Once recited by the great Nick Carraway, “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired” (79). Chapter 5 of the book The Great Gatsby, reflects upon the experience that Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan have together with the unfortuante Nick Carraway being trapped in the same room together. Carraway can be thought of as almost being a buffer in some instances. Everything becomes awkward at some point and that is what that buffer is for. Gatsby is the person that wants to be with Daisy again.
In the beginning of chapter 7, NIck notices Gatsby has no parties going on and learns that Gatsby doesn't need the parties to attract Daisy. On the hottest of the summer Tom, Daisy, Gatsby, Nick, Jordan go to the buchanan’s house for lunch. As the afternoon goes on Tom realises that Daisy and Gatsby are having an affair. Tom sets out to win her back. Daisy asks if they can all go to NYC for the rest of the day.
In chapters four through six of The Great Gatsby, the reader is introduced to the real Gatsby who was incredibly poor in his early life. At the beginning of chapter six, Nick explains to the reader Gatsby’s real upbringing. Nick explains, “James Gatz — that was really, or at least legally, his name… His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people — his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself” (Fitzgerald 62-63).
We chose to write about Meyer Wolfsheim. It starts with Nick and Wolfsheim talking at a speakeasy. Meyer explains his youth and what he grew up doing. Later finds his gambling life. His adulthood he creates a business.
In chapters 1-10 Petey becomes frustrated with the institution because everyone keeps leaving him. For example Joe, Esteban, and the mice all left him. How I know that those kinda things made petey mad was that on page 86 the narrator says “Joe’s departure devastated Petey and Calvin. That shows that when someone leaves Petey is sad. In chapters 1-10 you can conclude that when people Petey cares about leave he is sad.
In chapter two of How To Read like Professor, Foster explains to readers that act of communion can be any time people decide to eat or drink together. He continues on to explain some concepts such as that eating is so uninteresting that there has to be some reason authors write about it, that acts of communion only happen with people you're comfortable with, and that there maybe an underlying emotion or message hidden in these meals. All of these ideas can be found in chapter 7 of The Great Gatsby where Tom Buchanan invites everyone over for lunch; things escalate while sipping wine and waiting for the food. Eating brunch with you best friend might sound fun, but Foster brings up the point that it is infact fairly boring to write an eating scene. This causes readers to assume
In Chapter 5, Fitzgerald utilizes the weather to reinforce the mood. The rain outside mirrors the storms within, as Gatsby and Daisy meet again. Nick opens the front door and sees Gatsby “pale as death,” “standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into [Nick’s] eyes” (86). The encounter between Gatsby and Daisy is awkward and silent with little remarks. Gatsby and Daisy have a tough time making conversation.
The story starts off with the reader learning about how Nick’s lifestyle has been shaped. We learn that his father has taught him to not judge other people. His moral standards are different from other people so his father thinks he would misunderstand them. We learn about his moral values when he goes with Tom to attend a social gathering. Nick has only gotten drunk other than one time prior to this party.
In the passage on page sixty-one in chapter five of The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway is walking in New York City beginning to get used to the atmosphere of the city. Nick shows almost conflicting emotions in the passage, being excited by the busyness but almost relaxed by it as well. This provides a realistic approach to societies’ feelings toward their surroundings. Fitzgerald, by using unique choices of diction, imagery, and details, explores the complex and varying emotional responses that Nick has toward New York City.
Chapter 4 Nick's list of Gatsby's guests reads like a who's who of 1922. Guests who attended Gatsby's parties that summer had no idea who threw the party. They don’t know who is throwing the party, but they just wanna party. He uses Gatsby’s cream-colored car.
The seventh chapter is set on the hottest day of the year. During the chapter, some of the characters have personality changes. Gatsby stops having parties at his house like he usually did (113). Daisy has gone from someone who is shy to someone who is more confident. She flirts with Gatsby while Tom is sitting in the room (119).
This chapter put Gatby and Tom side-by-side. While this happened briefly in Chapter 6, here the two men take each other on, head-to-head. Tom can no longer deny that Gatsby and Daisy are having an affair (specifics about that affair are however unclear. The only thing of significance is that the affair is an extension of Gatsby's dream and it leads him to the destruction of the dream and of himself). Within hours of learning in his wife's indiscretions, Tom learn's that in addition to perhaps loosing his wife, he is most certainly losing his mistress.
An unreliable narrator is someone who we as the readers can’t fully trust, usually because of their personality, obvious bias, or in the case of “The Yellow Wallpaper”, a mental illness. Any reason that would cause us to question the validity of a narrator's opinion within the context of the story might be filed under unreliable. We take what these narrators tell us with a grain of salt because we know their view of the world is influenced by something else. The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms defines unreliable narrator as “a narrator whose accounts of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted, so that it departs from the 'true' understanding of events shared between the reader and the implied author. The discrepancy between the unreliable narrator's view of events and the view that readers suspect to be more accurate creates a sense of irony”.
Scott M. Truong Mrs. Sutton Honors English III 11 March 2024. The “Minds Of The Rotten Crowd” The Great Gatsby is full of different themes and topics that create a complicated story, but what is truly unique when we view it with a certain lens. The Psychological Theory in The Great Gatsby is a great example of displaying the emotions and mental conflicts that the character displays in the book. Those reasons were apparent during Gatsby and Tom's confrontation, the killing of Myrtle, and Gatsby’s fixation with Daisy. Chapter seven of The Great Gatsby is the brewing hub of emotions, panic, accidents, and difficult situations.
Why do authors create suspense in literature? Authors create suspense to make the audience feel on the edge of their seats and to make the audience want to continue reading the story. Suspense is a literary device that makes the audience anticipate the climax or resolution of a story and feel tension and excitement. "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe, and "The Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury utilize suspense in three forms, conflict, irony, and foreshadowing. Authors create suspemse through conflict, irony, and foreshadowing to make the audience anticipate the climax or resolution.
