Great Gatsby Dialectical Journal

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1. The plot that is the most crucial in Chapter 1 is when Nick speaks of the area he has move to. Nick gives a vivid description of the area so that you get an idea of where Nick moved to, when he left home to start a new career. Nick left home with the support of his family whom he had strong ties to.
2. At the beginning of the story Nick describes himself as not being judgmental toward people. Nick was taught this as a young child and tried to live this in his everyday life. Nick also describes himself as being a modest person. He shows this in the home he chooses to live in. Instead of living in the city he chooses and old home out away from the city that was not in the best of shape.
3. Nick described Tom in the story as being a strong
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The sense of the Jazz age that can be gotten from Nicks description of the party is that the lifestyle of people is very formal, and they had fancy parties to support this lifestyle and show it off. Gatesby party for example had plenty of food, drinking and music. There were also lots of people that came and went through the night. “There was dancing now on the canvas in the garden; old men pushing young girls backwards in external graceless circles, superior couples holding each other tortuously, fashionably, and keeping in the corners—and a great umber of single girls dancing individualistically or relieving the orchestra for a moment of the burden of the banjo or the traps. A celebrated tenor had sung in Italian, and a notorious contralto had sung in jazz, and between the numbers people were doing “stunts” all over the garden, while happy, vacuous burst of laughter rose toward the summer …show more content…
The most crucial part of Chapter 7 is the fact that no parties are being thrown at Gatesby house. He stops throwing the parties because Daisy does not like them. Gatesby also let go of all his servants to prevent gossiping because of Daisy coming over often.
2. Gatesby stopped giving parties because Daisy has started coming over every afternoon. Daisy did not like the parties. Because of this and Gatesby wanting to make Daisy happy he quit throwing parties.
3. Tom realized that Daisy loves Gatesby when Nick and Gatesby go to there house have lunch with Daisy, Tom and Jordan. Daisy asks Tom to go get them cold drinks. While Tome is gone Daisy goes over to Gatesby and tells him that she loves him and gives him a kiss. Tom overhears this and at that point realizes that Daisy is in love with Gatesby.
4. Myrtle Wilson is upset when she sees Tom and Jordan together because Myrtle thought Jordan was Toms wife. Myrtle is jealous of Toms wife. This is because she would rather be with Tom than see him with his wife. “Her expression was curiously familiar—it was an expression I had often seen on women’s faces, but on Myrtle Wilsons face it seemed purposeless and inexplicable until I realized that her eye, wide with jealous terror, were fixed not on Tom, but on Jordan Baker, when she took to be his

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