Great Gatsby Reading Blog #1

Gatsby is the novels namesake, and will unquestionably be the hero in the end of this book. My reasons for saying so are many: he hosts many large parties so that people may have a good time, but he is responsible and does not drink himself (pg 50). He is also incredibly generous and invites his new neighbor Nick to his party and then out to try out his hydrofoil. I believe that he is a generous person and will be a kind of guiding light if Nick gets too caught up in the world of high fashion and partying. Nick will be somewhat of a hero, more of the person we are rooting for since we can relate to him fairly well, but I think that the circumstances will get the better of him. Jordan Baker will be a villain, her high class and indifferent attitude will lure Nick into feeling stronger about her than he should and being further sucked into living outside his means. She is bad news-bears for nick although he does not recognize it yet. she is inherently a liar and this will get Nick into trouble later in the novel (pg 58). Tom may turn out to be a villain, but right now he is just someone who is restless in his own life, he drags Nick into his problems because he feels that he is a friend although Nick may not feel quite the same way. His affair with his mistress, Mrs. Wilson, is nothing new to his pattern of moving city to city, although i fear that the toll it is taking on his wife who is now with child may spill over into Nick's life as he attempts to care for his cousin as best he can.