Friday, November 7, 2008

The Great Gatsby

Nick Carraway is a poor man who lives in a welathy neighborhood. He comes from prominent family and is well-educated, fopr he graduated from New Haven in 1915. His cousin's Tom and Daisy are very wealthy, and they get along well, although Nick does get annoyed by them and their somewhat snooty attitudes. Daisy and Tom know of Gatsby who lives right next to Nick, yet Nick has never really confronted him. But after Nick Carraway had dinner and a talk with his cousins he decides to say hi to Gatsby, but he realized Gatsby wanted to be alone. Nick describes Gatsby as a man who he would usually hate everything about, yet he says "Gatsby turned all right in the end." This shows that Nick could have pre-judged him and just thought he was a snooty rich person like his cousin's and the rest of his family, without trying to find the good things about him until later on.