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Title: Great Gatsby Chapter 2 Analysis
Description: Analysis of chapter 2 of the Great Gatsby, important quotes, character quotes, summary and important themes
Description: Analysis of chapter 2 of the Great Gatsby, important quotes, character quotes, summary and important themes
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The Great Gatsby Chapter 2
Summary
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Nick describes the ‘valley of ashes’ (p
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Myrtle does some shopping and buys a dog
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Nick leaves with
McKee
At Pennsylvania station, Nick waits to catch the 4 a
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train home
Characters
Nick
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‘Though I was curious to see her [Myrtle], I had no desire to meet her
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27) – Nosey,
curious, family loyalty, pre-‐judgements
‘Taking out my handkerchief I wiped from his cheek the spot of dried lather that had worried
me all the afternoon
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38) – focusses on things too much, OCD, such as his focus to detail
on each character
Tom
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Literally forced me from the car [Nick]… his determination [Tom] to have my company
bordered on violence
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27) – picking up on his violent manner again
‘Neither of them can stand the person they’re married to
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35) – doesn’t like Daisy, not
like each other
‘Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand
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39) – does not want Myrtle
disrespecting Daisy – still cares for her
Myrtle
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[Nick] ‘Though I was curious to see her, I had no desire to meet her
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27) – She has been
judged on her actions, Tom not prosecuted, woman is
‘thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the office door
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Maybe an exaggeration from Nick as he feels anger for his cousin
‘Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-‐de-‐chine, contained no facet or gleam of
beauty
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28) – again dress is opposite to Daisy’s as hers was white – more pure than the
mistress
‘Get some chairs, why don’t you, so somebody can sit down
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28) – bossy
‘Tom Buchanan and his girl
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29) – not a girl as she is mid thirties
‘She fondled the weather-‐proof coat with rapture
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30) – not all bad can be caring
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‘Mrs Wilson gathered up her dog and other purchases
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30) – dog is an object, spoilt
‘With the influence of the dress her personality had also undergone a change
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reflects personality, so Daisy’s white dress reflects her purity
‘Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by
moment
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33) – becoming more similar to Tom, suited to each other
‘I just slip it on sometimes when I don’t care what I look like
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33) – Complement fishing
‘It came from Myrtle…and it was violent and obscene
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35) – again like Tom
‘I married him because I thought he was a gentleman,’ she said finally
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‘I’ll say it whenever I want
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39) – Gone back to
Mrs Wilson, Nick lost respect for her
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When he saw us a damp
gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eyes
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28) – depressed, hopeful for company and
customers
‘Oh, sure,’ agreed Wilson hurriedly
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28) – extreme change of character from ‘spiritless’ –
glad of the company
‘He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive
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29) – reinforcing the ‘spiritless’
Mr McKee
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‘Mr McKee was a pale, feminine man from the flat below
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Ectoplasm – not that interesting – clear, not
noticeable
Mrs McKee
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‘His wife was shrill, languid, handsome, and horrible
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32) – more masculine than her
husband
Catherine
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‘Catherine was a slender, worldly girl of about thirty, with a solid, sticky bob of red hair, and
a complexion powdered milky white
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32) – long sentence, very descriptive, looking her up
and down
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J Eckleburg
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Name sounds like ‘Dr Jekyll’
‘The eyes of Doctor T
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Eckleburg are blue and gigantic – their retinas are one yard high
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26) – maddening like Dr Jekyll, eyes window to the soul, very open – open book
Gatsby
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‘They say he’s a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm’s
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sense of out of control, repetition of the quarter (‘quarter of a century,’ p
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Nature is restricted and ruined
‘Small block of yellow brick sitting on the edge of the waste land
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27) – small glimmer of
hope, juxtaposition
‘The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was the dust-‐covered wreck of
a Ford which crouched in a dim corner
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27) -‐ shows how long they have struggled with a
lack of custom, ‘crouched’ – personification – uncomfortable – not looked after
Repetition of ‘grey’ – ‘grey…child,’ ‘grey upholstery,’ ‘grey old man,’ etc
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Title: Great Gatsby Chapter 2 Analysis
Description: Analysis of chapter 2 of the Great Gatsby, important quotes, character quotes, summary and important themes
Description: Analysis of chapter 2 of the Great Gatsby, important quotes, character quotes, summary and important themes