Wednesday, February 24, 2010

order of development

how nick narrates the novel.
-i will start off by naming his morals and how he was raised by his father.
-i will show you how he describes other people. how he shows distinction between fact and rumors
-third. how nick makes his own choices based on the people around him.
- lastly. how he is a dependable narrator.

Monday, February 15, 2010

chp 9

For the rest of the day and for more to come, reporters and people the same gather outside of Gatsby's mansion. word spreading of the tragedy. Stronger rumors then those of him and his parties. Nick wanted a big funeral for him. Calling those he could but no one came. everyone was either gone or had moved on like Tom and Daisey. shortly after this Nick gets a message from Henry C. Gatz telling him to hold the funeral until he gets there. after everything blows over nick decides he sick of it all. and wants to go home to Minnesota. but not until he breaks off his ties with Daisey. she gets upset and claims she is already engaged. nick see's tom a few weeks later and is upset with him. tom tells him that he is the one who told mr. wilson. nick decides that tom and daisey are just bad people and thinks that all the people in the east are all the same. nicks final night in east egg he erases something that someone has tagged on gatsby's mansion and lays out by the stars thinking of life.

chp 8

Gatsby gets home late and stays out even later watching Daisy's house from outside making sure everything is okay. even though nick tells him to let it go and go home. the next morning Nick goes over to Gatsby's house although it makes him extremely late for work. while over at Gatsby's house he tells him that you should think of moving. Gatsby insists that he cant leave her again and goes on to say that he loves when they are interrupted by the Gardner. who says that fall is turning and he is going to drain the pool. Gatsby says to him that he should wait another day although he has never once used it. Through out the rest of Nick's day he finds himself distracted; too distracted to even go on his date with Jordan. Mr Wilson starts to wonder who Myrtles killer could be. Later that day after work he goes over to Gatsby's house and shoots him while he laid in his pool on an air mattress followed by him taking his own life. After work Nick goes back to Gatsby's house to find him dead along with Mr. Wilson..

  1. characters: Mr Gatsby, Nick, Jordan, George Wilson, Daisey, Michealis, gardener
  2. symbol: when Daisey's bedroom light shuts off