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In chapter 7, Tom, Daisy, Nick, and Jordan meet in the city and rent a room at the Plaza Hotel, where tensions come to a boiling point between Tom and Gatsby. When Tom criticizes Daisy for...
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Both Tom and George are violent, Tom when he hits Myrtle, has a scuffle with Gatsby, and in the way that he approaches people he thinks are beneath him or that have wronged him in some way. He...
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Nick says that his father advised him that, before "criticizing anyone," he "remember that all the people in this world haven't had the same advantages" as Nick. As a result, Nick claims that he...
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Though Gatsby hosts dozens of parties at his West Egg mansion, the astonishing fact is that many of his guests don't even know what he looks like. This is because Gatsby likes to keep out of the...
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In the Valley of Ashes, the eyes of T. J. Eckleberg "brood...over the solemn dumping ground" of materialism and the moral decay of people. In The Great Gatsby, a satire of the American Dream,...
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Nick Caraway, the narrator, describes his cousin, Daisy Buchanan's, house in chapter 1. He says that it is a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay. The lawn started...
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The above excerpt relates to Tom Buchanan, who's completely gobsmacked by the loving look that his wife, Daisy, has just flashed at Gatsby. Daisy didn't come right out and tell Gatsby that she...
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But he didn’t despise himself and it didn’t turn out as he had imagined. He had intended to take what he could and go, but now he found that he had committed himself to the following of a...
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Nick is very affected by Myrtle's violent and graphic death. At first, he believes that Gatsby was driving the yellow car that hit her and he is horrified by the report that the car did not even...
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In chapter 6, Daisy and Tom Buchanan attend one of Jay Gatsby's infamous summer parties, and Daisy does not particularly enjoy the festivities. Initially, Daisy seems excited about interacting with...
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Chapter 8 has a foreboding atmosphere from the start. The chapter begins with Nick unable to sleep; he tosses and turns in bed all night, plagued with nightmares. He even gets out of bed at dawn...
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Tom and Daisy Buchanan have a marriage of convenience. Tom likes the idea of a beautiful and socially savvy wife; while Daisy enjoys having a wealthy and well-connected husband. Their...
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A man of brute strength and power, arrogant and malicious, Tom Buchanan is clearly the villain of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Very self-absorbed and proud of his wealth and the power it brings,...
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Fitzgerald uses the weather throughout the novel to amplify the mood of the narrative. As Nick arrives in West Egg in the first chapter, the season is late spring, moving into summer, and Nick...
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Nick says that his "cardinal" or chief virtue is honesty, but it is not. Just prior to making that statement, he mentions that he has not been entirely honest with his girlfriend back home in...
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I don't believe that Nick is sorry he ever set foot on Gatsby's lawn. After all, as he says at the beginning of the novel, Gatsby is the only person who redeems the other "foul dust" of that time...
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I believe that Nick is a reliable narrator, though there are many readers who would disagree with me. He narrates the story as a first-person objective narrator, meaning that he describes events...
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One of the predominant themes Fitzgerald explores throughout his classic novel The Great Gatsby concerns the American dream. The American dream is the commonly held belief that citizens from humble...
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To support the idea with quotations from the novel, you will need to provide some context, I think. For instance, in Chapter VII Myrtle Wilson is killed on the road. Gatsby drives Daisy home, but...
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Daisy and Tom Buchanan are "careless people" because they are insensitive and thoughtless. Tom physically abuses Myrtle Wilson by striking her in the face and leads her to believe he...
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Fitzgerald tells the story of Jay Gatsby through a first person narrator, Nick Carraway. The story is told in flashbacks, and there are flashbacks within flashbacks (i.e. about Gatsby’s past...
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Nick Carraway really does not like Tom Buchanan much. You can see that in the tone of his description of Tom in Chapter 1. In this description, everything about Tom is described in very violent,...
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When Nick Carraway first meets Jay Gatsby, he does not know who he is (chapter 3). The two men strike up a conversation, which include some references to having served in World War I. Nick is both...
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In this novel, Nick is used or manipulated by Daisy, Gatsby, and Jordan. Nick comes home from his first dinner at Daisy and Tom's Long Island home feeling Daisy has played or manipulated him...
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Daisy in The Great Gatsby both has her own "American Dream," and represents one to both Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan, her husband. To begin with, "American Dream" is a commonly used phrase, but not...
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The characters of Jay Gatsby and George Wilson threaten the established beliefs of society. American society in the 1920s believed in the American Dream: the idea that a person could start with...
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Jay Gatsby is a self-made man who climbed the social ladder after becoming a successful bootlegger, and he bought a luxurious mansion in the West Egg where he holds magnificent summer parties....
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The most obvious difference is that Daisy is rich and was raised in a wealthy family so she wears her wealth with ease. Myrtle was not raised with wealth and is married to man with very little...
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In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, one of the classic quotes that shows Nick is an unreliable narrator comes at the end of Chapter 8, when the last thing Nick says to Gatsby is, "They're a rotten...
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Alcohol is mentioned frequently in the novel, sometimes generally and sometimes in direct reference to the various characters. Gatsby, we learn, did not drink; as a young man sailing with Dan Cody,...
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Different editions of any book will have the same text on different pages, so there aren't any page numbers included in this answer. In the first chapter, Tom is called away from entertaining Nick,...
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People arrive at Jay Gatsby's house without an invitation because his parties are basically a come-one, come-all sort of affair. He does not really issue invitations; he just opens up his house...
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In chapter 2, Nick Carraway ends up accompanying Tom Buchanan and his mistress, Myrtle Wilson, to a small, impromptu party in the Manhattan apartment that Tom keeps for their trysts. Myrtle, a...
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1. JAY PLANS THE PERFECT REUNION. In chapter 5, Jay has treats and tea specifically brought over to Nick's house for his meeting with Daisy. Knowing Gatsby's character, I am sure they were treats...
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At the beginning of the story, Nick Carraway describes himself as a fair, tolerant man who is inclined to reserve all judgments. According to Nick, his peers seem to always gravitate toward him...
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Gatsby's response to Nick's observation that you can't repeat the past is incredulity. He says, "Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!" To him, it seems perfectly reasonable to...
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The audience is first introduced to Tom Buchanan in chapter 1 of the novel, when Nick Carraway visits his second cousin Daisy. When Nick meets Tom, he is wearing riding clothes with a thin jacket...
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A soliloquy is an uninterrupted speech that an actor gives which provides the audience with his or her feelings at that moment and regarding the plot developments. In this assignment, your teacher...
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Daisy is depicted as an extremely shallow, superficial woman, who prefers financial security and a life of luxury over genuine love and companionship. As a young woman, Daisy Fay fell in love with...
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Concerning The Great Gatsby, you should be careful of looking for simple, easy one-liners in sophisticated fiction. Human existence is complex, not simple, and sophisticated fiction usually...
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In chapter three, Nick describes the first time he attended one of Jay Gatsby's magnificent parties and mentions that he began seeing Jordan Baker regularly around town. Nick mentions that he...
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There is a strong connection between the green light at the end of the dock and this passage. The moment of extreme delight as Daisy examines his bedroom represents the high point of the...
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Fitzgerald is saying that those who pursue the American Dream can never be satisfied, because the American Dream entails always striving for something more than what we already have. Gatsby...
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Jordan fills Nick in on the details of Daisy's life from the time she was eighteen until after her wedding to Tom Buchanan. Early on, Jordan had seen Daisy with Gatsby, then a young lieutenant, at...
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One could make the argument that no narrator can be completely objective but a completely detached one will clearly be more objective than one like Nick who is in the midst of the action. Because...
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The area connecting the two Eggs is described by Nick as a place of industrialization that he dubs the "valley of ashes." The first time the billboard of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg is seen is in...
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In chapter one, Nick visits Tom and Daisy Buchanan's home, where he is reacquainted with his cousin and meets Jordan Baker for the first time. Tom Buchanan is depicted as an arrogant, ignorant man,...
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In Chapter 2, Nick is speaking with Myrtle's sister, Catherine. Nick reveals that he has recently been a guest at one of Gatsby's parties, and it is Catherine who then says, about Gatsby, "they say...
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There are several possible reasons why Fitzgerald chose Nick Carraway as the narrator of the story. One of those reasons is that Nick is an outsider. He is a midwesterner, from Minnesota, and he...
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Though Jay Gatsby and George Wilson are an unlikely pair for comparison in The Great Gatsby, they actually have several things in common. First, both know what it's like to be poor. It's true that...
