{"id":1471,"date":"2021-07-14T19:12:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ds-wordpress.haverford.edu\/lacol-dh\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2021-07-14T19:12:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:12:13","slug":"the-great-gatsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ds-wordpress.haverford.edu\/lacol-dh\/2021\/07\/14\/the-great-gatsby\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Gatsby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The \u201cTrends\u201d tab offered to users by Voyant documents the frequency of words used by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel The Great Gatsby<\/em> in each of the book\u2019s ten segments. Three of Fitzgerald\u2019s most commonly used words are the proper nouns Daisy, Gatsby, and Tom. Because the character Nick narrates The Great Gatsby, users can utilize <\/em>the \u201cTrend\u201d tab to record the narrator\u2019s relationship with each character as Tom is the most common word in the first, second, seventh, and eighth sections of the novel. Gatsby is the most common word in the third, fifth, and sixth segments. Readers familiar with Fitzgerald\u2019s opus will know that Nick\u2019s relationship with Gatsby and Tom fluctuates as both men simultaneously vie for the approval of both him and his cousin Daisy. The word used most frequently by Fitzgerald is \u201csaid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, most writing courses discourage using \u201csaid\u201d in favor of more inventive vocalizing verbs. Voyant states that 0.122 is The Great Gatsby\u2019s<\/em> vocabulary density. With what literary works is Voyant comparing Fitzgerald\u2019s vocabulary? What does the 0.122 value mean in terms of creativity in the form of vocabulary?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If users click on the Windows icon located in the right-hand corner of Voyant\u2019s interface, a drop-down menu will appear with an option for \u201cCorpus Tools.\u201d You can find a list of topics featured in The Great Gatsby<\/em> after clicking on \u201cTopics\u201d at the bottom of a second drop-down menu. However, the topics promoted by Voyant are incoherent sentences that nonsensically string together popular words and phrases used by Fitzgerald throughout the novel. To export the results of Voyant\u2019s corpus for Fitzgerald\u2019s The Great Gatsby<\/em>, users need only click on the arrow icon, also featured on the top right corner of Voyant\u2019s interface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cTrendBerry\u201d tool is helpful in that it can recount words associated with the novel\u2019s \u201ctop terms\u201d and those accompanying \u201cdistinct terms.\u201d For instance, \u201cGatsby\u201d (which appears 197 times in the text) is linked most commonly to \u201cDaisy\u201d (7 times) and the character\u2019s famous nickname for Nick, \u201csport\u201d (6 times). The \u201cTrendBerry\u201d tool and the \u201cLinks\u201d tool provide a count as to the number of times Fitzgerald pairs specific words together with another. However, there is a section within the \u201cLinks\u201d tab titled \u201cRelative\u201d that communicates to Voyant users \u201cthe relative frequency (per million) of [each] term in each document.\u201d It is unclear as to what other documents the tool is referring to. Does the \u201cRelative\u201d tab account for only online forms of Fitzgerald\u2019s work or process the data based on the number of books published\/sold in both a physical and virtual format?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The \u201cTrends\u201d tab offered to users by Voyant documents the frequency of words used by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel The Great Gatsby in each of the book\u2019s ten segments. Three of Fitzgerald\u2019s most commonly used words are the proper nouns… Continue Reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ds-wordpress.haverford.edu\/lacol-dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ds-wordpress.haverford.edu\/lacol-dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ds-wordpress.haverford.edu\/lacol-dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ds-wordpress.haverford.edu\/lacol-dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ds-wordpress.haverford.edu\/lacol-dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ds-wordpress.haverford.edu\/lacol-dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"http:\/\/ds-wordpress.haverford.edu\/lacol-dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ds-wordpress.haverford.edu\/lacol-dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ds-wordpress.haverford.edu\/lacol-dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ds-wordpress.haverford.edu\/lacol-dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}