Chapter+1

SUMMARY:

The story begins with Nick Carraway, whom also narrates the story and makes himself the books' author. It takes place in the summer of 1922 in New York when Nick goes to work in the bond business and he rents a house in West Egg, Long Island. West Egg is mostly the newbies of the rich people, where as East Egg is home to the snooty upper class aristocrats. West Egg is where Nick first encounters the Gatsby mansion and it's marvelous Gothic style. However, unlike Nick and his buddies in West Egg, he is well aquainted with people in East Egg. He travels to East Egg one night to have dinner with his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan. He encounters Daisy's friend, Jordan, hinting off that he should make romantic advances towards her. After the dinner party, he goes back to West Egg where he see's the handsome and suave Gatsby, who has his arms stretched out towards the dark water.

VOCAB:

Turbulent: Disruptive; churnning. Bungalow: A small house with a single story. Nordic: Relating to the Scandinavian group of languages. Verandas: A roofed platform along the outside of a house, level with the ground floor.

REFLECTION:

The relation to the time period in this story is the seperation from the rich and the poor in the 1920's. Even amongst the upper class, there is still a divide as represented in West Egg and East Egg.

THEMES:

Society and Class: The seperation between West egg and East Egg. Gender: Tom has upper class masculinity.

MARXIST & FEMMINIST:

Marxist is clearly shown immeaditly in the very begining of this novel. You see the division of West Egg and East Egg deffinantly.