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Great Gatsby - Chapter 1
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English Lit (The Great Gatsby - Chapter Plans) Mind Map on Great Gatsby - Chapter 1, created by ellen.harrison on 30/01/2014.
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Great Gatsby - Chapter 1
Events in Chapter 1
Nick talks about his life and family (family business, war, moving east)
Talks about West Egg, mentions Gatsby's mansion.
Introduced to Tom and Daisy, first a description then a meeting with them.
Find out Tom is having an affair on Daisy
Gatsby reaching out out to a green light.
Setting
Begin with no particular setting, looking to past
Move to West Egg
"riotous island" - suggestion towards foreshadowing to all the parties and corruption that Nick finds there.
"separated only by a courtesy bay" - metaphorical representation of the sensibilities of people from Eastern and Western parts of the US
"less fashionable" - East egg = old money. West egg = new money (recently earned money)
Readers shown a comparison to those that have much and those that have not so much
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