The Great Gatsby Rhetorical Analysis Chapter 1

Pg. 2 (good description) describes him as “tight fisted hand on the grindstone” says he is a covetous old sinner (check the back cover as well)

Pg. 4 he finds love ridiculous

Pg. 6 he describes in detail why he should not help others who need it, insensitive.

The first time a change in Scrooge can be detected is on pg. 9-10 Scrooge sees Marley’s face in the knocker of his home and says that “To say that he was not startled, or that his blood was not conscious of a terrible sensation to which it had been a stranger from infancy, would be untrue” We see that having Marley’s memory brought up has caused an emotional reaction in Scrooge. We see the proof of this emotional disturbance when, on page 10, we learn that after the incident, Scrooge felt the need to check if all was right in his house. Seeing Marley, “Humbug,” awoke some of Scrooge’s feelings and emotions he had previously kept at bay. Another proof of this is when on pg. 17 Scrooge says, “Marley’s Ghost bothered him exceedingly.”

Here we are told that this behavior was not normal and that he was showing signs of change)

When Marley takes him back to his childhood he changes in the sense that he becomes happy when faced with these memories. He sees boys playing and wishing one another a Merry Christmas and is overjoyed. Doing this he consequently becomes confused; he thinks, why am I so happy beyond bounds to have seen them again, what was (a) merry Christmas to him? (pg. 20)

At the end of the christmas past visit, Scrooge tearfully tells the ghost that he wished he had given the boy singing a carol at his door the night before something. We see in this remorseful feeling he experiences, that he is becoming more