Blog Post #22

What is the climax (turning point) of the novel? How do you know? How is the central conflict addressed in the climax?

I believe that the climax o the great gatsby can be interpreted differently depending on who you ask. i personally feel that the climax of the story is when gatsby begins his "relationship" with daisy. there are multiple reasons for me to believe this. for example in the first parts of the book gatsby is trying to win over daisy, he wants to recapture what he had when they first met. this really changes the story when tom starts to become suspicious of gatsby's "relationship with his wife daisy. this change in story leads to a conflict between tom and gatsby. in this conflict tom questions  gatsby's background and accuses him of selling bootleg liquor. after the conflict, daisy and gatsby are driving home and hit and kill myrtle with tom's car. daisy was the one driving but gatsby's love for her causes him to take the blame. later on gatsby is killed because of what he did. you can really see that after daisy and gatsby began their relationship the whole mood and tone of the book changed.

The Great Gatsby Blog Post #2

1. In chapter 5, when Daisy and Gatsby meet, how is weather used to create mood, and what mood(s) is created? 

In this chapter daisy and gatsby finally meet. this meeting is probably one of the most important changing points in the book. the way fitzgerald uses weather to set up their meeting is incredible. on the day of the meeting the weather is terrible and gatsby becomes nervous that the meeting will not go as he suspected. the weather here creates a gloom unhappy mood and sets up a nervous and awkward meeting. however, later in the chapter when nick returns to his house the weather clears up and he finds the two to be very happy and cheery. the way the weather lays out the meeting is very clever and i will be looking out for more instances of this throughout the rest of my read.

Blog Post Great Gatsby #1

1.  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.

when reading these first chapters i could not help but feel that careaway does not reserve his judgment. i believe that he would like to think he does but he really does not. for instance when he describes the way daisy talks he says that she might talk in such a low voice so that someone would have to lean in close. he says other things about daisy that were completely judgemental. another instance is when he describes tom. he says that he were like a man that enjoyed everything at the age of 21 so that everything afterwards seemed bitter. this quote says a lot more about careaway than what he says himself.