Reading #1 from The Great Gatsby is Chapter 1 (pp.1-21). In a comment to this post, please select a passage from this chapter that you think is important, and write about it in the way you've been trained to when writing literary analysis. An important passage can be one that sets the tone for the way Carraway will tell the story, one that involves characterization, one that foreshadows major plot developments, or one that involves a number of literary devices.
Reading #1 from The Great Gatsby is Chapter 1 (pp.1-21). In a comment to this post, please select a passage from this chapter that you think is important, and write about it in the way you've been trained to when writing literary analysis. An important passage can be one that sets the tone for the way Carraway will tell the story, one that involves characterization, one that foreshadows major plot developments, or one that involves a number of literary devices.
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Dar
5/27/2014 10:37:27 am
“Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward…it was a body capable of enormous leverage—a cruel body” (7.)
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faith bergman
5/27/2014 10:57:04 am
Overall, from the beginning of Chapter one the narrator gives a lot of information about his feelings toward Tom Buchanan. One thing is for sure that as Dar said above, he characterizes him as a "cruel body" on page 7. Aside from seeing him as foreshadowing a true villain later in the story, this passage makes me see that the narrator doesn't like Tom at all. Chapter one really helps describe Tom, and in page 6 we get a sense of Tom's economical status where it's described that "he'd brought done a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest. It was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that" (6). It shows something about Tom as it's not the biggest deal he was able to spend for such a thing, but the fact that he's of the narrators generation and he's above him with his status of wealth. It seems as if the narrator feels that Tom Buchanan is quite arrogant, and in these passages the idea is given that he isn't liked, especially by the narrator. To add on to that, "there were men at New Haven who hated his guts" (7). Chapter one really sets the tone of how Tom Buchanan is viewed by others, and it's important how he is described as it gives us a sense of how the narrator feels to certain characters as he himself is part of the story.
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Yumi Lee
5/27/2014 01:34:11 pm
"He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way...and distinguished nothing except a single green light" (25 from http://www.planetebook.com/ebooks/The-Great-Gatsby.pdf).
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Aleks Marceau
5/27/2014 02:28:09 pm
From "already it was deep summer..." to the end of the chapter (pg. 20-21).
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