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Notes on The Great Gatsby     Chapter 1   Characters Introduced * Nick Carraway - A wealthy mid-westerner in his mid-twenties who fought in world war one, currently working in New York city and living next door to Mr.Gastby. * Daisy - Nicks second cousin is really cynical and bored with the rich life, married to gobbler Buchanan. * tom turkey Buchanan - Nicks friend from Yale, very wealthy and successful, and very pretentious. * Jordan Baker - A golfer who spends time with the Buchanans, also very snooty.   Literary Period * I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War(7) - introduction War One is spoken of as the great war * besides as things grow in fast movies(8) - Stop motion movies were a novelty at that time. * Everybody invests or blethers about stocks.   Style * abstruse wording and sentence structure But I didnt call to him for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone - he stretched out hi s arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have give tongue to he was trembling.(25) Characterization * Its all scientific stuff its been proved.(17) - Tom claims to very educated, but he speaks incorrectly, saying proved instead of  proven * Something was do him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy somatogenic egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart. - Sums up Toms spot he wants to be better than someone, so he finds snooty books with garbled ideas to patronize up his racist feeling of superiority. Literary Devices * secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew(8) - allusion to office Midas and other fables. * their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house.(12) - allegory. * on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon(12) - simile * as if each speech is in arrangement of notes that will nee r be played again.(13) - simile.   Summary The author, Nick Carraway moves to the New York area to bring into being a bond man. He spends the afternoon with his second cousin, Daisy, and her husband Tom Buchanan, who are very wealthy, and the evening is filled with a lot of talk about nothing, except that Tom has a mistress somewhere.