1. In the summer of 1922, Nick Carraway moves from Minnesota to New York to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg District of Long Island. His neighbor is a man by the name of Jay Gatsby, who has a large mansion and has extravagant parties every weekend. Nick eventually gets invited to one of Gatsby's parties, along with Jordan Baker, a woman that Nick started dating due to his second cousin Daisy and her husband, Tom introducing her to Nick. Nick and Jordan run into each other at the party, and end up meeting Gatsby himself, and starts getting to know him better. Gatsby reveals to Jordan that he knew Daisy in Louisville in 1917, and that the parties that he host are an attempt to try and impress Daisy and win her back. Gatsby asks Nick to try and reunite him and Daisy. Nick does so by inviting the two over tea. Gatsby and Daisy then reconnect and begin to have an affair. Daisy's husband, Tom becomes fully aware of her affair and becomes angry with both of them, despite the fact that Tom himself is also having an affair with a woman named Myrtle. Tom confronts Gatsby about their affair, and tries to convince Daisy that Gatsby is a criminal and has bootlegged alcohol. Nick, Tom, and Jordan find out that Myrtle, the woman that Tom is also seeing was killed by being hit by Gatsby's car. While it was Daisy driving the car, Gatsby takes full blame for it. Tom then tells Myrtle's husband, George about the incident, and George ends up shooting Gatsby in his own pool. Nick holds a small funeral for Gatsby, ends his relationship with Jordan, and then moves back to the Midwest because of how sick he felt about all of the events that happened.
2. The theme of the story is the decline of the American dream. The story shows that The Roaring Twenties wasn't all glamour, and that there was much more darker things going on at the time.
3. The novel sometimes had a slight upbeat tone, probably to show off the feel of The Roaring Twenties, but most of the novel had a dark tone, which helped show the theme of the story
Some examples of the more happier tone:
"Laughter is easier by the minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word." (P. 40)
"The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter..." (P. 40)
And the more darker tone:
"It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson's body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete." (P. 162)
4. Imagery was used throughout the whole story to try to get a picture of whatever Nick saw
"...and then, excited with triumph, glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light." (P. 41)
Another device used was the point of view. The book is all based on the point of view of Nick, so the reader can feel the exact emotions of what it's be like to live through that period.
In the story, a flashback is used when Gatsby talks about his previous experience with Daisy.
The characters in the story are in some way a Synecdoche. The characters represent greediness and adultery, which they commit in the story.
1. Two examples of direct characterization are the characters Nick and Daisy. Most of the first chapter is basically Nick introducing himself and almost telling his life story and why he's moved to West Egg. He also goes into detail on Daisy, probably due to the fact that she has a larger role in the book.
Two examples of indirect characterization are on the characters Jay Gatsby and George. George had litter characterization since he only had a small role in the story, and Gatsby had little characterization because it gives people a mysterious vibe from Gatsby like Nick felt in the story.
2. Fitzgerald didn't have any change in syntax or diction when switching over to a different character.
3. Nick is a static/flat character. Along with other main characters show no change at all during the story. The only thing that changes about Nick is how disgusted he feels about the West Egg and all the terrible events that happened.
4. I feel like I really got to know Nick Carraway. This is mainly because of the first chapter when Nick introduces himself and tells the reader his story and why he's coming to West Egg. Here's a small sample:
""My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this Middle Western city for three generations. The Carraways are something of a clan, and we have a tradition that we're descended from the Dukes of Beccleuch...
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