Marina Vega

POST 1:

My predictions in the Voice Thread have been confirmed since the setting and time was the twenties in the USA and Gatsby is definitelly a mysterious character.

·         The quotation I’ve chosen is:

“ Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction – Gatsby, who represented everything  for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of succesful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away”. 

( Chapter  1, page 1.)

I chose it because it shows that despite the fact that Gatsby represents all that Nick hates about the world, he cannot help but admire him.

Characters:

Nick Carraway: The novel’s narrator. A young man from Minnesota. He is an honest and reflective person. He has a tendency to reserve judgment.

Daisy Buchanan: Nick’s cousin and Tom Buchanan’s wife. She is a beautiful and popular young woman from Louisville, Kentucky. She is also the woman Gatsby loves.

Tom Buchanan:  Daisy’s wealthy husband. He is a member of a powerful and wealthy family. Tom is an arrogant and hypocritical person. He has social attitudes related wih racism and sexism.

Jordan Baker: Daisy’s friend. Jordan is a beautiful competitive golfer.

Myrtle Wilson: Tom’s lover. Tom treats her as an object.

Jay Gatsby: The protagonist of the novel. He is a wealthy young man but no one knows how he made his fortune. He lives in a mansion in West Egg.

- I think that the mistery about Gatsby’s identity will be revealed. And Nick will feel sorry about his cousin Daisy and will eventually tell her about Tom’s lover.

 POST 3:

ü  The most striking moment for me was Gatsby’s funeral, beacuse only a few people ( Nick, Owl Eyed, a few servants, and Gatsby’s father) attended it whereas whenever Gatsby threw a party his mansion was always full of people. This shows that these friends weren’t  actually so since they had all dissapeared after Gatsby’s death.

ü  As I was reading the novel I was expecting Daisy to speak up and tell the truth about the accident and Myrtle’s death, so that Gatsby would not have been under suspicion.

ü  The text made me think about people’s values, how unimportant they were to people in those days. The only important thinks for them were money, appearences, and social status. They only cared about attending parties and having fun but they didn’t pay attention to other people’s feelings.

ü  The question I would ask the writer is: What did you think the reaction of high society people would be when they read your novel? 

I think they would have been outraged by the way in which he portrayed them.