Chapter+Three+-+The+Great+Gatsby

Chapter Three
__Death and Ghosts Imagery:__ __Car Imagery:__ //'"You're a rotten driver," I protested. "Either you ought to be more careful, or you oughtn't drive at all."// //"I am careful."// //"No, you're not."// //"Well, other people are," she said lightly.// //"What's that got to do with it?"// //"They'll keep out of my way," she insisted. "It takes two to make an accident."// //"Suppose you met somebody as careless as yourself."// //"I hope I never will," she answered. "I hate careless people. That's why I like you."// __Nature Imagery:__ __Moonlight Imagery:__ __Sea/Water imagery:__ __Colour Imagery:__
 * Plot events ||  ||
 * Setting ||  ||
 * Atmosphere ||  ||
 * Nick ||  ||
 * Gatsby ||  ||
 * Daisy || Daisy is not mentioned or alluded to in this chapter. ||
 * Tom ||  ||
 * Jordan ||  ||
 * Myrtle ||  ||
 * George ||  ||
 * Relationships ||  ||
 * Conflict ||  ||
 * Diction ||  ||
 * Imagery || Fitzgerald throughout the novel portrays imagery of many different things.
 * Closely linked to these images of Death are those of ghosts, many focusing on Gatsby or his house. After Nick's first party at Gatsby's house, Nick and the other guests look at '//Owl-eyes'// and his mangled car which has been shorn '//violently//' of one wheel, and there is a //'ghostly pause//' as another person steps out from the car and the '//apparition//' sways drunkenly. The situation is comic, but it relates a lot of the car description and motor cars with violence and potential death.
 * On this occasion, Jordan has driven so close to a workman that the fender 'flicked a button' on his coat.
 * Both of them know they are really talking about ethical standards in this seeming trivial argument, and Jordan makes her position very clear.
 * "//On weekends his Rolls-Royce..."// Stating this type of car to reinforce and emphasise his wealth. This is an emblem of consumer power.
 * Images of moon and stars, sunlight and colour and birdsong pervade the novel, filling it with a sense of intense beauty however evanescent it may be. Beauty is evident with the luxurious houses throughout the novel, serving as a reminder of the transforming power of wealth.
 * "//In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars."// Using animal imagery of moths, this is stating that the rich people in the garden came like moths to a light, where the light is the stars, champagne and gossip. Moths are also something that go towards the things that are bright. Hence, they are not going to the parties of Gatsby's to see Gatsby, they are using his hospitality to go there for the champagne, stars and the gossip, not to see him. Reinforcing the idea of shallowness.
 * Gatsby and his house are frequently associated with moonlight or starlight. Moonlight and starlight can often mean mystery and I assume, that Gatsby is connected to this moonlight imagery as it reflects his own mystery as a character. His life is a mystery to everyone and as a character himself, he is very mysterious. Leaving his past and recreating a new life, with a new name to get his wealth and live the American Dream and inevitably try and get Daisy back.
 * //"A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby's house, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in formal gesture of farewell."// Moonlight is traditionally associated with romantic imagination with an intense subjective experience of loneliness, with reverie and desire for the unattainable ideal.
 * One of the most pervasive images in the novel concerns the sea. A source of life, it is by tradition often linked metaphorically with the voyage as a form of emotional experience leading to maturity and moral awareness or recognition of one's true identity. In //The Great Gatsby//a cluster of sea images imply perspectives of moral experience.
 * "//At high tide in the afternoon...."// Using the idea of sea as the time (clock).
 * "//...glistening hors-d'oeuvre..."// This diction, 'glistening' is often used with reflections of the water and emphasises the beauty of something. Just emphasising the wealth of this party and all it encompasses.
 * //"...sea-change of faces..."//
 * //"...swirls and eddies fo people I didn't know..."//
 * //...tinny drip of the banjoes on the lawn."//
 * "//...turkeys bewitched to a dark gold".// This colour of dark cold really emphasises the wealth of Gatsby. Making a normal food, Turkey, sound extravagant and rich.
 * "...verandas are gaudy with primary colours..."
 * //"...yellow cocktail music..."// Yellow often to make this seem happy, setting the tone and atmosphere positively and vibrant.
 * //"Jordans slender golden arm resting in mine..."//
 * //"Her gray, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead..."// ||
 * Symbolism ||  ||
 * Themes ||  ||
 * Satirical targets || * Jordan: Made to sound as if she is not honest and that she, like many women of that time seemed to tell lies. ||