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The book “The Great Gatsby,” written by F.Scott Fitzgerald is the story of Nick Carraway with his people. In this reading, I found that Nick is a careful observer of people around him, especially Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby. In this book,there’s many careful descriptions that Nick found from people around him. In the beginning of the book, Nick went to East egg to see and stay with Tom and his sister. In page 6, there’s Nick’s scrupulous description of Tom buchanan. Tom buchanan is Daisy’s husband who was former football player in Yale University. Tom had been one of the powerful and popular guy for football however after his age 21, his reputation was anti climaxing.Nick used describe his masculine body as enormous leverage--cruel body. In addition,
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“Sometimes it's not the people who change, it’s the mask that falls off” (Haruki Murakami). Throughout the Great Gatsby there's a character named Tom Buchanan who constantly hides who he really is under a mask. He comes off as a wealthy alpha male who doesn't take orders from anyone especially a certain character named Gatsby. He has a wife named Daisy who’s seeing Gatsby behind his back but also he has his own mistress named Myrtle. Tom Buchanan reveals his true colors overall in chapter seven in the Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald by showing his emotion and his persistent and forced words that he’s higher up than gatsby.

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In the captivating novel The Great Gatsby, written by F.Scott Fitzgerald, Chapters three and four have many differences that arise within the pages. The main contrast is Nick and Gatsby’s relationship. To begin, in chapter three Nick Carraway hears more rumors about Gatsby and gets to see his appearance. In chapter 4 however, he gets to observe his personality. In chapter three when Nick finally sees’s Gatsby, he says “ I could see nothing sinister about him.

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The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book and almost universally considered his most impactful work. The novel follows the dialog of Nick Carraway throughout his time in New York, especially focusing on his neighbor, Jay Gatsby, who is trying to enter a relationship with Nick’s married cousin, Daisy Buchanan. Although the work is written from Nick’s point of view, occasionally obscured through influences such as alcohol, his descriptions of Gatsby seem to be mostly genuine and as unaltered from the truth as Nick can make them. Although Gatsby believes his ultimate goal is to create a new future for himself & Daisy, Gatsby is actually constantly trying to relive & change his past, especially in regards to Daisy. It is this unknown internal motivation that dictates much of Gatsby’s decisions &

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“Narrator Nick Carraway tells the story of a summer among the wealthy and privileged; a stockbroker of limited means, Nick socializes with his cousin Daisy and her wealthy husband Tom Buchanan (with whom Nick graduated from Yale); Daisy’s girlhood friend, professional golfer Jordan Baker; and his Long Island neighbor, Jay Gatsby, a host of raucous parties in the fictitious “West Egg.” Nick, Jordan, Gatsby, and Daisy plot to have Daisy leave Tom for Gatsby. The plan is thwarted when Tom’s mistress Myrtle is killed by Gatsby’s car (driven, Nick believes, by Daisy), an event that leads her husband, Tom’s mechanic, George, to murder Gatsby. As narrator, Nick is less focused on this romance plot than on Gatsby himself and what Gatsby can teach him about his own situation. Nick has come East, he tells us at the start of the novel, to learn the bond business; later he indicates that he’s also in New York so that he may enjoy the company of men and to escape the increasing social expectations back in the Midwest, where he is being cajoled to marry.

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“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, exposes the American Society during the 1920’s. The author displays many heroes and villain throughout the book. The characters in the novel are mostly mixtures of good and evil. Although the book does not clearly delineate the villains or heroes, there is one character who tends to stand out as a villain known as Tom Buchanan. Tom Buchanan is a major character in the book.

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Anum Khan Dr. Ellis Honor English II November 5, 2014 Characterization in The Great Gatsby: Nick Carraway “Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people I have ever known.” (Fitzgerald, 59) Nick Carraway’s judgement of himself being the “most honest person he has ever known” is derived from the fact that he is an outsider to the society of The Eggs and to the thinking of the phony socialites around him. Unlike other characters in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick came to New York as an Everyman, looking for fortune and a better life, much different than those who had everything they needed living while living in The Eggs. Being from the Midwest and not New York creates an unattainable boundary between Nick and the rest of his peers causing him to have dissimilar

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Chapter one of The Great Gatsby unveils that Tom Buchanan is an arrogant man, who has a fear of being inferior to others. Throughout the chapter the reader is exposed to how arrogant Tom is, while being shown his ideas of being superior to other. Nick had just arrived to East egg and was describing Tom’s physical and internal traits to the reader, “Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward”(7). Nick is showing how just by Tom’s appearance he comes off as an arrogant person. Without even saying a word Tom comes of as being arrogant to Nick which really shows what kind of person Tom is.

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Distance from emotions creates a sense of safety that allows careless behavior. Tom Buchanan portrays a distance of emotional detachment spanning from West Egg to the Valley of Ashes in “The Great Gatsby.” Through infidelity and lavish spending, carelessness extends past mere feelings to encompass worldly objects, and vice versa. The first indication of Tom Buchanan’s shallowness comes from the early dinner with Nick, Daisy and Jordan. Upon Nick’s questioning of who calls during the meal, Jordan replies with “Tom’s got some woman in New York.”

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Recounting heartbreak, betrayal, and deception, F. Scott Fitzgerald paints a bleak picture in the 1920’s novel The Great Gatsby. Nick Carraway, the narrator of the novel, witnesses the many lies others weave in order to achieve their dreams. However, the greatest deception he encounters is the one he lives. Not having a true dream, Nick instead finds purpose by living vicariously through others, and he loses that purpose when they are erased from his life.

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In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a man named Nick Carraway moves to West Egg, Long Island. After arriving Nick travels over to East Egg where his cousin, Daisy, is located just across the bay. Nick comes to find out his neighbor, Jay Gatsby, is a past lover of Daisy. He also discovers this lover has spent his entire life rebuilding himself to be more acceptable for her. Due to Nick’s strict upbringings he does not criticize others, making him of perfect use to Daisy and Gatsby.

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Nick Carraway is the narrator of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This novel is a story about the love triangle of Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, and Jay Gatsby, told from the perspective of Nick. Nick moves to Long Island, New York, where he encounters the lives of his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom, as well as his wealthy neighbor Jay. Throughout the story, Nick shows that he is judgmental, dishonest, and passive. Nick is an extremely judgmental person throughout his life.

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In The Great Gatsby, Nick, the narrator, tells the story of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby during the summer of 1922 in West Egg, New York. Nick lives next door to Gatsby in a house that appears like a shack compared to Gatsby’s mansion. As the first person narrator, we see the observations by Nick of his neighbor and how he lives his life. The book presents an interesting view on time and how time affects people, especially Gatsby, in their daily lives. Specifically, Fitzgerald uses a flashback technique throughout the novel at different points that go back to earlier times in Gatsby’s life and continue to affect him now.

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