CHAPTER 7
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What has changed at Gatsby’s house?
According to Gatsby, what is Daisy’s voice full of?
What is the seating arrangement on the way to N.Y.?
TO NYC
TO HOME
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Switch cars
Who does Myrtle mistake Jordan for?
In what way is Gatsby an actual “Oxford man”?
CHAPTER 7
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What does Gatsby want Daisy to tell Tom?
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What happens and why?
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What has Tom found about Gatsby?
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What is the description of the “death car”?
DAISY-GATSBY-GOD?
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Even a wealthy socialite like Daisy would have to think
twice before leaving her husband, especially one so
powerful & wealthy as Tom.
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If only Gatsby hadn't asked "too much" of her:
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to erase the past, to be platonic -- i.e. outside of time and
space, ideal, perfect…
just as Gatsby is according to Nick:
"when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable
visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp
again like the mind of God.... And then he kissed her."
DAISY IS NO FOOL
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Not a "beautiful little fool“--is beautiful, but knows what is
going on & knows about Tom's many "flirtations.”
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Doesn't leave Tom because his women are low-class, &
he certainly won’t leave Daisy for one of them.
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Also, women had little power, did not have the vote until
just after Daisy's marriage in 1919, would rarely be able
to establish their own professions...
CHAPTER 7 ALLUSIONS
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Trimalchio: character of a rich, vulgar upstart, taken from the
satires of Petronius, 1st C. Roman writer. Fitzgerald had
considered using the name Trimalchio in the title of this novel.
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caravansary: Oriental inn, for caravans; hence-a gaudy enterprise
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clog: to knock in rhythmic fashion, from dance in which rhythm is
beaten out by shoes w/wooden soles.
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blessed isles: beautiful islands in classical mythology.
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coupe: closed, two-door automobile.
CHAPTER 8
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What is Nick’s advice to Gatsby?
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Why did Daisy marry Tom?
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What does Wilson decide to do?
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What is Wilson looking at when he says:
“You may fool me, but you cannot fool God”?
CHAPTER 8 ALLUSIONS
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grail: extended guest; from the seeking of the Holy Grail
associated w/Christ at the Last Supper.
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Argonne: French forest, where Allied forces fought at end
of World War I.
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pneumatic mattress: air-inflated mattress; raft.
CHAPTER 9
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What is the coroner’s verdict on Wilson’s death?
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Why do none of Gatsby’s business assoc. come to the
funeral?
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What sorts of personal effects does Mr. Gatz bring?
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What did Tom tell Wilson on the day of the shootings?
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What are Nick’s intentions after the funeral?
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How are Daisy & Tom affected by Gatsby’s death?
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What sort of mood does the novel end on?
CHAPTER 9 ALLUSIONS
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pasquinade: a satire, posted publicly.
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ulster: long, heavy overcoat w/cape; often belted.
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James J. Hill: St. Paul railroad magnate (1838-1916)
NEW MONEY LEARNS
FROM OLD MONEY
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Tom and Daisy are "careless people" who can "let
other people clean up the mess" while they "retreat
back into their money."
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New money learns how to do the same: Wolfshiem
fixes the World Series, obviously makes lots of
(new) money, but is not in jail & easily throws off
“friends” (Gatsby)
OLD METROPOLE PREDICTION?
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Gatsby's home=the new Old Metropole?
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"Filled w/faces, dead & gone. Filled w/friends gone now forever“
(70). Wolfsheim
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Metropole-old restaurant used to be filled w/life & character-now
haunted w/past memories
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"I keep it always full of interesting people, night & day.People who
do interesting things. Celebrated people" (90). Gatsby
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Gatsby's home is always full of life. If someone were to die in
Gatsby's home, it could become deserted like Old Metropole…
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Could we have foreshadowed a murder scene? Had all the
elements, luxurious parties, affairs, secrets & Gatsby's shady
businesses…
ALTERNATE ENDING (CONSPIRACY THEORY)
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Butler-one of Wolfshiem's people-shoots Gatsby
 thinks
nothing of gunshot sounds when police inquire
 would
definitely know gunshot from a car backfiring
 George
Wilson-in the wrong place at wrong time
gets shot
because he has no money, is blamed.
The butler did it, of course.
JOHN GREENE’S INTERPRETATION
The Great Gatsby: Living the Dream in the Valley of Ashes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VhYMdnAsyM&feature=youtu.be
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John Greene’s Crash Course
Great Gatsby Part I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw9Au9OoN88
Great Gatsby Part II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn0WZ8-0Z1Y
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2013 Movie Trailer-Baz Luhrmann (Romeo & Juliet, Moulin Rouge)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaBVLhcHcc0
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SUE HOWARD’S INTERPRETATION
VIDEO MONTAGE—THE GREAT GATSBY, BORN RICH, UP
CLOSE AND PERSONAL
REFERENCES:
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: A Literary Reference ed. by the one man
Fitzgerald industry, Matthew J. Bruccoli.
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The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy is phenomenal. The Murphys, Sara
especially, were Scott and Zelda's close friends.
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http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/teaching-the-great-gatsby-withthe-new-york-times/
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Reader's Guide to Reading and Discussion to The Great Gatsby: Resources for
Reading and Discussion.
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Studio 360 a NPR arts show on Gatsby-Kurt Anderson
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Claude McKay, “If We Must Die,” in Harlem Shadows: The Poems of Claude McKay (New York:
Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922).
BRUCCOLI
Resetting the Great Gatsby by Bruccoli
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/essays/wrong.pdf
Fitzgerald’s Eras
Social and Political Backgrounds of the 1920s and 1930s
by Matthew J. Bruccoli
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/essays/eras.html
American novel—the great gatsby
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