The Great Gatsby Blog Post

Macallum Tepsich

A.

In the novel, “The Great Gatsby” Nick Carraway is the narrator and a character in the story. Nick is a nice man and would never do anything to hurt anybody unlike Daisy Buchanan, who hurt Gatsby by marrying Tom. He is silent but in the end makes all the pieces of the puzzle fall into place. Nick shows how outgoing he is when he allows Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan to see each other and have tea. He is a modest man and never tries to bring other people down. Nick is a very open-minded character, which makes the other characters in the novel want to talk to him. Nick uses this to his advantage when Gatsby and Daisy start seeing each other. Gatsby and Daisy trust Nick because he is keeping their love a secret from Tom.

“I lived at West Egg, the-well, the less fashionable of the two.” à In this passage Nick is being modest because even though he has a wonderful home he does not make a big deal of it.

“I called up Daisy from the office next morning, and invited her to come to tea.”

“Don’t bring Tom,” I warned her.

“What?”

“Don’t bring Tom.”

“Who is ‘Tom’?” she asked innocently.

à This is an example of Nick be a nice person and going out of his way to help Gatsby and Daisy.

“Good morning, old sport. You’re having lunch with me today and I thought we’d ride up together.” à This quote explains that Gatsby wants to talk to Nick. Nick is a character that others in the novel trust.

B.

“You mean to say you don’t know?” said Miss Baker, honestly surprised. “I thought everybody knew.” “I don’t.” “Why-“ she said hesitantly, “Tom’s got some woman in New York.” “Got some woman?” I repeated blankly. à This passage appeals to me and is effective because this is where the book really picks up. I found it interesting because we had to wait until later in the novel to see who Tom’s “girl” was.

“I want to get one of those dogs,” à In this quote we see that Tom is willing to buy varies items for Myrtle. I find this interesting because Tom bought Daisy 350,000$ pearls and then later buys Myrtle a dog. If you think about it, Tom must love Daisy more. The piece is effective because Nick is in the car while he is buying the dog for myrtle. This relates back to the fact the Tom trusts Nick and knows he won’t tell Daisy.

“She’s not leaving me.” Said Tom. à This passage appeals to me because Tom shows how confident he is when it comes to Daisy leaving him. This is effective because it makes Gatsby more and more mad every time he says it. This stikes and argument between Gatsby and Tom, which eventually leads to Daisy running out because she can’t take the fighting. This worked in Tom’s favour because he is not as confident as he thinks he is.

C.

- Why did Wilson shoot Gatsby if he did not have any evidence that Gatsby killed Myrtle?

- Why is Tom so confident throughout the story and why does he behave in such a way that makes the reader not like him?