Independent Novel: The Great Gatsby
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3. Describe a minor character in your book.  Identify the character by name and describe him/her.  What is the character’s part in the story?  How does this character feel about the main character and vice-versa?  Use examples from the story.

• One of the minor character in the Great Gatsby is Jordan Baker. She is the friend of Nick's cousin, Daisy, and she is also younger than her. "I enjoyed looking at her. She was a slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet..." this gives the idea that Nick might be interested in him; however, in the novel he cleared that "I wasn't actually in love with her... but I felt a sort of tender curiosity". Jordan's character is also very contrasting in compared to Daisy, because Jordan is a blond, very athletic, and plays golf while Daisy is very delicate with a singing personality. According to Nick, Jordan Baker is very reserved and dishonest, and she is grown in a Louisville and shared "White girlhood"; which gives the idea that she can be a little nosy and maybe good at hiding facts. In the novel she plays a huge role by being the interest of the main character, nick, and knowing a very significant secret. She knows that Daisy, Nick's cousin who is already married to Tom, was in love with Gatsby, Nick's lavishly rich neighbor, and she was going to end her marriage with Tom because of that, but unfortunately she couldn't due to some situation. She also ends up telling this to Nick about the secret relationship between those two, and this lead to Nick helping her cousin in order to secretly meet Gatsby which eventually leads to the main  climax and atlas a very sorrowful tragic ending of the novel. So overall, Jordan Baker plays a huge role as a minor character to run the plot of the novel.

4. Are the events in your book realistic or unrealistic?  Could they really happen, are they fantasy, or a mix of both?  Explain using specific examples from the book.

• Some of the major events in the novel are realistic while some are utterly unrealistic. One of the example of an unrealistic event in the novel is when Mr. Wilson, Tom's friend, locks his wife, Meyer Wolfsheim who has an affair with Tom, and she runs away from the room and later is killed by the car in which Gatsby and Daisy were driving it. And for some reason the car was also Gatsby's and weirdly Daisy was driving the car. This is such a co-incident which kind of makes its a little unrealistic, because out of billions of cars... it doesn't have to be only Gatsby's. However, an example of a realistic event in the book is how Tom told the Mr. Wilson that Gatsby killed his wife, in reality it was Daisy, and unfortunately Mr. Wilson killed Gatsby. This sounds like something that would happen in reality, because people can be very greedy, specifically for someone whom they love deeply. Tom and Mr. Wilson both shows how greedy they acted for their love ones, and didn't even thought about the outcomes of what they were about to do. Another events which was quite realistic was when during Gatsby's funeral, no one visited other than some handful people. Again, this shows how greedy people are and they only were closed to Gatsby because of his money and the lavish parties he hold at his house. There are many similar things happening in the realty, more specifically in industries such as Hollywood or girl marrying guys with a drastic age difference. Over all, the novel does contain some realistic as well as unrealistic events.

9. Would you like to live like the characters in your book?  Explain how they live (the situation) and why or why not you would like to live like that.

• I probably wouldn't like to live as any characters in the novel. One of the main reason for that is that I would never like to act or live such a guilty life like theirs. More specifically as Daisy because someone she really liked was killed because of her own wrongdoings. I also would hate to live the life of Gatsby, because the novel clearly shows how the money cannot buy friends and he hold all the rich parties for the people but none of them were willing to come to his funeral. The only person I might like to live like is probably Nick, because he is an honest yet an innocent person. He was always there for his friends, and specifically for Gatsby during his funeral where even his own father, Mr. Gatz, wasn't wanting to come.