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fragility of the past and present.
uses time as an antagonist. - Gatsby eventually runs out of time, he tries to stop time between him and Daisy to continue their relationship without considering how they’ve changed throughout time. They can only be together when time stops - clock in the first meeting.

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Broadway - play, spectacle. She acknowledges that this is for her yet she cannot accept it. She appreciates a small break from her breeding when she’s with Gatsby (hence why she only enjoyed half an hour). He is her small escape, however her upbringing is ultimately predominant - she’d never leave Tom for Gatsby. That’s the break of his illusion.

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gatsby’s perceptible aspiration for his life with daisy is the cause of his own demise

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gatsby’s perceptible aspiration for his life with daisy is the cause of his own demise

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Gatsby doesn’t have introspection/doesn’t stop to think beyond his fantasy, stops him from seeing that the fantasy isn’t achievable/just him hanging on to the past

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'and I hope she'll be a fool, a beautiful little fool'
--> Daisy leads Gatsby on, although Gatsby offers her a deep connection and a relationship filled with love, she remains ignorant and chooses to decline him in the pursuit of natural wealth showing how much of a fool she is
--> she is a fantasist as she chases her dreams to an extent but she is an aware realist and she comprehends that she cannot be with Gatsby if she wants to maintain her status

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Shows that’s Daisy views the West-Eggers as slightly corrupt and that they have cheated their way into money. It also suggests that Daisy doesn’t think that these people have actually achieved anything at all, she starts to see it’s all an imitation and for her, that is not enough.

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Daisy's voice is often described as melodic or having some relation to music

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Daisy's voice is often described as melodic or having some relation to music

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May feel embarrassed by Tom's behaviour at the party, he is being rude about the celebrities and making fun of Gatsby

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Feels sympathetic for Gatsby as he is unfamilliar with the false and nasty nature of the ruling classes

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'She was appalled by its raw vigour'- heightens the disgust

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Daisy doesn't enjoy the party. She is appalled by its tackiness. Emphasise the excess using asyndetic lists and nouns

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Daisy doesn't enjoy the party. She is appalled by its tackiness. Emphasise the excess using asyndetic lists and nouns

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Dancing with Gatsby for half an hour- the only enjoyable part of the party, shows they are still in love even after all this time

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Daisy's first time at the West Egg, she sees the tackiness of it and is repulsed

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Fitzgerald compares Gatsby to a vaudeville magician to show Gatsby has created a fantasy world to hide his reality- 'The Great Gatsby'

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Fitzgerald uses Daisy as the character to create the illusion that money and wealth is the most important thing in life. Through her choosing Tom for his money, over Gatsby and dressing her in white and gold to symbolise wealth. 

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Fitzgerald uses Daisy as the character to create the illusion that money and wealth is the most important thing in life. Through her choosing Tom for his money, over Gatsby and dressing her in white and gold to symbolise wealth. 

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The Great Gatsby contains a number of metaphors which involve extremely subjective-approaching surrealistic-vision

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The Great Gatsby contains a number of metaphors which involve extremely subjective-approaching surrealistic-vision

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"At the gray tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low, sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like a rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor"

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Gatsby chooses to not accept his true parents in order to create the illusion he comes from wealth, this is done to impress Daisy

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Having large parties creates the illusion, to not only Gatsby but to other residents, that if popular and has lots of friends. We can see this is an illusion when only 2 people attended his funeral. 

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Having large parties creates the illusion, to not only Gatsby but to other residents, that if popular and has lots of friends. We can see this is an illusion when only 2 people attended his funeral. 

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Gatsby’s perception of Daisy is far from the reality. He views her as this innocent goddess-type women who is everything he wants from life. When in reality Fitzgerald presents her as fickle, self-obsessed, un-loyal and uncaring towards the people she is supposed to love. Gatsby only sees the past version of Daisy and he has made an ideal of her in his head that is not quite the reality.

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The whole illusion of Gatsby is created to make Daisy fall in love with him, and is not reality.

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The whole illusion of Gatsby is created to make Daisy fall in love with him, and is not reality.

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Infatuated with recreating things just how they were in the past with Daisy, Gatsby becomes consumed by the undertaking.

He does not give himself a second to just stop and truly think about the reason behind his actions and behavior

He falls victim to living in the past instead of living in the moment

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He is infatuated with recreating things just how they were in the past with Daisy, he does not give himself a second to stop and truly think about the reasons behind his actions and behavior and he therefore falls victim to living in the past instead of living in the moment.

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"shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is".

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"shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is".

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This quote is about Gatsby when Daisy doesn't get in contact with him after the accident. The symbolism of the flower clearly suggests he feels disillusioned with Daisy.

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The reality of time stopping Gatsby from reaching the top of the American Dream. 

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The reality of time stopping Gatsby from reaching the top of the American Dream. 

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Symbolise the idea of false perception

In his grief, George Wilson confuses them with the eyes of God.

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Gatsby's view of Daisy - He holds an idea of Daisy in his mind, but the reader can see that she is not a worthy object of worship.

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Gatsby is stuck in the past and his attempt to rekindle his past relationship with daisy shows his obsession with her and the past

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"I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before"
"Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!"

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Tom tries to create an image that he is living the American Dream, that he is perfect and there is no one like him, in reality that is not true

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Tom tries to create an image that he is living the American Dream, that he is perfect and there is no one like him, in reality that is not true

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Myrtle tries to appear as a woman of class because she is obsessed with living like the rich, but is nothing more than a working class citizen who gets no respect

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Myrtle tries to appear as a woman of class because she is obsessed with living like the rich, but is nothing more than a working class citizen who gets no respect

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Daisy has a materialist lifestyle and that's all she thrives on, which is why she leaves Gatsby because he tries to build this deep connection with her, but all she wants to do it enjoy the lavish things in life

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Daisy has a materialist lifestyle and that's all she thrives on, which is why she leaves Gatsby because he tries to build this deep connection with her, but all she wants to do it enjoy the lavish things in life

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Gatsby has difficulty seeing the reality in situations because he lets his fortune get to his head, leaving him to think he can obtain anything and anyone

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Gatsby has difficulty seeing the reality in situations because he lets his fortune get to his head, leaving him to think he can obtain anything and anyone

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Gatsby believes in the green light (the American Dream) and believes this can be achieved through recreating the past.

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Thematic Statement - The characters egos cause a confusion of the real with their ideal which shatters their dreams and vision of a perfect world

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Thematic Statement - The characters egos cause a confusion of the real with their ideal which shatters their dreams and vision of a perfect world

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'shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is' the symbolism of a flower suggests that he feels disillusioned with Daisy

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Gatsby's view of Daisy is not accurate to who she actually is, the reader can see she is not worthy of his worship. Gatsby has created an image of Daisy in his mind that she will not live up to.

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She saw something awful in the very simplicity.

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"Lots of people come who haven't been invited" - This would be strange to Daisy. She doesn't understand the excess of having huge parties where you don't know anyone. It would seem tacky to her. 

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"Lots of people come who haven't been invited" - This would be strange to Daisy. She doesn't understand the excess of having huge parties where you don't know anyone. It would seem tacky to her. 

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The rest offended her - and inarguably, because it wasn't a gesture but an emotion

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The rest offended her - and inarguably, because it wasn't a gesture but an emotion

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'She was appalled by West Egg'- she is aware of the falseness and tackiness of WE.

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'the rest of it offended her' shows Daisy is not impressed by the party, more repulsed by the lavishness of it.

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"Tell him we couldn't wait, will you?"- shows the dishonesty and falseness of the ruling classes

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"I haven't got a horse"- shows Gatsby does not have the breeding to fit in with the east eggers.

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Gatsby repeats the adjective compliment "delighted" - This is likely ironic as Gatsby doesn't like Tom but they have to keep up with society's expectations of them. The lower classes would actually be delighted to see someone as they don't have much time to be leisurely.

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Gatsby repeats the adjective compliment "delighted" - This is likely ironic as Gatsby doesn't like Tom but they have to keep up with society's expectations of them. The lower classes would actually be delighted to see someone as they don't have much time to be leisurely.

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"she has a big dinner party and he won't know a soul there"- Gatsby does not have connections with east eggers

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"doesn't he know she doesn't want him?"- shows that Gatsby lacks the breeding to fully understand the ways of the west egg.

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Tom and the Sloane couple arrive on horseback. This could maybe be a reference to "high horse" as the East Eggers believe they are superior to everyone else. 

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Tom and the Sloane couple arrive on horseback. This could maybe be a reference to "high horse" as the East Eggers believe they are superior to everyone else. 

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Gatsby didn't get any of the money that he expected to get from Dan Cody's inheritence. Perhaps Gatsby's ideas of corruption came from how he had worked hard but only gained skills rather than money. Working hard didn't earn him a lot of money, corruption did. 

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Gatsby didn't get any of the money that he expected to get from Dan Cody's inheritence. Perhaps Gatsby's ideas of corruption came from how he had worked hard but only gained skills rather than money. Working hard didn't earn him a lot of money, corruption did. 

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Gatsby worked on Dan Cody's yacht but he did not have a specific job. He did jobs such as steward, mate, skipper, secretary and jailor. This arrangement lasted for 5 years

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Gatsby worked on Dan Cody's yacht but he did not have a specific job. He did jobs such as steward, mate, skipper, secretary and jailor. This arrangement lasted for 5 years

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Gatsby's parents were unsuccessful farmers. They were not dead like he told Nick

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Gatsby's parents were unsuccessful farmers. They were not dead like he told Nick

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Gatsby's name was originally/legally James Gatz. He changed his name at 17. 

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Gatsby's name was originally/legally James Gatz. He changed his name at 17. 

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“Forever wed”
The adverb “forever” implies Gatsby’s life long obsession with Daisy and that once he met her he wanted her and only her for the rest of his life, he dies trying to peruse her.

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The noun "visions" link to the theme of fantasy/reality. Gatsby creates an idealised version of Daisy in his head and has spend five years envisioning how their life together would be. Daisy can never live up to this image, especially because the reader is aware of her being a very selfish character. 

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The noun "visions" link to the theme of fantasy/reality. Gatsby creates an idealised version of Daisy in his head and has spend five years envisioning how their life together would be. Daisy can never live up to this image, especially because the reader is aware of her being a very selfish character. 

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"His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people" - Gatsby was not brought up like Daisy, Tom and Nick were. They learnt society's expectations and standards from a young age whereas Gatsby did not. He equates status to wealth rather than class, which leads to Daisy being "appalled" as his excessiveness.  

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"His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people" - Gatsby was not brought up like Daisy, Tom and Nick were. They learnt society's expectations and standards from a young age whereas Gatsby did not. He equates status to wealth rather than class, which leads to Daisy being "appalled" as his excessiveness.  

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“ he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps” 

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“ he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps” 

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The verb “ recover” presents Gatsby’s obsession with the past. It also portrays how can can’t let go of past things because it suggests that he wants to bring to life something that has already died and is long gone. The abstract noun “idea” presents his unrealistic nature and that he lives most of his life trapped in a world in his head, trying to make it reality.

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"Can't repeat the past?" - Gatsby's hamartia is continuous hope and this will eventually lead to his downfall. He holds onto the hope that Daisy will love him after all this time even though it was clear early on that Daisy would never leave Tom.

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"Can't repeat the past?" - Gatsby's hamartia is continuous hope and this will eventually lead to his downfall. He holds onto the hope that Daisy will love him after all this time even though it was clear early on that Daisy would never leave Tom.

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Daisy see’s past the grandness of West-Egg. She can see that it is all an imitation and because it isn’t old money and naturally wealthy like her, she is “appalled” by this.

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"Can't repeat the past?" The interrogative demonstrates Gatsby's confusion as he genuinely doesn't understand how he could move on from loving Daisy. Instead, he insists on trying to repeat his past with her in order to get the ending he wants. 

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"Can't repeat the past?" The interrogative demonstrates Gatsby's confusion as he genuinely doesn't understand how he could move on from loving Daisy. Instead, he insists on trying to repeat his past with her in order to get the ending he wants. 