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Foreshadowing
Chapter 1
Explanation and Analysis:
The Great Gatsby is a frame story, or a story within a story. The main narrative takes place when the narrator, 29-year-old Nick Carraway, is living on Long Island in 1922; this is framed by Nick telling the story two years after the events of the novel. At the beginning of Chapter 1, the ensuing narrative is portrayed as a memoir that Nick is writing (though, of course, F. Scott Fitzgerald is the real author of The Great Gatsby):
When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.
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Chapter 4
Explanation and Analysis:
The Great Gatsby is a frame story, or a story within a story. The main narrative takes place when the narrator, 29-year-old Nick Carraway, is living on Long Island in 1922; this is framed by Nick telling the story two years after the events of the novel. At the beginning of Chapter 1, the ensuing narrative is portrayed as a memoir that Nick is writing (though, of course, F. Scott Fitzgerald is the real author of The Great Gatsby):
Unlock with LitCharts A+When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.
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Chapter 9
Explanation and Analysis:
The Great Gatsby is a frame story, or a story within a story. The main narrative takes place when the narrator, 29-year-old Nick Carraway, is living on Long Island in 1922; this is framed by Nick telling the story two years after the events of the novel. At the beginning of Chapter 1, the ensuing narrative is portrayed as a memoir that Nick is writing (though, of course, F. Scott Fitzgerald is the real author of The Great Gatsby):
Unlock with LitCharts A+When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.
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