Jada Sarmiento
28 October 2014
Period 5

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Chapter One
The Introduction The narrator, Nick, starts off with a quote that his father once told him, then he briefly mentions Gatsby and speaks highly of him. He goes on with some family history, his participation in the Great War, and his reasons for moving from the West to the East earlier in his life. He explains the physical characteristics of and distinctions between the
East and West Egg. He states that he now lives in the West Egg, in a small place between two large houses, one of them being Gatsby’s mansion. He visits Daisy and Tom
Buchanan. Daisy is his cousin, and he knows Tom from college. He describes the two individually and as a couple, along with their mansion, how elaborate their lives because of their wealth. Daisy and Jordan Baker are on a couch gossiping when Nick comes in with Tom. Daisy asks about their relatives in the West and they reach the subject of her daughter. They all talk and a bit of their personalities are revealed. Tom is boastful, Daisy is childlike, and Jordan is rather quiet. Tom then talks about a book that reveals his slight racism. He suddenly gets a phone call and Jordan tells Nick that it was from his woman in New York. The dinner is awkward and quickly ends when Jordan says she has to leave because she has a tournament the next day. Daisy quickly tries to make a love interest between the two. Nick goes back home disgusted and overwhelmed. As he stood outside thinking, he notices Gatsby at his mansion, but later disappears.

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a. Nick Carraway
b.“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope” (2). This quote represents Nick because he perceives himself as