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Cite This page. Select a citation style: Copy to Clipboard Copied! Reference IvyPanda. Bibliography IvyPanda. References IvyPanda. Copy to Clipboard Copied! How Did Gatsby Get Rich? The book included a series of foldout maps like the one above, warning that "colored migration is a universal peril, menacing every part of the white world.
Not everyone's identity is as tied to precariously elite social station as is that of the Buchanans. Still at this turning point in statistic history, a good time to revisit Hsu's theses: " What will it mean to be white when whiteness is no longer the norm?
And will a post-white America be less racially divided, or more so? Skip to content Site Navigation The Atlantic. Popular Latest. He characterizes himself as both highly moral and highly tolerant. He briefly mentions the hero of his story, Gatsby , saying that Gatsby represented everything he scorns, but that he exempts Gatsby completely from his usual judgments.
In the summer of , Nick writes, he had just arrived in New York, where he moved to work in the bond business, and rented a house on a part of Long Island called West Egg. West Egg is characterized by lavish displays of wealth and garish poor taste. Nick is unlike his West Egg neighbors; whereas they lack social connections and aristocratic pedigrees, Nick graduated from Yale and has many connections on East Egg.
Tom, a powerful figure dressed in riding clothes, greets Nick on the porch. Inside, Daisy lounges on a couch with her friend Jordan Baker , a competitive golfer who yawns as though bored by her surroundings.
Tom tries to interest the others in a book called The Rise of the Colored Empires by a man named Goddard. The book espouses racist, white-supremacist attitudes that Tom seems to find convincing.
Daisy teases Tom about the book but is interrupted when Tom leaves the room to take a phone call. After an awkward dinner, the party breaks up. Jordan wants to go to bed because she has a golf tournament the next day. As Nick leaves, Tom and Daisy hint that they would like for him to take a romantic interest in Jordan. When Nick arrives home, he sees Gatsby for the first time, a handsome young man standing on the lawn with his arms reaching out toward the dark water. Nick looks out at the water, but all he can see is a distant green light that might mark the end of a dock.
While Nick has a strong negative reaction to his experiences in New York and eventually returns to the Midwest in search of a less morally ambiguous environment, even during his initial phase of disgust, Gatsby stands out for him as an exception.
Nick admires Gatsby highly, despite the fact that Gatsby represents everything Nick scorns about New York.
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