Examples Of Dialectical Journal For The Great Gatsby

4. Jordan Baker is a friend of Tom and Daisy. She is a golf player and has an air of aloofness. Nick finds the fact that she is confident very appealing about her.

Nick describes Tom as a brutish, hulking, powerful man who is extremely arrogant. He also goes on to describe that Tom is unfaithful to his

2. Nick explains that he is "inclined to reserve all judgements" and that he is "privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men" meaning people often feel comfortable telling him private things. He tells us that the reason he does not pass judgement on people is that his father was that way. He also tells us that he comes from an upper middle class background.

1. In Chapter one, the imagery of the green light drives the plot and sets the stage. The green light symbolizes Gatsby's one genuine want. On the off chance that he can simply connect, he will accomplish his fantasy. 2.

The green light at the end of the story represents what used to be. It used to be a beacon for Gatsby that he would look out at every night and remind himself of daisy. But at the end of the book, he is with Daisy, then he is killed and Daisy and Tom move out of town when he is killed. I think it represents the past. And then when you try to change the past, the outcome might not be what you want it to be. "

4. The title “The Great Gatsby” directly relates to the character Jay Gatsby himself. Though Gatsby is really just a sad, lonely man trying to regain Daisy Buchanan’s love on the inside, through the eyes of others, including Nick Carraway, he is seen as this great mysterious being. Living this sort of mysterious life and throwing these lavish parties just adds to the illusion of his greatness. For example, one of Gatsby’s first parties seen in the novel is described by Nick, stating, “I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited−they went there … Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.”

Fitzgerald uses Gatsby's parties and the way in which Nick views them to reveal that whilst Gatsby is surrounded by shallow and vulgar people, he is above this. Fitzgerald also uses these parties to expose Gatsby's isolation which leads us to feel sympathy toward Gatsby. Despite the amount of people at the party, Nick observes Gatsby's seclusion and loneliness, "my eyes fell to Gatsby, standing alone on the marble steps". This evokes a great deal of sympathy from us as although Nick describes Gatsby in a warm and friendly way, "It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life", we now can see that Gatsby is a lonely figure. This sympathy is accentuated when Nick is the only person to turn up to Gatsby's funeral, as we know that Gatsby is a decent and honourable character and thus our sympathies are emphasised by Gatsby's isolation. When Nick first meets Gatsby, he reveals Gatsby to be a fascinating character that we would like to know more about. The warm and assuring smile that Nick describes is in antithesis to the

Without even meeting Gatsby, Nick delves into a world of delusion and carelessness that marks Gatsby’s party, emphasizing how just mere taste of extravagance and wealth can have such a

The speech characterises Gatsby using Nick’s personal experiences with him. For example, he talks about how Gatsby waited to make sure that Daisy was safe. This put Gatsby in a positive light, characterising

A special characteristic that sets Nick apart from other character would be honesty, his sense of right and wrong helps him rank himself better than others. When Gatsby dies Nick is very moved, and he expects Gatsby’s workers to go and give their condolences. However it does not go as plan, so Nick makes sure that Gatsby will not be alone during his death. Through the course of the The Great Gatsby Nick grows, from a man dreaming of a fortune, to a man who knows only too well what the despair of fortune can

However, the truth begins to shine through Nick’s own idealism when he begins to learn of the reality of the lives of the wealthy, and of the troubles even they must face. The first moment that Nick realizes the truth of the troubles that even the rich have their their troubles is when he first meets Tom’s mistress and Tom breaks her nose for repeatedly saying “Daisy”.This reveals to Nick that Tom, who

1. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” (p. 1)

He is different because he doesn't talk with people, he's all alone unless he's with someone who works fo him.

As a main character we may get a different impression of Nick since we are now analysing his personality and how he interacts with the other characters in the story. We read numerous pronouns in the first chapter, ‘I’, suggesting that he is self-indulgent and pompous. For instance, once at Gatsby’s party, Nick only kisses Jordan Baker because he ‘had no girl’, conveying he only kissed her because there was no one else there. This makes Nick seem selfish and arrogant as he is only thinking of himself. To the reader, we

Gatsby's extravagant parties went on during "summer nights" and people were rarely invited, but "they went there" to celebrate in a sumptuous atmosphere. As Nick gets to know better Jordan Baker; his curiosity about Gatsby's wins and he asks her about his past, but she adamantly avoided the question and start talking about how she "like large parties" due to their "[intimacy]." On the night of his acquaintance with Gatsby, Nick turns quickly to Jordan and interrogates her about his "dim background." Nick's actions seem child-like and very chagrined due to his choice of action; it seems that the only way Nick could get information about Gatsby is by gossiping like small school