Jon Krakauer has written a thoroughly familiar American story. Its central figure, a recent college graduate named Chris McCandless, is spiritually ill at ease in his well-to-do East Coast bourgeois home and strikes out on his own, impelled by a need to make a new life for himself. In a haphazard way he sees a good deal of the Southwest, canoes down the Grand Canyon to Mexico, wanders about the Pacific coast and into Montana. Along the way he works in an Italian restaurant in Las Vegas, fries hamburgers for McDonald's, and works on a harvest crew. Determined to live authentically on the edge, he makes his way to Alaska where, provisioned with ten pounds of rice and a collection of his favorite paperbacks, he establishes himself north of Mt.
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.
Mr. Gatsby lives in a gigantic mansion and throws extravagant parties every weekend. Nick is unlike the others in Wrest Egg; he was educated at Yale and has connections in East Egg. East Egg in populated by inhabitants with not only wealth, but style too. One night Nick drives out to East Egg to have dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom and Nick’s old class mate from Yale. Nick is introduced to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, cynical young woman with whom
The music, in the background “bright lights, big city” is ironic as Melanie insults her old friends at the small-town pub by asking, “how do you people live like this?”. This is like Gwen’s angry rhetorical questions like “Why do they live like that?”. Melanie’s turning point is when she choses to give up the fairy tale to remarry Jake. She realises the relationships are more important. Like in Away, Melanie escapes to the beach in the storm where she meets her true love, Jake.
One more occurence of Nick paying more attention to the busy world going around him than himself arises in seven. Nick, Jordan, Daisy, Tom, and Gatsby all went to New York City Tom and Gatsby start to get in an argument after Tom is sure that there is something going on between his wife Daisy and Gatsby, after this as Tom, Jordan, and Nick are about to leave Tom asks if Nick or Jordan would like some whisky to which Nick replies, “ No … I just remembered that today’s my birthday.” (Fitzgerald 135). Nick is so occupied with everything happening in the East that he forgets about himself, to the point that he forgot it was his own
Ardis, a friend of Irene and Deems’ had met Brennan for the first time at the dinner party. He was a drunk, arrogant poet who tried coming on to her. After that night Ardis asked about Brennan’s work at a local bookstore, finding out that he took all of his work out of the shops because he didn’t want unworthy people to read it. On her way home she passed his house and came across his dog who followed her home. After bringing him back to Brennan’s house she could see that he wanted to go inside, so for some odd reason she decided to go inside.
He built himself up from a poor farm boy to a wealthy businessman. His main goal was to win Daisy back, he did this by throwing extremely lavish parties “ On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before” (43). Gatsby knew that Daisy was attracted to wealth so if she heard about fancy parties with servants and Rolls-Royce cars then he thought she would come back to him. In doing this Gatsby did not even flinch when it was time to write the check.
Gatsby likes to throw extravagant parties every weekend, and everyone around goes to them, but they weren’t even invited or they don’t know the host personally. At the first party that nick attended he heard these two women gossiping about Gatsby saying, “Somebody told me that thought he killed a man once.” (44).These women obviously don’t know much about Gatsby. They try and characterize him based
Cameron Drury Mrs. McElhiney English III AP 3rd Period 13 February, 2013 THE GREAT GATSBY ANALYSIS PROJECT Chapter 1: Nick Caraway and his “egg” head neighbors. Chapter one introduces to us the narrator of the entire story, a man named Nick Caraway who lives in West egg and is originally from the Midwest. Nick starts out by informing us of his background, and then proceeds to tell us of East and West Egg, with the cultural and economic innuendos therein. On a warm summer evening Nick drives over to East Egg to meet with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and his old college associate, Tom. When he arrives at the Buchanan’s Georgian mansion, he is greeted by Tom, who both then go inside and discuss current happenings with Daisy and a competitive golf player named Jordan Baker.
From the book of The Pact, Sam says, “Kenny was always drunk all the time and became belligerent and mean. He showed up at our house, he ranted and raved, cursed, and threatened our mother. I went to from worshipping him to hating him. I realize now that I just hated what had become of him.” (23) Kenny Davis went from classy to a drunk. His wife’s passing changed his character.