The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Top ten features
Task:
1. Below is a list of statements about the novel The Great Gatsby.
Read through and add an extra point of your own if you like.
2. Now rank the statements from one to ten (or eleven if you have
added your own point!) starting with the one that best characterises
the novel for you as a reader.
3. For your top three features, find evidence from the text to support and explain
these choices.
The Great Gatsby is a novel:
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with an interesting first person narrator in Nick
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which questions the idealism of the American Dream
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that contrasts love and marriage
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which explores greed, deception and hypocrisy
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with a particular geographical and historical setting
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which ends in tragedy
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which explores social class, status and power
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that’s considered to be one of the great American novels
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whose author uses settings in a symbolic way
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with an ironic title
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in which ............................................................. is important
Feature
Evidence from the text
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