Post 1

So far my predictions were confirmed, the novel is about parties, wealth and rich people.

The quotation that I selected is:
                                              " The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic-their irises are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose." ( line 10 chapter 2)

This calls my attention because the character is in the middle of the road from a grey place completely different, if we compared it with Long Island or New York. His eyes are described with a passive look with light.  

The main characters are:

Nick:

• He is telling the story.
• He is unusually communicative in a reserved way, inclined to reserve all judgments. (line 5 chap 1)  
• He is tolerant ( line 18 chap 1) 
• He wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever. ( line 22 chap 1) 
• His family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this Middle Western city for three generations. ( line 33 chap 1) 
•  He has a tradition that they are descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch. (line 35 chap 1)
• His grandfather's brother, who came in fifty-one, sent a subsitute to the Civil War, and started the wholesale hardware business that his father carries on to-day. (line 35 chap 1) 
• He glimpses into the human heart. ( line 22 chap 1)
• He is curious about Gatsby. (line 22 chap 1) 
• He graduated from  New Haven in 1915. (line 39 chap 1) 
• He lives in West Egg in Long Island Sound. (line 77 chap 1)
• He is Gatsby's neighbor. (line 82 chap 1)

Tom Buchanans:

• He met Nick in college. (line 88 chap 1)
• Daisy's husband. (line 90 chap 1)
• He is a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. (line 111 chap 1)
• He has two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gives him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward. (line 112 chap 1)
• His voice gives the impression of tenor. (line 117 chap 1)
• He has a lower/mistress. (line 19 chap 2)

Daisy:

• Tom's wife (line 88 chap 1)
• Nick's second cousin. (line 88 chap 1)
• Her face is sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a passionate mouth. (line 163 chap 1)

Gatsby:

• He lives in a mansion. (line 82 chap 1)
• He has a single green light. (line 416 chap 1)
• According to Catherine, Gatsby is a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm. (line198 chap 2)

Catherine:

• Myrtle's sister. (line 110 chap 1)
• She is a slender, worldly girl of about thirty, with a solid, sticky bob of red hair, and a complexion powdered milky white. (line 139 chap 2)

Myrtle:

• Tom's lower.
• She is in the middle thirties, her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine, contains no facet or gleam of beauty. (line 54 chap 2)

Doctor T.J. Eckleburg:

• His eyes are blue and gigantic. (line 10 chap 2)
• Their irises are one yard high. (line 11 chap 2)
• They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow which pass over a nonexistent nose. (line 11 chap 2)

Secondary Characters:

Daisy's baby (line 334 chap 1)

George B. Wilson:

• He is a blond, spiritless man, anaemic, and faintly handsome. (line 40 chap 2)
• Mytle's  husband.

Mr McKee:

• He is apale

Mrs McKee:

• Mr McKee's wife.
• He is shrill, languid handsome, and horrible. (line 151 chap 2)

Nick's father: (line 1 chap 1)

Miss Baker:

• She is a slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage, which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cabet. (line 200 chap 1)

Two young women (line 212 chap 1)



I think it must be developed a problem in which Gatsby could be the main protagonist, given till now he is a mistery.