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__**Summary**__ Chapter 1 starts out with Nick Carraway remembering how he was brought up and the lessons he learned. Readers learn pretty much everything they need to know about Nick in this chapter. After Nick describes his past, the story actually opens up. Nick moves east to make a better life for himself by becoming a bond salesman while also finding a place to rent next to Jay Gatsby's mansion.

Then Nick goes to visit his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan who are both extremely selfish and spoiled rotten from their wealth. While he's visiting, he meets a girl named Jourdan Baker whose just as spoiled as the rest. Nick now finds out that Tom has a secret mistress when Tom goes to make a private phonecall. Tom and Daisy take the chance to ask Nick about his marriage and he says that that is pretty much nothing so they hook him up with Jordan. When Nick returns home he looks out of his back window and notices a figure standing by the water reaching out to a green light, and he wants to confront him until Gatsby makes a movement that shows that he's at peace and wants to be left alone.


 * __Unfamiliar Vocab__**
 * unsought- past tense of seek
 * revelations- something revealed or disclosed
 * temperament- the combination of mental, physical, and emotional traits of a person
 * corroborated- to make more certain.
 * bantering- teasing remarks

In the beginning of the novel, Nick talks about how he fought in the war which is relative to Fitzgerald's joining of the army.
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__** Common Themes **__ The American Dream is a common theme found in every chapter of this novel. In this chapter we see this theme many times. We hear of Nicks family and how they raised him to become great or how he moves east to make a better living. We also see this when readers meet Daisy and Tom Buchanan. Tom was born into being part of the American Dream and readers notice that Daisy cares about Tom's money than for him. Marxism is shown throughout the novel and this chapter. We watch as the Buchanan couple are made to be a symbol for all of society, showing that society is all about money during the time in which the novel is set. Society in the 1920s was entirely capitalistic being that money is a higher priority.
 * __ Marxism __**

Stokesbury, James L. //A Short History of World War I//. New York: Morrow, 1981. Print. //Dictionary.com | Free Online Dictionary for English Definitions//. 2011. Web. 07 Apr. 2011. .
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