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| 6713220936 | Setting : | New York City 1920s West and East Egg Long Island 1920s | 0 | |
| 6713220937 | Themes: | Society's immorality Decline of the American Dream The futility/strength of hope | 1 | |
| 6713220938 | How does Nick describe himself at the beginning of the book? | - He describes himself as someone who is inclined to reserve all judgments, so people opened up to him. | 2 | |
| 6713220939 | Is the novel merely for entertainment? | No, the novel criticizes the greed and exorbitance in upper class America during the Roaring 20s. it also criticizes how isolated and ignorant wealthy ("old money") people are, because Tom and Daisy are not affected by the deaths of their respective lovers, they just move on and ignore the mess they've made | 3 | |
| 6713220940 | Class distinctions in Gatsby | Gatsby can't be with Daisy because he's new rich and she's old rich, Nick is separated from everyone because he's not rich enough to not have to work | 4 | |
| 6713220941 | The American Dream in Gatsby | Gatsby went from "rags to riches" fulfilling the American dream that anyone can be wealthy with determination and the will to work. However, the dream is actually ironic because Gatsby can't get what he truly wants (Daisy) and he is not respected because he wasn't born in to the upper class. The dream is hollow. | 5 | |
| 6713220942 | Fantasy vs. Reality; Past vs. Present in Gatsby | Gatsby can't let go of the past or his vision for his future with Daisy. The reality is that he cannot be with Daisy. | 6 | |
| 6713220943 | Dishonesty in Gatsby | Gatsby pretty much lies about everything, specifically his past, also Tom and Daisy are completely dishonest about their adulterous relationships | 7 | |
| 6713220944 | Green Light on Daisy's Dock - symbolism | Gatsby's hope for Daisy and his futile dream It's a "go" that is not letting him go forward. | 8 | |
| 6713220946 | White- Symbolism | White: Traditional- Purity and beauty Great Gatsby- corruption and ugliness Jordan and Daisy are dressed in white. | 9 | |
| 6713220945 | Yellow- Symbolism | Yellow: Traditional expected symbolism- Life giving, warm, qualities of the sun Ironic in Great Gatsby- scenes of death, disaster, decay Wilson= With Sun ( Gatsby's car) | 10 | |
| 6713220947 | Daisy--symbolism | Innocence, purity of a flower but ironic because she was neither of those. A daisy is open and not a flower with many petals--she doesn't have many facets--she is shallow | 11 | |
| 6713220948 | Grey- Symbolism | Gray: Traditional- Lifelessness, meaninglessness, death Great Gatsby- lifelessness- meaninglessness- death Gatsby's house is grey Valley of Ashes-- ash field where wilson and myrtle live | 12 | |
| 6713220949 | Telephone- Symbolism | Telephone Reality Truth What does the telephone call from Chicago tell us about Gatsby's business?- That he was a gangster who broke people out of jail and bribed with dirty money. Myrtle calls Tom at home, which makes Daisy, upset. Also Daisy calls Tom at the city apartment and Tom breaks Myrtle's nose when she questions him about it. | 13 | |
| 6713220953 | Cars - symbolism | The "Death Car" - death Describe the two incident involving automobiles in this chapter. What role do automobiles seem to play in the novel so far?- automobiles are a luxury item, they are always broken, they seem to be wherever corrupt people with money are, so they represent the corrupted rich society. Gastsby's car is shiny on the exterior like him but it causes death. | 14 | |
| 6713220954 | Uncut books in the library- Symbolism | Uncut books in the library--pages have not been opened. Library looks good but not actually used for learning, knowledge. Superficiality of rich people in the 20s--Gatsby is not what he seems. | 15 | |
| 6713220955 | Gatsby's shirts- symbolism | Gatsby's Shirts To Gatsby: success To Daisy: She could have had everything (love and wealth) with Gatsby had she waited for him. | 16 | |
| 6713220956 | The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckelberg on billboard in valley of ashes - Symbolism | Eyes of God See the corruption and immorality | 17 | |
| 6713220957 | Weather - Symbolism | Weather Heat: conflict Rain: death | 18 | |
| 6713220958 | Myrtle's Dog - symbolism | Myrtle trying to be something she isn't. Because the dog is a mutt and the vend0r tried to pass it off as a pure bred | 19 | |
| 6713220959 | Drinking/Alcohol- symbolism | Immorality Gatsby didn't drink but everyone at all the gatherings drinks. Ironically, Gatsby is a bootlegger in illegal alcohol, so he gains his wealth immorally even though he doesn't take part in drinking. | 20 | |
| 6713220960 | Circular Movement In The Great Gatsby A. The Order of The Novel | 1. Gatsby's boyhood- final chapter 2. Gatsby aged 17- Chapter 6 3. Gatsby's love affair with Daisy five years before the action of the novel, Gatsby in the army, Gatsby first meets Daisy - Chapter 4,6,8 4. Gatsby's war experience, post war trip to Daisy's - Chapter 8 5. Gatsby's entry into occupation with Wolfsheim- Chapter 6. Meeting Daisy again- Dead center of the novel - Chapter | 21 | |
| 6713220961 | Circular Movement In The Great Gatsby B. Movements - East Egg to West Egg, East to West | 1. Characters drive back and forth from East Egg to West Egg 2. Characters move from West Coast and Mid-West to East and then back again. 3. Gatsby's Death- "Thin red circle of blood." 4. Quest for Daisy- Has Daisy, loses Daisy, has Daisy, loses Daisy. 5. Seasons- Autumn, Summer, Autumn Novel begins in autumn, moves to summer and then back to autumn. | 22 | |
| 6713220962 | Irony :Jordan Baker says she hates careless people, but ... | she is careless and dishonest | 23 | |
| 6713220963 | Irony:Everyone comes to Gatsby's parties, but | but nobody goes to his funeral, nobody actually knows him | 24 | |
| 6713220964 | Irony: Nick has "unaffected scorn" for Gatsby, but | but writes a book about him | 25 | |
| 6713220965 | Irony:Myrtle runs into the street thinking Tom will save her, but | but she gets hit and killed | 26 | |
| 6713220966 | Irony:Wilson shoots Gatsby thinking he is the one having an affair with his wife | but its actually Tom having an affair with his wife, and Tom told him where Gatsby lived | 27 | |
| 6713220967 | Irony:Tom says "women run around too much these days to suit me," but | but he is having an affair with Myrtle | 28 | |
| 6713220968 | Irony:We know that Daisy won't leave Tom, but | but Gatsby still believes she will | 29 | |
| 6713220969 | "So we beat on.... | "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"- Nick Carraway | 30 | |
| 6713220970 | "Let us learn to show .... | "Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead." - Meyer Wolfsheim | 31 | |
| 6713220971 | "Can't repeat... | "Can't repeat the past?...Why of course you can!"- Gatsby | 32 | |
| 6713220972 | "All I kept thinking about, | "All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever." - Nick Carraway | 33 | |
| 6713220973 | "Gatsby believed in the green light | "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."- Nick Carraway | 34 | |
| 6713220974 | "Gatsby turned out alright at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, | what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that...closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men." - Nick Carraway | 35 | |
| 6713220975 | How does Nick describe Tom Buchanan, and who is Tom Buchanan? | Tom Buchanan is Daisy's husband and is a "sturdy straw haired man of thirty with two arrogant eyes that gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forwards. He had a body of enormous leverage, a cruel body. He had a manner of paternal contempt | 36 | |
| 6713220976 | Who is Jordan Baker?- | - the friend of Daisy and a great golf player, but rumored to cheat at golf. immoral and hypocritical | 37 | |
| 6713220977 | What does Nick mean when he says "I'm inclined to reserve all judgments" and then when he admits he sets limits on that practice? - | - That he listens to everyone's stories but that he doesn't always want privileged glances or riotous excursions | 38 | |
| 6713220978 | How would you describe Daisy's state of mind during dinner? - | She is trying to be optimistic, to keep the mood light and hide the conflict. She is also flustered and fidgety though. | 39 | |
| 6713220979 | What does she say and do that helps reveal her inner conflicts?- | she blows out the candle, blames her husband for hurting her, leaves the room when the phone rings. She looks at him helplessly and asks what people plan, diverts onto other random topics | 40 | |
| 6713220980 | Does Nick scorn or admire Gatsby? How do you know this?- | He admires him because even though he hated everything Gatsby stood for, Gatsby was true to his personality and had a heightened sensitivity to the promises in life and had a sense of romantic rediness. He was likeable and interesting. | 41 | |
| 6713220983 | Why do you think Gatsby lives on West Egg even though he can surely afford to live on the more fashionable East Egg? - | - because he wants to live where he can see Daisy | 42 | |
| 6713220984 | How does Myrtle react to Tom's arrival? | - She walks through her husband like a ghost and goes straight to Tom, she is pleased to see him | 43 | |
| 6713220985 | Describe Myrtle Wilson. | . - she is curvy and sensual in her thirties with a sense of vitality. | 44 | |
| 6713220986 | Describe George Wilson. | - he's a blond spiritless man, aneamic and weak | 45 | |
| 6713220987 | The ash heaps and the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleberg share the neighborhood with George and Myrtle Wilson. What characteristics do they share that contribute to the idea of a waste land?- | Everything in their house is covered with dust, their marriage is destroyed, the husband is spiritless, they don't have any business. The eyes look down on their house but the occupants are blind. The husband doesn't know about his wife and daisy doesn't know who she is. Ash is AFTER a fire is dead--lifeless | 46 | |
| 6713220988 | Compare the setting of the party (party at Myrtle and Tom's apartment) in this chapter to the setting of the party in Chapter One.- | They are all cramped instead of in an open space. They are in a stuffy room of smoke instead of in a nice airy house. They're in New York. They're all kind of playing at sophistication and doing it cheaply unlike the other party. | 47 | |
| 6713220989 | How does Tom reveal his cruelty above his illusion of sophistication? | he punches Myrtle in the nose. | 48 | |
| 6713220990 | What elements contribute to the mystery surrounding Gatsby?- | That hardly anyone saw him, that he didn't want trouble with anyone, that people who didn't usually gossip were gossiping about him. | 49 | |
| 6713220991 | How does Jordan reveal her cruelty? What does her bored, haughty demeanor hide?- | She doesn't acknowledge the people she met at the last party, she leaves her escort, she is cold. She hides the fact that she is a perpetual liar, because she never wanted to be at a disadvantage. | 50 | |
| 6713220992 | Why does "owl eyes" express such shock that Gatsby's books are real? What does this reveal about Gatsby?- | he thought that the house was fake, and still does, but he thinks Gatsby is good with details. This reveals that Gatsby is hiding something, and trying to pass himself off as something he's not and that the whole thing ,gatsby and the house was a facade. | 51 | |
| 6713220993 | Why does Fitzgerald describe the party (in the passage beginning "By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived") in the present tense?- | he describes it in the present tense because it allows the reader to experience the party like the speaker is, in the present and at a quickly moving pace. | 52 | |
| 6713220994 | How does Nick characterize the guests at Gatsby's party? What do these characterizations tell us about how Nick feels about most of these people? What sense of life in the Jazz Age do we get from the description of this party?- | they were drunk and silly, many young girls and old men, oversensitive women that would argue when drunk. It tells us that he thought the guests were foolish, wild and gossips. It tells us that life in the Jazz Age was not entirely moral, ostentatious, young women were affectionate and sensual and men were sexually driven and found the women silly. | 53 | |
| 6713220995 | Why does Nick describe his everyday working life? How does it differ from the other characters' lives?- | His life is average and normal, spent with normal people, devoid of scandal or drama, and not ostentatious. It is a normal and honest life, he lives an honest life that none of the other characters do. | 54 | |
| 6713220996 | Aside from the improbability of his story, what other evidence is there that Gatsby is lying when he tells Nick about his background?- | - He chokes or pauses or hurries through sentences, he uses stories that have been used numerous times before, they aren't very substantial and too romantic. | 55 | |
| 6713220997 | What kind of cuff links does Wolfsheim wear? What does this tell you about him? | human molars a. What does this tell you about him? - He is a gambler, a criminal and a gangster, he's violent. He's a caricature of what a gangster should be--exaggerated in speech, appearance, etc. | 56 | |
| 6713220998 | How does Daisy behave after Gatsby goes overseas? - What does her behavior show about her feelings for Gatsby?- | she has affairs with the boys in town, she gets engaged to someone in new Orleans and then marries tom. Her behavior shows that she didn't love Gatsby as much as he loved her, she would rather have affairs with local boys and marry a very rich man. | 57 | |
| 6713221001 | How does Gatsby dress to meet Daisy? | He wears a WHITE flannel suit, a silver shirt and a golden tie. | 58 | |
| 6713221002 | Why do you think Daisy sobs when Gatsby shows her his shirts? | She realizes she could have had wealth and love had she been patient enough to wait for Gatsby and not married Tom. | 59 | |
| 6713221003 | How does Gatsby almost literally "stop time"? | he knocks the clock off the mantle piece. | 60 | |
| 6713221004 | What is Gatsby's illusion? - What indicators are there that reality cannot satisfy his dream?- | that daisy is perfect and that she is his and that they can live happily together. but Daisy is married to another man, she didn't bother to contact him, she is more impressed by his stuff than by him. | 61 | |
| 6713221005 | What is Gatsby's dialogue like in this chapter? What does it tell us about Gatsby?- | kind of abrupt, nervous and hysterical. He has built up too much around daisy, he thinks to highly of her, he idolizes her and he is nervous about not being what she wants or messing up. | 62 | |
| 6713221006 | What is the weather like in this chapter? How does it reflect on the emotional climate of Gatsby and Daisy?- | The weather is good and then becomes stormy. It becomes stormy when Gatsby and Daisy are feeling embarrassed, awkward or sad. It becomes sunny when Gatsby regains confidence and Daisy is touched by him. The weather is bad when their conversation starts to go down hill and brightens up when their confidence and good mood return. | 63 | |
| 6713221007 | What is Gatsby's real history? What is Gatsby's original name and why does he change it? | - His parents were poor shiftless and unsuccessful farm workers. He had to find work as a clam digger or salmon fisher just to get a bed and food. - James Gatz, he changed it because he fantasized about being a rich young man with the name Jay Gatsby, so when rich Dan Cody asks his name he tells him its Jay Gatsby. | 64 | |
| 6713221009 | What are Tom and Daisy's reactions to the party?- What rumors circulate about Gatsby?- | Tom suspects that Gatsby has a sinister nature, Daisy found the people and the shallow gaudiness appalling but loved being with Gatsby. -he's a bootlegger, that he killed a man, that he owns a ton of drug stores. | 65 | |
| 6713221011 | How is the comparison of Gatsby with Christ ("he was a son of God . . . and he must be about his Father's business") ironic? | Its ironic because Gatsby is a bootlegger and immoral and his work is sinful. And God's work is the opposite and Jesus is moral. | 66 | |
| 6713221012 | 8. Tom, Mr. Sloane, and a young lady visit Gatsby and the lady invited Gatsby to come to dinner with them. What does Gatsby's response tell us about his social sensitivity?- | - That he's not very good at picking up social cues, he is kind of Naïve. | 67 | |
| 6713221013 | What is Gatsby's view of the past? - | That you can repeat the past, that you can remake it. He wanted to recover something, some idea of himself that had gone into loving daisy. If he could return to a starting place and go over it, he could find out what it was. | 68 | |
| 6713221014 | When Nick says that Gatsby "wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, they had gone into loving Daisy," what do you think he means? | - He wants to be sure of himself like he was and to have a purpose in loving her, and a goal in being good enough for her, not being disappointed in her like he is now. | 69 | |
| 6713221015 | At the end of the chapter, Nick describes Gatsby kissing Daisy in Louisville five years before. What is Gatsby giving up when he kisses her? a. Why? | - He is giving up his freedom to never be tied down, and to remain unattached and do only what pleases HIM. Now he is devoted to HER. - Because he is placing his utter devotion and affection on her, anything he does will be for her, she has control of him unknowingly. | 70 | |
| 6713221016 | Why does Gatsby stop giving parties? Why has Gatsby hired new servants? Who are they? | - Because Daisy didn't approve of them. - He wanted people that didn't gossip. They are wolfsheims brothers and sisters who needed work. | 71 | |
| 6713221017 | Does Daisy tell Gatsby she loves him? How? When does Tom first realize Daisy loves Gatsby? | - Yes, she grabs him as soon as Tom leaves the room and kisses him and says " you know I love you". - When she says " you look so cool" and then says "you always look so cool". | 72 | |
| 6713221018 | Why is Myrtle Wilson upset when she sees Tom and Jordan? | - She thinks that Jordan is Tom's wife. | 73 | |
| 6713221019 | In what ways is Tom a hypocrite? | - He is angry at Daisy for loving Gatsby, while he is cheating on her with myrtle. | 74 | |
| 6713221020 | What does the episode concerning Daisy's daughter Pammy tell you about Daisy? | That she is more childlike than her daughter, that she doesn't want any of Tom to be in Pammy. She is shallow, not motherly, and treats Pammy like a possession. No ability for deep relationships. | 75 | |
| 6713221021 | How is Gatsby a "hero" in the story?- | He is a hero because he is polite and he is trying to rescue daisy like a damsel in distress. | 76 | |
| 6713221022 | How does Gatsby characterize Daisy's voice? What do you think he means by this? | - Like money, an inexhaustible charm that jingled and was bright. - That its rich, that its tempting and desired, and that its superficial | 77 | |
| 6713221023 | Why does Tom insist that Daisy go home with Gatsby? | - To let her know that he is sure that she won't cheat on him, he's holding it over her head, and as a kind of as a taunt to Gatsby | 78 | |
| 6713221024 | What do you think this tells us about Tom's character and his relationship with Daisy?- | - He's patronizing and treats Daisy like his daughter not his wife, he treats her like a child and is controlling. | 79 | |
| 6713221025 | What indications are there at the end of the chapter that Tom and Daisy are going to stay together despite his philandering and her love for Gatsby? | - she did love him a bit, the both of them were sitting over dinner talking intimately after the argument with Gatsby. They were similar in (bad) character and that gives them a foundation. | 80 | |
| 6713221026 | At the end of the chapter, Gatsby is standing alone, looking out at Daisy's house. Where else in the novel does he do this? How is this different? | -When he is looking out at the green light on daisy's dock. - this is different because she's not perfect like he thought, she doesn't love him like she thought, and he has no more hope of a future with her anymore, he's watching over her and not worshiping her, and there's nothing to watch over or worship because her affection for him is gone. | 81 | |
| 6713221027 | In what ways do you know that Gatsby realizes his dream has vanished? | - Daisy did came to window once, looked at him, and turned out the light. Daisy went back to tom and nothing happened. | 82 | |
| 6713221028 | What does Gatsby tell Nick the night of the accident? Why? - | That he hid the car and that Daisy took the death of the woman alright, he said this because Daisy was the person driving the car, not him. But he said if anyone asks he would tell that he had been driving. | 83 | |
| 6713221029 | What evidence had Wilson found that his wife was having an affair?- | His wife came home with her face bruised and her nose swollen, she brought home a new dog leash, for a dog they didn't have. | 84 | |
| 6713221030 | What does Nick now think about Jordan?- | - He thinks that she is just a cold and shallow and cruel as the rest of the fashionable rich crowd, he doesn't want to talk to her. | 85 | |
| 6713221031 | What do the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleberg symbolize, according to Wilson? What is significant about this symbol?- | - The eyes symbolize God watching them. - What is significant is that it's seen all of the dirty secrets in the story, its seen Tom and Myrtle, its seen Myrtle's death, and its seen Gatsby and Daisy. It is the moral witness of all the immorality. | 86 | |
| 6713221032 | What would you say is the principle reason for Daisy's appeal to Gatsby?- | Because she is rich, just like his fantasies were, she is sweet and innocent and she's untouchable because she's preserved from hardship by her family's wealth. | 87 | |
| 6713221033 | How do Gatsby's old friends and business associates react to his death? How does this make Nick feel?- | They weren't interested with the intense personal interest to which everyone has a right in the end. They didn't want to speak on Gatsby's behalf. No one else was on gatsby's side. No one was remotely interested with him now that he was dead, no one was moved for him or grieved for him, or even wanted to come to his funeral. | 88 | |
| 6713221034 | What does the telephone call from Chicago tell us about Gatsby's business?- | That he was a gangster who broke people out of jail and bribed with dirty money. He was associated with bootleggers and criminals. | 89 | |
| 6713221035 | What does Gatsby's schoolboy schedule tell you about his drive to accomplish his dreams?- Why is Gatsby's father so proud of him?- | - He was very driven and wanted to be someone great, he was disciplined and wanted to improve his mind. - Because he thinks he was bound to be someone great and moral and gatsby improved mind and was going to be the next capitalist success. | 90 | |
| 6713221036 | Who is the only man, other than Nick and Gatsby's father, to attend the funeral? | - The Owl Eyed man and the Minister. | 91 | |
| 6713221038 | Does Nick still feel hopeful by the end of the book? How so?- | No, he thinks that people try to reach their goals and always feel that they are just within reach, but are always "borne back by the current". | 92 | |
| 6713221039 | How does Nick characterize Tom and Daisy at the end of the book? What has each of them "smashed" during the course of the novel?- | - People that smash up things and creatures and then retreat into their wealth leave the mess for someone else to clean up. -Tom smashed Myrtle's nose, Daisy smashed Myrtle dead, Daisy smashed Gatsby's love, Tom smashed Gatsby dead with the knowledge that it was his car that killed Myrtle. | 93 | |
| 9712445311 | Thematically, what does Fitzgerald offer here? | Superficiality of upper class, the hollowness of the American Dream, the impenetrable barriers between classes | 94 |
