Friday, December 10, 2010

Jay and Nick

Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway are two of the Great Gatsby main characters. Nick moves into the house everyone calls an eye sore which happens to be right next to the Gatsby mansion. Nick hears many different things about Gatsby, however, he does not officially meet Gatsby until he attends one of his parties.
Gatsby and Nick have an interesting relationship with each other. At this point in time, you can not exactly tell whether their friendship is real, or if Gatsby is really just using Nick. Gatsby seems very friendly to Nick, but it seems to me like Gatsby kid of forces Nick into doing some things. He might pick him up randomly and tell him "you are going to lunch with me and I have a story to tell you". It's like he doesn't really give much of a choice about anything he really does with Gatsby. And every time he does something with Gatsby, its for Gatsby benefit or something that Gatsby wants Nick to know.
A good example of this is when Gatsby has Jordan Baker tell Nick about the history between Gatsby and Daisy. Gatsby is still in love with Daisy who is married to Tom and he decides that he is going to use Nick as a way to reconnect with her. Nick of course being the time of person he is, never turning away anybody, helps Gatsby out, but once Gatsby is back with Daisy, will that be the end of their relationship?

Friday, December 3, 2010

Winter in Chicago

It's winter time in Chicago

And we all know what that means

It's time to bring out the heavy coats

And time to drink cocoa so hot,

You can always see the steam


Winter time in Chicago

Does not just mean its cold

But it also means that Christmas is near

And time for school work to be put on hold


Its time for spending time with family

Putting up the Christmas Tree

Time to start making Christmas Lists

With all the things on Christmas morning

You would like to see


Its a time to think of others

Whom you know and love