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The Great Gatsby Summary Table
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Chapter 1Plot/Events Gatsby Daisy Tom Nick Jordan Setting
N introduces ‘extraordinary gift for ‘in white..dresses were ‘Tom Buchanan in riding ‘I’m inclined to reserve all ‘slender, small- West Egg
himself & hope’ rippling and fluttering’ clothes was standing with judgements’ breasted girl’ ‘less fashionable of the
mentions G ‘what foul dust floated ‘boom as Tom Buchannan his legs apart on the front ‘a sense of the ‘They oughtn’t to two’
Summer 1922 - in the wake of his shut the rear porch’ fundamental decencies is let her run ‘factual imitation of some
living in West Egg, dreams’ windows...ballooned slowly ‘Two shining arrogant eyes parcelled out unequally at around the Hotel de Ville in Normandy’
modest house ‘standing with his to the floor’ had established dominance birth’ country this way’ ‘thin beard of raw ivy’
next to G’s hands in his pockets ‘I’m p-paralysed with over his face’ ‘Gatsby, who represented
mansion regarding the silver happiness’ ‘cruel body’ everything for which I have East Egg
Has dinner w/ D, T pepper of the stars’ ‘I’ve heard it said that ‘just because I’m stronger unaffected scorn’ ‘across the courtesy bay
&J ‘secure position of his Daisy’s murmur was only to and more of a man than ‘I was confused and a little the white palaces of
Party ends & G feet on the lawn’ make people lean towards you are’ disgusted as I drove away’ fashionable East Egg
sees G reaching to ‘come out to her’ ‘That’s what I get for glittered along the water’
green light determine what share ‘low, thrilling voice’ marrying a brute of a man, ‘white colonial mansion’
was his of our local ‘face was sad and lovely’ a great, big, hulking ‘sundials and brick walls
heavens’ ‘singing compulsion’ physical specimen of a -’ and burning gardens’
‘Well, I’ve had a very bad ‘Tom’s got some woman in
time, Nick, and I’m pretty New York’
cynical about everything’
‘that’s the best thing a girl
can be in this world, a
beautiful little fool’
Themes: Social Allusion to nightingale links Racist - The Rise of the Contradictions, unreliable Masculine Surface glamour of EE
class, gender, to Keats’ Ode & romantic Coloured Empires narrator, intradiegetic descriptions covers unattractive reality
marriage, sublime
appearance vs
reality
Symbols: green
light, romantic
sublime
(nightingale)
, Chapter 2
Plot/Events Nick Myrtle Tom Other Characters Symbols Setting
Valley of Ashes ‘Mrs Wilson’ ‘middle thirties, and faintly ‘I want you to meet my George Wilson Ecleberg’s eyes Valley of Ashes
introduced ‘I have been drunk just stout, but she carried her flesh girl’ ‘a blond, spiritless man, ‘dimmed a little ‘a fantastic farm where
N&T go to NY, T twice in my life’ sensuously, as some women ‘Wilson?...He’s so dumb anaemic, and faintly by many paintless ashes grow like wheat’
stops to pick up M ‘Daisy was not a can’ he doesn’t know he’s handsome’ days, under sun ‘ash-grey men who move
Have party in NY w/ Catholic, and I was a ‘walking through her husband alive’ ‘I thought he knew and rain, brood dimly and already
M’s sister & McKee little shocked at the as if he were a ghost’ ‘It’s a bitch’ something about on over the crumbling through the
couple elaborateness of the lie’ ‘she wet her lips’ ‘Making a short, deft breeding, but he wasn’t solemn dumping powdery air’
Abrupt end to party ‘I was within and ‘They’re nice to have - a dog’ movement, Tom fit to lick my shoe’ ground’
when T breaks M’s without, simultaneously ‘was now attired in an Buchanan broke her nose
nose for talking enchanted and repelled elaborate afternoon dress of with his open hand’ Gatsby Dog
about D by the inexhaustible cream-coloured chiffon’ ‘Well, they say he’s a ‘The little dog
variety of life’ ‘With the influence of the nephew or cousin of was sitting on the
dress her personality had also Kaiser Wilhelm’s. That’s table looking with
undergone a change...became where all his money blind eyes
more violently affected came from’ through the
moment by moment’ smoke, and from
‘These people! You have to time to time
keep after them all the time’ groaning faintly’
‘the room rang full of her
artificial laughter’
Themes: class, Deus absconditus Valley of Ashes: nihilism,
corruption, - hidden God, in allusion to TS Eliot’s ‘The
marriage, amorality his remoteness Wasteland’
of society seems to ignore
Symbols: human suffering New York: amorality of
Eckleburg’s eyes, upper classes,
dog meretricious society
which M is trying to be
part of
Chapter 3
Plot/Events Gatsby Nick Jordan Owl Eyes Party Guests Setting
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