Great Gatsby Chapter 1

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Mind Map on Great Gatsby Chapter 1, created by echeesman22 on 15/05/2013.
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Great Gatsby Chapter 1
  1. NARRATOR
    1. Nick CArraway, an involved narrator
      1. Takes the reader into confidence
        1. Sharing his memory of significant events
          1. Coming to terms with whats happened & gaining more understanding himself
        2. Beggins with self anslysis
          1. "Reserving all judgements is a matter of infinate hope"
            1. Highlights him as a participant with own characteristics
              1. Not neutral narration = info he oresents us with is coloured by his character
                1. We need to be aware about what is revealed about NIck & how he presents others
              2. Makes early reference to Gatsby
                1. Some of which are scornful
                  1. But some admerational
                    1. "Heightened sensativity to the promises of life
                      1. "Extrodinary gift for hope"
                  2. CHARACTER
                    1. Nick Carraway
                      1. He had moved east for material sucess
                        1. Irony: in going to the east "he was a guide, a pathfinder an original settler"
                          1. He also feels unsettled from the war & possibly a relationship breakup
                            1. He chooses not to expose these as he is not an emotional character
                          2. Returned to the midwest to reflect on past few years
                            1. Caraway is a tall yellow plant with thin leaves
                            2. The Buchanans
                              1. Live in persuit of pleasure
                                1. Casual aimless way of life
                                  1. Strongly contrast with GAtsby who is self-disaplined
                                2. Characterised as wealthy drifters
                                  1. Daisy
                                    1. Name symbolises a delicate white flower, irony is used as her lifestyle is completly manufactured & remote from the natural world
                                      1. Opens up "in a flower-like way"- artificiality makes the similie unconvincing
                                    2. Clearly American upper-classes who have privildges in wealth
                                      1. Tom
                                        1. Rasist coments show USA's reality of clear social division
                                          1. Thinks he us superior to others
                                      2. STRUCTURE
                                        1. Complex grammatical sentances & obscure vocab
                                        2. SETTING
                                          1. Nick & Gatsby both living in suburb of West Egg, NY
                                            1. Less fashionalble than East Egg
                                              1. "Egg" suggests new life- irony as it bring the oppersite to them both
                                          2. TIME
                                            1. 20th century
                                              1. Indicated by the phone ringing- technological environment
                                              2. 1920's
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