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Oct 3, 2024 · How does Nick know Tom and Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby? Nick knows Daisy because they are sort of related. They are cousins. To be more specific, they are second cousins once...
- Analysis of Tom and Daisy Buchanan's Relationship in The ...
Nick does not describe any moments of affection between Tom...
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Nick's moral judgment of Tom and Daisy in The Great Gatsby...
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Writing two years after Gatsbys death, Nick describes the events that surrounded the funeral. Swarms of reporters, journalists, and gossipmongers descend on the mansion in the aftermath of the murder. Wild, untrue stories, more exaggerated than the rumors about Gatsby when he was throwing his parties, circulate about the nature of Gatsbys relations...
On his last night in West Egg before moving back to Minnesota, Nick walks over to Gatsbys empty mansion and erases an obscene word that someone has written on the steps. He sprawls out on the beach behind Gatsbys house and looks up. As the moon rises, he imagines the island with no houses and considers what it must have looked like to the explorers...
Nick thinks of America not just as a nation but as a geographical entity, land with distinct regions embodying contrasting sets of values. The Midwest, he thinks, seems dreary and pedestrian compared to the excitement of the East, but the East is merely a glittering surfaceit lacks the moral center of the Midwest. This fundamental moral depravity d...
Oct 3, 2024 · Nick does not describe any moments of affection between Tom and Daisy. Tom is restless and impatient, and Daisy is preoccupied; it is clearly a marriage in distress.
In Chapter 4, Nick tries to describe what sets Daisy apart from the rest of the affluent, “fast crowd” she consorts with. Her “perfect reputation” makes her seem flawless, and Nick links this to her self-restraint around drinking.
Oct 3, 2024 · Nick's moral judgment of Tom and Daisy in The Great Gatsby is highly critical. He views them as careless people who destroy things and then retreat back into their wealth and...
Tom’s body is a “cruel body” with “enormous power” that, as Nick explains, he developed as a college athlete. Tom’s strength and bulk give him an air of danger and aggression, as when he hurts Daisy’s finger and she calls him a “brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen…”.
In Tom's car heading back toward Long Island (Gatsby and Daisy took Gatsby's car), Nick observes that unlike Daisy, people like Jordan Baker know better than to hold onto irretrievable dreams. Nick describes the car he rides in as driving toward death.
