Entry #6

Pgs. 113-133
I've gotten to book two of my first book. Fitzgerald takes us back in time to when he and Nicole Warren first met. Nicole was in an insane asylum but there wasn't really anything super serious about her illness. It turns out that she was perfectly fine as a child but that later her father had sex with her and she was never the same again. He sent her to an institution were he finally tells the director why she was the way she was. Nicole would have break-downs every once in a while and they were always about men abusing her. She has schizophrenia. The first time Dick saw Nicole he was wearing his uniform, he didn't think that there was anything wrong with her at all and he thought she was very beautiful. She thought h was handsome. The wrote to each other while he was in the war (1917). Then the war is over and the director of the asylum calls him there to tell Dick Nicole's story and also, he wants Dick to help her... The director believes that Dick can help her become normal.

At this point there has still been no symbolism. The only interesting to happen in terms of style is that the person changed from the first book to the second but I think that might just be because one is telling the present while the other is telling about the past. In the first book it's from the character's perspective but the second book is from a narrator's perspective. That's one of the challenges I'm having. The only possible thesis I can come up with is the striking similarities between Dick Diver and F. Scott Fitzgerald.