The Great Gatsby: SOAPST Ch. 1-4

     The Great Gatsby is a book written in the modernism period where meanings were implied and readers had to read between the lines a lot. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the book, but unlike many stores that we have read this year, the speaker of the story is not the author, rather it is a character speaking from first-person point of view. This character is Nick Carraway, who is the next door neighbor of Jay Gatsby, a significant character in the book. The story takes place is 1922, during the time of the Prohibition and jazz music's emergenc. The main location the story is in New York, specifically Manhattan and Long Island in teh West and East Eggs where the rich people lived.
     The audience is not anyone in particular, so it is for the reader. The overall tone of the story is informative, descriptive, and calm. Throught the first chapter of the book, the reader is introduced to the narrator. This may build the basis for the relationship between the reader and the narrator, creating the trust that is needed for the reader to believe all that is said in the book. However, in the beginning of the story, the reader can sense some irony and contradictions in what the narrator says about himself and his actual actions. Therefore, what is said for the rest of the story can be percieved as from the view of a person who is biasing according to their opinions. Apparently though, all first-person narratives seem to be this way due to the opinions that the narrator puts into the story.