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Storytelling Output Report
“The Great Gatsby”
ANALYSIS INFORMATION:
General Storytelling:
Majority Complete
Act Order Storytelling:
Signposts Only
Character List:
Major Characters
Build Characters:
Partial
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
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 Im supposed to look like him-with special reference to the rather hard-boiled painting that hangs in fathers office.”
Role: Cousin of Daisy, old school-mate of Toms.
Character Type: Guardian
Characteristics:
Motivation: Logic
Name: Jay Gatsby
ID: Impact Character
Gender: Male
Description:
Jay Gatsby is Daisy Buchanans long lost love.
Role: Daisys lover
Characteristics: