showed his acceptance

Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay. The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walls and burning gardens一finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run. The front was broken by a line of french windows, glowing now with reflected gold and wide open to the warm windy afternoon, and Tom Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs a part on the front porch. (6)

Throughout the story you start to see that the characters aren’t as bad as the townspeople say they are. In the beginning you could describe Mr. Oakhurst as

This shows how cruel, arrogant, and aggressive Tom Buchanan really is. This also gives the reader a clear message about Tom’s

Although the use of southern dialect was to aid in depicting setting, it was unnecessary. The southern tongue possess little to no grammatical use, “ain’t a man” (Twain Page 34) or “I hain’t got no money” (Twain Page 28). Consisting of 43 chapters and 366 pages, the novel successfully dragged itself on. The novel would have been as equally auspicious if the length was divided in half, eliminating irrelevant scenes. The scene where Huck visits and stays with the Grangerfords has no significance to the novels plot, and adds only fillings to stimulate how long the journey was. The opening of the book possesses a detailed notice by the author “Persons attempting to find a plot will be shot” (Twain Page 5). If the author planned to write a novel worthy to be called a classic without a plot, the conclusion should have occurred much sooner than it

The first character introduced, Benjamin Hood, is an odd character to me. I’ve never read a book with a character like Benjamin. While the beginning has turned out to be a bit confusing for me, after reading the first three chapters, I am curious as to how this book will continue. 2. I believe Moody does this to give readers a look into current events and what it was like living in the year 1972.

Nick Carraway is the only character worth knowing in The Great Gatsby. He is living in East Egg with the rich and powerful people. He is on the guest lists to all of their parties and yet he is the person most worthy of attending such parties because he is well bread and his family is certainly not poor. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” (Ch1, P1). These words were taught to Nick by his father showing the qualities that a man with goals and values would have in a place where goals and values was no existent. His Judgmental eye for character and guts of using them when desired makes him more interesting. He has a greatest fear that he will be

Through the eyes of the main characters, Haatim and Abigail, we slowly get known to the cold, beautiful world of Lincoln Cole. The writing manner of the author is quite simple, and he provides vivid descriptions of the places, such as broken down buildings, prison cells and underground tunnels, which makes the story more realistic. He also does a marvelous job at keeping the reader hooked on the story. The events are quite fast-paced and you definitely won't get bored of it. Each page is full of thrill and excitement.

In his essay, “Nick Caraway as an Unreliable Narrator” (2005), Kent Cartwright argues that F. Scott Fitzgerald intended for Nick Carraway’s to act as an unreliable narrator to the reader with his character flaws reflected in his narration, in the novel The Great Gatsby. Reception and Reader Response Theory. Cartwright argues this by highlighting the ways the narration structure gives two impressions to the reader by the descriptions of events, settings, and people and through Nick’s reactions. The actual situations in the novel juxtaposed against Carraway’s reactions reveal his inaccuracies of retelling said events, and therefore distance the reader from Carraway’s narration. Cartwright states that Fitzgerald intentionally highlights on Nick’s

From the very beginning, I knew that this novel was going to make me sweat a little. It was clearly presenting evil in the first three chapters. One example is when he described his hands, “I could not but notice that they were rather coarse- broad, with squat fingers...there were hairs in the center of the palms”(pg 22). When