6. How does the tone of Nick’s description of Tom reveal Nick’s feelings about Tom? Nick can hardly believe that anyone close to the same age as him could have such enormous wealth, and he does not esteem that Tom spends his money so carelessly. He feels that Tom is patronizing to himself and to others, but he is also so large and imposing that he gets away with it without their reproach, though many people in town hate him.
“Instead of being the warm center of the world, the Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe—so I decided to go East and learn the bond business” (Fitzgerald 16). Throughout the novel Nick sees rich people being careless, like Tom and Daisy, and poor people being exploited, like Myrtle and Gatsby. He eventually decides that “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” (Fitzgerald 179). Nick is appalled by Tom, Daisy, and Jordan and the last thing he says to Gatsby is: “They’re a rotten crowd… you’re worth the whole damn bunch put together” (Fitzgerald 154).
Nick analyzes her life with Tom; “They were careless people, Tom and —they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or
There was a touch of parental contempt in it, even toward people he liked and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts.” ch.1 Analysis: Nick is describing Tom, since he’s the narrator. Nick describes tom through his voice but yet you can get see all his personality through it. It also gives a small detail about nick like how close he pays attention to those around him and describes them in detail descriptions. 7.
Throughout the chapter, he encounters members of the working class, and he begins to share his opinions about wealth and the differences between the classes. For instance, when Tom introduces Nick to his mechanic, George Wilson, Nick describes George Wilson’s shop with a bit of disgust. Nick states, "The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford, which crouched in a dim corner. It had occurred to me that this shadow of a garage must be a blind, and that sumptuous and romantic apartments were concealed overhead, when the proprietor himself appeared in the door of an office, wiping his hands on a piece of waste. He was a blond, spiritless man, anemic, and faintly handsome.
“The Cask of Amontillado” is one of Edgar’s Allen Poe best short narratives with its vengeful characters and eerie and horror-filled atmosphere. The story was published in 1847, to later be known as a classical tale of revenge. Both Fortunato and Montresor were the protagonist and antagonist that kept his short narrative alive and suspenseful to the audience. What also kept his story full of life was what happened to between these characters that made this story revengeful. Though what is revenge?
Therefore, even the people around Nick noticed his behaviors, which led them to consider him as
This is shed light upon when Nick talked about how he felt all the Westerners around him including Gatsby, Tom, Daisy, and Jordan as well as himself all "possessed a deficiency" which made them "unadaptable to Eastern
Nick immigrated to the east from the Midwest, two exceedingly different settings with different values and ideals. The Midwest represented a wholesome, simple, yet fulfilled life to Nick, “...my Middle West – not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth…” (Fitzgerald, 176). This quote shows how just a memory of the Midwest had brought him joy, while his whole stay on the east coast was not as pleasing, actually shattering his optimal ideas he had of the east. Nearing the end of the novel, Nick begins to realize how much disregard east coast citizens have towards others.
This then leads to the reader, through Nick’s eyes, to loathe Tom as the book goes on.
Nick had attempted to escape from this lifestyle but because he was unable to make a complete decision in the beginning, he kept living it through the Buchanans; they were Nick’s window to the past. He witnesses Tom’s affair being “insisted upon wherever he was known” (21) without shame, and Daisy “[turn] out the light” (117) in her relationship with Gatsby, as it it never happened. A quiet bystander, never interfering, he experiences their life of ignorance, one with no repercussions, the one he had. Unwilling to remove himself from them, he instead complies to their wants, their decisions that create a sense of accomplishment. Doing nothing to change and move on from his past, Nick makes his choice to move to the east pointless.
His association and participation with the society illustrate his inability to remain true to himself. Nick tells the reader is he is the only honest person he knows, yet it becomes evident that he is not completely honest with himself. This is evident in the way in which he views himself. For example, he explains his family background, “My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in the middle-western town for three generations” giving the reader the impression that he is wealthy. This is revealed to be an exaggeration, as his father could only support him for a year at college and he professes that he is too poor to marry.
He states, “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice… ‘whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had’” (Fitzgerald 1). This quote truly expresses the sense of purity and the lack of judgement that Nick has at the beginning of the story. However, as the story continues, Nick’s character progresses from this innocence and eventually reaches a point in which he is cynical and looks at life in a more dissatisfied manor. At the end of the novel, Nick states, “Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound.
They are faced with tests, internal or external, that may or may not end their journey. Nick Carraway’s struggles are closely linked to his morality, something he never wanted to let go of. He is manipulated not only by Gatsby, who offers him “a nice bit of money” (Fitzgerald 88) to arrange the meeting with Daisy, but by the other people he encounters in this unknown world. Nick is surrounded by complete and utter corruption, where people lie and get away with it, and human values are nonexistent. Even Gatsby was a fictitious, invented character, that “sprang from his Platonic conception of himself,” (Fitzgerald 105) using illegal activities to earn his name.
Because of the delay, under T. J. Eckleburg’s watchful gaze, Nick is forced to meet Tom’s mistress, an arguably dishonest action. Tom seems to not heed the watchful gaze at all, which parallels his lack of conscience in real
