Summary
The story begins as the narrator Nick Caraway, reminisce about his upbringings in a more opportune environment than that of most people and the lessons his father taught him. Through the chapter we discover that the narrator claims to be highly moral person who reserves his judgement of other people and that he thinks highly of his neighbour Gatsby. Nick Caraway is a Yale graduate of a wealthy with origins to Minnesota. In pursuit of thrill and excitement he moves to New York to purse the American dream, a chance to reinvent his identity. Nick Caraway rents a house in West Egg, a suburb located directly across East Egg. The two places have contrasting features as the West egg are those wealthy who have made their fortunes recently unlike the respected old wealth families that live in East egg. As the story starts, Nick drives to East egg to dine with his cousin Daisy, her friend Jordan and her husband Tom. During the awkward dinner Tom shows that he is a racist by explaining that the Nordic race is being threatened by inferior races and he urges others to read the book. Tom then goes to answer a phone call form New York and Jordan tells Nick that the call is from Tom’s mistress. During the end of …show more content…
And he is the epitome of what Nick Caraway hates of New York, even though Nick admires Gatsby highly.
Nick: A well educated young man from Minnesota who was educated at Yale and fought in World War I. He moved to New York City to learn the bond business, a journey that excites him. He claims to be as tolerant and nonjudgmental, but later on that seems to be a contradiction as he claims that Gatsby is everything he scorns. Another conflict arises as Nick came to New York to purse the trill of the fast paced life style, but on the other hand he dislikes the style of Gatsby, who represents everything about the things he
The story begins as the narrator Nick Caraway, reminisce about his upbringings in a more opportune environment than that of most people and the lessons his father taught him. Through the chapter we discover that the narrator claims to be highly moral person who reserves his judgement of other people and that he thinks highly of his neighbour Gatsby. Nick Caraway is a Yale graduate of a wealthy with origins to Minnesota. In pursuit of thrill and excitement he moves to New York to purse the American dream, a chance to reinvent his identity. Nick Caraway rents a house in West Egg, a suburb located directly across East Egg. The two places have contrasting features as the West egg are those wealthy who have made their fortunes recently unlike the respected old wealth families that live in East egg. As the story starts, Nick drives to East egg to dine with his cousin Daisy, her friend Jordan and her husband Tom. During the awkward dinner Tom shows that he is a racist by explaining that the Nordic race is being threatened by inferior races and he urges others to read the book. Tom then goes to answer a phone call form New York and Jordan tells Nick that the call is from Tom’s mistress. During the end of …show more content…
And he is the epitome of what Nick Caraway hates of New York, even though Nick admires Gatsby highly.
Nick: A well educated young man from Minnesota who was educated at Yale and fought in World War I. He moved to New York City to learn the bond business, a journey that excites him. He claims to be as tolerant and nonjudgmental, but later on that seems to be a contradiction as he claims that Gatsby is everything he scorns. Another conflict arises as Nick came to New York to purse the trill of the fast paced life style, but on the other hand he dislikes the style of Gatsby, who represents everything about the things he