This creates suspense for the reader as we wait in anticipation to meet him. The structure of this chapter is an effective narrative technique that helps with the telling of the story. The first person retrospective narrative allows us to see things as Nick does and get his opinions. He says ‘his determination to have my company bordered on violence’ about Tom and this permits us to characterize Tom as an aggressive person. The first person narration helps the telling of the story as we get an insight into what's happening, and we are allowed to make judgements based on Nick’s outlook on things.
Green has many possible meanings, but the most important is the explanation of Gatsby’s character. Green could represent Gatsby’s envy towards others. Gatsby can be interpreted as a jealous, envious character. He once had the love of his life, Daisy, but now she is married to Tom Buchannan. Now Gatsby spends all of his time in an attempt to obtain Daisy’s affection.
The author is trying to review prior events so that we can go back with him and understand the story more clearly. Peyton Farquhar focuses on escaping throughout the story. Will we discover what is running through his mind during his escape? While escaping Peyton has series of thoughts going through his mind. How would he feel if he never saw his family again?
It is due to Nick’s desire to convey a positive image of Jay Gatsby, the image which he himself withheld, that inclines him to vary from his use of chronological order during chapter six, suddenly adopting the use of anachrony by unexpectedly deviating from the main plot. During this sudden digression, Nick illuminates the reader with the life of James Gatz – Jay Gatsby’s former self – with the intention of ‘exploding those first wild rumours’. This variation in the order of events makes use of the aspect of narrative ‘time and sequence’. However, Nick’s account of how Gatsby met his ‘destiny’ in the form of Cody is questionable as he states that together Gatsby and Cody journeyed ‘three times around the continent’ within the space of five years; a concept that seems implausible. By explaining the alleged truth about Gatsby’s past - such a wildly imagined and crucial event – in an indirect way and through making obvious use of exaggeration, Gatsby and his past remain ambiguous, maintaining Fitzgerald’s structural device of arousing the reader’s interest in Mr Jay Gatsby.
Tom doesn’t seem to care that his affair hurts Daisy, he proves this by take Nick (Daisy cousin) to meet his mistress “I want you to meet my girl” (pg24). He seems to ignore Daisy throughout the book until he suspects Daisy is having an affair with Gatsby, and then he seems to come unglued. “I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife” (pg130). Tom’s ego takes a hit when he finds out Gatsby wants something that is
Fitzgerald also uses Nick to add his personal opinion which is displayed as Nicks, this however is contradictory to the construct of Nick as he states at the start of the chapter he states that he is ‘inclined to reserve all judgement’ Fitzgerald uses irony here as Nick is very judgemental throughout the whole novel. The start of chapter 1 is told as a brief summary of Nick caraways life until it moves onto introducing and describing Gatsby, we can see that it is a reflectional summary of Nicks early life as it simply says ‘in my younger and more…’ we see that is almost summarising his life very shortly as if it were to be written in a memo or told in a short
Also, the curtains are see-through which almost suggests that the fake cover of Tom and Daisy's marriage is wearing out and people can see that their marriage is failing. Jordan informs Nick of Tom's affair, which instantly confirms the viewer's doubts about Tom and Daisy's marriage. By introducing Daisy and Jordan as some of the first characters to appear in the film, it instantly shows the rich lifestyle that 'The Great Gatsby' is set in. Later, when Daisy and Nick are talking under the tree and watching the game of golf, it becomes apparent to the viewer that Daisy is perhaps not as shallow as she first appears to be. Daisy remarks to Nick when recounting the birth of her girl 'that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool'.
Fitzgerald describes Gatsby as "overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves." But Gatsby confuses "youth and mystery" with history; he thinks a single glorious month of love with Daisy can compete with the years and experiences she has shared with Tom. Just as "new money" is money without social connection, Gatsby's connection to Daisy exists outside of history. Nick's fear of the future foreshadows the economic crisis that pushed the country into depression and ended the Roaring Twenties in 1929. The day Gatsby and Tom argue at the Plaza Hotel, Nick suddenly realizes that it's his 30th birthday.
Austin Herbert and Gordon McGregor, two unequally successful entrepreneurs, demonstrate with their careers that success is in greater dependence on luck than on an entrepreneur’s will, with luck being defined as a lack of control, unequal distribution of natural assets, and dissimilar inheritance of material wealth. McGregor was more successful as Austin because the material and social wealth he inherited, something determined by luck, was greater than the one inherited by Austin. McGregor was born as a second son of William McGregor, a future entrepreneur. His father would found the Milner-Walker Wagon Works Company in 1897. Austin was also born as a second son but to Giles Stevens, a farmer.
In Willy’s eyes, he is already immortalized, a martyr who serves as the spokesman for a noble cause. In being well-liked and remembered, Willy is validated by the love of others through ways in which his family cannot. As a result, he overlooks the human side of Singleman, envisioning him as a happy man when in truth he may have been just as troubled as Willy himself. Ironically enough, Willy’s most coveted position of salesman is one he is