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The Great Gatsby (Chapter 9)

Ashlynn McNamara

Theme

This novel has many themes, but the most important and most recognizable ones are love, dishonesty and unhappiness. There is a huge argument and mess created by the love in the book. When Daisy says; "I never loved him" (132). Daisy was saying that she was never in love with Tom, but then later she states; "I did love him once-but I loved you too" (132). In this situation Daisy is saying that she only loves Gatsby but then she says that she also loved Tom at one point in time. Daisy is showing love but also lying, which created the mess between everyone. Dishonesty is shown throughout the whole book, for example, the quotes above. Daisy is lying to both Gatsby and Tom. There is dishonesty between Gatsby, Daisy and Tom. Gatsby loves Daisy, Daisy loves Gatsby, and Daisy supposedly loves Tom. Also the constant cheating on one another. For example, Myrtle cheating on George Wilson with Tom, Tom cheating on Daisy with Myrtle, and Nick cheating on whoever he is supposedly married to in the East. Throughout the book, Daisy is unhappy most of the time. Especially when Gatsby and Tom get in an argument about who Daisy is really in love with. Also Myrtle is unhappy with her marriage with George, she did not really love him but he really loved her. 

The Great Gatsby (Chapter 8)

Ashlynn McNamara

Authors Style

Fitzgerald writes in a way that makes you want to read more or even have to reread paragraphs from before because he does not fully state what is going on. As for example, on page 161 he states; "I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn't believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared. If that was true he must have felt that he had lost old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about... like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees" (Fitzgerald). In this paragraph, Fitzgerald foreshadows the killing of Gatsby by describing the feeling of Gatsby when he is shot, slowly dieing. But Fitzgerald does not fully give details on what is happening, this makes you intrigued and want to read more, but it also makes you think and have to go back and read to fully understand what is going on.

The Great Gatsby (Chapter 7)

Ashlynn McNamara

Figurative Language

A major symbol used in this novel is the green light at the end of  Daisy's dock. The green light symbolizes Gatsby's goal in the future which is to be with Daisy. For example, in Chapter 1 it states; "he stretched out his arm towards the dark water in a curious way , and, as far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling" (Fitzgerald.20). This illustrates Gatsby reaching out for Daisy. The trembling represents the nervousness of which he was feeling while seeing the green light, knowing thats where Daisy lives. 

There is also the use of simile in Chapter 3. It states; "In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars" (Fitzgerald.39). Simile is used in this statement because it is comparing men and girls to moths. Illustrating the fast movements and actions the men and girls took while at the parties. 

The Great Gatsby (Chapter 6) 

Ashlynn McNamara

Conflict

The central tension of the novel is two men, Tom and Gatsby fighting over Daisy. Gatsby is polite to Tom when they first met, but Tom was not. Tom is trying to keep his marriage alive but at the same time is cheating on her with another women. And Gatsby is who was with Daisy in 1917 but something happened between them and haven't seen each other in a while. But Gatsby is trying to forget the past and focus to try to create a future with her. The two quotes; " She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchana saw. He was astounded. His mouth opened a little, and he looked at Gatsby, and then back at Daisy as if he had just recognized her as some one he knew a long time ago"(119) and when tom said; "I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if thats the idea you can count me out..." (130). The two quotes show the anger and astonishment of Tom after finding out that Gatsby and Daisy used o have a relationship long ago and now they are falling in love again right in front of him.

The Great Gatsby (Chapter 4 & 5)

Ashlynn McNamara

Characterization

The most interesting and the most important character I thought was Nick. Nick had major dialogue because he tells the readers information about all of the characters mentioned in the book. The book is told in his point of view, so everything he sees and finds out is told to the readers in first person. Such things as when people said; "i think he killed a man once" (Jordan.49). We would never have heard of this or known of this about Gatsby if it was not told in the book. His actions are minor because he does not do much. Fitzgerald description of Nick is a quiet, poor man who lives alone on West Egg in a little house. The other characters reactions are that they think good of him. They all believe he is a good man, he is liked by everyone. Nick is the kind of person who listens to what people have to say and if its personal, then he does not tell it. Nick is a flat character because at the beginning of the book, Nick was a quiet, lonely man who lived in a  house alone. throughout the book, Nick becomes more involved with people by attending Gatsby's parties, meeting new people and going to New York with Tom to meet his mistress and many other people. Nick is also a dynamic character because he changes a lot throughout the book by making new friends and going to parties. 

The Great Gatsby (Chapter 3)

Ashlynn McNamara

Quotation Analysis / Article

"The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon. They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house. I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall. Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room, and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor" (Fitzgerald.8).

                  

                  The quote above uses metaphor and personification. When he says "two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon", he is using a metaphor by using the heaviness of an anchor as if they were heavily seated on the couch but using the lightness of the balloon to describe the way they looked while sitting upon the couch. Which relates to when he says; "they were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house". This describes the way the two women look, the color white represents elegance which gives the women a sense of class. The rippling and fluttering gives them the sense of lightness as mentioned as the balloon. He uses personification when he says, " listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall". By saying that the picture on the wall was groaning illustrates to us the noise it was making while swaying back and forth on the wall from the wind blowing it. 

"There was music from my neighbors house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam" (Fitzgerald.39).

                   The quote above uses metaphor and formal diction. When he says, "men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars", instead of saying that they came and went without any hesitation or went through really fast, he compared them to moths who fly really fast and do not stop. He uses formal diction when he uses the words such as "cataracts" and "slit". Instead of saying that the motor-boats went through the Sound, he said they split. He uses other diction by using the word "blue", describing the color of the garden, which probably means there are blue flowers. 

Article: http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200212/the-power-love