Nick is invited to dinner by an old school friend, Tom Buchanan and his wife Daisy Buchanan (as he

In October, the month's book in the Norwegian great 8 "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the U.S. presidential elections great 8 as a backdrop. Norwegian asked Anita Krohn Traaseth, CEO. at Hewlett Packard Norway and known as blogger Tint Kathy would like to read this classic with Martine Aurdal and Jan Vardøen. She is the first blogging about reading experience. Be happy and comment, input is taken into conversation with the three at the Cultural P2 on Thursday at 14:15.
What do you do when you receive such a request? One says yes. I said yes because it gives me an opportunity to an alternative "breathing space" from a hectic work life with a focus on numbers, growth and business. great 8 For me the luxury to sit down and read a novel, especially a classic like "The Great Gatsby". Yep, I admit it - I have not read the book, now I got a brilliant opportunity.
Maybe you have a Norwegian annerledels and complementary perspective by asking me in reading pane? Business, pursuit of endless growth and results - core perspective - and to work for an American company, a company which was established by the American dream by two entrepreneurs in 1939? I do not know - but I have thrown me the opportunity, dropped performance great 8 anxiety and have now read the book's great 8 first three chapters. I'm mildly intrigued. I am fascinated by the novel tells Nick Carraway descriptions and reflections, language, phrases, contradictions, profile descriptions, stories, satire, cynicism and the images formed in the head when I read.
"The Great Gatsby" is a novel that reflects America in the early 1920s, just after the First World War. The American society was characterized by boldness, melancholy and a value settlement that resulted in a ban on the import, production and sale of alcohol. The reason for the ban was the temperance movement's demands for a more decent society. "Jazz great 8 Time" great 8 and "the lost generation time" are descriptions of this decade, the interwar period in the United States. It was a generational change among Americans at this time, the young people who sought the American dream, that broke rules and norms and earned his kingdom on Prohibition, as feasting and drinking and Accepts jazz entry in the "white" world and the elderly great 8 who fought against greed, disobedience and technological advances.
In the first chapter we get an insight into novel tells Nick Carraway reflections on various great 8 reflections on life and the people great 8 in general. great 8 Pretty arrogant, but honest (for now), that shall he have. "I'm great 8 still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that my father was snobbish enough to say, and I'm snobby enough to repeat that not everyone is born with the same sense of decency great 8 and tact" . To continue his remarks about his family, about his time as a soldier, his special ability that makes him always being exposed to confidences of known and unknown and his desire for a new life as a successful stockbroker great 8 in the East. Nick realizes the dream of East Coast and move into the West Egg and is proudly next to the mysterious millionaire Gatsby. East Egg and West Egg is a description of two residential areas on Long Island, where the rich and successful lives - divided into old and new money. Nick lives in West Egg, but dreams of East Egg.
Nick is invited to dinner by an old school friend, Tom Buchanan and his wife Daisy Buchanan (as he is in the distant great 8 relatives) into their fashionable house in East Egg, "a smiling red and white castle built Georgian colonial style and overlooking the bay ". It is clear that Nick is fascinated by East Egg and Tom. "He had, for example, included a number of polo horses from Lake Forrest. It was strange to think that a man who belonged to my generation, would be rich enough to do it. "
Besides Tom is a guest, one barndomsvenninde of Daisy, the mysterious Miss Baker. It is a kind of leisurely laziness and pure arrognanse in the air, a very strange mood that takes place between this foursome this evening. Nick is subjected to involuntary confessions great 8 of Ms. Baker that Tom is cheating and a woman in New York. Daisy confides in Nick and tells about his relative cynical and pragmatic approach to life illustrated with a description of her feelings when she gave birth to her daughter, "I'm glad it was a girl. And I hope she is stupid - it's the best thing a girl can be in this world, beautiful and stupid. Otherwise, I thought the reason that everything is terrible. "Nick is even confronted with rumors that he's engaged, which he denies.
The first chapter ends with Nick returns to West Egg, a little confused and just a little unwell after dinner party at East Egg. If these feelings provoked by an excessive Mendgen alcohol or mood is uncertain, but I think it's a combination. Nick obviously fascinated by the lifestyle of Buchanan while he feels an uneasiness in their obers