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