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Why Is Nick's Home Important In The Great Gatsby

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Many places in the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald have great significance, for many reasons and without these places the plot would be entirely different and the whole feeling of the the story would be changed. The book is an American masterpiece and many say Fitzgerald’s best piece. His house was a piece of many significant events many, but all wouldn’t be possible if Nick’s house wasn't strategically placed right next door to Gatsby’s home, his house being there gives us this story, without it there is no story. Nicks’s house located in “new money” West Egg, it is a little shack right next to Gatsby’s castle of a home (Fitzgerald 11). Nick, being the narrator, has to remain close to Gatsby and the rest of the main characters or there is no story to be told because there is no one to tell it. When Nick is present we see what he sees and hear what he hears but when he isn’t present we hear what happens from other characters when Nick …show more content…

This kiss was important in starting Daisy and Gatsby’s love affair, and without Nick or his conveniently placed house there might have not ever been a love affair between the two. One of the last things that gives this house significance would be that this house is where Nick started out, where he did his reading and thinking, he never would've gotten the invite from Gatsby to attend one of his lavish parties, one of the few maybe the only to ever actually receive an invitation to one of his parties, which then caused the meeting between Gatsby and Nick and Gatsby’s request, through Jordan, ”he wants to know, if you’ll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over” (Fitzgerald 78). Where if that meeting never happens almost nothing in this story would’ve happened the way it did if Nick’s house didn’t

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Nick is Gatsby’s neighbor and Daisy’s cousin, and cautiously assists their relationship. Nick and Gatsby live in the West Egg area of Long Island, while Daisy lives across the way in East Egg. Fitzgerald uses these neighborhoods to symbolize the differences between the newly and old rich. In the novel, Nick and Gatsby are both newly parevenus individuals who do not come from a rich family. Carraway is earning his way to wealth in the banking industry, while Gatsby received his wealth predominantly from bootlegging.

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1. What do you find is the most crucial in the plot in Chapter 1? In Chapter 1, we are introduced to Nick, who is telling the story. He visits Tom and Daisy Buchannan (his cousin) and also meets Daisy’s friend Jordan Baker. Through their conversations you get a sense that though they are rich and have a lot, they are terribly bored people.

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The beliefs presented through the story belong to Nick, and the observations are from his eyes and what he perceives. This unique viewpoint in the eyes of Nick gives the reader Nick’s observations, such an observation being that, “His house had never seemed so enormous to me as it did that night when we hunted through the great rooms for cigarettes. We pushed aside curtains that were like pavilions, and felt over innumerable feet of dark wall for electric light switches—once I tumbled with a sort of splash upon the keys of a ghostly piano.” Here, we see Nick’s description of Gatsby’s own house. His description of the home as ‘enormous,’ ‘dark,’ and ‘ghostly’ show the reader unique imagery, and also show an opinion from Nick about his surroundings.

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First, Daisy and Nick join Gatsby at Gatsby’s house next door where her and Gatsby get some time to recollect themselves, “He hadn 't once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real. Once he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs,” (pg.112). First, in this part of the book is when Gatsby’s attitude throughout the rest of the story completely changes; therefore, the whole world seems to disappear causing him to fall for Daisy. Then, he doesn’t even compensate the rest of his house and how glorious it is due to Daisy taking over his whole entire attention span; this almost caused him to fall down his own stairs.

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This is because Nick finally realized that he was Gatsby's only true friend and that he had cared a lot about him. In addition, Nick realized that he didn't like living in West Egg since there wasn't anything there for him anymore. This reveals that Gatsby had impacted Nick's life

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1. Why does Gatsby deliver so many goods and services to Nick's house? Gatsby wants everything to be perfect and also he kind of wants to impress Daisy when she arrives. 2.

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At the beginning the plot was more of who was Gatsby and Tom Buchanan having an affair on Daisy. Nick then got invited to Gatsby's for one his amazing parties. Gatsby tells Jordan Baker to ask a favor of him that gets him involved in the plot. This favor is “ If you'll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over”(Fitzgerald 76). This quote from the book shows how Nick Carraway got put into the plot of The Great Gatsby by inviting Daisy to his house

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He was fearful at first because he had not seen her in five years and does not know what to expect: “He’s afraid, he’s waited so long . . . He half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night . . . But she never did” (79). Gatsby has been planning this for so long that once he found Daisy’s cousin, Nick, he immediately wants to go through with his plan of winning Daisy’s heart. When Gatsby eventually convinces Nick to invite Daisy over to his house, which is conveniently next door to Gatsby’s, Gatsby gets people to go spruce Nick’s house up for the occasion.

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By comparing Gatsby’s house to the World’s Fair, Nick is comparing Gatsby as a character to the World’s Fair. Just as that fire destroyed the Fair, Gatsby almost destroys the relationship between Nick and Daisy by falling in love with Daisy and forcing her to choose between him and

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In the story "The Great Gatsby" Nick has a favorable opinion of Jay Gatsby. In the first chapter of the book Nick states "When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction- Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. " The book gives many examples of Nick thinking of Gatsby as the "Great" such as Gatsby 's smile, what Gatsby was willing to do for Daisy, and what Gatsby did for himself.

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He doesn’t have a lot of money when he moves from the west out to the east. The house he lives in is a small house but from the moment he moves into it he is surrounded by money by having Gatsby’s mansion next door to his. The first few people Nick goes to see are very rich, thus continuing the trend of Nick meeting rich people. Later in the story Nick also meets Gatsby and gets to know him and is offered a lot of rich wonderful things like spending time with Gatsby in his hydro-plane or having lunch with Gatsby and doing many other things with the rich people in the story, yet while surrounded by all this money and wonderful things he gets more and more involved with the problems of the rich people around him. It gets to the point where Nick gets so sick of it all he ends up moving back to the west at the end of the story.

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Gatsby is a wealthy man who lives in West Egg. He tells Nick that he is “the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West” (Fitzgerald, 65). He later states, “I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford, because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition” (Fitzgerald, 65). This is what Gatsby wants Nick to believe but, in reality, Nick tells the reader that Gatsby was a man by the name of James Gatz and he was the son of unsuccessful farmers.

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The biggest question remaining after the reading of the book is what is Fitzgerald saying about American society? Is Fitzgerald insulting American society? Fitzgerald’s main ideas of American society in The Great Gatsby are about social class and status. The majority of his comments towards these subjects relates to the cars, houses, and money that people have. How does Fitzgerald throw Gatsby into the book?

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Nick moves to New York after recently graduating from Yale University. When he moves to New York he get’s Jay Gatsby as a neighbor. Gatsby lives an extravagant lifestyle spending money on parties. Nick, at a later point, learns that the reason Gatsby lives here he does is because he’s in love with Nick's cousin, Daisy. Nick later introduces Daisy to Gatsby.

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"The Great Gatsby" is an outstanding piece of classic American literature. F. Scott Fitzgerald discusses the issues on-post-war society, the American dream, love, and wealth. This draws attention to the readers that question if Jay Gatsby is "Great". Despite the uselessness of his beginnings, Gatsby is great due to the intensity of his will. Although, Gatsby is a person whose false love, materialism, and egotism led him to the tragic end.

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