... Type of book: Classic novel The Great Gatsby is narrated by Nick Carraway but he also implies that he is the author. Carraway narrates in both first and third person, just talking about what he observes. Nick gives his own interpretations of the story's meaning. Fitzgerald uses literary ... tone of the story. Some symbols are the green light, the valley of ashes, and the eyes of Doctor T.J. Ekleburg. Nick Carraway: The novel's narrator, Nick Carraway comes from a wealthy Minnesota family. He traveled to New York to learn the bond business; there he becomes involved with Gatsby and ... ...

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... mansion but suspected of being involved in illegal bootlegging and other clandestine activities. However, the narrator is Nick Carraway, a young mid-westerner from a prominent family who came to New York to enter the bond business. Carraway is involved in all of the events of the novel, yet does not play a significant active ... role; he is only a passive observer. When Nick arrives in New York, he soon visits his relatives, the Buchanans, who live in East Egg. Nick resides in the nearby ( ... the earthy Myrtle Wilson adopts an affected, pretentious tone. She and Tom argue about Daisy, a...

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... the action to generate emotions regarding that action. For instance, at the beginning of the book, when Nick Carraway is shown in to the Tom Buchanan's house, Fitzgerald describes the room into which Carraway has just walked as a prelude to introducing Daisy: "We walked through a high hallway into a bright ... , we are given the impression of oppressive heat barely escaped by retreating underground (where, we assume, Mr. Wolfshiem spends most of his time). Carraway goes on to say "Blinking away the brightness of the street outside my eyes picked him [Gatsby] out obscurely in the anteroom...

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... attention" within society. Furthermore, in the novel his repulsion is evident when he and witnesses Tom Buchanan break Myrtle's nose. Although at this point of the violent event, Nick is quite drunk, he still clearly remembers every detail. This foreshadows Tom's violent and considerably rude personality, which is seen right through the narrative. For example, when Gatsby and ... age, marked by Prohibition, gangsterism ... and uprootedness. American morality was marked by questionable business ethics, commercial criteria for success, and ultraconservatism in social and political thinking...

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