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TGG Chapter 1 Mindmap - Coggle Diagram
TGG Chapter 1 Mindmap
CHARACTERS
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Nick
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pseudo intellect
"dozen volumes of banking and credit ...Midas, Morgan and Maecenas knew." (pg 6)
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Tom
dominant, powerful
"hard mouth", "arrogant eyes", "dominance", "always leaning aggressively forward" (pg 9)
Daisy
self-centred
"Asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society to which she and Tom belonged" (pg 21)
Jordan
famous
"I had heard some story of her too, a critical, unpleasant story, but what it was I had forgotten long ago." (pg 22)
THEMES
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racism
"It’s up to us who are the dominant race to watch out
or these other races will have control of things" (pg 16)
Nick proclaiming his own race is the "dominant race" and does not want the "other races" to live better than them is inherently racist.
SETTING
Nick rents a house in West Egg (new money), a Long Island suburb that is less fashionable than East Egg, which lies across the Long Island Sound. His tiny, cheap bungalow is next to Gatsby’s enormous, tacky mansion. (pg 24)
East egg (old money) - "I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all" (pg 9)
OTHER OBSERVATION
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Daisy and Jordan being associated with white shows the sense of them lacking any intellectual substance, they are just hollow and shallow people.
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