The Great Gatsby-Nick (Chapter one)
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- Created on: 08-10-18 15:09
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- How does Fitzgerald establish Nick as a reliable (or otherwise) first person narrator?
- Where Nick is living and how he came to be there.
- "a weather beaten cardboard bungalow"
- "a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy"
- Nick's first impression of his neighbours mansion.
- "a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy"
- First glimpse of Gatsby.
- The Buchanan connection
- Nick's impression of their home.
- "Georgian colonial mansion"
- "lawn stretching a quarter of a mile"
- "Daisy was my second cousin once removed"
- "Known Tom in college"
- Nick's impression of them-and state of their marriage.
- Tom
- Racist views
- "men at New Haven who hated his guts"
- "cruel body"
- Daisy
- "absolute smirk on her lovely face"
- "the best thing a girl can be...a beautiful little fool"
- "Tom's got some woman in New York"- Tom is having an affair behind Daisy's back.
- Tom
- Nick's impression of their home.
- Nick's past
- Nick was almost engaged to a girl in his home town but "no intention to be rumoured into marriage"- is this why he came to NYC.
- He was in the war. "that delayed Teutonic migration known as the great war"-"I came back restless"
- Where Nick is living and how he came to be there.
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