Great Gatsby Reading Blog #1 (ch. 1-3)

Hero(s): Jay Gatsby. Mr. Gatsby seems to be the focus of this book, especially since the book is named after him. On the back of the book, it says it's his story. Also he does really nice things and attempts not to have troubles with anyone like when Lucille says that "when [she] was here last [she] tore her gown on a chair... [she] got a package from Croirier's with a new evening gown in it." I think that shows that he goes out of his way to stay out of trouble and avoid conflict with others.
Antihero(s): Ms. Baker. She seems like a nice person and she does nice things for Nick in the first three chapters but Nick already knows that she's a dishonest person. He begins to think that he loves her but realizes that  she is "incurably dishonest." Also Daisy Buchanan seems to be an anti-hero because she is important to the story as she'll contribute as Gatsby's love interest. I think that because from the beginning, as a reader, I liked her character the way she was described but at the same time her ignorance to her husband cheating on her and controlling her, though it makes us root for her isn't really something good. The scene where  "she threw her napkin on the table and excused herself into the house" (p. 14) and right after that shows how she lets her husband walk over her.
Villain(s): Mrs. Myrtle Wilson and Tom Buchanan. I think that they will be the villains because it says that this is the story of Mr. Gatsby's love for Daisy Buchanan. Myrtle and especially Mr. Buchanan are ought to get in the way of that. Tom is married to Daisy and although he already has Myrtle, it seems as though he wouldn't really be okay with her being with someone else by the way he treats her and controls her at that dinner that Nick goes to in Chapter 1 at their house on the East Egg. "Neither of them can stand the person they're married to." (p. 33) This might also get in the way because Daisy is important to the story, obviously, since it's the story of Gatsby's love for her and conflict may arise between Gatsby and Mr. Buchanan.