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The Great Gatsby Chapter Summaries. 100% Coverage. Guaranteed Mastery. Rated A

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The Great Gatsby Chapter Summaries. 100% Coverage. Guaranteed Mastery. Rated A Chapter One - ✔✔1) We meet our narrator. But before we really know who he is, we hear the advice that he got f ... rom his father: "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." 2)Nick introduces us to the setting: New York City and the twin villages of West Egg and East Egg in Long Island. West Egg, where Carraway lives, is not as exclusive as East Egg-makes Nick feel like he doesn't belong amongst the other characters. 3)Nick heads over to East Egg to have dinner with Daisy, his cousin and her husband, Tom Buchanan at Gatsby's house. 4)We meet Jordan Baker. 5)The symbolism of the Green Light is introduced when Gatsby looks at it across the bay. Chapter Two - ✔✔1)"The Valley of the Ashes" scene is introduced to us. 2)Nick, Tom and Gatsby are travelling to New York but stop by at Wilson's garage to collect Myrtle, Wilson's wife and Tom's mistress. 3)Nick gets drunk for the second time in his life. 4)Tom breaks Myrtle's Nose after he asks her to stop talking about Daisy, his wife-this shows that he loves Daisy and doesn't respect Myrtle-she is portrayed as a simple distraction for Tom. 5)The chapter ends with Nick at the train station early in the morning unaware of how he ended up there-this portrays him as an unreliable narrator and there is a gap in the structure of the novel due to this. Chapter Three - ✔✔1) Nick attends his first party at Gatsby's after being handed an invitation by Gatsby's chauffeur. 2)Nick goes into the library at Gatsby's house and meets a man with owl-eyed spectacles who mentions one of the famous Fitzgerald lines: "I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library." 3)Nick discovers he knew Gatsby as they were both in world war one [Show More]

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