The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 Analysis

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1. The most crucial part of the plot in Chapter 1 is when Nick goes to visit his cousin and her husband, Daisy and Tom Buchanan. This is an important part of chapter 1 because this is when the main characters of the story are introduced. Nick recounts his description of the main characters of the story as he is sitting around with them discussing seemingly unimportant things in which he makes you think are the way snobby, newly rich people talk everyday.

2. In the beginning of the novel, Nick describes himself as a middle class person from the midwest eager to learn how people on the east coast live. He leads you to believe he is a very moral man with high ethics. His description of himself makes you know he does not belong with the newly
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Nick has become scared for Gatsby because he realizes that Gatsby has such intense love for Daisy and realizes it is a volatile situation. Nick realizes that Gatsby had left his family at an early age and reinvented himself to become that man that he was today. "So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end." Jay Gatsby did not come from the social class that Daisy did and no matter how much fortune or how much he acted like he was of the same social class, he never would be.

Chapter 7

1. The most crucial part in the plot of Chapter 7 is when Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby have a confrontation. The confrontation is about who Daisy loves - whether it is Tom or Gatsby. Gatsby tells Tom that Daisy loves him and him alone and that she has never loved Tom. He also tells Tom that Daisy is going to leave and be with him. Daisy seems confused and this makes Gatsby uncomfortable.

2. Gatsby stopped giving parties because he was worried that others would find out about him and Daisy. Daisy had been spending more time with Gatsby at his house and he was worried that the servants may gossip and that Daisy's husband would find out. He didn't want any harm to come to Daisy so he believed if he stopped the parties then Daisy would be

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