1. Nick is from Minnesota who was educated at Yale and later moved to New York, East Egg. He comes from an upper middle-class background whose family runs a wholesale hardware business. “Father agreed to finance me for a year, and after various delays I cam East, permanently, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two”(pg.3) Although he doesn’t intervene in Tom’s affair with another woman while being married to Daisy, he has a judgmental thought on their relationship after he leaves their house. “It seemed to me that the thing for Daisy to do was to rush out of the house, child in arms but apparently there were no such intentions in her head.”(pg.20)
2. “There’s something funny about a fellow that’ll do a thing like that… He doesn’t want any trouble …show more content…
The significance of the green light in the novel was the American Dream or the desire and envy of a goal that may be something or someone. “You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.” (pg.92) Gatsby says that everyone always has something they are chasing after whether it is your dream or a goal. He also states that the green light is always there, representing the green light as an unattainable dream (future) The green light also represents the unpredictable future, the future that is forever unreachable. Nick claims in the last page of the novel "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that 's no matter – to-morrow we will run farther, stretch out our arms farther…” …show more content…
Tom Buchannan also comes from a middle class family from the Midwest. During the story, Tom has an affair with another women even though he is married to Daisy. But when Tom learns that Daisy is beginning a relationship with Gatsby, he tries to make Gatsby look bad in front of her by talking about how he runs an illegal business. Unlike Tom, George Wilson is a poor man who owns a gas station in the Valley of Ashes. He later finds out that his wife is having an affair with another man, but does not know whom. When George learns about this, he decides to move out west, but Tom tells George the man his wife is having an affair with is Gatsby. Tom tells George, "I was bringing you that coupe we 've been talking about. That yellow car I was driving this afternoon wasn 't mine - do you hear? I haven 't seen it all afternoon.” after the yellow car hit and killed Myrtle. After being told that, he murders Gatsby at the end of the novel. Tom and George are similar in a way where they start acting up when they find out their wives are having an affair. When they find out, both are willing to do whatever to get them
2. “There’s something funny about a fellow that’ll do a thing like that… He doesn’t want any trouble …show more content…
The significance of the green light in the novel was the American Dream or the desire and envy of a goal that may be something or someone. “You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.” (pg.92) Gatsby says that everyone always has something they are chasing after whether it is your dream or a goal. He also states that the green light is always there, representing the green light as an unattainable dream (future) The green light also represents the unpredictable future, the future that is forever unreachable. Nick claims in the last page of the novel "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that 's no matter – to-morrow we will run farther, stretch out our arms farther…” …show more content…
Tom Buchannan also comes from a middle class family from the Midwest. During the story, Tom has an affair with another women even though he is married to Daisy. But when Tom learns that Daisy is beginning a relationship with Gatsby, he tries to make Gatsby look bad in front of her by talking about how he runs an illegal business. Unlike Tom, George Wilson is a poor man who owns a gas station in the Valley of Ashes. He later finds out that his wife is having an affair with another man, but does not know whom. When George learns about this, he decides to move out west, but Tom tells George the man his wife is having an affair with is Gatsby. Tom tells George, "I was bringing you that coupe we 've been talking about. That yellow car I was driving this afternoon wasn 't mine - do you hear? I haven 't seen it all afternoon.” after the yellow car hit and killed Myrtle. After being told that, he murders Gatsby at the end of the novel. Tom and George are similar in a way where they start acting up when they find out their wives are having an affair. When they find out, both are willing to do whatever to get them