Tom: I believe that he is the antihero. I don't think that he will do anything evil or villainous, but he is the type of person that the audience does not relate to. He is not a real person, he is strong, rich, and radical. "Civilization is going to pieces," Tom said..." (12). This quote proves how radical and difficult to relate to he is as a character.
Jordan Baker: Villain. She is going to break the hero's heart. We know that the author had his heart broken, and this character is going to be that figure. "..and for a moment I thought I loved her" (58). This quote proves that he does indeed love her, and I assume that she will end up hurting him in the end because of who the author is.
Gatsby: I'm not quite sure what to call him because he is a character that we can relate to, but he also is not at times. He is so good that I don't think we could quite call him a hero, it would be more of a super hero. When we hear the gossiping girls talking about his sending of a new dress to one of them it proves he is a great person. Again, with the main character describing his feelings towards Gatsby we know that he is an outstanding character. He is too good to the level that it is unrealistic in our lives, and therefor I feel that I can not consider him a hero.
It is interesting to look back after finishing the book and see how close our predictions were. You do a nice job of bringing in textual support for your claims about the characters, and then you spend at least one sentence explaining the relevance of the quote. Keep that going into other literary analysis.
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