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Daughter relationship parents

Marriage faade
Glimpses into marriages
Daisy Southern girl (traditional background) no like modern women
Jordan Baker familiarity with Nick (she cheated sport scandal), new
type of people
Tom sport , player in past , ideas in race
Voice description physical , eyer
Women, empty people, motionless
Daisy confided nick, honest with Nick
Very good reather characters, nave but insightful
First appearance Gatsby
Under stars reaching out bay, romantic character
Mystery
Gatsby pure but what surrounded him not
Pretender
Way he speaks old boy elaborate speech, he has learnt speak like a
gentleman, self construction , his life is a project he has made himself
Mentors figures
Gatsby house vs Buchanans mansion: Gastby spanking new,
flamboyant, buying style and status Buchanans, old money, less
exaggeration more minimalist
Descriptive language,
Chapter 2
NY light vs greyness Valley of ashes
Wannabes valley of ashes, Myrtle, not everyone is living the dream
Eyes as being brooding over, eyes of God (morality, spiritual, appear
when bad things happen)
Blue, idea of transcendence
Only an advery (God as an advert)
Tom hits mirt. Everybody drunk he does not judge
Chaotic parodist situation
Anticipates another scene in which myrtle is also a victim
Flower names (daisy and Myrtle)
Contrast gathering Buchanans home and New York apartment
Daisy as hostess contrary myrtle
Both of them is violence somehow; Tom has smashed her little finger
and myrtle nose broken

Chapter 3
Critical people at the party
End
Chapter 4
Names west egg and east egg different between new and old riches
First time Gatsby tries give story of his life
Half trues
Black people
Fine he can go
Jordan Baker plaza hotel (she narrates part Gatsby and daisy met)
true story
Daisy receives letter , she choses tom to keep her standards

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