The Great Gatsby Analysis

1 in the beginning of the book the narrator, nick caraway, describes himself. He then goes on to tell how one summer he move out to New York, west egg. West egg was a place for people that were rich but didn’t know any important people. Those kinds of people lived in east egg. Nick then goes to visit his cousin, Daisy, who is leaving in east egg. When he gets there he is greeted by her husband, tom. He is a sporting man and also a racist. When they are eating dinner he gets a phone call that daisy’s friend Jordan says is from his lover. Nick then goes home and sees Mr. Gatsby standing on his dock.

2. Nick describes himself as a guy that doesn't judge people and received it from his father. Also he calls himself honest and came to New York to be a bond man even though he doesn't know people yet. He idolizes great Gatsby because of his story.

The plot of The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is driven by Jay Gatsby's

    Summary: The narrator of The Great Gatsby, Nick starts the novel by describing himself and introducing Gatsby, everything he scorns, but strives to be. Nick moves to the West Egg in New York to work in the bond business. Nick goes to Tom and Daisy’s house for dinner one night. Tom is a friends from college and Daisy is Nick’s cousin. Nick finds out about Tom’s lover, and sees Gatsby reaching off in the distance when he arrives home.

In the summer of 1922 Nick moves to New York City in hopes of pursuing a carrier in Wall Street. He moves in next to the mansion of Gatsby a mysterious billionaire that often threw extravagant parties. One day he decides to visit his cousin’s house, while he is there he has dinner with his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom. He gets introduce to Jordan Baker by Daisy who hopes they take a liking to each other. During the dinner a woman

   In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays a world filled with rich societal happenings and love affairs. His main character, Gatsby, is flamboyant, pompous, and only cares about impressing the love of his life, Daisy Buchanan. Nick is Fitzgerald's narrator for the story, and is a curious choice as a narrator because he is of a different class and almost a different world than Gatsby and most of the other characters in the book. Nick relates the plot to the reader as a member of Gatsby's circle, yet he expresses repeatedly his dislike for the man. Nick cannot relate to Gatsby because of their fundamental personality differences. Moreover, he disapproves of

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In chapter 3 of the novel, Nick and Gatsby begin forming their close bond. Through Gatsby, Nick slowly becomes exposed to the world of the wealth. With Nick tagging along on Gatsby’s endeavors, he also becomes more accustomed to the idea of living in the lifestyle of his wealthy peers. At the same time, he also agonizes that the world of the East Coast has mentally changed him to the point where he feels like he needs to somehow flee. Nick’s character also begins to develop further through his

1.) The most crucial part in chapter 1 is the introduction of the characters of the story. It gives a detailed description of who the characters are and shows the behavior of the characters.

Nick Carraway, the narrator, goes to New York in hopes of learning about the bond business. Nick hopes that one day become rich. He lives in West Egg were the “new rich” reside. Jay Gatsby is Nick’s neighbor. Gatsby is admired by Nick due to the fact that Gatsby is young, rich, and handsome. Gatsby was always aspiring to leave his old life of poverty behind, and got the opportunity when he met Dan Cody. Dan Cody was a wealthy old man that saw how ambitious Gatsby was and hired him as an assistant. Gatsby was able to get connections through Dan Cody, and made his money as a bootlegger. East Egg which is the place where “old rich” reside. Here resides, Tom Buchanan, who is a dominant, unfaithful, arrogant man who went to school with Nick. Daisy, Tom’s wife and Nick’s cousin. Jordan Baker also resides in East Egg. She is a professional golfer and is friends with both Daisy and Tom.

He moves to West Egg where the people classified as “New Money” lived. He moved into a little cottage that happened to be right next door to the mysterious Jay Gatsby. Gatsby threw enormous parties every weekend that lasted all weekend. He threw them for Daisy, Nick’s cousin. She never went to his parties except for one time. Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom Buchanan lived across the bay from Nick and Gatsby. Gatsby was obsessed with Daisy. He wanted to marry her. She just wanted money. Nick went to Daisy’s house for supper one of his first weeks in new york. A friend of Daisy was there, Jordan Baker. There was a phone call during supper Tom’s mistress. He was cheating on Daisy with a woman named Myrtle Wilson and she did not even seem to care. Tom took Nick with him to see his mistress at their separate apartment over in New York. They partied and drank. Nick was invited to one of Gatsby’s parties. No one got invited to the parties. They all just showed up and had a grand time. NIck went and tried to find Gatsby to thank him for inviting him. He could not find him anywhere, but he found Jordan Baker. She was with an entourage of other people. When Nick told her that he was trying to find Gatsby, the others started telling him crazy rumors. The rumors were about Gatsby being kyser william 's cousin and killing a man and that sort of thing. A while later Jordan suggested they go look for him. They stumbled on the

In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the reader follows the point of view of Nick Carraway and his experiences in New York, specifically in East and West Egg. When he first arrives, Nick meets Jay Gatsby, his neighbor and the main character of the novel, at one of his parties and they soon become friends. Throughout the rest of the novel, Nick is a witness to the many events that unfold, from Tom’s infidelity to Gatsby’s many attempts to woo his past love, Daisy Buchanan. After a major misunderstanding that results in many deaths, Gatsby’s being one of them, Nick ends his relationship with Jordan and returns to the West, disgusted with the events that had happened. At the end of the novel, Nick reflects on the experiences

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