Chapter One Gatsby

How to approach the question:

'How does Fitzgerald tell the story in Chapter One?'

• Main Point
  • The Impossibility and Corruption of the American Dream
    • Nick Carraway as a narrator
      • Fitzgerald employs Nick Carraway as an unreliable narrator
      • He is first established as a near invisible character who sees everything but is 'inclined to reserve all judgements'
      • Later in the chapter, after Nick's self evaluation, Fitzgerald creates irony in that Nick says 'a sense of fundamental decencies is parcelled out at birth'
        
      • This contradicts his earlier statement that he would reserve his judgement which in turn causes the reader to question Nick's reliability as narrator
      • The reader is therefore inclined to thoroughly consider everything they read primarily in order to determine…