Finish reading chapter 3 before responding. remember that you will need to quote the text to support your opinion. your response must be typed and should be about a page in length, double spaced with a 12-point font. here’s a good question: why nick? fitzgerald could have chosen any perspective for his point of view but he chose first person narration, and he developed mr. carraway for a purpose. why? based on what you’ve read so far, what do you think nick’s role is? how does it connect to the author’s own perspective? can we trust nick? (he says at the end of 39 that he is “the only honest man he’s ever known”; literary critics, however, often consider him hopelessly dishonest and hypocritical.)

Me which theme is developed by the changing relationship between the narrator and his daughter in this excerpt ? as she grew older, she spent more of her time with girls. so much time indeed did she spend with them that she came no more, as she used to do, to her father’s room. i was scarcely on speaking terms with her. when mini and her father stop communicating, it develops the theme that children should not speak unless spoken to. as mini becomes more independent, it develops the theme that parents must learn to let go as their children grow up. as mini spends more time with friends, it develops the theme that young people are more influenced by peers than by parents. when mini and her father see each other far less often, it develops the theme that absence makes the heart grow fonder.