F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, April 10, 1925
Nick Carraway: The Great Gatsby’s only narrator through the entire novel often shaping our own view of the events taking place to match the way in which he sees them. Nick has just moved to West egg, in Long Island the home for the newly rich and famous, from Minnesota, where he becomes the go to man to hold onto everyone’s deepest darkest secrets due to his open-minded and non-judgemental nature. While living in West Egg he meets and befriends his extravagant next door neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Nick serves mainly as a bridge to bringing Gatsby and his cousin Daisy Buchanan back together
Tom Buchanan: An old friend of Nick’s from his days at Yale, who is also married …show more content…
He is seen constantly making racist or sexist comments throughout the entire novel further developing his disagreeable character. . Daisy Buchanan: Nick Carraway’s cousin who is married to Tom Buchanan but loves
Gatsby. She choose a life of comfort and money over waiting for the one she truly loved.
After gaining money and Tom as a husband her character turned from a wide eyed girl in love to a sarcastic and cynical woman. She is often seen as vain and flippant, but in rare glimpses the reader is shown that it is all a front to hide her pain away. Jay Gatsby: The main protagonist of the novel. In the beginning of the novel he is seen as a very mysterious and larger than life man, throwing extravagant parties where no one truly knows anything about him. Later in the novel Nick finds out that he has done all of this to win back his one true love Nick’s cousin Daisy. He was born a poor farm boy in
North Dakota but dedicated his life to gaining social power. It is later found out that he will do anything to get that social power even if that includes gaining his fortune in a less than legal way. All for the main goal of winning Daisy …show more content…
She was also a master golfer and
Nick’s romantic interest through the novel. Despite being beautiful she is also extremely dishonest, as seen from her admittance to cheating for a win at her first golf match and then with her continual lying. Myrtle Wilson: Tom Buchanan’s mistress, who lives in the valley of ashes with her husband who she finds extremely boring. She has an extremely energetic personality and is constantly in search of a way to climb the social ladder and experience the lavish lifestyle. Unfortunately this search leads her to nowhere but her own death. Mr. Wilson: A quiet auto shop owner in the Valley of Ashes who is married to Myrtle. He absolutely worships the ground upon which Myrtle walks upon and is devastated by the news of her death, so much so that he goes to avenge her death by killing her alleged killer. Mr. Mckee: A pale and feminine man who is friends and next door neighbors to Tom and Myrtle. He has little purpose in the story but to cause speculation on Nick’s sexual orientation. There is a point in the novel where the writing suggests that Nick and Mr.
Mckee might have indulged in sexual relations. Which raises the question of whether
Nick Carraway: The Great Gatsby’s only narrator through the entire novel often shaping our own view of the events taking place to match the way in which he sees them. Nick has just moved to West egg, in Long Island the home for the newly rich and famous, from Minnesota, where he becomes the go to man to hold onto everyone’s deepest darkest secrets due to his open-minded and non-judgemental nature. While living in West Egg he meets and befriends his extravagant next door neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Nick serves mainly as a bridge to bringing Gatsby and his cousin Daisy Buchanan back together
Tom Buchanan: An old friend of Nick’s from his days at Yale, who is also married …show more content…
He is seen constantly making racist or sexist comments throughout the entire novel further developing his disagreeable character. . Daisy Buchanan: Nick Carraway’s cousin who is married to Tom Buchanan but loves
Gatsby. She choose a life of comfort and money over waiting for the one she truly loved.
After gaining money and Tom as a husband her character turned from a wide eyed girl in love to a sarcastic and cynical woman. She is often seen as vain and flippant, but in rare glimpses the reader is shown that it is all a front to hide her pain away. Jay Gatsby: The main protagonist of the novel. In the beginning of the novel he is seen as a very mysterious and larger than life man, throwing extravagant parties where no one truly knows anything about him. Later in the novel Nick finds out that he has done all of this to win back his one true love Nick’s cousin Daisy. He was born a poor farm boy in
North Dakota but dedicated his life to gaining social power. It is later found out that he will do anything to get that social power even if that includes gaining his fortune in a less than legal way. All for the main goal of winning Daisy …show more content…
She was also a master golfer and
Nick’s romantic interest through the novel. Despite being beautiful she is also extremely dishonest, as seen from her admittance to cheating for a win at her first golf match and then with her continual lying. Myrtle Wilson: Tom Buchanan’s mistress, who lives in the valley of ashes with her husband who she finds extremely boring. She has an extremely energetic personality and is constantly in search of a way to climb the social ladder and experience the lavish lifestyle. Unfortunately this search leads her to nowhere but her own death. Mr. Wilson: A quiet auto shop owner in the Valley of Ashes who is married to Myrtle. He absolutely worships the ground upon which Myrtle walks upon and is devastated by the news of her death, so much so that he goes to avenge her death by killing her alleged killer. Mr. Mckee: A pale and feminine man who is friends and next door neighbors to Tom and Myrtle. He has little purpose in the story but to cause speculation on Nick’s sexual orientation. There is a point in the novel where the writing suggests that Nick and Mr.
Mckee might have indulged in sexual relations. Which raises the question of whether