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Storytelling Output Report

for

"The Great Gatsby"

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ANALYSIS INFORMATION:

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General Storytelling:

Majority Complete

Act Order Storytelling:

Signposts Only

Character List:

Major Characters

Build Characters:

Partial

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Author:

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Analysis sources:

Source Material: Novel

Genre:

Drama

Setting:

Tom Carraway describes the story setting, the fashionable East Egg and its less fashionable cousin, West Egg, as "One of the strangest communities in North America. A slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York-and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land. Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound. They are not perfect ovals-like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end-but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size."

Period:

1922

Analysis by:

Katharine E. Monahan Huntley

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Comments:

"The Great Gatsby" is a good example of a non-leap of faith story. It is told in first person, by the Main Character (Nick Carraway), with the storytelling emphasis placed on the Obstacle Character (Jay Gatsby). Of particular note are the illustrations of Faith as a Problem and Disbelief as a Solution. This Dynamic Pair is examined from the perspectives of the Objective, Subjective, and Main Character Throughlines.

Brief Synopsis:

Nick Carraway is witness to the great beauty and ultimate failure of an obsessive love.

THE OVERALL CHARACTERS:

Name: Nick Carraway

ID: Main Character

Gender: Male

Description:

"I never saw this great-uncle, but I'm supposed to look like him-with special reference to the rather hard-boiled painting that hangs in father's office."

Role: Cousin of Daisy, old school-mate of Tom's.

Character Type: Guardian

Characteristics:

Motivation: Logic

Name: Jay Gatsby

ID: Impact Character

Gender: Male

Description:

Jay Gatsby is Daisy Buchanan's long lost love.

Role: Daisy's lover

Characteristics:

Motivation: Feeling; Faith

Methodology: Proaction

Evaluation: Unending

Name: Daisy Buchanan

Gender: Female

Description:

"Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget."

Role: Nick's second cousin, the object of Jay Gatsby's' desire

Characteristics:

Methodology: Reaction

Name: Dr. T. J. Eckleburg

Gender: Male

Character Type: Complex|

Characteristics:

Motivation: Conscience

Name: Jordan Baker

Gender: Female

Character Type: Skeptic

Characteristics:

Motivation: Support

Name: Myrtle

Gender: Female

Role: Tom's Mistress

Characteristics:

Motivation: Temptation

Name: