Gatsby’s guests admire his Rolls – Royce, his marble swimming pool, his station-wagon and his “corps of caterers” the alliteration of this emphasizes how many caterers Gatsby has. The description of what Gatsby has prepared for the parties he holds shows conspicuous consumption. The repetition of the different types of alcohol Gatsby serves to his guests’ echoes that he is disobeying the law in order to have fun. Since prohibition had started in 1920 and The Great Gatsby was published in 1925 it had been going on for 5 years. “Most of his female guests were too young to know one from another.” This shows that he liked to have young women at his parties and that prohibition had been enforced for a long time.
The afternoon is filled with drunken behavior and ends ominously with Myrtle and Tom fighting over Daisy, his wife. Drunkenness turns to rage and Tom, in one deft movement, breaks Myrtle's nose. Following the description of this incident, Nick turns his attention to his mysterious neighbor, who hosts weekly parties for the rich and fashionable. Upon Gatsby's invitation (which is noteworthy because rarely is anyone ever invited to Gatsby's parties — they just show up, knowing they will not be turned away), Nick attends one of the extravagant
While driving Gatsby ask “what’s your opinion of me, anyhow?” page 65. Gatsby being fully aware about the rumors, begins to tell Nick about his life. He says that he acquires all his wealth from his families which lived in the Middle West (San Francisco), but are all dead now. He also says that he was raised in America but attended Oxford, because all his ancestors attended as well. Nick suddenly remembered what Jordan had said about Gatsby lying.
His character is first portrayed to us in the first paragraph when he has the secretary respond to Charlie’s request to meet up for lunch instead of taking the time to respond himself, after all it had been three long years. Charlie’s fathers’ character is once again portrayed at the train station when he first approaches Charlie and merely strikes him on the back and gives him a hand shake, once again another way of demonstrating his selfishness. It seems to me that Charlie idolizes his father; he describes him as a big, good looking man. The use of figurative language is used by the author when Charlie describes his father’s smell as a rich compound of whiskey, after shave lotion, shoe polish, woolens, and the rankness of a mature male. In this short story there was very little dialogue between Charlie and his father.
Bailey Florek Mr. M MYP English II- Gold 2 February 6, 2014 Geography vs. Social Values In the Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses the Buchanan’s and Gatsby’s house to show the relationship between geography and social values. East Egg becomes centered around the Buchanan’s house; representing the distrust and shallowness of the rich. West Egg becomes associated with Gatsby’s mansion and the mystery behind his wealth. The comparison between the two magnificent mansions begins when Nick first arrives in New York. He goes to visit the Buchanan’s and when he first sees their house he is taken aback; “Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay” (Fitzgerald, 6).
! Nick comes from a wealthy background.He studied at Yale and had friends from there who were rich ; one of whom was Tom , Daisy’s husband and Daisy being Nick’s cousin.When Nick comes to live in the west he goes to visit Daisy and Tom and on the way remembers a piece of advice his father gave him. “I am still afraid of missing something if i forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and i snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth”(Fitzgerald, pg. no. 7) DIYA RANA It says how only a select few are privileged enough to get the decencies of life ; the people of East egg were those privileged few.
Perception In the book The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby perceptions have led to his demise through the way Gatsby views the world, how Daisy has changed from when they last met and how Gatsby thinks he is the son of god. Gatsby show cases his house on how he views the rich being extraordinary lifestyle by imitating a castle like home, with bright lights and having party’s everyday to seduce Daisy to see how wealthy Gatsby has become. Gatsby’s first down fall was how he saw the world. When Gatsby showcases his richness, he thought what rich people would act and celebrate when having all this cash. Gatsby constructed his home to be like castle with bright and having party’s everyday to seduce Daisy to see how wealthy Gatsby has
Dear Diary, On October 1917, it was a breathtaking day! I was reunited with the man I initially fell in love with; not that cheating bastard Tom, but the charismatic Jay Gatsby! It’s strange to refer to him as charismatic in this occasion, as our initial meeting was quite awkward, as many people would say. I was invited to have tea with Nick at his house, and it just so happened that there was another visitor: Gatsby At first, he was very uncomfortable and timid towards me, yet to be quite sincere, I was probably just as embarrassed and taken by the situation. It had been so very long since the last time I saw Gatsby that there was a rather ‘uncomfortable’ friction between the two of us.
Tom punches her and breaks her nose. Nick also attends one of Gatsby’s extravagant Saturday night parties where he engages in conversation with Jordan Baker and an unnamed man who is later revealed to be Gatsby. Gatsby then requisitions Jordan, and tells her an “amazing thing” that she cannot repeat to anyone. After attending a brief lunch with Gatsby and his shady business partner, Meyer Wolfsheim, Nick meets with Jordan and learns the “amazing” story: Gatsby met and fell in love with Daisy before The Great War, and bought his West Egg mansion simply to be near her and impress her. At Gatsby’s request, Nick arranges a meeting between Gatsby and Daisy.
Nick graduated from Yale and has many connections on East Egg. He goes East Egg to have dinner with his cousin Daisy and her husband, Tom Buchanan, who Nick knew from Yale, they were old classmates. Tom is a powerful figure dressed in riding clothes. Inside, Daisy lounges on a couch with her friend Jordan Baker, who yawns as though bored by her surroundings. Tom tries to interest the others in a book called ‘The Rise of the Coloured Empires’ by a man named Goddard.