F. Scott Fitzgerald continues to confuse me in The Great Gatsby. Right as I was getting used to his unique style of writing, he throws a curve ball in there. Out of the blue Fitzgerald switched the narration from Nick Carraway to Jordan Baker. It took me a minute to even figure out the change and had to reread the passage.
There was one sentence in particular that I thought was very helpful to understanding this quick change. "(said Jordan Baker that afternoon, sitting up very straight on a straight chair in the tea-garden at the Plaza Hotel)" (Fitzgerald, pg74). This was a very good example of setting as well as imagery. This was an extremely prudent insert into Fitzgerald's novel; otherwise, the reader would have no idea what the shift was or have any chance of understanding.
This is also maybe even considered a flashback and a story within a story! This could be an example of so many vocab words!
Another quote that I found worth mentioning is, "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired" (Fitzgerald, pg79). I believe this quote to be connectable to so many different aspects. In today's society there are always those who are working their hardest to compete for a job, for someone they are in love with, or even for their life. Then there are those people who are being pursued, those who are wanted for a certain job, a college, a team, for someone else's needs. Next, there are those who are too busy with life to stop and see what's around them or too busy to add any other activities. And of course, the tired. Today, many just quit and give up when they are too tired or have worked so hard for so long. Some may not have even reached their initial goals in life.
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