Reading Schedule for The Great Gatsby*
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AR Quiz
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Gatsby Final
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Cultural Literacy—1920s Style
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Fitzgerald was born in the capital of Minnesota. What city is that?
Fitzgerald attended which university in New Jersey?
What was the Volstead Act?
What outlaw was blamed for the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre?
In what city did the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre occur?
Who was Babe Ruth?
What was the “House that Ruth built”?
What did the 19 th
Amendment guarantee?
What popular name was given to women who wore short skirts, went to parties looked like little birds trying to fly when they danced?
10. What was the Twentieth Century Limited?
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Who was the president from 1923 to 1928? He was known for being “silent.”
12. What was a “speakeasy”?
13. Who made the first solo transatlantic flight?
14. What happened on Black Tuesday, Oct. 24, 1929?
15. What was the most popular automobile model produced by Henry Ford?
16. What was the so-called “Monkey Trial” about?
17. What are the five great lakes?
18. What was the extremely popular—and rather silly—dance named after a city in South
Carolina?
19. Who wrote A Farewell to Arms?
20. The Teapot Dome Scandal occurred during the administration of what president?
21. What illegal but powerful organization terrorized blacks during the 20’s?
22. Who was Rudolph Valentino?
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What is famous about the movie “The Jazz Singer”?
24. What world organization did the U.S. refuse to join, even though Woodrow Wilson had conceived it?
25. In the slang of the time, what was a “moll”?
26. Who wrote The Age of Innocence (it won a Pulitzer Prize)?
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Because of the popularity of this musical form, the 20’s are sometimes known as the which Age.
28. Name the five boroughs of New York.
29. Beginning in 1919 there was a great burst of creativity by African-American writers and artists centered in what area of New York?
30. The Hudson River is on the West Side of Manhattan. What river is on the East side?
31. The Hearst Castle is near which California city?
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In 1920’s slang, what was the “Cat’s Meow”?
33. In 1928, what miracle drug was discovered by Alexander Fleming?
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What Egyptian king’s tomb was unearthed in 1922 by Englishman Howard Carter?
35. What German leader staged the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich in 1923?
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F. Scott Fitzgerald WebQuest
Go to http://www.huffenglish.com/gatsby/gatsbyhunt.html
to answer the questions below. If the link is blocked, revisit the link off-campus and finish for homework.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
List the major influences on Fitzgerald’s life and writing.
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WWI
Three major innovations that came out of the WWI experience.
List the dominant postwar American attitudes and the major movements of the 1920's.
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19th Amendment
What right did women gain from the passage of the 19th Amendment ?
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The Roaring Twenties (Use a history book to answer this. The link does not work.)
List three changes that occurred in 1922 .
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18th Amendment (The first link does not work.)
What exactly does the amendment abolish?
What was the result?
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Prohibition
What is a Speakeasy?
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Based on information you have already collected from previous questions, why do you think Speakeasies popped up across the country?
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(Skip this item. The links are wrong.)
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Flappers
According to the author, what are the essential elements of being a true flapper?
Does Louise Brooks fit the "Flapper" profile as proposed by the author of "Flapper
Jane"? Why or why not?
Do you think Ms. Parker approves or disapproves of Flappers? Explain.
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Automobiles
Why were cars considered "the most important catalyst for social change in the 1920's"?
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Music
As you listen, record your thoughts and reactions to the songs.
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1920's Slang
List 5 slang words or phrases and definitions from this site and write them down in your notes.
Why did you choose these terms?
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Drawing Conclusions
Based on the information you have collected from this website, what do you think the plot and setting of The Great Gatsby will include?
What kinds of characters do you expect to encounter in the novel?
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The Great Gatsby Introduction
Discussion Questions about the 1920s:
1. What is most striking about this time period?
2. How do the lives of people then compare to today’s lifestyles?
3. What were some of the difficulties of living in the 1920s? Some of the benefits?
4. What was the attitude of the wealthy toward the poor?
5. What values seemed to be the most important to those living in the Jazz Age?
6. How did Prohibition help increase the presence of organized crime in America?
7. Discuss some of the changes for women in the 1920s.
8. What were the effects of mass media on the 20s? Discuss the role of advertising.
Discussion Questions on the American Dream:
1. How do you define the American Dream? Complete the following:
A. I believe that through hard work, courage, and determination I can…
B. What is most important to me about who I become in this world?
C. What accomplishments do I hope to achieve?
D. I will feel secure and happy when/if…
E. I will be considered successful by others when/if…
F. What hardships must I overcome in order to succeed?
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2. How does the American Dream encourage us and provide us with a faith that will allow us to rise above mediocrity?
3. How does the American Dream increase the risk of failure and the dampening of our spirits?
4. What is the personal impact upon achieving one’s Dream? What is left for one who achieves the Dream? Where does one go from there?
5. If we as Americans know that it is, at least on some level, impossible to achieve this dream, why do we keep trying?
6. How does the media influence our contemporary notion of the American Dream?
7. What examples of the American Dream have you encountered in the literature you have read at school, as well as on your own?
What to Look For in The Great Gatsby
A. Characters : Note physical traits and how they are representative of personality. Also consider the significance of the names themselves. See list of characters below.
Master List of Characters
Nick Carraway— the narrator. Thirty years old, he is a moralist who becomes a foil to every other character. He lives next door to Gatsby and, thus, becomes Gatsby’s link to Daisy, his cousin.
Jay Gatsby— the title character. A romantic idealist, he devotes his life to amassing wealth which he believes will win Daisy and thus fulfill his dream.
Daisy Buchanan—
Nick’s cousin, Tom’s wife, and Gatsby’s dream girl. Incapable of love, she represents the idolized upper class.
Tom Buchanan—
Daisy’s husband. Incapable of feeling guilt or any other emotion, he represents brutality, the moral carelessness of the rich, pseudo-intellectualism, and racism.
Jordan Baker— a friend of Daisy’s from Louisville. A young and compulsively dishonest professional golfer, she is ironically involved with Nick, whose identifying characteristic is honesty. She, too, has no emotions and represents the coldness and cruelty of the rich.
George Wilson— proprietor of a garage in the Valley of Ashes. He represents the fate of the common working man, an “every man” who believes a strong work ethic will eventually capture for him the American Dream.
Myrtle Wilson—
George’s wife. Her vitality attracts Tom. She wants to escape her lower class status, yet has no sense of values.
Owl-Eyes— a middle-aged “fair-weather” friend of Gatsby’s.
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Pammy Buchanan— daughter of Tom and Daisy. She appears as a possession to be displayed.
Always dressed in white like her mother, she represents the shallowness of her parents.
Henry C. Gatz— Gatsby’s father. He is proud of his son’s prosperity.
Meyer Wolfsheim— a representative of the underworld. He has used Gatsby as a front man and is proud of his connections. Gatsby tells Nick that Wolfsheim is the man who fixed the 1919
World Series.
Catherine—
Myrtle’s sister. She is always available to have a good time.
Mr. & Mrs. McKee— tenants in an NYC hotel; they attend a party with the main characters.
Ewing Klipspringer— a “boarder” at Gatsby’s house.
Michaelis— owner of a coffee shop near Wilson’s garage who befriends George.
Mr. Sloane— a neighbor of Gatsby’s who stops by while horseback riding.
B. Settings: Note the symbolic significance of the various settings throughout the novel. What takes place at each place?
East Egg
West Egg
Valley of Ashes
Gatsby’s Home
Buchanan Home
Nick’s Home
Wilson’s garage
Love-nest Apartment
C. Motifs: Track the development of the following motifs as you read.
American Dream/Nightmare Romanticism/Modernism
Tragic Hero/Tragedy
Fitzgerald’s Life
Emptiness & Loneliness
Racism & Class Conflicts
20s & the Jazz Age
Role of Women
New York City & Urban Corruption
The Self-Made Man/Inventing & Reinventing
Romantic Illusions East vs. West
Innocence vs. Experience Gatsby as Fitzgerald’s Double
D. Themes: Track the development of these themes as you read.
Failure/Corruption of the American Dream
The Past and the Inability to Repeat It
Hope vs. Despair
Futility of Love in the Modern World
The Disconnection in Modern America Between Appearances & Reality
Failure of Language to Communicate Meaning
E. Narrator & Narrative Technique:
Note Fitzgerald’s technique in using Nick as a narrator.
Nick claims to be objective and non-judgmental. Does he in fact remain this way throughout?
Consider the effectiveness of Nick as a narrator and consider his tone.
Consider how Fitzgerald employs time and flashback as narrative techniques.
Note examples of figurative language, descriptive language, and imagery.
Consider the moment of epiphany and who has it.
F. Symbolism: note symbolic characters, settings, use of color (especially yellow, white and green), Daisy’s green light, Dr. T.J. Eckleberg’s eyes, weather, the clock, books
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The Great Gatsby Vocabulary
Cataracts: waterfalls or a clouding of the lens of the eyes.
Compact: predominantly formed or filled, having a dense structure.
Contiguous: being in actual contact, touching along a boundary or at a point
Constrained: to force by imposed stricture, restriction, or limitation
Crepe-de chine: a silk crepe used for dresses and blouses
Denizen: a person admitted to residence in a foreign country
Dereliction: an intentional abandonment
Defunct: no longer living, existing, or functioning
Dilatory: tending or intended to cause delay
Echolalia: the often pathological repetition of what is said by other people as if echoing them
Extemporizing: to get along in a makeshift manner
Fluctuate: to shift back and forth uncertainly
Fortuitously: coming or happening by a lucky chance
Fractiously: tending to be troublesome
Garrulous: given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity
Grail: the cup or platter used according to medieval legend by Christ at the Last Supper and thereafter the object of knightly quests, the object of an extended or difficult quest
Hauteur: haughty
Hulking: to appear impressively large or massive
Incredulously: unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true
Innuendo: an oblique allusion
Jauntily: sprightly in manner or appearance
Languidly: drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion
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Laudable: worthy of praise
Nebulous: resembling or relating to clouds
Olfactory: of or relating to the sense of smell
Pastoral: of or relating to the countryside
Peremptorily: putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay; characterized by often imperious or arrogant self-assurance
Permeate: to spread or diffuse through
Pompadour: a man's style of hairdressing in which the hair is combed into a high mound in front or a woman's style of hairdressing in which the hair is brushed into a loose full roll around the face
Postern: a back door or gate, a private entrance
Prig: to steal
Redolent: exuding fragrance
Septic: of, relating to, or causing putrefaction
Serfs: a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
Somnambulatory: sleep walking
Staid: marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint
Strident: characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound
Supercilious: haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
Truculent: scathingly harsh
Turgid: coolly and patronizingly haughty
Vacuous: emptied of or lacking content, marked by lack of ideas or intelligence
Vestige: a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something
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Chapter
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Colors in THE GREAT GATSBY red gray
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The Great Gatsby Reading Guide
Chapter 1
1. How does the narrator describe Gatsby and Gatsby's house?
2. From where did the narrator come and why?
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What is the POINT OF VIEW?
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What is the NATURE of the narration? Do we find the narrator RELIABLE? Why?
5. Describe the Buchanan's house.
6. How does Nick know Daisy and Tom?
7. Describe Tom. What is our impression of him in Chapter 1?
8. What did Miss Baker tell Nick about Tom?
9. What kind of person does Daisy seem to be?
10. When asked about her daughter, what does Daisy say?
11. How is Gatsby introduced into the novel?
12. What is a "hero"? In mythology, what does the "hero" do?
13. Who is the hero in this story?
14. What "tag" descriptors are applied to certain characters? (Characters always described with the same adjectives.) What is the effect of this repetition?
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15. What might that "green light" symbolize?
16. Who has better values, the West Eggers or the East Eggers? Explain.
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Chapter 2
1. What is the "valley of ashes"?
What symbolic meaning might this "valley' have"?
3. What are the "eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg? What do they come to symbolize?
4. Who did Tom take Nick to meet?
5. Identify and describe Myrtle and George Wilson.
6. How do t Myrtle and George Wilson’s "outsides" correspond to their "insides"?
(appearance related to character)
7. What did Mrs. Wilson buy while she was out with Tom and Nick?
8. What does this reveal about Myrtle?
9. Where did they go? What was at 158th Street?
10. How does this place "reflect" the character of Myrtle?
11. Identify Catherine and Mr. & Mrs. McKee.
12. What does Catherine tell Nick about Gatsby?
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13. What reason did Myrtle give for marrying George Wilson?
14. What did Tom do to Myrtle when she mentioned Daisy's name?
15. Describe the party in New York.
16. How does the New York party compare with the party in Chapter
1? What point does Fitzgerald make?
17. Why does Tom attack Myrtle? What does this tell us about Tom?
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Chapter 3
1. Describe Gatsby's wealth. List some of the things that he owns that represent his wealth.
2. What kind of people come to Gatsby's parties?
3. Why did Nick Carraway go to the party?
4. How does Nick meet Gatsby?
5. What are some of the stories about Gatsby?
6. Is Gatsby a "phony"? Explain.
7. Describe Nick's relationship with Jordan.
8. What is extraordinary about Gatsby's books?
9. What tense does Fitzgerald use to describe the party? Why?
10. What role do AUTOMOBILES play in this chapter? What do cars represent in this book?
11. What elements of the party are intended as SATIRE? (Look up satire.)
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Chapter 4
Here are some of the notes I took while reading Chapter 4. Your task is to REACT to MY reactions. What do they mean to you? You MUST look up allusions you do not understand.
(Yeah! Check out that mythology stuff.)
What was Henry Palmetto’s profession? How does he die?
Names on the railroad timetable. Who are these people? What do they matter? Why are they recorded here?
Why did Homer record the names of everyone killed in the Trojan War?
4. Does anyone care about Prohibition? There is a state senator at this party. Oh dear: do our public officials sometimes ignore the law?
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5. Why did Gatsby serve in MONTENEGRO? Where is Montenegro? How good are Americans at foreign geography? At domestic geography? The effect of this new information on reader?
Gatsby has a “carte blanche” from the police commissioner, so he does not get a traffic ticket. It is “get out of jail free.” What does this say about the time and about Gatsby, the war hero?
7. Meyer Wolfsheim—why this name?
8. Why does Meyer Wolfsheim say “gonnection”?
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What did Meyer Wolfsheim “fix”?
10. Gatsby and Wolfsheim—what is their “gonnegtion”? What does this tell us about Gatsby?
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11. Who would be the Wolfsheim for a modern-day Gatsby? Why?
12. Flowers=beauty=nature? Or: flowers=beauty=evil=death?
Write the kinds of “flowers” found in the novel.
13. Nature is present, but in a perverted way. What would Thomas Jefferson think?
14. Gatsby is after the Holy Grail. What is the Holy Grail? (Look it up)
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How do Gatsby’s methods differ from those of the Knights Templar? (Look them up).
16. CARS. An American ICON, symbol, myth. What do cars mean to us?
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Gatsby’s car = chariot of a god. Describe it.
18. Labyrinth. What was the Labyrinth? Look it up.
19. Icarus. Who was he?
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Pegasus. Who was he? How is Gatsby’s car like Pegasus?
21. How does a car accident compromise Tom shortly after his marriage?
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22.
“The Sheik of Araby"—what is happening when this song is played? It is about sheiks sneaking into maidens’ tents.
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Do you know what is meant by the term “Objective Correlative?” (Look it up.)
24. What are the rumors about Gatsby?
25. Love or Money. What wins for Daisy? Did she sell out? Does everyone?
26. How much did Daisy cost Tom? Was she worth it?
27. How much does Myrtle cost Tom? Is she worth it?
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Chapter 5
1. What does Gatsby do in order to prepare for Daisy's arrival? What do these actions reveal about Gatsby?
2. "At two o'clock a greenhouse arrived from Gatsby's." What does this quote mean? This is an example of what literary (usually "poetic") technique?
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How does Gatsby dress for the rendezvous with Daisy?
4. Why did Gatsby want Daisy to see the house and his clothes?
How long has it been since Daisy and Gatsby have seen each other?
6. What does the "defunct clock" on Nick's mantel seem to represent/symbolize?
7. What has the "green light" come to symbolize for Nick?
6. In Gatsby's house, what tunes does Klipspringer play? How do these tunes seem to "summarize" what is going on in Gatsby's mind? Are they somehow similar to the "Sheik of Araby"?
Describe the scene in Gatsby's bedroom.
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Gatsby's presentation of his shirts. Why does he do this?
Daisy's reaction to the shirts. What does she do? What does she say? Why?
10. What had Gatsby turned Daisy into in his own mind (101)?
11. What role does nature play in this chapter?
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Chapter 6
1. What is Gatsby's real history? Where is he from, and what was his name?
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2. What did Dan Cody do for Gatsby?
3. Why does not Gatsby get the inheritance Cody had intended for him?
What does Nick mean when he says that "Jay Gatsby...sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God...and he must be about His Father's
Business" (104).
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5. What is Daisy's real opinion of Gatsby's party? How does this affect him?
How has Gatsby "probably" made his money?
7. What does Gatsby want from Daisy?
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8. What remark of Nick's absolutely terrifies Gatsby? (He refuses to admit it.)
When Gatsby kisses Daisy, what becomes "perishable" according to Nick?
10. Gatsby's vision/dream has become flesh. What word describes the act of something "divine" becoming "human"?
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Chapter 7
1. What changes has Gatsby made in his lifestyle? Why?
Analyze Daisy's attitude toward her child (consider her words and tone). What is Pammy wearing? Why did Gatsby "look at the child with surprise"?
What does Daisy mean (according to Nick) when she tells Gatsby "You always look so cool?"
What does Tom "resemble" when he hears Daisy say this to Gatsby?
What does Gatsby say about Daisy's voice? How does this expression reveal something about both Gatsby and Daisy?
What arrangements are made for driving to New York? Who drives in Gatsby's yellow car? Who drives in Tom's car?
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Where do Tom and Jordan and Nick stop, in Gatsby's car?
What has "been going on" at the Wilsons?
9. Describe the "difference" Nick perceives between Wilson and Tom.
10. Whose "eyes" observed this scene at the gas station? There are TWO pairs of eyes: identify both pairs.
11. At the hotel, Gatsby clears up his "Oxford" connection. Explain.
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12. What does Gatsby want Daisy to tell Tom?
13. How does Daisy react to this demand? What "unsatisfactory" compromise does she offer?
14. What has Tom learned about Gatsby's "business" affairs?
15. What is "special" about this day for Nick?
16. Why is it necessary for the author to introduce a new character, Michaelis, at this point in the novel?
17. According to Michaelis, what happened between the Wilsons (George and Myrtle) that day?
18. Explain what happens. Who was in what car? Who was driving?
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What does Nick observe at the Buchanan’s house? What does Nick conclude about the true relationship between Daisy and Tom?
20. Where is Gatsby at the end of the chapter? What is he doing? Why? What is Nick's attitude about this?
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Chapter 8
1. What does Gatsby tell Nick about his past?
--Daisy was the first _____________ girl he had ever known...
--When he met Daisy he was a ___________________young man without a past
--Eventually, he ______________________ Daisy, one still October night
--He had committed himself to the following of a __________________.
--He felt ________________________ to her (Daisy), that was all
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--When he is in Europe (World War I), there was a quality of nervous
________________ in Daisy's letters
--Daisy sent Gatsby a letter, which he received while at Oxford, telling him that she was going to marry _______________________
What does Gatsby mean when he says--about Daisy's relationship (and possible love) for
Tom: "In any case...it was just personal"?
3. As Nick leaves Gatsby the morning after the accident, he remarks, "They're a rotten crowd." Enumerate the people "they" refers to. Why are they "rotten"?
4. What is the compliment that Nick pays to Gatsby? (Nick says it is the only compliment he ever paid Gatsby).
5. Nick seems to feel that Gatsby's corruption is somehow less "rotten" than that of the
Buchanan’s, etc. What "redeems" Gatsby--what is "incorruptible" in Gatsby?
6. What does Michaelis believe caused Myrtle to run?
7. Why, really, did she run?
8. Why does Wilson believe that Gatsby killed Myrtle?
9. How does Wilson view the "eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckeburg"? Explain how Wilson's statement has a symbolic meaning for the novel as a whole.
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10. Trace the movements of Gatsby and Wilson at the end of Chapter 8. In ancient Jewish tradition, a "holocaust" was a religious ritual in which a sacrificial animal--a sheep or goat--was offered to God as expiation for the sins of the people. The victim was burned.
What does Nick mean when he says "the holocaust was complete"?
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Chapter 9
1. What "official" version of the tragedy appeared in the newspapers?
Why couldn't Nick get anyone to come to Gatsby's funeral?
3. Who is Henry C. Gatz?
4. What is the title of the book Henry Gatz shows Nick? What does this title tell us about
Gatsby?
5. What is the significance of Gatsby's boyhood program for self-improvement? What does
THIS tell us about Gatsby? and about the American Dream?
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6. What is ironic about Gatsby's funeral (who comes, who doesn't?)
What happens between Nick and Jordan Baker?
8. What moral judgment does Nick make about Tom and Daisy?
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The Great Gatsby Quotations
Identify the a) page number, b) speaker, c) the person(s) spoken to, d) significance/importance of each quotation. Sometimes, the narrator is addressing the readers in general so write narrator and reader for b and c. If Nick says something with quotation marks, write Nick as the speaker.
Chapter 1
1. "Gatsby turned out all right in the end." a. b. d. c.
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2. "You live in West Egg,...I know somebody there." a. d. b. c.
"I hate that word hulking...even in kidding." a. d. b. c.
4. "Well, it's a fine book and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved." a. d. b. c.
5. "Why, Tom's got some woman in New York." a. b. c. d.
6. "I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." a. d. b. c.
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7. "But I didn't call to him for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone— he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling." a. d. b. c.
Chapter 2-3
8. "But above the grey land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg. The eyes of Dr. T.J.
Eckleburg are blue and gigantic—their retinas are one yard high. They look out of no face but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose." a. d. b. c.
"I want to get one of those dogs...I want to get one for the apartment. They're nice to have—a dog." a. b. d. c.
10. ". . . after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with an amusement park." a. b. d. c.
11. "Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission." a. b. c. d.
12. "The books? . . . Absolutely real—have pages and everything. I thought they'd be made of cardboard." a. d. b. c.
13. "I wondered if the fact that he was not drinking helped to set him off from his guests." a. d. b. c.
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14. "She was incurably dishonest. She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage, and given this unwillingness I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool insolent smile turned to the world..." a. d. b. c.
15. "Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known." a. d. b. c.
Chapter 4
16. "I am the son of some wealthy people in the middle-west—all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition." a. d. b. c.
17. "I understand you're looking for a business gonnegtion." a. d. b. c.
18. "He's the man who fixed the World's Series back in 1919." a. d. b. c.
19. "I came into her room half an hour before the bridal dinner and found her lying on her bed as lovely as the June night in her flowered dress—and drunk as a monkey. She had a bottle of sauterne in one hand and a letter in the other." a. d. b. c.
20. "He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor." a. d. b. c.
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Chapter 5
21. "Well, this would interest you. It wouldn't take up much of your time and you might pick up a nice bit of money. It happens to be a rather confidential sort of thing." a. d. b. c.
22. ". . . he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual astounding presence none of it was any longer real." a. b. c. d.
23. "He had been full of the idea so long . . . Now in the reaction, he was running down like an over-wound clock” a. b. d. beautiful shirts before." a. d. b. c.
24. "They're such beautiful shirts. It makes me sad because I've never seen such—such c.
25. "Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of the [green] light had now vanished forever." a. d. b. c.
26. "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything." a. d. b. c.
Chapter 6
27. "He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father's Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty." a. d. b. c.
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28. "I wonder where in the devil he met Daisy. By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish." a. d. b. c.
29. "Can't repeat the past?...Why of course you can." a. d. b. c.
30. "He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would not romp again like the mind of God." a. d. b. c.
Chapter 7
31. "So the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval of her eyes." a. d. b. c.
32. "What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? ..."and the day after that, and the next thirty years?" a. d. b. c.
33. "But it's so hot...and everything is so confused. Let's all go to town." a. b. c. d.
34. "Ah, you look so cool." a. d. b. c.
35. "Her voice is full of money." a. b. c. d.
36. "I just got wised up to something funny the last two days...That's why I want to get away.
That's why I been bothering you about the car."
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a. d. b. c.
37. ". . . and it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. Wilson was so sick that he looked guilty. . . ." a. b. d. c.
38. "Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white." a. d. b. c.
39. "Oh, you want too much!...I love you now—isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." a. d. b. c.
40. "I was thirty." a. d. b. c.
41. "There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together." a. d. b. c.
42. "So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight—watching over nothing." a. d. b. c.
Chapters 8-9
43. "In any case, it was just personal." a. b. c. d.
44. "They're a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." a. b. d. c.
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45. "I spoke to her...I told her she might fool me but she couldn't fool God. I took her to the window—and I said 'God knows what you've been doing..." a. d. b. c.
46. "Jimmy was bound to get ahead. He always had some resolves like this or something.
Do you notice what he's got about improving his mind?" a. d. b. c.
47. "I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and
Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life." a. d. b. c.
48. "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made..." a. b. c. d.
49. "And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes—a fresh, green breast of the new world." a. b. d. c.
50. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." a. d. b. c.
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