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Notes on The Great Gatsby     Chapter 1   Characters Introduced * Nick Carraway - A blind drunk mid-westerner in his mid-twenties who fought in conception war one, currently working in New York city and live next door to Mr.Gastby. * Daisy - Nicks second cousin is very cynical and world-weary with the rich life, married to tomcat Buchanan. * Tom Buchanan - Nicks friend from Yale, very wealthy and successful, and very pretentious. * Jordan Baker - A golfer who spends time with the Buchanans, also very snooty.   Literary Period * I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration cognise as the Great War(7) - World War One is verbalize of as the great war * Just as things grow in fast movies(8) - Stop motion movies were a novelty at that time. * Everybody invests or talks about stocks.   Style * Complex wording and sentence complex body part But I didnt c in all to him for he gave a sudden gleaming that he was content to be alone - he stretched o ut his build up toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling.(25) Characterization * Its all scientific stuff its been proved.(17) - Tom claims to very educated, but he speaks incorrectly, saying proved instead of  proven * Something was making him nibble at the bump into of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no durable nourished his peremptory heart. - Sums up Toms attitude he wants to be infract than someone, so he finds snooty books with illogical ideas to back up his antiblack feeling of superiority. Literary Devices * secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew(8) - allusion to King Midas and other fables. * their dresses were rippling and flap as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house.(12) - simile. * on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon(12) - simile * as if each saving is in arrangement of notes that will n ever be played again.(13) - simile.   summary The author, Nick Carraway moves to the New York area to become a bond man. He spends the afternoon with his second cousin, Daisy, and her husband Tom Buchanan, who are very wealthy, and the even is filled with a lot of talk about nothing, except that Tom has a mistress somewhere.