Sunday, April 9, 2017

In the first two pages of the novel, Nick Carraway claims that he is "inclined to reserve all judgment." Do you find that this is true so far? Please provide textual evidence to support your position.

In the first two pages of The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway said that he is, "inclined to reserve all judgment." There are times in the first few chapters where I started to question if that was really true. Most of the time Nick Carraway just played the narrator and explain facts and visual details to really give the reader an insight into what Fitgerald was envisioning. However, there were other times when Nick Carraway seemed to make judgments on people which he said he would not on the first two pages. On page 6 Nick said,"one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty or that everything afterward savors of anticlimax." He says that about Tom Buchanan who is Daisy's husband. By him saying that it seems like he is judging him for having success young and he is making assumptions about what the rest of his life will be. Nick also said on page 7,"It was a boy capable of enormous leverage, a cruel body." That may have just been a way to describe Tom but I found it as Nick making a judgment about Tom and his capabilities just based on the way he looked.

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