“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
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(P)- Is the character, or their family wealthy? Are they economically wealthy or simply happy and have humble roots? The era of the novel was a time when there were many affluent American individuals who lived very extravagant lives. I wonder if this will be the case for our main character and if so, how the plot will play out.
2) “My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this Middle Western city for three generations.”
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(CL)- The character confirms my previous prediction. As stated, the family is prominent and prosperous and has been so for several generations. This social status
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He is a part of the life in the east, and he is also watching it from afar. While he is at the party with these people, he also observing them and considering their perspective. He finds himself “enchanted” and “repelled” by the lifestyle of those he finds in the East.
6) “Instead of rambling, this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the countryside- East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety.”
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A- This passage displays incredibly unique and extraordinary diction. Overall, it is commenting on how the many people there are very similar in the social status. The people together at this party only represent one aspect of the social spectrum. However, by including such elaborate vocabulary, Fitzgerald forces the reader to further understand Nick’s perspective. Such vocabulary use is assuredly used by a well educated and well spoken individual. This allows us to infer that Nick may not be that different from his party
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What has happened that has led him to this mindset? Is he truly an honest man or is this simply his own perception of himself?
8) “Meyer Wolfsheim? No, he’s a gambler.” Gatsby hesitated, then added coolly: “He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series back in 1919.”
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C- I am a massive baseball fan, and I immediately connected to this quote since it is referring to a major piece of baseball history. The 1919 World Series fixing is a major moment in the history of pro baseball and would be recognized by most baseball fans. In addition, the inclusion of this detail certainly gives me a bit of perspective on the time period we are working with here.
9) “Daisy’s face was smeared with tears, and when I came in she jumped up and began wiping at it with her handkerchief before a mirror. But there was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding. He literally glowed; without a word or gesture of exultation a new well being radiated from him and filled the little room.”
1. The most crucial point in Chapter 1 is the call Tom receives from his lover. After Nick, Jordan, Tom, and Daisy spent a well mannered night together, the phone rings and Tom rushes to it. When Daisy follows behind it’s revealed it’s a mistress from New York. This is a crucial point as it reveals the falseness in Tom and Daisy’s relationship. Although it initially looked as if all was fine, a larger theme of disingenuousness is behind their relationship.
Chapter 1: Chapter one introduces the reader to the narrator Nick Halloway and most of the other other characters of the story. Including his cousin daisy, her husband tom and their friend jordan - the golfer. Nick comes from a wealthy family; however, doesn’t believe in inheriting their wealth. Instead he wishes to earn his own wealth by selling bonds in the stock market. Chapter one also talks about the separation of the rich. Where the east egg represents the inherently rich whereas west egg represents the newly rich. The people in the east also seem to lack social connections and aristocratic pedigree. Whereas the people in west egg possess all those qualities usually lacked by people in the east.With nick living
As I have thought and prayed a bit more about what you have experienced this weekend it strikes me that as you entered it with the expectation that it was a beginning, Ruben entered it with a number of lines drawn in the sand that He knew he couldn’t cross, and was entering the weekend seeking to discover where you stood in relationship to those lines before he took the risk of allowing his heart to get too attached. If he had, he may have found himself in a position later on having to decide between what his heart wanted and erasing the line he had drawn and stood behind for so long. As hard as this may be to understand, in many ways the decision has very little to do with the real you, and more to do with the wishdream he has been holding onto. I know it doesn’t ease the pain, and it may not even help with the confusion you are feeling, but I think it is true. He has an idea of what perfect looks like and he is committed to holding on to it. He has held it for 32 years. Maybe he
Money was floating in Chicago with gambler?s placing large bets. With big plans for getting rich, two gambler?s, ?Sleepy? Bill Burns and Billy Maharg, contacted two White Sox players, pitcher Ed Cicotte and first baseman Arnold ?Chick? Gandil, about fixing the series. The two players knew they had to enlist more teammates to successfully fix the series. They spoke to six more players; pitcher Lefty Williams, centerfielder Happy Felsch, shortstop Swede Risberg, thirdbaseman Buck Weaver, utilityman Fred McMullin and one of the best and most popular stars ever, left fielder ?
During the time in our country's history called the roaring twenties, society had a new obsession, money. Just shortly after the great depression, people's focus now fell on wealth and success in the economic realm. Many Americans would stop at nothing to become rich and money was the new factor in separation of classes within society. Wealth was a direct reflection of how successful a person really was and now became what many people strived to be, to be rich. Wealth became the new stable in the "American dream" that people yearned and chased after all their lives. In the novel entitled the great Gatsby, the ideals of the so called American dream became skewed, as a result of the greediness and desires of the main characters to become rich and wealthy. These character placed throughout the novel emphasize the true value money has on a persons place in society making wealth a state of mind.
status: “well off.” One of their objectives was to marry Soraya to a financially stable family so
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is an absurd story, whether considered as romance, melodrama, or plain record of New York high life. The occasional insights into character stand out as very green oases on an arid desert of waste paper. Throughout the first half of the book the author shadows his leading character in mystery, but when in the latter part he unfolds his life story it is difficult to find the brains, the cleverness, and the glamour that one might expect of a main character.
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Fitzgerald is expressing another realization, that in which Nick understands that none of the characters were truly meant for the East. Nick notes that maybe the reason the characters all struggled was because they were westerners. “Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common.” Fitzgerald is also showcasing the Nick’s realization that the characters in the book were not equipped for eastern life “we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to eastern life”
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During the 1920's America was a country of great ambition, despair and disappointment. The novel The Great Gatsby is a reflection of this decade, it illustrates the burning passion one man has toward his "American Dream" and the different aspects of the dream. Fitzgerald's work is a reflection of America during his lifetime. The Great Gatsby shows the ambition of one man's reach for his "American Dream," the disappointment of losing this dream and the despair of his loss.
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
Gatsby and Daisy. Gatsby and Daisy connections "seemed as close as a star to the moon"(
F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the most compelling twentieth century writers, (Curnutt, 2004). The year 1925 marks the year of the publication of Fitzgerald’s most credited novel, The Great Gatsby (Bruccoli, 1985). With its critiques of materialism, love and the American Dream (Berman, 1996), this dramatic idyllic novel, (Harvey, 1957), although poorly received at first, is now highly regarded as Fitzgerald’s finest work (Rohrkemper, 1985) and is his publisher, Scribner 's most popular title, (Donahue, 2013). The novel achieved it’s status as one of the most influential novels in American history around the nineteen fifties and sixties, over ten years after Fitzgerald 's passing, (Ibid, 1985)
Works Cited Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner, 2004. Print. The.