Monday, February 8, 2010

Total shit

Often in literature relationships change and evolve. From the three works I read over the summer, I will pick Nick Carraway, from the book The Great Gatsby, by author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Towards the beginning of the book he is filled with confusion, by the shallowly rich community he is planted in. From there he finds Jordan Baker, and this is the start of where he begins to go from confused, to clarity. Later upon terminating the relationship with Jordan, he ventures through New England and notices the shallowness of people and sees a stunning reflection of himself.

'Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!' an exert from the beginning parts of the book, emphasizing how confusing life must have been to Nick. To add on, his settings where great sources of a confusing life. East Egg and West Egg, both full of filthy rich, but only the East holds the upper class, whilst the west is just full of middle and lower classman whom have happened to stumble upon wealth. But both are full of corruption and make for a direct influence on how our subject, Nick, operates later in the book.

As the book progress's along and nick finds a woman, named Jordan Baker, he becomes infatuated with her looks and charm. However its not to be. Nicks character begins to change, as he starts to get to know Jordan, instead of becoming encahnted and mesmerized by her life and elegance, the relationship actually starts to head south and begins to crumble. And the introduction of dishonesty doesn't help in the long term structure of their affiliation. While Jordan does excite Mr. Carroways interest and passion in the end of the lovers tale, it turns out to be that nicks impulse to make apparent judgments and keep them to himself that drops the axe and splits whats left of the relationship in two forever. "Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope."

Stated in book, that there is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind, can summarize this last paragraph, analyzing Nick's character at the end of the novel. Nick came from a under cultured rich community with relations to the more civilized, and got torn around in the mist. The Valley of ashes really shaped him and turned him into what he was. But later after being around the shallow people and rampant dishonesty's, and having a women indirectly show him what it turned him into, showed how much he really changed. After the death of Gatsby, he moves to the Midwest exactly because his character evolved past the things instilled by society in him.

Concluding my analysis of Mr. Nick Carroway, and how he changes through the story, I can say this. He started as a simple but clever mind, and manipulated what was around him to make his life work. Then later he really changes when he thinks he meets his true love, a young women named Jordan Baker. However finally breaking up with her leads to the greatest change in character when he realizes how he really is on the inside, not to diff rent then those in the valley of ashes. Thus, I just chronicled the major parts of Nick Carraway's life from beginning of story to back cover of the book.

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