Reading Journal - Chapter 8 - The Great Gatsby

Perspective/Voice

• First person perspective of Nick Carraway.
• Becomes more personal to Nick like in chapter 6 - "I couldn't sleep"
• Isn't there for Gatsby's death - retelling the story - unreliable?

Setting:

•  Gatsby's house - "His house had never seen so enormous..."

Style:

• Autobiographical to biographical as he begins to explain Gatsby's story of how he met Daisy - switches back to Gatsby speaking to finish the story.

Structure:

• More gaps - representing time jumps.
• Time specified - "at six o'clock"

Language:

• "holocaust" - most people would think of WWII but obviously this was written before that time. Holocaust actually means destruction or slaughter on a mass scale. - effecting Nick and everyone on a mass scale.