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It is obvious how Gatsby lives entirely in the past and wants things to be as they were. It becomes clear that Gatsby wants to prove to Nick, that he was Daisy’s true love and she only married him because he had more money at the time. They finally get into an argument about Daisy’s and Gatsby’s romance five years ago. Nick and Daisy both attend the next party at Gatsby’s and a distinctive tension between Gatsby and Nick is described. In the following Gatsby’s past is revealed and afterwards Nick Carraway continues with the current situation. After tea at Nick’s house they leave for Gatsby’s mansion. Their meeting happens in chapter five, with an awfully nervous Gatsby. It turns out that Gatsby likes to meet Daisy at Nick’s house. She remembers a romantic connection between Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Fitzgerald switches to a narration by Jordan Baker about her youth. After lunch Gatsby disappears mysteriously. Throughout the chapter Nick stays uncertain about the purpose of their excursion. Nick is on a drive with Gatsby and starts to find out more details about his life. 2.2 Chapter 4 - 6Ĭhapter four starts with a long guest list of Gatsby’s famous parties, which Nick tags on their status as East Eggers or West Eggers. Following this scene, Fitzgerald fast forwards a couple of months and has Nick pondering about Jordan Baker. Before Nick leaves to go home there is a scene of an accident at the highly frequented driveway to Gatsby’s mansion. He meets Jordan Baker again and introduces himself to Gatsby. At the party he finds a wealthy, impersonal society. He is invited by Gatsby personally to one of his parties. In chapter three Nick’s involvement with Gatsby starts as he notices his great parties at the other side of the lawn. In New York Nick Carraway gets to know Myrtle and her sister Catherine. Her husband owns a garage in the valley of ashes. In the following passage, Myrtle, Tom’s girlfriend is introduced. In this way Gatsby is passively introduced by the author. Nick gets to know Gatsby, because they have talked about him at the dinner party.
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Tom has a girlfriend in New York and it seems to be no secret. During the dinner party it becomes obvious that Tom and Daisy have a troublesome marriage. Also present at that dinner party is Jordan Baker a good friend of the couple, who is mainly a device to draw Nick into the plot as they get involved to a later point. Nick is related distantly to Daisy and therefore invited to a dinner party to their extravagant house.
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Tom and Daisy Buchanan are a wealthy couple living at the fashionable East Egg. In order of appearance, first, the reader is introduced to Nick Carraway, the first person narrator of the story.
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Summary of the main actions 2.1 Chapter 1 – 3Ĭlassically, the opening scene of the novel reveals a great deal about the setting, the background and of course the main characters. With my term paper on Fitzgerald’s color symbolism in “The Great Gatsby” I want to show the different uses of colors and the way color influences a scene subliminal. He uses colors to communicate to the reader feelings and attitudes of the protagonists. One usually has an instinctive connection from colors to certain feelings or uses. Colors symbolize various things in everyday live. The significance of color in “The Great Gatsby”ģ.2.2 Green – hopes of the rich and famousĪrtists use colors to show hidden intentions and traffic lights provoke a certain way of acting through their color.