Gatsby-structure

"Reading over what I have written so far, I see I have given the impression that the events of the three nights several weeks apart were all that absorbed me" (pg 55). The narrator, Nick Carraway, is reflecting on past events in his life. In the beginning of the story, he talks about Gatsby and gives the reader a hint of why he was writing a story about Gatsby. Because he is writing about past events, the events he writes about must be of important significance. The stories he uses show the development of relationships between characters. He also writes about the different reactions the characters have to their surroundings. Nick speaks of Gatsby's nervousness as he waits for Daisy to come to tea and of Tom's anger with Myrtle as she repeats Daisy's name and he ends up breaking her nose. These events show the progression of the different characters' development. In the beginning of the story, Gatsby is not introduced until page forty-seven. Then the reader slowly sees glimpses of what Gatsby is like.