Speaker: Nick Carraway is a Great War veteran from New Haven who ends up moving east to New York and becoming a bond man. He is the neighbor of Mr. Gatsby on West Egg.
Topic: The topic of the first chapter of this novel is at first Nick Carraway and his story about where he came from and where he is living now. Then, the topic shifts to two old friends of Carraway, Tom and Daisy Buchanan, and their story.
Audience: The audience is the reader of The Great Gatsby.
Needs of the Audience: The needs of the audience are to find out about the characters, their backgrounds, and the situations in which they live.
Purpose of the speaker: The purpose of Carraway is to introduce the setting and the characters of the story. Through the speaker, the reader receives a lot of information about the area in which Carraway and Gatsby live and about the background of the Buchanans and Carraway. Gatsby is also mysteriously mentioned but not really explained yet. In addition, Carraway seems to introduce a theme of wealth versus poverty, or being not as wealthy.
Strategies: Carraway achieves his purpose of introducing the setting and characters by first describing where he lives and the area around that, in New York, and then by describing the Buchanans and his relationship with them. He uses a lot of imagery to describe the setting, such as "the lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens—finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run" (page 9). In this case, he also uses personification when he says the lawn ran and jumped. He describes the other characters very vividly as well. For example, he describes Daisy's voice as "the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again" (page 12).
Rhetorical Situation: Nick Carraway is the neighbor of Mr. Gatsby on West Egg. He is from a family that deals in hardware but he moves to New York and becomes a bond man after serving in the Great War. He is not so well-off as Mr. Gatsby is, nor as his friends, the Buchanans. He visits the Buchanans at their house in East Egg. This is when the Buchanans are introduced and Carraway meets Miss Baker.
Topic: The topic of the first chapter of this novel is at first Nick Carraway and his story about where he came from and where he is living now. Then, the topic shifts to two old friends of Carraway, Tom and Daisy Buchanan, and their story.
Audience: The audience is the reader of The Great Gatsby.
Needs of the Audience: The needs of the audience are to find out about the characters, their backgrounds, and the situations in which they live.
Purpose of the speaker: The purpose of Carraway is to introduce the setting and the characters of the story. Through the speaker, the reader receives a lot of information about the area in which Carraway and Gatsby live and about the background of the Buchanans and Carraway. Gatsby is also mysteriously mentioned but not really explained yet. In addition, Carraway seems to introduce a theme of wealth versus poverty, or being not as wealthy.
Strategies: Carraway achieves his purpose of introducing the setting and characters by first describing where he lives and the area around that, in New York, and then by describing the Buchanans and his relationship with them. He uses a lot of imagery to describe the setting, such as "the lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens—finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run" (page 9). In this case, he also uses personification when he says the lawn ran and jumped. He describes the other characters very vividly as well. For example, he describes Daisy's voice as "the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again" (page 12).
Rhetorical Situation: Nick Carraway is the neighbor of Mr. Gatsby on West Egg. He is from a family that deals in hardware but he moves to New York and becomes a bond man after serving in the Great War. He is not so well-off as Mr. Gatsby is, nor as his friends, the Buchanans. He visits the Buchanans at their house in East Egg. This is when the Buchanans are introduced and Carraway meets Miss Baker.