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Great Gatsby Character Journal

Submitted by Veritaserum2002 on November 4, 2005

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The Great Gatsby Journal

Chapter 1
Summary- In Chapter 1, the reader finds that Nick Carraway, a moral and tolerant man from the Midwest, narrates and takes the role of author for the rest of the story. Throughout the book, the reader looks at the happenings through Nick's eyes and finds out what he is thinking. Chapter 1, like many chapter 1's, starts out with someone or something explaining themselves and showing how their life has gone thus far. The Great Gatsby is no exception. Nick says that he came from the Midwest to New York's "West Egg" on Long Island. As the name might imply, there is also an "East Egg", which Nick describes the more fashionable of the two. East Egg is where Nick goes one evening, in order to reacquaint himself with his second cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom. The Buchanans welcome him in, and chat about the many things that have passed in their own worlds. Chapter one also introduces Jordan Baker, who, of all we know of at the time, is a golf player. The four current characters then have dinner and chat further with each other. The chapter ends with Nick's hero of his story, Jay Gatsby, reaching out to an indistinguishable light at the end of a dock across the dark water of the Sound.
Tom Buchanan- "I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game" Pg. 10
Tom Buchanan's character represents brutality and arrogance. The description of Tom in Chapter 1 describes him as a big man, for he played football in college. Though this may not necessarily convey brutality, he is certainly capable of it. Tom has an arrogant nature and this is seen in his wealth. Tom also openly shows his affair with Myrtle, maybe adding to his arrogance that he doesn't care what Daisy thinks. Tom and Myrtle are both similar in their selfish desires. They both enjoy wealth and like to let society know of their wealth, or at least Tom's...

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