The reader embarks on the story of Jay Gatsby with East-Coast-bound Nick Carraway, a Yale graduate and World War I veteran, who is seeking a job in the bond business. After moving to West Egg, a fictional area home to the newly rich, Nick meets his neighbor Jay Gatsby – a disgustingly wealthy man well known for the parties he throws. Gatsby’s background is a mystery to Carraway and others in West Egg, yet his demeanor
Part one: Nick Carraway is a young man from Minnesota who moves to New York to learn about the bond business. It is the summer of 1922 when he rent a home in Wrest Egg District on Long Island. The Wrest Egg District is an area populated by the newly rich people who have established social connections. Nick has a mysterious next door neighbor in this establishment named Jay Gatsby. Mr. Gatsby lives in a gigantic mansion and throws extravagant parties every weekend.
Like his brother, William, he also worked at the family department store, "Milks." After graduating from high school in 1951, Milk joined the U.S. Navy, ultimately serving as a diving instructor at a base in San Diego, California, during the Korean War. Following his discharge in 1955, Milk moved to New York City, where he worked a variety of jobs, including as a public school teacher, production associate for several high-profile Broadway musicals, stock analyst and Wall Street investment banker. He soon tired of finance, though, and befriended gay radicals who frequented Greenwich Village. In late 1972, Milk moved to San Francisco, California.
Two such novels that contain love and the secrets it contains are the Great Gatsby and Ethan Frome. The Great Gatsby is a novel told from the perspective of one of its characters, Nick Caraway, looking back on the events that unfolded because of his close relationship with his neighbor, James Gatsby. Mr. Gatsby was a man of extreme wealth that came to him because of a large inheritance from his father, or so he claims. He holds extravagant parties every weekend that often are filled with everyone in town. His true intentions of holding this shindigs so often is to attract his former flame Daisy, Nick's cousin, to see if he can relight their flame that was never fully blown out.
There is a lot of people here I get lost just looking into the crowd. Everyone here has to go through many checkpoints such as Health Evaluation, Mental Evaluation, and Physical Evaluation. My family and I have passed every evaluation, now were just waiting in line to have an interview with someone to make sure we are all in the same family. October 18th 1944 I am finally in New York spending time with my family eating delicious steaks. We met our dad two days after we got here; he already had a nice house and a nice job to support us.
The reader can understand the relationship between father and son by simply reading the salutation. Chesterfield directly refers to his son as, “boy,” this shows his lack of respect for him along with his absence of familial weakness to him in contrast to his wife, which he states further on in the letter. Another example of diction that shows his values is how he repeatedly reminds his son that he is young; this is used to belittle his son and make his advice carry more weight. Last, he uses the word, “friend,” to give the tone in which he wishes to give his advice. He sought to give advice as a peer rather than a parent, which shows his devotion to his son because he is not acting like the dominant father he very clearly is.
J.P. Morgan John Pierpont Morgan was born in Hartford, Connecticut on April 17, 1837. His father, Junius Spencer Morgan was a very wealthy and well off financier, it was his father who had taught J.P. about the family’s finances and business, which he was going to inherit as he became older. J.P. was a very talented young individual and was willing student who was educated at Boston’s English High School and then had enrolled in the University of Gottingen, in Germany. When he was in high school J.P. had already traveled and explored much of Europe and had sparked his love of art, which would stay with him throughout his life. After he had graduated from Gottingen at the age of 20, he had traveled back to New York to pursue a career in finance.
when describing Gatsby he says, “The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business…” (98). This applies that everyone, including Nick idolized Gatsby. He compared him to Jesus Christ, someone a lot of people think of as an amazing figure. In the same comparison Nick says, “ So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.” (98).
The rejection of reality ultimately led to his demise. Nick had such an immense respect for Jay’s imagination and pursuit of his dreams that he dubbed him the “great Gatsby”. This title could be worthy of divine figures, which is exactly how nick saw Gatsby, a divine figure that pushed the limits of probability and overlooked obstacles. As defined in this quotation “The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was the son of god-a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that-and he must be about his fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty” (Fitzgerald 98).
Chapter 1: West Egg is home to the nouveau riche (those who have recently made money and lack an established social position) One night, he heads over to East Egg to have dinner with his cousin Daisy and her husband, Tom Buchanan, whom he went to college with. Tom is a large, aggressive former football player and he inherited his fortune. When Nick enters the house Daisy and friends of her, Jordan Baker, are lying on the sofa, they seem bored… However at Nick’s sight, Daisy stands up and starts talking with her cousin. While drinking cocktails, Nick mentions Gatsby and daisy gets unusually interested. At dinner, Tom is the one who speaks the most, who dominates the conversation.