Monday, January 31, 2011

The Great Gatsby: Symbolism in Chapters 1-4

The most interesting character in my opinion would be Gatsby. He is very quite and likes to study people behind the scenes, at the party he would just sit there and watch people drink alcohol and dance. He also doesn't even drink alcohol when everyone at that period of time did. He gets these phone calls a lot from Chicago which I think is a foreshadow of him having to do something with the prohibition. He symbolizes the color yellow, shows that he is a nice guy but may not show it all the time in actions but by himself he does.

The Great Gatsby: Characters in Chapter 1

Nick: He grew up in a respectable Chicago family and went to Yale, he likes literature and considers himself one of those "limited" specialists known as a "well-rounded man".Daisy: Very attractive lady but seems like her husband doesn't like her
Tom: Big guy that has a wife, Daisy but is having an affair with her without her knowing.
Jordan: Jordan is possibly the least important of all the major characters in the book, yet she provides an important contrast to Daisy Buchanan

I think the beginning of the book is hard to comprehend but we went through it and it' a bit more interesting than if we hadn't of. It seems like a book worth listening to in class and I'm excited to read the rest. 

Anticipating The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is gonna be a weird book in my opinion. To what I've herd from others they say that it's very confusing and gotta pay a lot of attention. Gatsby is gonna be a very interesting guy and important to the story line. I think he is gonna be some part of the whole prohibition cause. Something has to revolve around it and it's obviously gonna be him.