Notes on The Great GatsbyChapter 1Characters Featured:* Nick Carraway - A wealthy Midwesterner in his twenties who fought in World War I and is working currently in New York and living next door to Mr. Gastby.* Daisy - Nick's first cousin is very cynical and bored of the rich life, married to Tom Buchanan.* Tom Buchanan - Nick's friend from Yale, very rich and successful, and very pretentious.* Jordan Baker - A golfer who spends time with the Buchanans, also very arrogant.Literary Period:* "I took part in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War"( 7) - World War I is considered the great war* "Just as things grow in fast movies"(8) - Stop motion films were a novelty at that time.* Everyone is investing or talking of actions.Style:* Complex wording and sentence structure: "But I didn't call him because he gave a sudden indication that he was happy to be alone - he stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way, and as far away as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. science stuff; it's proven."(17) - Tom claims to be very educated, but he speaks incorrectly, saying "proven" instead of "proved"* "Something was making him nibble on stale ideas as if his robust physical selfishness were more nourished his assertive heart." - Summarizes Tom's attitude: he wants to be better than someone, so he finds arrogant books with illogical ideas to support his racist sense of superiority. Literary Devices:* "secrets which only Midas, Morgan and Maecenas knew"(8) - an allusion to King Midas and other fables.* "their robes rippled and floated as if they had just been brought back after a short flight around the house."( 12) - comparison.* "on which two young women were supported as on an anchored balloon"(12) - comparison* "as if each speech were an arrangement of notes which will never be played again."(13) - comparison. Summary: The author, Nick Carraway moves to the New York area to become a slave. He spends the afternoon with his first cousin, Daisy, and her husband Tom Buchanan, who are very wealthy, and the evening is filled with lots of talk about nothing except Tom. has a mistress somewhere.