Chapter 1
This chapter serves mostly as a self-introduction for the character of Nick Carraway. Carraway is quite a paradox- he claims to be both highly tolerant and very judgemental with high standards of others. This chapter is a fittingly off-kilter beginning and introduction to a very off-kilter novel. Carraway describes in detail the lives of several major characters, and then explains them as people whom he barely knows. This chapter also introduces the reader to the titular character of Gatsby, who is, in a now infamous scene, staring off the dock into a distant green light. What he is longing for remains unknown. It's symbolism. Symbolism is a well-known literary strategy. Lots of people use symbolism. It is good.
Chapter 2
Chapter 2 is largely sexual, most of my analysis being perverted by our in-class discussions of the chapter's content. It begins innocently, describing a countryside so pure that Nick "wouldn’t
have been surprised to see a great flock of white sheep turn the corner" (31). Despite the interpretations of others, this explanation the setting is meant to set a peaceful mood that will soon be contrasted by impure, sexual undertones. Take, for example, the fact that this quote appears just a few lines after Tom so matter-of-factly says "[That dog's] a bitch." Perhaps the purpose of this chapter is to show the perversion of the city way of life, and how unabashedly it continues in the fact of pure beauty. There need not much else be said about the remaining contents of Chapter 2, considering our detailed discussion in class, but it is indeed an orgy of sex, crassness, violence, and vulgarity, in which we learn of Tom's unfaithfulness and indeed lack of love for Daisy, Nick's hypocriticalness and implied homosexuality (just to be clear- this appears on a list of negative things, and I did not intend for homosexuality to be described as 'bad', just sort of extreme and shocking for the novel's era), and once again, the perversion that is city life.
Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
This chapter serves mostly as a self-introduction for the character of Nick Carraway. Carraway is quite a paradox- he claims to be both highly tolerant and very judgemental with high standards of others. This chapter is a fittingly off-kilter beginning and introduction to a very off-kilter novel. Carraway describes in detail the lives of several major characters, and then explains them as people whom he barely knows. This chapter also introduces the reader to the titular character of Gatsby, who is, in a now infamous scene, staring off the dock into a distant green light. What he is longing for remains unknown. It's symbolism. Symbolism is a well-known literary strategy. Lots of people use symbolism. It is good.
Chapter 2
Chapter 2 is largely sexual, most of my analysis being perverted by our in-class discussions of the chapter's content. It begins innocently, describing a countryside so pure that Nick "wouldn’t
have been surprised to see a great flock of white sheep turn the corner" (31). Despite the interpretations of others, this explanation the setting is meant to set a peaceful mood that will soon be contrasted by impure, sexual undertones. Take, for example, the fact that this quote appears just a few lines after Tom so matter-of-factly says "[That dog's] a bitch." Perhaps the purpose of this chapter is to show the perversion of the city way of life, and how unabashedly it continues in the fact of pure beauty. There need not much else be said about the remaining contents of Chapter 2, considering our detailed discussion in class, but it is indeed an orgy of sex, crassness, violence, and vulgarity, in which we learn of Tom's unfaithfulness and indeed lack of love for Daisy, Nick's hypocriticalness and implied homosexuality (just to be clear- this appears on a list of negative things, and I did not intend for homosexuality to be described as 'bad', just sort of extreme and shocking for the novel's era), and once again, the perversion that is city life.
Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9