- Move in genre from romance to tragedy
How's the story told?
Pages 108 - 112
- Personification of the cars
- Use of telephone, converstaions tell story
- Weather, makes you feel physically uncomfortable
- Dialogue, 'Daisy comes over quite often' says Gatsby-alot of detail in small amount of dalogue
- Narrator, Nick knows the story so can set situations up how he wants
- Repetition of the word hot from the conductor
Pages 113-117
- Weather representation of moods, as Tom's anger grows weather gets hotter or could be sexual tension between daisy and Gatsby-heat representing climax
- Colour, repetition of green references-jealousy
- Dialogue, more dialogue than description
- Time
Pages 118-122
- Irony, Wilson talking to Tom about Myrtle being unfaithful
- Silence/Lack of/Increase Representing a change in genre ---> tragedy
- Narrated voice, Nick getting more confident as saying 'we' instead of 'they'
Pages 123-127
- Juxtaposition, Tom rude > Gatsby polite
- Power, Gatsby loses power 'I used to laugh sometime, but there was no laughter in his eyes' later says how tom was filled with laughter
- What people say contradicts the descriptions of appearence given by Nick
Pages 128-133
- Cars, Myrtle gets run over (Tom still doesn't care)
- Dramatic scene, casually described though
- Very Linear
- 'We drove on towards death'
- Double narration, Nick narrating Jordan's reaction
- Sense of movement, car journey-Nick describes journey like scenes in a film
- Chapter gives greater insight into the pasts of the characters and helps the reader understand the characters and story more especially Gatsby
- Narrator, Nick is seen as more of a narrator than a character as he doesn't usually involve himself in the story-Fitzgerald projecting his voice through a character
- Neither Daisy or Gatsby drink alcohol, interesting and maybe a reference to their past?
- Cars, seem to be iconic throughout
- Ideology, themes of inequality
- Understand why Gatsby needs Nick and his help
- What is it about Daisy?
- Theme of mystery
- Nick appears to live through other people
- Contrast between Midwest and Eastern Coast and the difficulties Nick is having adjusting
- Theme of trust running throughout, Tom and Mrs Wilson, Mr Wilson and his wife, the reader and Nick, Nick and Gatsby
- Use of speech- gossip (Jordan)
- Contrast Between Tom and Gatsby as they are both showing people one thing but being another. Tom Is trying to come across like Gatsby's nature whereas Gatsby hides his wealthy background
- Meet Gatsby- longing for something across the water
