The Great Gatsby Study Guide
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The Great Gatsby [11]
The Great Gatsby Study Guide Chapter One 1. Explain what Fitzgerald achieved by using Nick?s point of view to tell Gatsby?s story? He?s able to analyze and criticize. 2. What do we learn about Nick Carraway in the introductory section of the novel? From a good family, in bonds. 3. In discussing East Egg and West Egg, Nick states: ?To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.? Indicate what the ?dissimilarities? might be. Type of people that live there, type of homes they have. 4. Compare the home of Nick, Gatsby, and the Buchanans. How does each home reflect the personality of its owner? Nick?s is inexpensive; Gatsby?s is showy; the Buchanans? represents old money.