47、lly smart woman. Strung along by Tom, Myrtle is convinced that he loves her and would leave his wife for her if he could. Because she is unhappy in her marriage to George, Myrtle is drawn to Tom for certain specific reasons. George is passive, but Tom is controlling and authoritative. Myrtle puts up 。

48、 with Toms physical abuse because she equates it with masculinity a quality that in her mind is lacking in her husband. She even yells at George, “throw me and down and beat me, you dirty little coward!” Myrtle also adds to the novels themes of class and wealth. She insists that she married below he 。

49、r caste, that she believed certain things about George until they got married and it was too late. Since Myrtle is quite obviously below the Buchanans class.III. Explor of Nicks RoleNick Carraway, the narrator, announces that he is writing his account two years after the events described. Aged twent 。

50、y-nine, in the spring of 1922 he travels East from his midwestern home to work as a bond salesman in New York. He has rented a house on West Egg, sandwiched between the mansions along the shore of Long Island Sound. He knows nobody except his distant cousin Daisy Buchanan, who lives with her wealthy 。

51、 husband Tom on East Egg, across the bay. Nick drives over to dinner with the couple, whom he has not seen in years, and their guest Jordan Baker. Tom, an athletic polo player, betrays his boorish arrogance as he expounds a racist theory he has read. Daisys magical voice compels Nick forward to list 。

52、en to her, but he suspects her sincerity when she says she is unhappy. In contrast, dark-haired Jordan strikes Nick with her jaunty self-assurance. At one point, Nicks neighbor “Gatsby” is mentioned and Daisy catches the name in surprise. Dinner is tense;
Jordan reveals that it is Toms mistress tele 。

53、phoning him, and Daisy appears to know. Returning to West Egg, Nick first sees Gatsby. As Nick is about to call to him, Gatsby stretches out both arms towards the water or the green dock light opposite;
Nick is mystified.In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald presents the rise and fall of Jay Gatsby, as re 。

54、lated in a first-person narrative by Nick Carraway. Carraway reveals the story of a farmers son-turned racketeer, named Jay Gatz. Nick is not a random choice;
He was the best possible witness to let the reader discover Gatsby. Indeed, through coincidence, he happens to be Gatsbys next-door neighbor. 。

55、 Besides, Nick has not interest in Gatsby. Yet, without being acquainted with Gatsby, Nick is nonetheless a relative of Daisy and consequently introduced to the Buchanans and to Gatsbys story.A. An eye-witness to the story of GatsbyNick witnesses some of the events of Gatsbys last summer and sometim 。

56、es participates in them. He has two functions: seeing and acting. The emphasis is put on visual perception. The act of seeing creates mystery instead of providing information. A lot about Gatsbys life is bound to remain unfathomable: there is more in Gatsbys life than Nicks eyes can meet. Nicks scop 。

57、e of vision is limited. Yet, Nick is a good observer and can draw his own conclusions. He can analyze Gatsbys facial expressions and put a meaning on his gestures. See chapter 5 with the reunion between Gatsby and Daisy. He is sometimes over informed. When Gatsby rushes into the kitchen, Nick is mad 。

58、e privy of his companions feelings. Through Nicks agency, the reader is provided with the real feelings of Gatsby: this is a terrible mistake. This tends to suggest that Fitzgerald tried to translate his character at the expense of his own experience.B. The link between the reader and GatsbyNick pic 。

59、ks up most information about Gatsby and Daisy through other peoples accounts-mainly gossip and public rumors. Through the gossip of the beginning, Gatsby is almost all the time presented with a mixture of awe and dread, making of him an outsider. Nick is just echoing: “German spy during the war”, “h 。

60、e killed a man once”. Nick almost believes it: “he looked as if he had killed a man”. Nick has a varying attitude towards Gatsby. He passes on to the reader a lot of rumors which might prove later to be contradictory. With the help of Nicks narrate, readers know about Gatsby, and further, realize th 。

61、e world of his moment. Nick plays the role of the chorus in Ancient tragedy and is the link between the reader and Gatsby.C. Nicks reconstruction of eventsNick is a self-conscious narrator;
he is aware of the difficulties of writing a report that would approach the truth. He uses his critical judgme 。

62、nt to form an opinion not only on the events but on himself writing these events. For instance, “reading over what I have written so far, Ive given the impression that the events of three nights several weeks apart were all that absorbed me”.(p62)There is a sense in which the The Great Gatsby would。

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