Close annotation for Day 2.

Choose one of the following passages on which to conduct a close reading/annotation:

• Nick's house: "I lived at West Egg . . . all for eighty dollars a month" (5).
  
• Tom & Daisy Buchanan's house: "And so it happened" . . . "with his legs apart on the front porch" (6) and "We walked through a high hallway" . . . "as wind does on the sea" (7-8).
  
• valley of ashes and the Wilson's garage: "About half way between West Egg and New York" . . . "I first met Tom Buchanan's mistress" (23-24).
  

See you "close annotations" handout for a refresher on the steps you must execute. The steps are also listed here: "A refresher on annotations."

Find your passage from the online text of the novel here. Copy and paste it into a Word document. Change the page format to "landscape" (horizontal justification). Fit the passage to no more than one page and be sure that you have enough space in between each line to adequately mark up the passage.

Once you've done your close annotation, address the following questions:

• In what ways does the setting (place, specifically) of your passage reflect the character(s) who occupy it?
• Is it significant that the place is described by Nick and not someone else? Yes. Why? (Consider that narrative point of view is, essentially, a filter through which the reader understands the events of the novel. Consider, too, the way in which Nick is characterized.)