Jay Gatsby and The Bildungsroman This book, The Great Gatsby, does a great job of reflecting the Bildungsroman, which is a story that traces the development of an individual. In the story, Jay Gatsby greatly executes the steps followed in the Bildungsroman. An individual is an "apprentice to life." The protagonist is young, inexperienced, and often uneducated. Educations both in school and the "real world," are covered. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses first-person retrospective narrative to take the readers into his novel. Readers receive all impressions from the narrator, Nick Carraway, who is a moral and honest man. Throughout the story, Nick introduces different characters and reveals their natures to the readers. Towards the end of the story, readers will eventually discover that Nick and Gatsby have changed, a change in Gatsby's self-identity and in Nick's morality from the beginning until the end of the novel. ...

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