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Mind Map by ellen.harrison, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by ellen.harrison
almost 11 years ago
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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.
- Nick talks about his life and family
(family business, war, moving east)
- 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
- Readers shown a comparison
to those that have much and
those that have not so much
- "riotous island" - suggestion
towards foreshadowing to all
the parties and corruption that
Nick finds there.
- Begin with no particular setting, looking to past
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