The Great Gatsby works on the mind of the reader in two ways: first by presenting the real world (and its appearance is ugly at best) through the eyes of Nick Carraway: “the explicit tawdriness and violence of Tom’s and Myrtle Wilson’s affair and Nick’s detached yet forced presence in it emphasize an ugly reality impinging upon Nick’s past experience and present hopes” (Eble 41), and second by presenting Gatsby’s fantasy world: “the fantasy reaches us through the soft night and music and glitter, but through it run reminders of the real world, specifically in the person of Jordan Baker” (Eble 41), who will be discussed later in the paper. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, 1925
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