Chapter 1
The Great Gatsby is narrated by Nick Carraway,at the beginning of chapter one he starts by telling a quote his father told him that made him inclined to reserve all judgements which tells a lot about his personality. Nick moved to new york to work in the bond business, he settled down in what is called the West egg in a beaten cardboard bungalow at 80 a month, and turned to have Gatsby who lives in an enormous mansion as his neighbor. One day he was invited by his cousin Daisy married to Tim Buchanan on the East egg to have dinner, it was an awkward dinner and Jordan Baker a golfer also attended. When he drove back to his house he stayed out for a couple of minutes where he saw Gatsby for the first time, he didn't know where he got …show more content…
Nick says “I lived at West Egg, the – well, the least fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season” (Fitzgerald 5). This passage and the goofy sense Fitzgerald points it out reflect the how Nick has something of each side the East and the West egg. I mean Nick is well educated, he studied in Yale an ivy league and has good connections like East egg people, more conservative, but still he lives on the west egg on a wealthy neighborhood but small house having a modest life. Fitzgerald explores the theme of “old money” and “new money” since the beginning of the story through the words Nick's father told him, "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had"(Fitzgerald 2). This quote helps to develop the theme by trying to emphasize how although the wealthy have had more advantages in life they at least should try to be morally correct and
The Great Gatsby is narrated by Nick Carraway,at the beginning of chapter one he starts by telling a quote his father told him that made him inclined to reserve all judgements which tells a lot about his personality. Nick moved to new york to work in the bond business, he settled down in what is called the West egg in a beaten cardboard bungalow at 80 a month, and turned to have Gatsby who lives in an enormous mansion as his neighbor. One day he was invited by his cousin Daisy married to Tim Buchanan on the East egg to have dinner, it was an awkward dinner and Jordan Baker a golfer also attended. When he drove back to his house he stayed out for a couple of minutes where he saw Gatsby for the first time, he didn't know where he got …show more content…
Nick says “I lived at West Egg, the – well, the least fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season” (Fitzgerald 5). This passage and the goofy sense Fitzgerald points it out reflect the how Nick has something of each side the East and the West egg. I mean Nick is well educated, he studied in Yale an ivy league and has good connections like East egg people, more conservative, but still he lives on the west egg on a wealthy neighborhood but small house having a modest life. Fitzgerald explores the theme of “old money” and “new money” since the beginning of the story through the words Nick's father told him, "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had"(Fitzgerald 2). This quote helps to develop the theme by trying to emphasize how although the wealthy have had more advantages in life they at least should try to be morally correct and