The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Chapter one is a whole smörgåsbord of character descriptions, and I don't like it! The author is a young man named Nick Carraway, and he has come to New York for business and a successful life. He lives next to a man named Gatsby, who he hasn't met yet, but has heard elaborate rumors about him. They live on West Egg, which is the less proper, famous island compared to East Egg. Nick takes a journey to East Egg one day to visit the only person he seems to know, his "second cousin once removed" Daisy. We are then introduced to Daisy's husband, Tom Buchanan. We quickly notice that Tom is a very hate-able character. For one he is a burly lumbering man who thinks he know more than he does. Also, the things that he is passionate about includes false science and racism. His one strong suit is that he's a decent conversationalist, because Nick is simply horrible at it. Every chat Nick has involves one or two word questions and responses. At one point, Tom wants to learn some more about Nick, and the conversation follows like "'What do you do Nick?' 'I'm a bond man.' 'Who with?' [Nick] told him" (Fitzgerald 10). How is a reader supposed to enjoy a book when the main character/narrator can't get a decent conversation going?!
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