The Windows of the East
The Great Gatsby is a timeless novel read from generation to generation. It’s tale of the tragic life of Gatsby has been used by many to exemplify the culture of the United States in the 1920s. One fact that we learn is that no one is perfect, and that includes our narrator Nick. Nick acts as our blurry window that allows a hazy access to the story as Nick uses vague descriptions to describe events, adds unnecessary details, and doesn't focus enough on important characters.
Nick, retelling the tragic event in his life, tries to portray the important events in his and Gatsby’s lives to accurately tell the tale. However, his memory fails him as certain chapters are described too poorly to accurately know what occurred. …show more content…
One clear example of this in in chapter 4 on pages 65 to 67 as Nick uses these pages to explain all of Gatsby’s guests. However, none of these guests reappear later, except for Klipspringer, on in the story nor do they serve an important role in the story. Therefore, these pages serve as useless filler, creating an unnecessary clutter of information. This clutter creates a blurred image as the reader can’t tell what’s important from what’s not important. One good example of this is in chapter 7 page 134 where Daisy, Tom and Nick speak about a man named Biloxi. While this conversation helps to segway into Tom and Gatsby’s fight, there’s no real reason to know about Biloxi’s family and his job of making boxes. Any first time reader may make the mistake of thinking him as an important character, getting confused when he doesn’t reappear again in the …show more content…
One perfect example is the Wilsons. Introduced in chapter 2, all we’re told is that Myrtle Wilson “...[can’t] stand the person they’re married to.” (Fitzgerald, 37) and cheats on her husband with Tom while Mr. Wilson is oblivious to it all as Tom states “He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York.” (Fitzgerald, 30). By the time the two reappear in chapter 7, they’ve already been overshadowed by the love triangle between Gatsby, Tom and Daisy. The reader, with zero updates between the 5 past chapters, has practically shrugged the poor characters out of the memory as unimportant until the climax occurs when Myrtle is run over by Daisy. This is a creates a muddled image as those reading the story for the first time would have forgotten these characters unless they read back to refresh
The Great Gatsby is a timeless novel read from generation to generation. It’s tale of the tragic life of Gatsby has been used by many to exemplify the culture of the United States in the 1920s. One fact that we learn is that no one is perfect, and that includes our narrator Nick. Nick acts as our blurry window that allows a hazy access to the story as Nick uses vague descriptions to describe events, adds unnecessary details, and doesn't focus enough on important characters.
Nick, retelling the tragic event in his life, tries to portray the important events in his and Gatsby’s lives to accurately tell the tale. However, his memory fails him as certain chapters are described too poorly to accurately know what occurred. …show more content…
One clear example of this in in chapter 4 on pages 65 to 67 as Nick uses these pages to explain all of Gatsby’s guests. However, none of these guests reappear later, except for Klipspringer, on in the story nor do they serve an important role in the story. Therefore, these pages serve as useless filler, creating an unnecessary clutter of information. This clutter creates a blurred image as the reader can’t tell what’s important from what’s not important. One good example of this is in chapter 7 page 134 where Daisy, Tom and Nick speak about a man named Biloxi. While this conversation helps to segway into Tom and Gatsby’s fight, there’s no real reason to know about Biloxi’s family and his job of making boxes. Any first time reader may make the mistake of thinking him as an important character, getting confused when he doesn’t reappear again in the …show more content…
One perfect example is the Wilsons. Introduced in chapter 2, all we’re told is that Myrtle Wilson “...[can’t] stand the person they’re married to.” (Fitzgerald, 37) and cheats on her husband with Tom while Mr. Wilson is oblivious to it all as Tom states “He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York.” (Fitzgerald, 30). By the time the two reappear in chapter 7, they’ve already been overshadowed by the love triangle between Gatsby, Tom and Daisy. The reader, with zero updates between the 5 past chapters, has practically shrugged the poor characters out of the memory as unimportant until the climax occurs when Myrtle is run over by Daisy. This is a creates a muddled image as those reading the story for the first time would have forgotten these characters unless they read back to refresh