... Nick's second cousin. She carries herself with an insubstantial manner. While seemingly nave, she claims to be terribly sophisticated. Also at the Buchanans' home is Jordan Baker, a professional golfer and close friend of Daisy. After visiting Tom and Daisy, Nick goes home that night, where he sees Gatsby watching a green light ... (for which he received a number of decorations). However, his tentative manner indicates that he may be lying to Nick. He tells Nick that Jordan Baker soon will reveal to Nick the remarkable news that Gatsby had told her. At lunch, Gatsby introduces Nick to an...

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... for dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, a former classmate of Nick's at Yale. Daisy and Tom introduce Nick to Jordan Baker, who Nick begins a romantic relationship. Nick also learns a bit about Daisy and Tom's marriage: Jordan tells him that Tom has a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and ... him dead. He then fatally shoots himself. Nick stages a small funeral for Gatsby, ends his relationship with Jordan, and moves back to the Midwest to escape the disgust he feels for the people surround...

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... many literary devices. One of the device he used is characterization. The main characters of this novel are Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan and Jordan Baker. Nick Carraway is the narrator of the story and is a protagonist. He is from Minnesota and he came to West Egg, to learn bond business. Nick ... a wealthy copper tycoon. He teaches Gatsby to earn money illegally and changed his name to Jay Gatsby. He lives an extravagant life but he is an unhappy person betrayed by the love of his life, Daisy. After earned all money Daisy wanted him to have, he moved to West E...

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... as was the mentality back in those days. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a true literary masterpiece based on the tragic life of Jay Gatsby through the eyes of his acquaintance and neighbour, Nick Carraway. The story travels through different settings based on New York, and ... his opinion that women generally have low moral qualities, and demonstrates this by the actions and speech illustrated by the three female characters: Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Myrtle Wilson. In the eyes of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Buchanan was the typical depiction of the rich, young, marr...

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... quarrels and disagreements irrupt about the love Jay wants to show Daisy she is forced to choose between two men, one from her old life and one from the new life she is living. Nick continues to abide by his many morals, however, shuns them when in contact with Gatsby and the rest of ... , and complete selflessness. Nick is a sincere individual and observes the fallacies in the lives of his new found opulent friends. For example, he realizes that Jordan Baker is an incurable liar and cheater in the game of golf. He sees that her fraudulence is a great defect in her personality, yet he i...

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... life, is also a story of Nick's own development in the story. In the beginning Nick is already a sophisticated observer of characters but reserves his personal judgement, remaining uninvolved in the sense that he is not willing to act upon what he feels are the faults of the other individuals around him. Some example is when he realizes Jordan baker ... he is still willing to tolerate the defects of these individuals. The turning point of his development occurs when he sees the reactions of Jordan and the Buchanans to Myrtle Wilson's death. At this time, nick finally stands back and deve...

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... Although behind all of his work, it revealed truly as to who and what he is. There are those who are responsible for the ending of his life. So, those who are around him are all collectively responsible. Jay Gatsby is not a tragic hero because of his behaviors and actions that was done throughout ... because of an error in judgment of because of a personality failure." Jay Gatsby definitely "bring[s] about his own downfall." Not only he ruined his own life, he also jeopardized the Buchanan's marriage, even though Tom himself is having an affair. His desire to be with Daisy Buchanan is not...

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... twenties. They represent the jazz era and everything that happened during that time period. Their actions mirror each other very closely at times. Nick and Jake show different aspects of life in the 1920s. One similar aspect between Jake and Nick is that both these men participated in World War I. In the war, both Jake and Nick began to construct insecurities ... love they hold for a member of the opposite sex. Jake is in love with Brett and Nick is in love with Jordan Baker. Both these men become increasingly involved with the girl as the novel continues. However, Nick becomes romantic...

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... , written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and is narrated by a character named Nick Carraway. The story follows a man named Jay Gatsby, who is Nick's neighbour; he is a man who has wrapped his life within the past five years around his sole desire to be with a woman named Daisy Buchanan. The Great Gatsby is a novel of tragedy, love and rich vs. poor. In this ... notion of the American Dream is. One of the motifs used was dishonesty, more specifically, dishonesty of the rich. In Chapter 3, Jordan mentions that she cheated in a golf tournament to win and Nick thinks about what kind of person she is...

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... . Readers are presented the story as Nick obtains and due to his "reserved judgement" we are able to make up our own minds e.g. through Jordan Baker's comment, "Tom's got a woman in New York" yet Nick was also told Baker is deceptive. Fitzgerald does not waste any space by telling readers all the events that happened in that time frame but rather structure it ... Gatsby. Although Nick narrates, building up the character of Gatsby throughout the novel, he is a well chosen witness to recount because he is actually involved in major events in Gatsby's life. That way, readers are shown the p...

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... rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it - This was the smile he gave Nick when he didn't recognize him. Finally we start to get a background when Nick asks Jordan where he is from. "Well, he told me he was and Oxford man."" Nick didn't believe this though. Gatsby is still very hidden to us as well as Nick. Gatsby ... is something odd about him. His past is unknown to anybody and he is very wealthy. At his parties, you never see him for long. He had a long conversation with Jordan Baker, which we will hear about later in the book. He is very extravagant and spontaneous, y...

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... the allied side with a machine gun battalion, he returned to his home in Chicago. With no clear direction of what he wanted to do with his life, he decided to move to New York to enter into the business of selling bonds. He settled down on an area of Long Island called West Egg, ... War I vet. Not far away lived a married couple Daisy and Tom Buchanan which he knew relatively well. It was at their residence that he met a woman, Jordan Baker, who was to become his good friend and later his girl friend. Carraway soon became a good friend with his rich neighbour next door, Gatsby, and soon ...

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... to the secrets of wild, unknown men. (5) Ever since he was in college he has steadfastly held his comments to himself. This makes it easy for him to go through life without needlessly offending people. His father raised him well and provided many valueable advice. The way he lives out such advice is what makes him the insightful and upright man ... acting in this manner. Evidence of Nick's character is found throughout his narration and also through the things people say to him. "' I hate careless people. That's why I like you.'" (63). Jordan Baker, a dishonest and careless woman hersel...

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... , Nick is expected to keep a clear head so that he may portray the scenes accurately, without a personal opinion. Unfortunately, "I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon"; "everything that happened had a dim, hazy cast over it." (Pg. 29) At this point Nick has breached the reader's ... that he once was. Nick's ideals have been compromised. This idea of shifting standards to different levels can also be seen through Nick's involvement with Jordan Baker. In reference to himself, Nick is " (I am) one of the few honest people that I have ever known", (P...

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... 's. It's about the lives of a group of people who all become entangled in a web of, lying, scandal, and cheating together. Nick Carraway lives anormal? life on Long Island, until he meets his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Parties went on every weekend, and Nick gets caught up in Gatsby'sglamorous? lifestyle. Soon, everyone ... was Tom, and was trying to talk to him. All the while, Nick starts realizing how terrible a life like Gatsby's is despite the outer glamour. He also becomes emotionally attached to golf player, Jordan Baker. After Mr. Wilson finds out who was in the car that killed his wi...

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... of reach of his hand. "I"m going to fix everything just the way it was before""(Fitzgerald 116). Jay Gatsby believes that he can manifest a fantasy life where he is prosperous, and where Daisy is devoted to him. R. W. Stallman in his critical essay states, "To fix time and reinstate thus the ... not great because chasing a dream of his became his eventual downfall. This can be proven from a critical essay which states, "Jay Gatsby loses his life even though he makes his millions because they are not the kind of save, respectable money that echoes in Daisy's lovely voice."(Orstein 56). G...

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... Gatsby; it was his lifestyle he detested and how people exploited it while generating gossip of his past. The "foul dust in Gatsby's dream" were the shallow people, such as Jordan Baker and Daisy Buchanan, who would eat his food, drink his alcohol and collectively mock him. These people can be linked to a deadly virsus, which feasted upon a vulnerable young man who ... lost the love of his life to man who never loved her. In many ways the reader is instructed to feel sorry for Gatsby in his unsuccessful attempt to reacquaint with Daisy. The way he would ... ...

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... , was revealed to the narrator, Nick, gradually throughout the course of the novel. On the surface, Jay Gatsby appeared to be extremely wealthy and generally happy with his place in life, and this is how he appears to Nick at the beginning of the novel. Gatsby threw big parties and people were not invited; they just showed up, as explained by ... the hints that Meyer Wolfshiem drops and the things Jay tells Nick about Meyer. The reader is finally told why Gatsby is unhappy at the end of chapter four, when Jordan Baker tells Nick about Gatsby's love for Daisy. The next major revelation ab...

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... recklessness of the wealthy, the cruelty of the Valley of Ashes, and Gatsby and Myrtle's tragic deaths. Nick Carraway's moral and honest view of life is the only slight relief from the feel of tragedy. Not only does the author use a controversial point of view to attract readers, he uses ... is money obtained by people who've had to work for it, legally or illegally. West Egg and Nick represent Fitzgerald and his way of life and East Egg is those duplicitous people of the "roaring twenties." Almost every successful piece of literature has themes and lessons that the author hopes ... nam...

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