- This mean he will hold but his inner thought and judgement bout someone or something. Even thought he said he would try to hold them back I don’t believe he will be able to tell the true story without being even the slightest bit bias.
- Nick- Daisy- not very caring mother and is married to a rich abusive cheating husband. Tom- he is the rich abusive cheating husband. Miss baker-
- It seems like he is cheating on her and possibly abusive. But daisy know he is cheating and I don’t think it is the first time.
Chapter 2
” the motor road hastily joins the railroad… so as to shrink away from certain desloate area of land. this is a valley of ashes – a fanitastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising shoke and finally with a transcentdent effort of, ash-grey men who move dimly and already crumbing through the powdery air”
Chapter 3
A certain colour that was mentioned a-lot in chapter three is yellow.
3 quotes are:
” …a pair of stage twins, who turned out to be the girls in yellow.”
”…and now the orchestra is playing yellow cockail music.”
”…while his statoin wagon scampered like abrisk yellow bug to meet all trains”
Chapter 4
- Who is Meyer Wolfsheim, and what do we know about him? He is Gatsbys friend. shady
- What is weird about Nick’s drive into New York with Gatsby? List at least three things about Gatsby in the car scene that strike you as odd. the white card the he showed the cop. He had props to back him up. he was very direct.
- Jordan recalls the time in 1917 when she saw Gatsby and Daisy together. From Jordan’s description, do you think Daisy was genuinely interested in Gatsby? Yes i think that she loved him more the Tom.
- Nick says, “Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night” when Nick first spotted Gatsby reaching out across the bay. What does Nick now realize about that night and about Gatsby’s real estate purchase?
Chapter Five
- Describe Gatsby’s feelings toward the meeting with Daisy. Find two quotes to support your description. Explain why he might be feeling the way you have identified. *HE was vervous for daisy to arrive
- A new symbol becomes apparent in this chapter. Find three quotes which mention rain, the ocean, mist or water of some kind. Write them down and consider what connection they might have to Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship.
- Discuss the connection between Gatsby and the clock that he breaks on the mantelpiece. A quote to help you understand this might be “He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.”- Nick, chapter five. *alike the clock gastby has been souly focus on one thing so like the clock if you over wind it it will start to break down.
- Why do you think that Gatsby wants Nick to host this afternoon tea? How important is it to Gatsby that Daisy sees his house? * very much because Gatsby wants daisy to see how big his house is showing off the fact that he is rich.
- Why do you think Daisy cries over Gatsby’s shirts? *because she realised her mistake in letting him go the first time because now he is rich and she is in love with him.
Chapter 6
- Give an overview of where Gatsby came from. How different is this to the rumours that we have heard about him? How true do you think his story about the war and Oxford is now? He came from a farm in north dicoda and he didn’t go to oxford. he changed his name when he recreated himself.
- Find two quotes that show us Gatsby ‘reinvented’ himself. james gats that was him name he changed it at the beginning of his cerrear
- Consider the quote “a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing.” What do you think this has to do with the idea that you can design your own reality? How do you think this applies to Gatsby? Something real is something not real. Someone life can be base on something no real aka gatsby fake story
- Describe Daisy’s reaction to the party. Find two quotes to support your observation. didnt really like the party. Did u notice daisys face when she asked her to put her under a cold shower.
- Why is it significant that Daisy says “I’m giving out green” during the party? She giving up hope.
- Gatsby seems to think that Nick’s opinion that “You can’t repeat the past” is insane. Find his response to this line in the novel and write it down. Why do you think he needs to hold this opinion? He is unwiling to beleive something.
Chapter Seven
- Nick observes that “the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes.” What do you think he means by this? Note: the quote relates to Gatsby and Daisy and is near the beginning of chapter one. Daisy is the breath that blows down the party because if she isnt satifly hell change it o suit her
- Why do you think Fitzgerald set the events of this chapter on the hottest day of the story so far? Consider how this might connect to the water symbolism.
- Gatsby tells Nick that “Her voice is full of money” in regards to Daisy. Explain what this means. The thing she say and the people she choses she is always byist to the richer.
- “High in a white palace, the kings daughter, the golden girl”. This line appears as Nick is describing Daisy and her voice. Why do you think it is significant? What does it tell us about her? That she is rich and acts like a prinsess
- Comment on the situation at the palace hotel. Do you think Daisy ever had any intention of leaving Tom? Find a quote to support your answer.
- Break down the following quotation, as we have done as a class on the board. Explain what is revealed about ‘the dream’ in this quote.
“But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, despairingly, towards that lost voice across the room.” - Reflect on the death of Myrtle Wilson and think about the fact that she was killed by a member of the ‘elite upper class’. Comment on what statement Fitzgerald is making about the privilege the very wealthy believe they possess.
chapter 8
- Comment on your reaction to Gatsby’s story about falling in love with Daisy. It is slightly delusional and unrealistic. He is living in a dream. Daisy isn’t actually as nice as he made her sound.
- The idea of the golden girl is developed in this chapter. Comment on how the following quotes help us to understand Daisy’s status as the golden girl of the story:
- “It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy- it increased her value in his eyes” the fact the more people love her makes her more valuable to him.
- “He knew that Daisy was extraordinary, but he didn’t realise just how extraordinary a ‘nice girl’ could be.” that she is good in every way like a golden girl.
- “Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor.” golden girl
- Nick says to Gatsby “They’re a rotten crowd…You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” Do you agree with Nick? Explain why/why not.
- Nick tells us the story of Wilson- or at least the version that the media published. In it, the symbol of the eyes is developed further. What does Wilson say to his wife about her actions? Who does he believe is judging her? Do you think that the eyes really symbolise God in this text? Don’t really think they are. I think they have another meaning but not god. It symbols that no one is actually watching them
- Gatsby is shot and killed in his swimming pool. Comment on the significance of this particular setting in connection to Gatsby’s death. Think about the reason that Gatsby is killed and how this might connect with what we already know about the water symbolism. The fact the have was stuck in the past and not able to move one gets him killed.
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