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Title: Great Gatsby Chapter 1 Analysis
Description: Analysis of chapter one of the Great Gatsby, including useful quotes and there meanings, character quotes, summary and important themes
Description: Analysis of chapter one of the Great Gatsby, including useful quotes and there meanings, character quotes, summary and important themes
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Chapter 1 the Great Gatsby
Summary
1924 – Nick Carraway has returned to the Midwest and is writing a book about events that occurred
a couple of years earlier, when he was living on Long Island, New York, in a suburban village called
West Egg
Narration with some self-‐analysis
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Nick was sent to France, as a soldier, during the First World War
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Visits Tom Buchanan’s house, an acquaintance from Yale University
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Tom is physically powerful and extremely rich
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Tom makes racist comments
Jordan tells Nick that Tom is having an affair with ‘some woman in New York’ (p
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Nick catches first glimpse of Gatsby
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Material wealth or set of values, attitudes, or expectation
Compare Gatsby’s personal history with the history of the American republic, which declared
its independence from British rule in 1776
The word West, links Nick and Gatsby to a widely held belief that life in America is all about
hope and possibility
...
7) what is normal? Nick sees himself as not normal, different from everyone else;
apart from his father, a loner
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7) – bad thing, something that Nick does not want to be, he wants
to be liked
‘Infinite hope’ (p
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9) – educated,
most people would say 25 years, again linking to his abnormality
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10) – juxtaposing ideas as specialists
don’t tend to be well rounded they only specialise in one area
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10) – because he is pointing this out he believes that he is strange and therefore
making sure that the audience knows he has not picked this place on purpose, will find similar
people
‘my own house was an eyesore’ (p
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11)
‘you remind me of a rose’ ‘this was untrue
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12) – closed off, not friendly or open, keeps distance, does not
like to tell people her problems
‘Two old friends who I scarcely knew at all’ (p
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14) – juxtaposing
‘Do they miss me?’ she cried ecstatically’ (p
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17) – these wealthy women seem to have all they need
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17) – daisy focuses upon her injured finger
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17) – impersonal eyes – eyes, sight and
vision form an important thematic thread running through
‘We’ve got to beat them down’ whispered Daisy’ (p
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19) – enjoying herself in the sun, as it leaves she realises it is dark – pure/sin
‘Flutter of a dress and the crunch of leather boots, and tom and daisy were back at the table’ (p
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22) – girls have an unfair
advantage to boys, no equality, no freedom, possessed
‘I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool’ (p
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22) – she wasn’t born a fool, she
has ambition, but rarely shows it
Tom
‘Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends
that ever played football’ (p
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11)
‘Standing with his legs apart on the front porch’ (p
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12) – juxtaposing as the eyes are the
window to the soul, not a very likeable character
‘Just because I’m stronger and more of a man than you are’ (p
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13) – powerful, man in charge over the women, can control them
‘If we don’t look out the white race will be – will be utterly submerged’ (p
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18)
‘Tom interrupted her by shifting heavily in his chair’ (p
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18) – conveys Tom’s
forcefulness and violent nature, sets the scene in the cultural context of race relations in 1920’s
America, strong contrast between Tom’s pessimism and Gatsby’s optimism
‘As for tom, the fact that he had some woman in New York was really less surprising than that he
had been depressed by a book’ (p
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14)
‘Her chin raised a little’ (p
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16) makes the reader tired too
‘Impersonal eyes’ (p
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‘ they oughtn’t to let her run around the country this
way’ (p
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22) – womanly duties
Gatsby
‘Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have unaffected scorn’ (p
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8)
‘If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous
about him’ (p
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8) – similar to Nick, has lots of hope, better than Nick
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No – Gatsby turned out all right in the end’ (p
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8) – end of the war, Europe is east from America
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8) – wanted everyone to have experienced the same,
nervous to come back on his own; needs support
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‘And at a sort of moral attention forever’ (p
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9) – personification,
countryside is more welcoming than the industrial city
‘weather-‐beaten cardboard bungalow’ (p
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9) – sun makes the leaves burst out, quick
‘Life was beginning over again with the summer’ (p
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10) – most people specialise, not
many take different angles at life
‘Most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere’ (p
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11) – country taking over the house
‘Marble swimming pool’ (p
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11) – no aim, no ambition, born into money
‘the lawn started at the beach and ran towards the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over
sundials and brick walls and burning gardens – finally when it reached the house drifting up the side
in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run’ (p
...
12) – ‘ they had spent a year in France for no
particular reason’ (p
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13) -‐ juxtaposing something that should be nice with something that smells bad
oxymoron
‘We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-‐coloured space’ (p
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13) – inside is more
pure than the earth
‘A breeze blew through the room’ (p
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They were both in white’
(p
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White – purity
‘Each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk’ (p
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22) – light
should be shining on the angel likeness of her hair, not his boots, he is superior
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25) – shows how big it is
Title: Great Gatsby Chapter 1 Analysis
Description: Analysis of chapter one of the Great Gatsby, including useful quotes and there meanings, character quotes, summary and important themes
Description: Analysis of chapter one of the Great Gatsby, including useful quotes and there meanings, character quotes, summary and important themes