Chapter One Gatsby
- Created by: Emma
- Created on: 29-03-14 19:49
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How to approach the question:
'How does Fitzgerald tell the story in Chapter One?'
- Main Point
- The Impossibility and Corruption of the American Dream
- Nick Carraway as a narrator
- Fitzgerald employs Nick Carraway as an unreliable narrator
- He is first established as a near invisible character who sees everything but is 'inclined to reserve all judgements'
- Later in the chapter, after Nick's self evaluation, Fitzgerald creates irony in that Nick says 'a sense of fundamental decencies is parcelled out at birth'
- This contradicts his earlier statement that he would reserve his judgement which in turn causes the reader to question Nick's reliability as narrator
- The reader is therefore inclined to thoroughly consider everything they read primarily in order to determine…
- Nick Carraway as a narrator
- The Impossibility and Corruption of the American Dream
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