Gatsby Cha. 3 to 5

3- this chapter focuses on the gap between perception and reality. At the party, as he looks through Gatsby’s books, Owl Eyes states that Gatsby has captured the effect of theater, a kind of mingling of honesty and dishonesty that characterizes Gatsby’s approach to this dimension of his life. The party itself is a kind of elaborate theatricalpresentation, and Owl Eyes suggests that Gatsby’s whole life is merely a show, believing that even his books might not be real. 

4- Jordan’s story paints Gatsby as a lovesick, innocent young soldier, desperatelytrying to win the woman of his dreams. Now that Gatsby is a full-fledged character in the novel, the bizarre inner conflict that enables Nick to feel such contradictoryadmiration and repulsion for him becomes fullyapparent—whereas Gatsby the lovesick soldier is an attractive figure, representative of hope and authenticity, Gatsby the crooked businessman, representative of greed and moral corruption, is not. This book contradicts itself alot and it bugs me. the narrator needs to make up his mind!! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!

5- Gatsby’s house is compared several times to that of a feudal lord, and his imported clothes, antiques, and luxuries all display a nostalgia for the lifestyle of a British aristocrat. Though Nick and Daisy are amazed and dazzled by Gatsby’s splendid possessions, a number of things in Nick’s narrative suggest that something is not right about this transplantation of an aristocrat’s lifestyle into democratic America. For example, Nick notes that the brewer who built the house in which Gatsby now lives tried to pay the neighboring villagers to have their roofs thatched, to complement the style of the mansion.

THIS BOOK BUGS ME SO MUCH!!! people need to make up their mindsabout who they are and their personalities.I know that this book isnt supposedto be all flatcharacters but it bugs me that everyonechanges from page to page. people need to stop changing so often without development!!! AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MY SISTER GETS MARRIED IN 138 

DAYS!!!! yayyyyyyyyyyy 

CONGRATULATIONS ALEX AND JORDAN!! 

ILOVEYOUALEXXX!!!! <3 <3 <3 <3

jUNE18  2011