Compare And Contrast The Point Of View Of The Great Gatsby

Gatsby has a strong desire for Daisy yet his emotions get in the way. In these text, Nick invites daisy over for tea and gatsby meets her there to try and reintroduce there love for one another though Gatsby has waited 5 years for daisy, thrown hundreds of party's for her,writes her letter, and this is his one chance to finally be able to discuss with her this whole situation, but when he meets her this time, does he ruin the whole thing? In these two text, the chosen and the beautiful told from jordans(nicks girlfriend and a recent friend of gatsby) point of view jordan and the great gatsby told in nicks (recent friend of gatsby) point of view, nick seem to have many similarities and differences of how they view gatsby in this scene. They

In the text the chosen and the beautiful told from jordans point of view, the narrator uses words to show how awkward gatsby is being. When daisy firsts arrives, gatsby runs outside into the ran ruining his nice suit and the knocks on the door looking all rubbish. The text states"He looked, I thought, like nothing so much as a cat who had endured a wetting in the garden, and now only cared about getting inside"(Vo 1). Jordans sees that when gatsby arrives at the door his is the complete opposite of himself, he is all wet, doesn't look nice, and is standing at the door waiting awkwardly there. In the great gatbsy, Nicks point of view is also very similar to jordans, when he sees gatsby at the door he sees how wet and unflattering gatsby is just standing there. In the text it shows " Gastby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tradgically into my eyes"(Fitzgerald 2). When Nick opens the door the narrator uses strong imagery to show that gatsby is looking fairly unusual than he normally is, and this is because daisy is there so he is all nervous wich is changing his apperance. Therefore, in these text when opening the door to meet gastby the narrator uses melancholic word choices to represent how nervous and awkward gatsby is being when meeting

In Jordans p.o.v in this moment it is very awkward and everyone is just staring. But when gatsby goes to lean over and knocks over the clock jordan is not pleased by this she thinks this has made it worse. The text shows this by " I cringed, anticipated the crash,but gatsby caught it again, he held the clock in his hands for a moment, muttering an apology"(Vo 1). Jordan is seeing the clock falling as a bad thing that it is weakening the apparence of gatsby, that in that moment this is making him look bad. Though, in fitzgeralds naroration, he has nick being relifed by gatsby breaking his clock that it was old anyways, and it broke up the tension, The text states " Luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, where he turned and caught it, and set it back to place"(Fitzgerlad 2). The narrator makes this scene seem less choatic and bad on gatsbys part rather than Vo's naroration where the scence is frantic and gatbsy is making the moment worse. In this nick sees this as a good break in the moment, to give it a rest from all the tension going