Nick

Question 1

Context

Answer 1

Intradiegetic narrator
Unreliable narrator

Question 2

Intradiegetic narrator

Answer 2

Shifts between first and third person.

Question 3

Why is Nick an unreliable narrator?

Answer 3

Since he gives limited account of his actions and responsibility in the narrative.

Question 4

‘Constant flicker’ Technique

Answer 4

Oxymoronic representation

Question 5

‘Constant flicker’ meaning

Answer 5

Alludes to the instability of the economic system and the dreams which exist within them.

Question 6

‘Constant flicker’ Literary link

Answer 6

Marlow in Conrad’s Heart of darkness which shows British Imperial history.

Question 7

‘Careless people’ Technique

Answer 7

Extended metaphor

Question 8

‘Careless people’ Meaning

Answer 8

symbol for the lack of social responsibility displayed by the upper classes in America 1920’s.

Question 9

‘I was within and without’ Meaning socially

Answer 9

Socially he is amongst the wealthy however not wealthy himself.

Question 10

‘I was within and without’ Meaning morally

Answer 10

Morally, he internally reflects on immorality but does not outwardly act on it.

Question 11

‘I am one of the few honest people I have ever known’ Technique

Answer 11

Paradox

Question 12

‘I am one of the few honest people I have ever known’ Meaning

Answer 12

Reader questions the reliability and honesty of Nick’s narration due to his exaggerated egotism.

Question 13

‘He was a son of God’ Technique

Answer 13

Hyperbole

Question 14

‘He was a son of God’ Meaning

Answer 14

Conveys Nick’s idolisation of Gatsby.

Question 15

What did Troy say about Nick?

Answer 15

‘Nick grows in moral perception by the end of the novel’

Question 16

‘Nick wants to portray Gatsby as great and undermines anything that might undermine his image’ Who said this?

Answer 16

Stocks