Fitzgerald uses Nick as an epistemic narrator and Gatsby as an axiological narrator to portray the story through two varying perspectives, one from whom the story was written about and the other not a main character. Double vision is also repetitively used to emphasise the dramatic tension going on being the two differing objects or ideas. The West Egg and East Egg are one example of Fitzgerald’s double vision. Adding to the book as a whole, the narratives and double vision aid the reader feel as if they are experiencing it. Nick Carraway is the narrator, he is partially involved in the book but not to a major extent. His way of writing is considered epistemic which contains knowledge imbalance, mystery, and the growth of certain characters.
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Overall it is contrasting two separate ideas to show stress between those two things, readers can feel the stress when they see the double vision. One example of the double vision is the East and West Egg, either they inherited their money or they worked for their money. When there are two people, one from the West and one from the East they bicker because of their differing beliefs and way of life. Gatsby and Tom are a prime example, “‘I know I’m not very popular. I don’t give big parties. I suppose you’ve got to make your house into a pigsty in order to have any friends- in the modern world.’ … ‘I’ve got something to tell you old sport,-’ began Gatsby.” (Page 137; Chapter VII) Tom is fighting with Gatsby over his parties, which are different than Tom’s. The dichotomy builds up to the argument. “I [Nick] lived at the West Egg, the --well less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express my bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. … Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water …His [Tom of East Egg] family were enormously wealthy.” (Page 9-10; Chapter I) From Nick’s description the East Egg is fancy and proper compared to West. Nick seems jealous of the East Egg and it creates the tension between the two “side.” Another double vision is reality vs fantasy. Reality is hard to fathom in Gatsby’s life. Refusing to accept …show more content…
F. Scott knows that by only having one narrator as Nick, the story would not have near as much information from the main character. Yet he is related to Daisy and knows specific information about her and Tom that Gatsby does not. Some of the information coming from Nick is fuzzy, for he was not involved in certain the scenes of the book. If Scott chose to have Gatsby as the one narrator he would get increased amount of solid information, but it would not be as mysterious. Wanting to keep the readers guessing, Fitzgerald used both Carraway and Jay as narrators. Fitzgerald uses two opposing sides of double vision to make the readers favor one. Readers must choose “Would I want to live in East Egg or West
Overall it is contrasting two separate ideas to show stress between those two things, readers can feel the stress when they see the double vision. One example of the double vision is the East and West Egg, either they inherited their money or they worked for their money. When there are two people, one from the West and one from the East they bicker because of their differing beliefs and way of life. Gatsby and Tom are a prime example, “‘I know I’m not very popular. I don’t give big parties. I suppose you’ve got to make your house into a pigsty in order to have any friends- in the modern world.’ … ‘I’ve got something to tell you old sport,-’ began Gatsby.” (Page 137; Chapter VII) Tom is fighting with Gatsby over his parties, which are different than Tom’s. The dichotomy builds up to the argument. “I [Nick] lived at the West Egg, the --well less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express my bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. … Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water …His [Tom of East Egg] family were enormously wealthy.” (Page 9-10; Chapter I) From Nick’s description the East Egg is fancy and proper compared to West. Nick seems jealous of the East Egg and it creates the tension between the two “side.” Another double vision is reality vs fantasy. Reality is hard to fathom in Gatsby’s life. Refusing to accept …show more content…
F. Scott knows that by only having one narrator as Nick, the story would not have near as much information from the main character. Yet he is related to Daisy and knows specific information about her and Tom that Gatsby does not. Some of the information coming from Nick is fuzzy, for he was not involved in certain the scenes of the book. If Scott chose to have Gatsby as the one narrator he would get increased amount of solid information, but it would not be as mysterious. Wanting to keep the readers guessing, Fitzgerald used both Carraway and Jay as narrators. Fitzgerald uses two opposing sides of double vision to make the readers favor one. Readers must choose “Would I want to live in East Egg or West