When getting deciding on a book to start the first thing anyone looks at would be the title. Emotions and ideas can be triggered from just a glimpse at the title on the spine of a book. The reader could understand the meaning of the title the second a book catches their attention on the other hand it might take time for the reader to understand the title. The reader may have to invest in the book to fully understand the concept of the title assigned to it. A title could represent so many different things in a book, from the legends of characters to names of important concepts. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the title could connect to many concept in the book like Gatsby being rich and well know-His legacy, the book could be named
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In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald writes the book so that Nick Carraway, the narrator, tells Gatsby 's story from his point of view. Nick says in the beginning of the book “When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.” (pg. 2) Nick is describing to us how he feels about this man named Gatsby, and how he affected his life. He describes Gatsby had ‘represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn’ meaning that when these two had met it wasn 't an instant relationship, for Nick isn 't expecting who he finds. This is an important to the name of the title because if you take the title for a tad more than just surface level the reader can see Nick’s attitude change towards Gatsby throughout the book. Nick also follows the life of Gatsby after they met and digs into his past a bit more also. “‘I’ll tell you God’s truth.’ His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by. ‘I am the son of some wealthy people in the middle-west—all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all my ancestors have been …show more content…
“No—Gatsby turned out alright at the end.” (pg. 2) This quote is Nick commenting on what 's going to happen to Gatsby later in the book, foreshadowing his outcome. “The chauffeur—he was one of Wolfshiem’s protégés— heard the shots….I firmly believe. With scarcely a word said, four of us, the chauffeur, butler, gardener and I, hurried down to the pool. There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way toward the drain at the other.” (pg. 161-162) In the second instance gunshots were heard coming from the Gatsby household and many people came to find his body resting in the pool, dead. The irony between these two different situation in the book somewhat mocks the ‘greatness’ of Gatsby. Nick commenting in the beginning of the book that Gatsby turned out fine in the end is the complete opposite of how he ended up being therefore mocking the title The Great Gatsby. In the end the reader has a better concept and grasp on the title of this book. The Title could be taken in at least three different ways, the surface level of understanding - Gatsby’s Legacy, the second level of understand which digges deeper into the meaning of the title given - a characters story, and finally the third level of understanding - the irony in the title. In the end it is up to the reader on how they personally take the title, what would you take it
In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald writes the book so that Nick Carraway, the narrator, tells Gatsby 's story from his point of view. Nick says in the beginning of the book “When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.” (pg. 2) Nick is describing to us how he feels about this man named Gatsby, and how he affected his life. He describes Gatsby had ‘represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn’ meaning that when these two had met it wasn 't an instant relationship, for Nick isn 't expecting who he finds. This is an important to the name of the title because if you take the title for a tad more than just surface level the reader can see Nick’s attitude change towards Gatsby throughout the book. Nick also follows the life of Gatsby after they met and digs into his past a bit more also. “‘I’ll tell you God’s truth.’ His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by. ‘I am the son of some wealthy people in the middle-west—all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all my ancestors have been …show more content…
“No—Gatsby turned out alright at the end.” (pg. 2) This quote is Nick commenting on what 's going to happen to Gatsby later in the book, foreshadowing his outcome. “The chauffeur—he was one of Wolfshiem’s protégés— heard the shots….I firmly believe. With scarcely a word said, four of us, the chauffeur, butler, gardener and I, hurried down to the pool. There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way toward the drain at the other.” (pg. 161-162) In the second instance gunshots were heard coming from the Gatsby household and many people came to find his body resting in the pool, dead. The irony between these two different situation in the book somewhat mocks the ‘greatness’ of Gatsby. Nick commenting in the beginning of the book that Gatsby turned out fine in the end is the complete opposite of how he ended up being therefore mocking the title The Great Gatsby. In the end the reader has a better concept and grasp on the title of this book. The Title could be taken in at least three different ways, the surface level of understanding - Gatsby’s Legacy, the second level of understand which digges deeper into the meaning of the title given - a characters story, and finally the third level of understanding - the irony in the title. In the end it is up to the reader on how they personally take the title, what would you take it