THE GREAT GATSBY - CHAPTER 6

Chapter 6;

Narrative elemens;

- The narrative itself
- Learn where Gatsby is from

J.Gatsby, why change his name? To make him look better? Or worse?

- Tom as a charcter is sexist towards the female characters.
This takes place at the party

- Themes - love and lies?

Ends with a party.

''You can't repeat the past'' - Line 106

THE GREAT GATSBY - CHAPTER 5

Narrative elements of chapter 5:

- The first sense ''I was afraid...'' builds the tension for the entire first half of the character
- Gatsby's dialogue is sporadic; he constantly changes the subject
-  The juxtaposition between Gatsby's fine clothes and his  physical appearance - ''White flannel  suit, silver shirt and gold-coloured''  ''Pale, and there were dark signs of sleeplessness in his eyes''

- There is a chagne Gatsby

- Gatsby's house decrpition relates to Daisy

- Lyrics of the song

- Romantic imagery

- ''Crying into his shirts''

- Female characters

- Emotive language

- Time

- Opposites

- Colour

- Music

THE GREAT GATSBY - CHAPTER FOUR

Narrative elements of chapter four:
- Jordan tells the story within this chapter, even though Nick should be
- The description of the car and how the role of how this is shown.

- Greater insight of the characters
i.e - racism

- Nick is developing as the narrator
- Why is Nick not the same throughout the novel? He changes character, why?
     On purpose?         Getting comfortable with the characters?

- All of this chapter happens in one day - Sunday

- Nick feelings towards Gatsby
- Nick is becoming one of the characters
- The use of ''we'' gives the sense of including himself
- The use of colours
- Use of names
- Themes - rumors, love, hate, women..

THE GREAT GATSBY - CHAPTER THREE

This is the party scene within the book and this is the first meeting of Gatsby.

Is there a colour within this chapter or the whole book?
- Use of colours; oranges, lemons, blue, dark gold, yellow.
Primary colours - yellow is the more dominant colour
- Referneces to the colour grey. However, it's summer.

Imagery: isolated at the party. The feeling of being somewhere but feeling isolated and that everything around you is still moving.

Gatsby and Nick to meet next day to fly a plane

Car crash when people are leaving
BUT WHY IS THERE A CAR CRASH?
-  Sense of death
- Foreshadowing of Daisy running over Myrtle
- References to cars

Jordan is at the party, develop of Jordan as a character.
- Is she dishonest?
- Is she a cheat?
- Nick talks about someone he loved

There is a contrast to Tom as a character

Key notes:
- Nick seems to be coming out of his shell and changed character when he see's the crash
- Got angry about him going to commit suicide
- Time references
- The party sequence seems to perfect to be real.
- One image that captures chapter three - everyone is robots with masks, all work the same and talk the same.
- Sense of belonging. Nick is not engaging or for any reason doesn't fit into the theme of Gatsby.