Tamayo, Maria Isabel

BSED 3-1 ENGLISH

1. Describe what new critics do as well as the limitations of new

criticism.

New Criticism emphasizes explication, or "close reading," of "the work

itself." It rejects old historicism's attention to biographical and sociological
matters. Instead, the objective determination as to "how a piece works,"
can be found through close focus and analysis, rather than through
extraneous and erudite special knowledge. New criticism examines the
relationship between a text's idea and its form, between what a text says
and the way it says it. New Critics "may find tension, irony, or paradox in
this relation, but they usually resolve it into unity and coherence of
meaning." New Criticism attempts to be a science of literature, with a
technical vocabulary, working with patterns of sound, imagery, narrative
structure, point of view, and other techniques discernible on the close
reading of the text, they seek to determine the function and
appropriateness of these to the self-contained work.

2. Analyze the novel entitled “The Great Gatsby” following the new
criticism features.

Nick Carraway, the author and narrator of the movie " THE GREAT
GATSBY." A Yale University graduate from the midwest who moves to New
York after WWI to pursue his career. The Great Gatsby's story is about the
life of his friend Gatsby and cousins daisy and recapturing the past. He
witnessed how the life of these two close people being played by the
situation. He wrote the two convoluted love story.

The year 1922, Nick got a house in the fictional village of West Egg on
Long Island in North Dacota. He finds himself living in a near extremely
large mansion, across the water in the more refined houses of East Egg
lives his cousin Daisy and her brutish, absolutely wealthy husband Tom
Buchanan. Daisy's husband is known to be a womanizer. Tom invited Nick
to the party, and that time he witnessed how this old ugly white man
betrayed his cousin. While enjoying the party, he notices a man standing
beside the window, and watching it made him feel uncomfortable. This man
always having a fancy party and always inviting everyone, and got
invitations he takes this opportunity to know this man about talked by the
crowd. At that time, he began to know this man's identity. He also finds out
that this man and his cousin's daisy was a lover during their youth but got
broke after his cousin finds another rich and well-known man in the city.
Unfortunately, even they broke with each other five years ago, Gatsby and
Daisy are hiddenly seen meeting each other. The party always held at
Gatsby's house stopped, and it gives people confusion after knowing that
Gatsby's bringing a woman together with Nick.

As the days pass, Tom becomes aware of Daisy’s association with Gatsby.
Disliking it, he shows up at one of Gatsby’s parties with his wife. It becomes
clear that Daisy does not like the party and is appalled by the impropriety of
the new-money crowd at West Egg. Tom suspects that Gatsby is a
bootlegger, and he says so. Voicing his dismay to Nick after the party is
over, Gatsby explains that he wants Daisy to tell Tom she never loved him
and then marry him as though the years had never passed.

After the wild parties, Daisy decided to go to Gatsby's house in the

afternoon.

In the dining room, Daisy pays Gatsby a compliment that makes clear her
love for him, and, when Tom notices this, he insists they drive into town.
After the long drive, Tom got a piece of news that his wife and gatsby are
together heading to a party and that's made him angry. Tom confronts
Gatsby directly on the subject of his relationship with Daisy. Daisy tries to
calm them down, but Gatsby insists that Daisy and he have always been in
love and that she has never loved Tom. As the fight starts, Daisy is about
to leave Tom but his husband revealed something about Gatsby's illegal
work. Daisy got upset and get out of the party. Gatsby chase daisy hoping
her to come back and she did. After that, he remembered that it was his
birthday and no one recognizes it.

On the road, while Daisy driving Gatsby's car, and she hits Tom's mistress.
Nick finds Gatsby hiding in the garden and learns that it was Daisy who
was driving, though Gatsby insists that he will say it was him if his car is
found. He says he will wait outside Daisy’s house in case Tom abuses
Daisy.

The next morning, nick pleasing Gatsby to run away after police will trace
his car. Gatsby refuses. He refuses, and that night he tells Nick the truth
about his past: he had come from a poor farming family and had met Daisy
in Louisville while serving in the army, but he was too poor to marry her at
the time. He earned his incredible wealth only after the war. Nicks leave for
work while Gatsby still waiting for daisy's text. He was in the pool when
someone shoots him. The news arrived in a nick and knowingly it was Mr.
Wilson who revenges his wife's death. Nick arranges Gatsby’s funeral,
although only two people attend, one of whom is Gatsby’s father. Nick
moves back to the Midwest, disgusted with life in the East.