Great Gatsby - Setting
What is setting? Is it merely a place for characters to interact and events and actions to take place? Or is it something much more. Something that reveals the most inner qualities of the people and things that inhabit them. In The Great Gatsby, many connections can be made between landscape and its contents. The reader is able to pick apart details hidden in the surroundings and can therefore make conclusions on the characteristics of others, whether the author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote them in or not. The most obvious setting filled with details would most likely be the Valley of Ashes. It is a barren, colorless, lifeless hell. ?Occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.? (P.27). From this small amount of information, we are able to see a number of things that might not be so obvious until carefully evaluated. First off, this is a town most would not consider up to living standards. The only people willing to inhabit this hole are of low-class and poor. They live sad, dull, and boring lives when rou
No longer will read a book the same way. Things are more than they appear. Never would I have imagined that there were similarities between a place as dull and lifeless as the valley of ashes and Gatsby?s Mansion. Nor did I see differences between two beautiful houses, one belonging to the Buchanans, and the other belonging to Gatsby. Personality traits can be discovered by looking at a character?s material possessions. This idea could be used as evidence to falsify the saying ?You can?t judge a book by its cover.?
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Approximate Word count = 1057
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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