chapter one nick carraway: narrator always inclined to reserve judgements from midwest (chicago?)...
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Chapter OneNick Carraway: narrator
always inclined to reserve judgements
From midwest (Chicago?)
Went to college at Yale (New Haven); graduated in 1915
Was in WWI
Came back; decided to go into the bond business
Arrives at West Egg in late spring 1922
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West Egg: the “less fashionable” of the two
“New Money”—people make it suddenly
Nick lives there pretty much by accident
Gatsby lives there too: describe his house
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Gatsby’s mansion:
Imitation of a Hotel in Normandy
Other details?
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East Egg: the snobbier one“Old Money”—families who have inherited it, sometimes for many
generationsTom and Daisy Buchanan live there
Daisy is Nick’s “second cousin once removed”; Tom knew Nick in college
Describe their house
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“Georgian red and white
colonial”
What else?
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Nick visits Buchanans
Describe Daisy:
Describe Tom:
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Who else is at the Buchanan home?
Jordan Baker---describe her
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How do Daisy and Tom get along?
What about the phone call?
--Jordan is a gossip
--Perhaps Daisy is ignoring the affair?
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Daisy tells Nick…
• When her daughter was born, she said “I hope she’ll be a fool---that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” (What does this say about Daisy?)
• “I think everything’s terrible anyhow…..God, I’m sophisticated.” (Does Nick believe this?)
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Nick returns home….
Who does he see? What is this person looking at?
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Chapter 2
What is the “Valley of Ashes”?
What about the Eyes?
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Identify Myrtle Wilson, George Wilson
Where does Tom insist they go?
Does it even occur to him that Nick might object to this? Why not?
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