Warm Up: Vocab Unit 6 Intro!
Using the Vocab Unit 6 words, answer these Ch. 4 questions by using 5 of your
vocab words in a sentence.
What do we learn about Gatsby’s background where does he say he is
from?
How does Gatsby behave in this chapter when driving with Nick?
Why does he want to have tea with Daisy?
Who is Wolfsheim, why is he important?
How would you describe Wolfsheim?
Lost Generation review
World War I was the first truly international war.
It brought not only an unprecedented large scale of war but also devastating
losses for all countries involved.
Mass society had produced a form of mass destruction--and people were left
shattered and emotionally beaten.
World War I rocked the world at its core and left virtually everyone struggling to
find a sense of meaning.
Lost Generation Review
Lost Generation Writers
An increasing loss of belief in traditional values particularly an increasing loss of belief
in faith.
More questions about existence brought less solid answers.
In the face of this rapidly changing world, modernist literature begs the question:
“What is the meaning of these things in a world that is falling apart?”
Overall, then, modernist writers express a sense of alienation, loss, despair,
disenchantment with life, disillusionment, anguish, vulnerability, sense of ultimate
defeat. One way to sum it up: the belief in nothingness.
So profound were both the physical and emotional losses from the war that American
writer Gertrude Stein told Ernest Hemingway that he and his fellow writers were all a
“lost generation.”
T.S. Eliot
Write down 5 facts from the Eliot Biography
Just a little more background...
Uneventful youth marked somewhat by a physical ailment that limited his physical
activity. Went to Harvard.
1910 he moved to France; focused on poetry.
In Germany in 1914, decided war wasn’t really his thing, and wound up in London.
Gets involved with publishing house.
Had a nervous breakdown in 1919. During the prescribed bed rest, he finished his
most famous poem, “The Waste Land.”
It represents a philosophical base in Eliot’s life and attempts to take on all of European
culture.
A second nervous breakdown occurred in ’23 when his wife nearly died.
So he figured maybe all that philosophical despair wasn’t doing him any good, and he
turned to Anglican faith.
“The Hollow Men,” published shortly before this happened, is thought to bear the
seeds of his future faith.
Having survived his initial disillusionment with the modern world, Eliot turned inward
and found a reason to believe in the world.
Also known for being anti-Semitic.
“The Hollow Men”
Some see this poem as a philosophical
extension of the themes found in “The Waste
Land”
The poem takes place in a twilight realm of
disembodied men and forces.
The hollow men of the poem are walking
corpses. (Oh! Zombie poem!)
Eliot’s language throughout the poem is
mostly ambiguous, but he does seem to
suggest that, perhaps, the hollow men may
see again and rejoin the world that exists
outside of them.
“The Hollow Men”
Read through the poem and analyze it for diction,
poetic devices (figurative language and syntactical
devices), the speaker and theme.
Ask yourself: Why is Eliot showing me these details?
What image comes to mind?
What is the theme and purpose of this poem?
Closure: Gatsby Ch. 5-6 Review
•Why does Nick think that his “house was on fire”
(81)?
•Why does Gatsby decorate Nick’s house (84)?
•Describe Gatsby’s behavior at Nick’s house.
•How many years has it been since Daisy and
Gatsby have been together? (87)
•Who is Dan Cody? (93)
•What are Gatsby’s “enchanted objects” (93)?
•Why does Daisy “tumble short” of Gatsby’s dreams
(95)?
Ch. 6 Gatsby Review
1. What is the “underground pipeline to Canada” (97)?
2. What role did Dan Cody play in Gatsby’s life?
3. What does “a promise that the rock of the world was founded on a
fairy’s wing” (99) mean?
4. What filled out the “vague contour of Jay Gatsby” into “the substantiality
of a man” (101)?
5. “But the rest offended her” (107). Who is offended and about what?
6. What does Gatsby want Daisy to tell Tom?
7. “ ‘I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before’ ” (110). What
does this quote have to do with all that “rock of the world” and “vague
contour” stuff?