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“The room, shadowed well with awnings, was dark and cool… silver dolls weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans” The room holds no association with enchantment, it is darkened and the breeze is artificial. So does his description of Daisy and Jordan. “ They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had been blown back in after a short flight around the house” pg 14 Yet in chapter VI Nick makes no mention of the gardens during the second visit to the Buchanan’s house. The whole scene is beautifully contrived into a majestic hyperbole. Their passive femininity and Toms masculine bulk and assertion.
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The people, the two women, Daisy and Jordan, act deliberately to sustain his wonderment they are transformed into enchanted, mysterious, mythical creatures. Nick is unmistakably awed by the enchantment that lingers in the air. pg 11 At the commencement of the novel, having come from the midwest, where life is formed by innocence and simplicity. ” The Great Gatsby: A novel of the 1920’s. “Fitzgerald chose both to identify his writing career with the ebullience of the decade, and also to be it’s keen critic. Yet as Nick and consequently Fitzgerald begin to explore the era they begin to discover the true characteristic of the 1920’s. Expressing the dream world which advertising was busily constructing: Jazz and dance young flappers who cut their hair, smoked and drank- the new women romantic nightlife.Īnd above all characters that were consumers and spent lavishly.
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His stories seem to incorporate the consumer spending boom of the 1920’s. With Fitgerald being described as an writer who best represented images of the new postwar generation of ambitious middle class. scott Fitzgerald shares much of an resemblance with both the observant Nick and the charismatic Gatsby. This darkening tone, then, proceeds in the part of Nick’s evolving consciousness and subsequently effecting how the reader depicts the novel.Ī world through Nicks eyes. ” After chapter 6 the glimmer of hope in Nicks subconscious is averted to that of a more sinister, nebulous tone. “ I had familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. Nick develops a change of view during the course of the novel.Ĭoncurrently as Nick reveals a growing determination to depict events in a fixed way, his flights of responsive imagination on the way he portrays characters and the rosy- tinted hue that he sees the world through slowly diminishes. Yet the limitations of Nick’s character do have some narrative consequences, for Nick sometimes only sees part of the meaning that a scene carries, sometimes shifts the tide of events and can even strain “judgement” out of inconclusive evidence.
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Nick is after all the lone moral consciousness of the novela, only he seems to grasp the richness of meaning, the ineffable dream and it’s foul awake on the events on long Island that summer. But to accuse Nick of such faults might seem obscene an churlish. Nicks detractors have described him variously (and over excessively) “ as an detract archpriest, panderer, prig, spiritual bankrupt, hypocrite, and an “moral eunuch” a man capable of neither assertive action nor self knowledge. Innumerable occasions reveal that a deeper seated bias against the characters in The Great Gatsby. ” To what extent do you agree with the statement Thesis: Although Nick purports that he has reserved all judgements with regards to his summer in west egg. Even though Nick claims he’s not judgemental his presentation of other characters encourage the reader to make their own judgements about them.