The Great Gatsby (the beginning)

After viewing the first few chapters of the book, I've really come to notice a lot about Nick's character. First, he seems like a good person, and a good son to his father also. His father taught him to never judge people because they might not have had the advantages that he had growing up. This, to me was a very wise piece of advice, not to mention noble. To be able to keep these probing thoughts from invading your train of thought just because it is the right thing to do is just amazing. So amazing that I don't think that Nick's capabilities can handle, though I do give him credit for attempting to. I personally think that everyone judges people who aren't like them, but some of them have the courtesy to keep it to themselves. Another thing I picked up about Nick's personality is that he is an intelligent being. He attended Yale after graduating high school, and that was only 25 years after his father had graduated from Yale also. Finally, I saw that he is a a listener. When he was at dinner with the Buchanans, and Daisy had a plight. He was the one to take a walk with her and listened to her inner thoughts even if she is a distant relative to him.

"Their house was even more elaborate than i expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay. The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walls and burning gardens_ finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run." I chose to analyze this quote because it really stood out to me when I read it the first time. The choice of words by Fitzgerald really paints a vivid mental image in my mind that sharply describes the scene.

To conclude, the first few chapters of The Great Gatsby are the preliminaries which i can feel will unravel to become a very interesting and memorable piece of literature.