The Great Gatsby Post 4

Right now I am reading in Chapter 3 and right now all that is happening is Nick is invited to one of Gatsby's parties. The word around town that Nick has been hearing and that they keep explaining through the book is that Gatsby throws great parties. Nick does decide to go to the party and there is where I stopped reading before Nick got to the party.

I like how Fitzgerald played this out the first time Nick and Gatsby met there was really no action but now I get the feeling that Fitzgerald did that on purpose to let the real action between the two unfold at the party. Now I don't really criticize Fitzgerald for what he has done. I am going to predict that at the party something big will happened between Gatsby and Nick. I say this because Gatsby throwing the great parties like everyone says he does has to have something great up his sleeve for the party and that something great I bet is going to be related to Nick I bet. Also it is going to be really interesting to see how Fitzgerald plays out Gatsby because I mean everyone keeps talking about him so I can't wait to see what is really up with Gatsby.

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Right now whats going on is Tom takes Nick and Myrtle to New York City to the Morningside Heights apartment that Tom keeps for his pleasure basically.In the apartments Tom throws a party on that night and that is where several characters are introduced. There is Myrtle's sister who's name is Catherine and a family that lives in the apartments below Tom named the McKee's. At the party there was drinking and I like how Fitzgerald shows the characteristics of Nick how he is saying how Nick gets sick of what is going on at the party and he eventually tries to leave and how he shows the characteristics even better when nick said "This is only the second time I got drunk in my life".

The great thing about this section of my reading though is how I loved how Fitzgerald explains the new characters in the book. When he explains them he sort of paints a picture in your head because there is such great description like when he described the McKee's he said Mr. McKee is kind of pale and feminine and Mrs.McKee is just sort of old and kind of dried up. I just loved those great descriptions could have not done it any better

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Nick finally meets the his neighbor that he has been hearing about the most but never got to meet in person yet and that neighbor is none other than Gatsby. When they first encounter nothing exciting really happens Nick just moves on and the story keeps continuing.

I really did not like Fitzgerald doing what he did in the book with when Nick and Gatsby first met and nothing really interesting happens. How everyone else was talking about Gatsby in the book I would think that when the first time that possibly the two main characters met that something big would happens in that part but nothing really happens when they first met at all. So if I was Fitzgerald I would have made that part of the book a more interesting and exciting part.

Ending off with my reading a new character named Myrtle is introduced who is Tom's lover. Tom is a friend of Nick who Nick works with. Right now the book is going well lets see how it continues

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The Great Gatsby so far is about a man from Minnesota named Nick Carraway who came to new york to work on his novel. He also narrates the story. Really whats going on right now is that Nick is describing how its like in New York and how his neighbors are and everything. One of his neighbors he talks about is who he has heard a lot about is Gatsby who he briefly mentions and he says "Gatsby represents everything he scorns but that exempts him from his usual judgements". He also states that Gatsby's personality was nothing short of "gorgeous". You can also get a nice connection early on in the book with nick on how he describes himself. Saying stuff like "I learned from my father to reserve judgment about other people, because if I hold them up to my own moral standards, I will misunderstand them".

I like how Scott Fitzgerald the author tells the story of Nick. He is a real relatable character. I have had moments in my life where I did judge people on first impressions and that is just not the right thing to do because when you do that you can miss out on real good friends or nice people because you don't talk to them because maybe how they are dressed or how they talk. That is what Nick is basically referring to when he said that. So everybody isn't like you so don't judge people. So I liked how Fitzgerald just made Nick so true like