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...eams." Nick's instantaneous scorn for these "Eastern" types foreshadows all the way to the very end of the novel. At the end the novel, after these Easterners have caused all the commotion, Nick refuses to deal with them any longer. He leaves the East, returns to the Midwest, and, for the time being at least, withdraws from his involvement with other people. "Suppose you met somebody just as careless as yourself." "I hope I never will," she [Jordan] answered. "I hate careless people. That's why I like you." (Fitzgerald 63) Jordan is explaining to Nick how she is able to drive badly as long as everyone else drives carefully. Here, Fitzgerald is foreshadowing to chapter seven where Daisy kills Myrtle Wilson because of her reckless driving. Fitzgerald uses foreshadowing to strengthen the plot of his book. In chapter nine, Nick begins to recall the past and relive his old memories. He must relieve his lingering thoughts of the past. During the chapter, Nick uses a flashback to tell about Gatsby's funeral for the readers to know what happen the day Gatsby was shot. In The Great Gatsby, foreshadowing and flashback influence the structure of the novel. As one can see, the book came to life through the use of flashback and foreshadowing. These two main ingredients in this novel made it possible for the reader to be able to understand Gatsby the way Fitzgerald does. It also helps one to understand Gatsby's relentless pursuit of the American dream. Point Of View “The Great Gatsby” is being told in both first and third person through the eyes of Nick Carraway, one of the characters in the novel, who moves into New York City making a living while selling bonds. Nick compares his neighbor, Jay Gatsby, to the city itself as being very diverse. "Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy of bay, just out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere, the great barnyard of Long Island Sound" (Fitzgerald 9). By writing from Nick's point of view, Fitzgerald is able to make Gatsby more realistic than he could have by presenting Gatsby through the eyes of an omniscient narrator. In The Great Gatsby, the author’s intention of the point of view through an omniscient narrator is to thoroughly describe the other character of the novel, also it keeps the credibility of the narrator in check. Who is to say that Nick Carraway is to be the readers' only insight to the affluent world of Long Island during the 1920's? He himself admitted to being far from perfect; even "vulnerable." By providing the reader with a chance to judge the importance, purpose, and mission of each character, less time is spent analyzing the credibility of the narrator and more is devoted to understanding Fitzgerald's statement as a whole. This message would be lost if it were not for the selected point of view. Fitzgerald, through what Nick perceives and the changes he undergoes, comments specifically on the society of the time. Had he instead relied upon another character's recollection of the same events, the meaning would be lost. The "carelessness' that the Buchanans represent could not be interpreted as such had someone who could not, in the end, see through the masks of riches been the reader's source of insight. The final impression sought by Fitzgerald would be skewed. Therefore, as limiting as they are, Nick Carraway's eyes (mixed with the converstion around him) provide not only a skillful, but also a necessary framework for the entire novel. Character Jay Gatsby is, of course, both the novel's title character and its protagonist. When first we meet him, Gatsby is a mysterious, fantastically wealthy young man. Every Saturday, his garish Gothic mansion in West Egg serves as the site of extravagant parties. Later in the novel, we learn that his real name is James Gatz; he was born in North Dakota, to an impoverished farming family. While serving in the Army in World War I, Gatsby met Daisy Fay (now Daisy Buchanan) and fell passionately in love with her. He worked briefly for a millionaire, and there became acquainted with the people and customs of high society. This, coupled with his love of Daisy, inspired Gatsby to devote his life to the acquisition of wealth. His fortune has been made through illegal activities: he has sacrificed all claims to propriety in the hopes of growing wealthy and thereby winning Daisy's love. Nick Carraway, the novel's narrator, comes from a well-to-do Minnesota family. He travels to New York to learn the bond business; there, he becomes involved with both Gatsby and the Buchanans. Though he is honest, responsible, and fair-minded, Nick nevertheless shares some of the flaws of the East Egg locale. He, too, frequently neglects to take the emotions of others into account. Of all the novel's characters, he is the only one to truly recognize Gatsby's "greatness" thereby revealing himself as a young man of unusual sensitivity. Tom Buchanan, a brutal, hulking man, Tom is a former Yale football player who, like Daisy, comes from an immensely wealthy Midwestern family. His racism and sexism are symptomatic of his deep insecurity about his own elevated social position. Tom is a vicious bully, physically menacing both his wife and his mistress. He is a thoroughgoing hypocrite as well: though he condemns his wife and Gatsby for their infidelity, he has no qualms about carrying on his own affair. Daisy Fay Buchanan, she is Nick's cousin, Tom's wife, and the woman Gatsby loves. In her youth, she fell in love with Jay Gatsby and promised to wait for him until the end of the war. During their separation, however, Tom Buchanan proposed to her; comparing Tom's wealth to Gatsby's poverty, Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. Daisy is insubstantial and vapid, a careless woman who uses her frail demeanor as an excuse for her extreme immaturity. She, in her wealth and beauty, is the symbol of all that Gatsby desires. She kills Myrtle Wilson while driving Gatsby's car. Gatsby selflessly assumes responsibility for Myrtle's death. Jordan Baker, Daisy's longtime friend, Jordan is a professional golfer who cheated in order to win her first tournament. Jordan is extremely cynical, with a masculine, icy demeanor that Nick initially finds compelling. Myrtle Wilson, an earthy, vital and voluptuous woman, Myrtle is desperate to improve her life. She shares a loveless marriage with George Wilson, a man who runs a shabby garage in the valley of ashes. She has been having a long-term affair with Tom Buchanan, and is incredibly jealous of Daisy. After a fight with her husband, she runs out into the street and is hit and killed by Gatsby's car. George B. Wilson, George is a listless, impoverished man whose only passion is his love for his wife, Myrtle. He is devastated by Myrtle's affair with Tom. After her death, the magnitude of his grief drives Wilson to murder Jay Gatsby before committing suicide himself. These seven characters are the principle character that the novel revolved around. They represent the themes- hope, success, ignorance, judgment, Disillusionment, and morals, which Fitzgerald compose in this novel. Setting The Great Gatsby occurs in Long Island and New York City in the summer of 1922. F. Scott Fitzgerald chose New York as the settin...