In the book “The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald” Chapter one starts out by portraying how a young man grew from his father's advice believing he is tolerable. In a way, this reminds me of myself as well as how I admire taking people’s advice. I learn from people’s mistakes rather than finding out the tough way. My dad has always told me to complete my chores and show me how to act, but I almost never listened to his advice since I had always thought his own actions were selfish. Although I still believe I have been a tolerable person, people have come to me asking for advice. I find people telling me about their days or events that have happened in their lives lately, This part of the story reminds me of how I have been told I am a “Good listener”. In chapter one it mentions how Nick notices Gatsby for the first time staring at a green light from across the bay, this reminds me of when people
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My grandmother likes to say we are relatives of some famous person way back in the day. My grandmother once said people in our family way back then used to own slaves, I would look at her and be say come on grandmother, you think that causes our family to be special in any sort of way. Back to the book, it mentions how Gatsby throws exquisite parties which made him famous around New York, This doesn’t reflect on where I live at all, there are hardly ever parties here, but when there is it usually consists of underage drinking with one of the cops daughters. Then everyone just falling asleep and nothing happens afterwards. In the book two girls talk to Nick having a casual conversation they start to talk about Gatsby and “How he killed a man, or was a German spy in the war”. In my understanding he might just have been a to himself personality, he’d rather watch everyone have fun at the parties rather than him being the main
My grandmother likes to say we are relatives of some famous person way back in the day. My grandmother once said people in our family way back then used to own slaves, I would look at her and be say come on grandmother, you think that causes our family to be special in any sort of way. Back to the book, it mentions how Gatsby throws exquisite parties which made him famous around New York, This doesn’t reflect on where I live at all, there are hardly ever parties here, but when there is it usually consists of underage drinking with one of the cops daughters. Then everyone just falling asleep and nothing happens afterwards. In the book two girls talk to Nick having a casual conversation they start to talk about Gatsby and “How he killed a man, or was a German spy in the war”. In my understanding he might just have been a to himself personality, he’d rather watch everyone have fun at the parties rather than him being the main