Great Gatsby - Extract Analysis

The great American dream has 2 aspects
1. Make America, America again utopian alogies

2. Rags to riches stories of how the economy was capitalistic and how everyone has an
opportunity and potential to be successful, this was also the underprivileged who never got
to enter the rat race
3. Desire and a sense of purpose, Nick’s desire to know about Gatsby’s story, Daisy’s desire of
Gatsby and wealth and true love. Gatsby got involved in immersive doing for all of them
desire
Page 9: extract
Nick tells us of a visit to the Buchannan home. Tom Buchannan (TB) is his acquaintance from Yale
and tom’s wife daisy is Nicks second cousin once removed. Tom is described as being physically
intimidating and powerful with a well-muscled body. Nick also meets Jordan baker in the extract. All
the characters are stereotypical of the roaring 20’s. Daisy and Jordan are clearly drawn characters
who display element of the modern and liberated women of the 20’s. They are dressed in “fluttering
clothes” and do not look like the type to do house work. Nick is an archetype of a young man of that
time trying to find his place in a country that is filled with potential for success, and tom represents
old money and predictably his comments are mocking and arrogant looking down upon the young
generation.
Moving on to the extract, I will first be analysing the first 10 lines in which Fitzgerald given an
elaborate description of TB’s garden this description clearly expresses how enormously wealthy he
is. There are references to old money and how he is conscious of his status. Examples of these are
when he has built a house which is a colonial mansion use of diction like “colonial” immediately
evokes a sense of old architectural grandeur. His house is turned a mansion once again alluding to
his wealth and creating an impression of something big and opulent. There is a detailed description
of how massive their garden is and nick is awestruck by it, expressions like “quarter of a mile”, “sun
dials” only serve to reiterate how extravagant the garden is. Words like “warm” “cheerful” and
“gold” create an atmosphere of privilege and comfort. The last line of the paragraph introduces tom
and it is clear from his body language that he is Lord and master of all that eh surveys. He is standing
with his legs apart in an aggressive pose which implied complete ownership over the luxurious
mansion and huge gardens. This para clearly displays the amount of money that the privileged class
could afford
“The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young
women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon. They were both in white and their
dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around
the house. I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and
the groan of a picture on the wall. Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows
and the caught wind died out about the room and the curtains and the rugs and the two young
women ballooned slowly to the floor”
To further reiterate tb’s wealth Fitz writes that he owned a boat by an oil man, reads can surmise
from this that he is not only an established wealthy man but is continuing to expand his means by
even being able to afford something owned by somebody in the oil business where oil obviously
connotates fortune. The next few lines are the detailed description of the interior of TB’s home,
every word used by Fitzgerald creates an impression of a very ornamental and elaborate living
space. Words like “rosy coloured space” “greaming white” “pale curtains” and a ceiling that was so
intricate that it looked like a wedding cake added to nicks feeling of walking into a place of
unthinkable privilege. When 2 young women are introduced, they were compared to light balloons
and were said to be buoyed up immediately making the audience almost ethereal. They were
wearing white and their dresses were described as rippling and cluttering both Kinaesthetic imagery
and a reference to the clothes that of flapper girls. The almost magical atmosphere in which nick
stood for a few moments listening seems to hold in it the spirit of the times with an onomatopoeic
word boom Fitz has tom enter the room and his domineering presence was expressed metaphor
“the wind died out about the room” and the 2 young women ballooned slowly to the floor
throughout the novel tom continues to be a rough and harsh man who takes pleasure in the
consequence of the life of the youth of the 20’s
Chapter 3 Page 47
“Do you come for these parties often”
that is “set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success,
as well as an upward social mobility “Gatsby continues to be a man who barely seems to
exist beyond the rumours about him. Nick's feelings of discomfort at the party shows that
he senses the emptiness behind the party. When we start off reading this extract, fg writes
about the blue gardens where he describes the setting as a flash party, and shows us how
people visit like moths as Fitzgerald specifies women. The line “on week-ends, his rolls royce
became an omnibus” shows us how Gatsby treats his guests with immense care making him
one of the superior people in the context of the book.
It talk about the range of characters and people that seem through the party, it begins with
the line there was music from my neighbour’s house, the use of men is the adult version of
a boy showing the lack
Fitzgerald expresses the theme of “the roaring twenties and the American dream” the
luxury in the party seemed to fill the American dream in the extract, \
In Line 5, nick shows us the variety of people that came to Gatsby’s party and their
importance for which Gatsby turned his rolls Royce to an omnibus which in turn also
highlights the fact of the immense amount of wealth he had, which is also expressed in line
7-9 where Gatsby has hired eight servants in order to clean the mess created during his
huge party, as it was only a rich person that could afford a servant especially during the
American boom! Furthermore, Nick uses a metaphor to describe his guests showing us how
they arrived in fresh orange crates but left in pulp-less halves. The forth coming Lines Nicks
observation of Gatsby’s house, nick describes Gatsby’s elaborate and flashy party where he
uses a hyperbole, by describing an Army of Caterers and many more instances where
In line 15 imagery to highlight the mental evokes a sense of magical translation
Line 17-19 reference to the flapper girls highlighting the immoral attitude of Gatsby’s guests
People used Gatsby for his extravagant parties where it was seen that most of his "new
money" guests didn't even know him.

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The great American dream has 2 aspects

1. Make America, America again utopian alogies

“Do you come for these parties often”

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