GGP+Chapter+1+summary

__** Chapter 1 : **__
==== Nick Caraway (from Minnesota) pronounces himself as somewhat of a narrator. He also listens and observes without passing judgment. He describes himself as young and flawed. His father teaches him the "golden rule". Nick served in World War I, after the war he moved to the middle east to learn of the bonding business. He settled on the island of West Egg, New York. An associate from college, a mister Tom Buchanan, told nick about his next-door neighbor Mr. Gatsby and how he is an expert at the bonding business, and how he should introduce himself to him. ====

**Color Introduced**: "**distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock"** (26). **At the end of the first chapter we are given the green light.**

**Opinion:** a symbol for the hope and promise of the future. **Traditional:** Green is considered the color of peace and ecology ([])
 * ﻿Comparison: **Since Nick is hopeful, he is in peace with himself.


 * Unfamiliar Vocabulary: **

**Temperament** - (Page 2.) - A person's or animal's nature, esp. as it permanently affects their behavior. ([]) **Time period:**This was about Nick and how he had come home from war, and how he wanted to start a new life when he had moved to West Egg. World War I was in the time period of Fitzgerald's life. He had almost gone off to war so he could become the war hero he wanted to be, but instead, the war had ended and he had no chance to become that hero.

**Theme:** This is the theme of mortality, Nick is just coming out of the war and is moving on with ease into the bonding buisness, where he moves to West Egg, New York. **Marxist/Feminist: Idustrialzation changes through history as Nick comes home from the war. It goes from everything is affordable, to if you didn't have the money you made nothing./ Jordan was highstrung and obnoxious to Nick when she was offended earlier when they first met. Nick fell in love with her for that.**