1. What do you find is the most crucial in the plot in Chapter 1? I found the most crucial part in the plot in chapter 1 is when Nick comments about himself and how he reserves judgment about other people. he mentions Gatsby and says that Gatsby represents everything he scorns but Gatsby's personality was gorgeous! At the end of chapter 1 when Nick arrives home and he sees the great handsome Gatsby with his arms reaching towards the dark water, nixies nothing except a distant greenlight marking the end of the dock. The beginning and the end of the chapter created the setting and the tone of the book. It shows Nick non-judge mental and tolerant and the mystery allure of the great Gatsby and the invisible struggle he had with his arms reaching for the untouchable Daisy across the cold, dark abiss of her being just like the cold dark unforgiving water.
2. How does Nick describe himself at the beginning of the novel? Nick describes himself as tolerant, non-judge mental, morally privileged and had a better sense of decency than
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How does Nick describes Tom Buchanan? Nick describes Tom as a powerful figure Preston riding clothes that was a former member of Nicks social club at Yale. Tom was married to Daisy who is Nick's second cousin. Nick described Tom having “ various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful players that ever played football at New Haven-A national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at 21 that everything afterward savers of anti-climax.” “ his family were in Normas sleet wealthy- even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach-but now he'd left Chicago and come east in a fashion that rather took your breath away: for instance, he brought down to string a polo ponies from Lake Forest. It was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that.” In Nicks description you could tell that Tom seems arrogant and dishonest the complete opposite of