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- He not only narrates the story but casts himself as the book’s author. He begins by commenting on himself, stating that he learned from his father to reserve judgment about other people, because if he holds them up to his own moral standards, he will misunderstand them. He characterizes himself as both highly moral and highly tolerant.
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The narrator of The Great Gatsby is a young man from Minnesota named Nick Carraway. He not only narrates the story but casts himself as the books author. He begins by commenting on himself, stating that he learned from his father to reserve judgment about other people, because if he holds them up to his own moral standards, he will misunderstand th...
In the summer of 1922, Nick writes, he had just arrived in New York, where he moved to work in the bond business, and rented a house on a part of Long Island called West Egg. Unlike the conservative, aristocratic East Egg, West Egg is home to the new rich, those who, having made their fortunes recently, have neither the social connections nor the r...
Nick is unlike his West Egg neighbors; whereas they lack social connections and aristocratic pedigrees, Nick graduated from Yale and has many connections on East Egg. One night, he drives out to East Egg to have dinner with his cousin Daisy and her husband, Tom Buchanan, a former member of Nicks social club at Yale. Tom, a powerful figure dressed i...
Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound.
Nick’s description of Gatsby’s mansion, with its “spanking new” tower, as “a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy” suggests that its design is an attempt to emulate the wealth and splendor of the old-monied upper classes.
Chapter 1. Summary; Analysis. Past and present; Study focus: The narrator; War and peace; Reading Nick Carraway; New World wealth, Old World status; Names and their meaning; Racial issues; Revision task: Nick as character and as narrator; Key quotation: Gatsby’s optimism; Extract analysis. Chapter 1, pp. 17–18; Chapter 2; Chapter 3 ...
The Great Gatsby Summary and Analysis of Chapter 1. Chapter One. The narrator, Nick Carraway, begins the novel by commenting on himself: he says that he is very tolerant, and has a tendency to reserve judgment.
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