Write about the ways Gatsby is presented in the first four chapters of The Great Gatsby.Language, setting, structure, poetic prose, narrative tone,...

Fitzgerald enlists his narrator, the commonsense Nick
Carraway, to "deliver" the mysterious title figure. Gatsby can be understood as the
1920s version of Benjamin Franklin, the boy without resources who made himself into a
tycoon. Gatsby's is the "rags-to-riches" American story, but without Franklin's prudence
and civic-mindedness. Gatsby is also (as we shall see) more sinister and far more
romantic than his 18th-century forebear.  Gatsby, we learn, bought this mansion and
gives these parties in hopes of one day re-encountering his lost love, Daisy. Daisy is
now married to Tom Buchanan and lives in a mansion across the bay in "East Egg," the
more traditionally wealthy part of Long Island. Gatsby can see the green light on her
dock, which comes to represent all his desire and longing. Gatsby tells Nick (his
neighbor) of falling in love with Daisy when he was stationed in the South, five years
earlier, an officer with infinite dreams but no real claims. This love affair was the
spiritual high point of his life, and Fitzgerald offers us an exquisite evocation of
love and sexual desire as the prime forces that move the world. The first few chapters
begin with Nick, then Daisy (Nick's cousin) and Tom, then Gatsby's fabulous parties, and
then the request that Nick invite Daisy to tea, so that Gatsby can at long last see her
again and make good on his dream. This long-awaited rendezvous is handled with
Fitzgerald's characteristic charm and wit and pathos. It moves from near-disaster to
tearful reunion to stunning triumph of love, glamour, and even wealth.  Gatsby's
character is elusive and full of pathos. His aura is reflected in the enormous parties
he throws, a wild pursuit of the American dream that is deeply
romantic.