How Does Fitzgerald Tell the Story in Chapter 7 of the Great Gatsby

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Explain how Fitzgerald tells the story in chapter 7 of The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald uses the Great Gatsby to portray his opinion of the social elite’s attitude towards society in the 1920’s through the words of Nick Carraway. Nick’s account in the novel is based heavily around his own memories and opinions; therefore the novel may be misleading as the reader is deeply influenced by Nick, and only sees what Nick wants them to see. Chapter seven is one of the most significant chapters in the novel as it sheds light on Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship, and also shows how Gatsby is reluctant, despite the extreme circumstances, to give up the dream he has been chasing for so long. At the start of chapter seven, Fitzgerald writes that Gatsby’s ‘career as Trimalchio was over’, referring to Trimalchio the slave, this implies that Gatsby believed that he was no longer a slave to finding Daisy – he had reached his dream and therefore ironically, he found no need for the lavish parties that he had hosted solely for Daisy even though Trimalchio held sumptuous banquets when he received freedom – this shows how Gatsby, despite what he thought, was not actually free, he was still very much trapped by Daisy. Fitzgerald shows that because Gatsby has reached the point in which he thinks his whole life has been leading up to, meeting Daisy once again, that now he is liberated, and that he can live his dream with the girl he loves. Because of this, Gatsby starts to change his life to suit her and to protect her; ‘Gatsby had dismissed every servant in his house a week ago and replaced them with half a dozen others’. He dismisses his servants to prevent gossip spreading and replaces them with the people he works with; Fitzgerald writes this to show that Gatsby is willing to change everything for Daisy. Nick as the narrator foreshadows that in chapter seven, truths are going to be
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