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How Does Fitzgerald Tell The Story In Chapter 1 Of The Great Gatsby

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1. “The world and its mistress” refers to the people at Gatsby’s party. Even on Sunday, everybody who’s anybody is present at one of Gatsby’s parties. 2. Fitzgerald includes a long list of partygoers at the beginning of this chapter to show the variety of people that attended Gatsby’s parties and the difference between East and West Eggers. From the names, I notice that people from East Egg have names that are old-fashioned. This probably shows that they are sophisticated. As for the people from West Egg, they have more recent names to show that they’re less reserved than the East Eggers. Fitzgerald mentions the death of many of them to show that no matter which part they’re from, they still meet the same end. 3. Nick’s impression of Gatsby …show more content…

Nick is fascinated with Gatsby’s story because, even though the validity of his story is questionable, the way Gatsby tells his story makes it believable enough. Gatsby’s smile is also enough to put Nick’s doubts at ease for a while. 5. By juxtaposing Myrtle with the Valley of Ashes, Fitzgerald creates the effect of how lifeless and bleak the Valley of Ashes as opposed to Myrtle’s “vitality.” It also shows how out of place Myrtle looks in the Valley of Ashes, hence why she’s having an affair with Tom, to get where she thinks she …show more content…

On both trips to the city, Nick is kind of forced to go and is put into an uncomfortable situation. Tom and Gatsby both did not ask whether Nick wanted to go or not, they just said that he was going to go with them. Nick also has deal with awkward situations on both trips, like an unpleasant house party and Wolfsheim. However, a difference is that Nick enjoyed being with Gatsby as opposed with Tom. 8. Daisy gets drunk the night before she’s supposed to marry Tom because of a letter that’s presumably from Gatsby asking her to reconsider her marriage. While drunk, she decides that she wants to leave Tom for Gatsby; however, once she crumples the letter and sobers up, she goes on with the marriage. 9. Fitzgerald includes the lyrics from “The Sheik of Araby” to foreshadow what’s going to happen in the book as well as Gatsby’s plans for Daisy. Gatsby intends to win back Daisy’s love which he believes “belongs to [Gatsby]” and not Tom. 10. Nick means that everyone can be sorted into one of four categories: the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, or the tired. So far, the main characters in this story can be categorized. Daisy would be in the pursued, Gatsby and Myrtle in the pursuing, Tom, Nick, and Jordan in the busy, and Mr. Wilson in the

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Amanda Michleski English III CP Guadagnino Gatsby Response Journal Chapter 1 Nick introduced himself before telling the story. He seems like he is not very close to his father and that he does not talk to him very much. He says he is not judgmental, since his dad advised him not to be. Even though he listened to his father, he discovers through his life that being judgmental, at least a bit, would be beneficial in certain situations if he was. Everyone wants to confide in Nick, and tell them their problems.

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1. I think Nick means that everyone in The Great Gatsby somehow falls into falls into one of those categories. He says that they are either pursued, pursuing, busy, or tired. In the pursued class Gatsby and Jordan are involved because they are both being chased by something from their past. Gatsby is very secretive and no one is sure about what has happened in his past, it is easy to think that he is running from something or someone.

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Throughout the passage, Fitzgerald adds depth to Nick’s character, establishing motivation for his actions, for example, now Nick’s motivation to accompany Tom to meet Myrtle even though he didn’t want to, was because the trip meant he had something to do and that someone, in this case Tom, wanted him. The passage also provides insight, which explains why Gatsby, a self-centered man who initiated contact with Nick for personal gain, and Nick, a shy, socially awkward man who wants to be wanted and desires an effort-free companion, are

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In chapter 4, Nick starts off by revealing that he kept track of those that entered Gatsby’s house. He goes into detail of those people, describing everything from their looks to their “flaws” and jobs. A few pages later, Nick is recounting a day he spent with Gatsby. On that day, Nick and Gatsby head to the city for brunch and encountered Mr. Wolfsheim. As the three have lunch Gatsby leaves for a minute to make a call.

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Webster’s dictionary defines running away as “To leave quickly in order to avoid or escape something”(Running away). There are a lot of examples of people running away in The Great Gatsby. Daisy Buchanan runs away from her problems when she ran away from killing Myrtle. Daisy and Tom also ran away from Tom’s affairs in Chicago and they ran away from them in West Egg, Finally Daisy ran away the affair with Gatsby in the hotel. Running away is not an effective solution for your problems because they will come back in different places even if you don’t deal with them, running way can seem easy but it can hurt the ones you love, finally running away only masks the problem, it doesn’t really solve it.

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Gatsby couldn't even talk to her without Nick’s presence. He needed Nick to be there and when Gatsby wanted to back out he needed the support of Nick to keep him there. For what he worked so hard for I don't understand why he keeps trying to run away like child. Nick had no “idea what “this matter” was, but [Nick] was more annoyed than interested. [Nick] hadn’t asked Jordan to tea in order to discuss [Gatsby]... and for a moment [Nick] was sorry [he’d] ever set foot upon [Gatsby’s] overpopulated lawn.

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