Sunday, April 10, 2011

chap 8 + 9


8: I found it interesting that Gatsby has made Daisy a symbol of everything he values, and made the green light on her dock a symbol of his destiny with her. Thinking about Gatsby’s death, Nick suggests that all symbols are created by the mind—they do not possess any inherent meaning; rather, people invest them with meaning.


9:  I found myself changing my view on Gatsby in this chapter.  A mans death and funeral attended by very few is a sad story.  Tom even claimed that he deserved to die.  No one deserves to die of a gunshot.  Before this chapter I thought that Nick was a boring and non-appealing narrator but after this chapter and hearing how he dislikes Tom I started to like him.

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