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· Nicks position with main characters · Nick’s personality- he is inclined to “reserve all judgements” · Nicks role and development matching that of the reader · Nick is new to East, learns about Gatsby as we do · His symbolic change at 30- rejection of Buchanans, “careless people who smashed up things…and then retreated” · Admire Gatsby- Represents everything for which he as an “unaffected scorn” yet admires his “romantic readiness” · Feels Gatsby is “worth the whole damn bunch put together” · Linkage of events and his memories to themes in novel · Sees Gatsby as more than a “bootlegger” · Links Gatsby to American Dream by comparing him to early Dutch settlers- “fresh, green breast of the new world” · “fresh green breast” = acme “valley of ashes”= nadir · Nicks memory of returning home in winter – he was aware of his “identity with this country” · Parallels with Gatsby · Concludes by stating Gatsby as a representative of Humanity · “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” · All humans are like Gatsby, on a quest to fulfil a dream, despite contradictory tides of time, morality and change, continuously turning today and tomorrow into irrecoverable yesterdays · Nicks position with main characters · Nick’s personality- he is inclined to “reserve all judgements” · Nicks role and development matching that of the reader · Nick is new to East, learns about Gatsby as we do · His symbolic change at 30- rejection of Buchanans, “careless people who smashed up things…and then retreated” · Admire Gatsby- Represents everything for which he as an “unaffected scorn” yet admires his “romantic readiness” · Feels Gatsby is “worth the whole damn bunch put together” · Linkage of events and his memories to themes in novel · Sees Gatsby as more than a “bootlegger” · Links Gatsby to American Dream by comparing him to early Dutch settlers- “fresh, green breast of the new world” · “fresh green breast” = acme “valley of ashes”= nadir · Nicks memory of returning home in winter – he was aware of his “identity with this country” · Parallels with Gatsby · Concludes by stating Gatsby as a representative of Humanity · “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” · All humans are like Gatsby, on a quest to fulfil a dream, despite contradictory tides of time, morality and change, continuously turning today and tomorrow into irrecoverable yesterdays
Approximate Word count = 356
Approximate Pages = 1.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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