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 Scott  Fitzgerald  tells  the  story  using  a  variety  of  different  features…  
 
Fitzgerald  tells  The  Great  Gatsby  from  the  perspective  of  Nick  Carraway,  an  unusual  choice  of  
narrator  who  tells  his  recount  of  events  in  retrospect,  looking  back  at  his  ‘younger,  more  
vulnerable  years’  this  tells  the  reader  from  the  off  that  he  is,  in  his  opinion-­‐  wiser  and  older  than  
he  was  when  the  story  is  set,  inferring  that  he  is  a  reliable  narrator  and  this  idea  is  further  
demonstrated  when  Carraway  tells  us  that  he  is  ‘inclined  to  reserve  all  judgments’
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   Carraway  is  quick  to  
bombard  the  reader  with  his  credentials,  which  suggests  that  he  is  conscious  of  the  reader  
forming  an  opinion  of  him  and  wants  to  be  liked  and  trusted  by  the  reader
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 He  says  there  was  something  
‘gorgeous’  about  Gatsby,  suggesting  that  we  will  get  a  very  subjective  account  from  Nick  of  what  
the  character  of  Jay  Gatsby  was  like
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Fitzgerald  has  also  planted  a  curiosity  in  the  reader  as  to  what  has  exceeded  Nick’s  tolerance
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 It  can  be  deduced  that  he  is  impressionable  and  he  is  described  as  
‘preyed’  on  suggesting  through  no  fault  of  his  own  his  dreams  were  dashed
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 He  is  presented  as  an  enigmatic  character  in  chapter  one,  Fitzgerald  includes  
throwaway  comments  about  Gatsby  throughout  the  first  chapter  where  Gatsby  will  be  
mentioned  and  the  subject  will  quickly  change,  this  builds  up  suspense  and  makes  the  reader  
want  to  carry  on  reading  and  desperate  to  meet  him
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 Gatsby
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 Nick  is  
also  made  as  a  contrast  to  Gatsby  and  Tom  as  he  can  be  seen  as  quite  a  boring  character  and  so  
the  ‘great’  nature  of  Gatsby  is  made  more  apparent  to  the  reader
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 This  shows,  with  the  
white  of  her  dress  emphasizing  a  pureness,  which  suggests  a  disconnection  with  the  real  world,  a  
life  free  from  the  dirt  of  hard  work
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 Fitzgerald  uses  colours  to  represent  ideas  

and  connotations  in  the  novel  such  as  the  contrast  in  the  Buchanans  house  of  the  red-­‐  
representing  Tom’s  aggression  and  status  white-­‐  Daisy’s  isolation,  innocence  and  purity
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Nick  in  the  opening  of  the  book  mentions  that  he  lives  in  the  ‘Less  fashionable’  of  the  two  eggs  
(West  Egg)  however  he  also  lives  in  a  cardboard  bungalow  between  Gatsby  who  represents  the  
new  money  and  The  Buchanans  who  represent  the  bourgeoisie,  this  shows  the  difference  in  
those  who  made  their  own  money  and  those  who  were  given  it  through  birthright  however  Nick  
also  does  not  live  with  the  working  class  people-­‐  this  means  that  he  gives  a  more  unbiased  
account  of  events
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 Jordan  remarks  that  Nick  lives  in  
West  Egg  ‘contemptuously
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Fitzgerald  has  laid  the  foundations  for  the  rest  of  the  story  and  created  a  sense  of  intrigue  in  the  
reader  through  various  devices  he  has  planted  in  the  novel

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