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This extract establishes a severe self-consciousness and insecurity within Gatsby’s character – “‘Well, I’m going to tell you something about my life,’ he interrupted. ‘I don’t want you to get a wrong idea of me from all these stories you hear.’”. Gatsby is attentive and concerns himself with Nick’s opinion of him. He wants to… Read more

We acquire information about Jay Gatsby’s life in historical flashbacks. This is called retrospective narration, and is prominent throughout the novel. A retrospective narrative is when the story being told is not happening at the time the narrator is describing it. The events happened in the past. Additionally, the information about Jay Gatsby is rarely… Read more