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1. in chapter 3, who is "owl eyes" and what surprises him? Explain what he meant by Gatsby not cutting the pages.
2.  In Chapter 3 of The Great Gatsby, what is the significance of Nick Carraway's internal conflict about the New York lifestyle versus the values with which he grew up?
3. What is an example of old-money guests from East Egg mingling with new-money guests from West Egg at Jay Gatsby's party?

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Chapter 1

"I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth" (Fitzgerald 1)

Explanation:

Nick mentions the natural decencies and how it is separated from money

Money is not the only thing that some people are born to, but some people are naturally just nicer and more honest

Natural decencies

Can poor people be born with these fundamental decencies, or does it derive only from rich?

"I lived at West Egg, the – well, the least fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them" (Fitzgerald 4)

Explanation:

Setting

Despite living in West Egg, the house is still between millionaires

Criticize materialistic behavior of people

Aside from these quotes, there are a lot of quotes showing inequality in chapter 1. The scene where Tom utters the absolutism of white supremacy is an example of racial inequality. Also, the scene where Daisy talks about her daughter reveals the gender inequality: women are inferior to men.

Chapter 2

“This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air."

Explanation:

describes the valley of ashes

valley of ashes is the connecting bridge between the city and eggs

this is significant because it represents the dull atmosphere of the gap between the rich and mediocre

""You see," cried Catherine triumphantly. She lowered her voice again. "It's really his wife that's keeping them apart. She's a Catholic, and they don't believe in divorce." Daisy was not a Catholic, and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.”" (Fitzgerald 25)

Explanation:

Theme: lies and deceit

Gatsby finds out the feigned solemnity within the rich

This is significant because it shows the manipulative and fake identity that the rich produces, in order to satisfy themselves. (dark side of the society)

“Some time toward midnight Tom Buchanan and Mrs. Wilson stood face to face discussing, in impassioned voices, whether Mrs. Wilson had any right to mention Daisy's name. "Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!" shouted Mrs. Wilson. "I'll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Daisy –– " Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.” (Fitzgerald 27)

Explanation:

Gender disparity

Men can hit the women, while women can only have the words

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Chapter 1

"I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth" (Fitzgerald 1)

Explanation:

Nick mentions the natural decencies and how it is separated from money

Money is not the only thing that some people are born to, but some people are naturally just nicer and more honest

Natural decencies

Can poor people be born with these fundamental decencies, or does it derive only from rich?

"I lived at West Egg, the – well, the least fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them" (Fitzgerald 4)

Explanation:

Setting

Despite living in West Egg, the house is still between millionaires

Criticize materialistic behavior of people

Aside from these quotes, there are a lot of quotes showing inequality in chapter 1. The scene where Tom utters the absolutism of white supremacy is an example of racial inequality. Also, the scene where Daisy talks about her daughter reveals the gender inequality: women are inferior to men.

Chapter 2

""You see," cried Catherine triumphantly. She lowered her voice again. "It's really his wife that's keeping them apart. She's a Catholic, and they don't believe in divorce." Daisy was not a Catholic, and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.”" (Fitzgerald 25)

Explanation:

Theme: lies and deceit

Gatsby finds out the feigned solemnity within the rich

This is significant because it shows the manipulative and fake identity that the rich produces, in order to satisfy themselves. (dark side of the society)

“Some time toward midnight Tom Buchanan and Mrs. Wilson stood face to face discussing, in impassioned voices, whether Mrs. Wilson had any right to mention Daisy's name. "Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!" shouted Mrs. Wilson. "I'll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Daisy –– " Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.” (Fitzgerald 27)

Explanation:

Gender disparity

Men can hit the women, while women can only have the words

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Chapter 1

First scene:
Nick Carraway

New York (West Egg)

Second scene
Nick Carraway

New York (East Egg) in Buchanan Estate

Third scene
Nick Carraway

Returns Home (middle of east egg and west Egg)

Chapter 2
First scene:
Nick meets Tom's mistress

Valley of Ashes

Second scene:
Nick, George, and Myrtle

Car repair Garage owned by George Wilson

Third scene
Tom, George Wilson, Nick Carraway , Myrtle

on the way to Tom and Myrtles apartment

Fourth scene:
Catherine and her friends, Tom, Myrtle, McKee, Daisy, and Nick

Tom and Myrtle's apartment

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1. How is the American Dream symbolized in Nick's family history?
2. How does context affect Tom's perception of the book, "The Rise of the Colored Empires"?
3. How is Nick and Gatsby's situation related to the issues presented in Generation Wealth and the global problem of inequality?
4. What is the significance of the valley of ashes in the chapter 2?
5. What would lead Tom to hate Daisy so much to have hit Myrtle when the latter mentions his current wife?

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1. Nick keeps a list of the party guest on a train schedule dated July 5, 1922. Why did Fitzgerald include this section?
2. Characterize Meyer Wolfsheim, including the people he has dealt with in the past and the illegal activity that he himself was allegedly involved in in the past.  What does his friendship with Gatsby imply about Gatsby’s past?

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Chapter 1
Wistfully (adverb)
- Full of wishful yearning or longing, often with sadness
- Page: 8
- "This was a permanent move, said Daisy over the telephone, but I didn’t believe it—I had no sight into
Daisy’s heart but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game."

Supercilious (adjective)
-  Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; cocky
- Page: 9
- "He had change since his New Haven years. Now he was sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner"

Compulsion (noun)
-  A strong, usually irresistible impulse to perform an act, esp. one that is
irrational or contrary to one's will
- Page: 12
- "Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a
bright passionate mouth—but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered ‘Listen,’ a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour"

Chapter 2
Vitality (noun)
- liveliness; energy (physical and/or mental); spirit; vigor
- Page: 29
- "Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine, contained no facet or gleam of beauty  but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering."

Incessant (adjective)
- never-ending; ceaseless
- Page: 33
- " When she moved about there was an incessant clicking as innumerable pottery bracelets jingled up and down upon her arms. She came in with such a
proprietary haste and looked around so possessively at the
furniture that I wondered if she lived here."

Kike/Kyke (noun)
- offensive slang for a jewish person
- Page: 38
- "I almost made a mistake, too,’ she declared vigorously. ‘I almost married a little kyke who’d been after me for years.I knew he was below me. Everybody kept saying to me: ‘Lucille, that man’s way below you!’ But if I hadn’t met Chester, he’d of got me sure."

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Setting:
The Great Gatsby is set primarily  is set in New York City and on Long Island, in two areas known as "West Egg" and "East Egg"(known as the Great Neck and Port Washington peninsulas in real life) on Long Island. Long Island's beach communities were and still are home to the rich of the New York City area, and Fitzgerald actually lived in a small house in West Egg.

There's very little violence or even arguing.

The East Egg is the wealthier, more elite of the two Eggs. Gatsby lives in West Egg.

Nick Carraway, Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby commute into the city for their work, while the women are left behind.

Roaring Twenties
We open in the early 1920s: just after World War I, and right in the middle of Prohibition, when alcohol was effectively illegal.

The Roaring Twenties refers to the decade of the 1920s in Western society and Western culture. It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Western Europe.

Myrtle and George Wilson inhabit the grey valley of ashes that joins the Eggs and Manhattan.

Women’s Rights.
The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. Politically, the women's rights movement next took up the cause of the Equal Rights Amendment. Economically, there was an increase in working women. Societally, divorce became more common, and the "flapper" style was born.

Racial and Religious Minority History
Jewish Americans were at the forefront of promoting progressive causes. Another post-WWI development was the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural, social, and artistic flowering among African Americans.

Automobiles
Car ownership increased mobility between cities and outer suburban areas, and created a totally new danger, particularly in combination with alcohol consumption.

Author:
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1986. He was educated at Princeton and joined the army in 1917. While stationed in Alabama he met Zelda Sayre and later married her in New York. They led a notoriously youthful and beautiful during the 'Jazz Age.' He wrote The Beautiful and Damned before writing The Great Gatsby. He died in 1940, aged 44.

Characters:

Nick Carraway:
Fitzgerald like Nick was a young man from Minnesota, educated at an Ivy League school (in Nick’s case, Yale), who moves to New York after the war.

Jay Gatsby:

Also like Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is a man who idolizes wealth and luxury and who falls in love with a beautiful young woman
(in Gatsby's case, his wife Zelda) while stationed at a military camp in the South.

Themes:

Chapter 1 introduces the themes of wealth, gender, and divide.

Chapter 2 expounds on the inequality between classes, and introduces the theme of debauchery and infidelity.

Reference:

Goddard's The Rise of the Colored Empires an allusion to Theodore Lothrop Stoddard's The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy (1920).

Etymology:

The title "The Great Gatsby" is inspired from the french book, "

Le Grand Meaulnes." It is also a book focused on a character persistently finding for a girl he deeply loves.

Nick from Greek Νικολαος
"victory of the people"

Carraway from Anglo-Saxon garaweg
gara - triangular piece of land
weg - path/road
dweller at, or near the road by the fort who stand nearby others, but not with them

Daisy
day's eye= the sun
What Gatsby looked at, blinding him from the truth of his obsession
"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."… "distinguished nothing except a single green light" (26).

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Background of chapter 3 is the Gatsby's party. A lot of incidents happen during the party.
1. Party represents the context in which the novel is written. The Great Gatsby is based on the Jazz age of America, when its economy boomed and wealthy people were splurging. Also, it was relevantly easy to earn money and it was a time when classes were diverted within a society.
2. Gatsby is the new money, who earned money through "inappropriate" ways in a modern stance. Nevertheless, his love towards Daisy is deemed true and sincere to the author. Fitzgerald aimed to represent the corrupted nature of upper class in the Great Gatsby, but at the same time represented the naive and kind perseverance that is maintained in the minorities.
3. The analysis of the mystery man Nick encountered in Gatsby's mansion is that the man is the incarnation of god, or omniscient creature that indicates the despair from the American society. Evidently, the man has appeared when the car accident happened in Gatsby's house, which ended the scene ominously.
4. Jordan Baker and Nick Carraway have been together at the end of chapter 3. This represents the theme of love, since Jordan Baker has indirectly expressed her like on Nick. As a result, Nick temporarily thinks that he is in love with Jordan. However, the interruption, hidden feature of corrupted nature behind Jordan, appears when Nick recalled Jordan's dishonesty in the past. This fact also contributes to the intention of Fitzgerald, which is to depict and criticize the covert injustice.

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Chapter 3
Scene 1:
Gatsby's House
- Describes the extravagant and boisterous party that happens every weekend, and the aftermath

Scene 1.b (Flashback):
Nick's Front Lawn
- Nick receives an invitation to Gatsby's party

Scene 1:
Gatsby's House (cocktail table, garden)
- Nick attempts to find Gatsby. He gives up and goes to the cocktail table and finds Jordan Baker
- Jordan invites Nick to eat with her at a table on the other side of the garden

Search for Gatsby:
Bar > Top of the stairs > Veranda > Gothic Library (Scene 2)

Scene 3
many-windowed room, hall

Scene 4
Ditch beside the road
- car crash

Scene 5
The Probity Trust, dinner at the Yale Club, studied at the library

Madison Avenue > past old Murray Hill Hotel > 33rd Street > Pennsylvania Station

Scene 6
House party in Warwick

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I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited—they went there. . . . 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.

-  Setting
-  significant because it shows how much interested Gatsby is towards Nick
- This is significant because it shows how Gatsby is interested in knowing Nick

I was immediately struck by the number of young Englishmen dotted about. . . . I was sure they were selling something: bonds or insurance or automobiles. They were at least agonizingly aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced that it was theirs for a few words in the right key.

- Setting of Jay Gatsby's party
- This is significant because it shows the ranges of social classes that join Gatsby's party

‘Gatsby. Somebody told me—’”
The two girls and Jordan leaned together confidently.
‘Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once.’
A thrill passed over all of us. The three Mr. Mumbles bent forward and listened eagerly.

- shows peoples interpretation of the mysterious Gatsby
- Theme: rumor and secrets
-  Surprising interpretation of Gatsby
- This is significant because it influences Nick's "unbiased nature"

Every one 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.’

- Shows his trust in other people
- this is significant because it shows how Nick trust's others and of himself.

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Prodigality (noun)
- The trait of overspending/ spending extravagantly
- Page 30
- "Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word."

Vehemently (adverb)
- in a forceful, passionate, or intense manner; with great feeling
- Page 31
- "As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone."

Vacuous (adjective)
- having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence.
- Page 35
- "A celebrated tenor had sung in Italian and a notorious contralto had sung in jazz and between the numbers people were doing 'stunts' all over the garden, while happy vacuous bursts of laughter rose toward the summer sky."

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sporadic (adjective.)
- occurring at random intervals, uneven
- page 47
- "He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American [...] with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games

Rajah (noun.)
- Prince in India
- page 48
- "After that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe

Solemn (adjective.)
- Formal, seriousness that is often tinged with sadness
- page 48
- His voice was solemn

Unfathomable (adjective.)
- incapable of fully explored or understood
- page 57
- "She used to sit on the sand with his head at him with unfathomable delight"

splendor (noun.)
- magnificent and grandeur appearance
- page 58
- "He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor"

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Chapter 4

Scene 1
Summer Sunday morning, Gatsby's house

Scene 2
July Morning, Nick's house
- Gatsby with his car picks Nick up

2.a
Port Roosevelt, Valley of Ashes

2.b
Astoria
-Gatsby bribes police officer

2.c
Queensboro Bridge

Scene 3
Noon, Forty-second Street cellar
-Nick meets Mr. Wolfshiem
-Talks about the old Metropole across the street

3.a
same day's noon, Plaza Hotel
-Nick with Baker

Flashback Scene (F.S)
October 1917, Daisy's House, Louisville
-Baker intrudes on Daisy with Lt. Gatsby

F.S.a
1918
- Daisy attempts to go to New York, fails

F.S.b
1919, Seelbach Hotel
-Daisy marries Tom
-3 months later they go the South Seas

F.S.c
1920, Santa Barbara

F.S.d
next April, France
-Daisy has her baby

Scene 4
twilight that day, Victoria through Central Park

4a
evening, under a little bridge

4b
dark trees > Fifty-ninth Street > park

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All these people came to Gatsby's House over the summer.

- Shows that Gatsby is well-known and knows a wide variety of people
- It is significant because later on the reason as to why Gatsby invites so much people will be revealed.

"Look here, old sports," he broke out surprisingly. " What's your opinion of me, anyhow?"

- shows that Gatsby is conscious of Nicks opinion of him
- in a way deceptive to get to Daisy

As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl. I laughed aloud as the yolks of their eyeballs rolled toward us in haughty rivalry.

- Juxtaposition of racism
- Supposedly impossible or rare at the time.
- Nick mentions anything can happen which shows his identity at the time of the 1920s.

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1) During this period, anti- Semitism in America was at an all-time high: Jews, as a result of their "characteristic greed," were held responsible for the corruption of the nation as a whole.
2) Majority of the incidents that take place in this chapter is in the city,  the chapter used it to show Gatsby's influence and power through out the city while at the same time dealing with the Nick's curiosity towards Gatsby's past
3)  The appearance of Meyer Wolfsheim was to lift any doubts about Jay Gatsby's past.
4) Wolfsheim, the novel's symbolic representative of the "criminal element," is obviously Jewish: Fitzgerald gives the character a number of stereotypical physical features (a large nose, a diminutive stature) that were a staple of racist caricature in the 1920s. Fitzgerald seems to uncritically draw on this racist ideology in his presentation of Wolfsheim; the character is nothing more than a grotesque stereotype.

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Obstinate (adj)
(p. 93)
- stubbornly adhering to an attitude, opinion, or course of action; stubborn

Scrutinize (verb)
(p. 89)
-  to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.

Obliged (verb)
(p. 88)
-  to place under a debt of gratitude for some benefit, favor, or service.

Disarray (noun)
(p. 97)
-  disorder; confusion

Nebulous (adj)
(p. 100)
-  hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused

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Scene 1:
Nick Carraway's house (night)

Character:s: Nick and Gatsby

Scene 2:
Nick Carraway's house (Day)

Characters: Nick, Gatsby, and Daisy

Scene 3

Gatsby's Mansion

Characters: Nick, Gatsby, and Daisy

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1.) Back in the Roaring Twenties (1920s), 60% of Americans were below the poverty line. In the book, Nick says Americans were willing to be serfs, or poor, but obstinate to peasantry, meaning they were not willing to be broke. This is likely due to their belief in the American Dream which is " the notion that American social, economic, and political system makes success possible for every individual."
2.) In this chapter, Gatsby failed to express himself as the 'oxford-man' he described himself to be as he falls to his emotions for Daisy. Instead, he became a like a young man who had fallen in love for the first time.
3.) This chapter also shows a great value of materialism and wealth. Gatsby loses this as the presence of Daisy overwhelmed him, but Daisy displayed a significant interest in Gatsby's pmaossessions to a point where she cried.

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Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

-A summation of how Nick/ Fitzgerald sees how the American people react to the American dream by slaving in work, but refusing to look like peasants

[Gatsby] hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real.

-shows the influence of conspicuous consumption through Gatsby (the owner) and Daisy (the visitor)

Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that green light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.

-Shows Gatsby having achieved one of his goals through the American dream, both of which are symbolized by the now ‘unsymbolized’ green light

But there was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding. He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new weir being radiated from him and filled the little room.

-Indirectly shows the inadequacies of the American Dream, as Gatsby achieves true happiness not through money

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Platonic (adj)
(pg. 75)
- free from physical desire

Meretricious (adj)
(pg. 75)
- tastelessly showy

Ingratiate (verb)
(pg. 77)
- gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts

Oblivion (noun)
(pg. 80)
- the state of being disregarded or forgotten

Appalled (verb)
(pg. 82)
- struck with fear, dread, or consternation

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1. How does chapter 5 describe the theme: "Reality vs. Expectation"
2. How does Daisy's attitude towards Gatsby change based on Gatsby's social status? How does this connects to the theme of inequality?
3. What does green light symbolize in the novel and how does it contribute to the theme of love?

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Chapter 6
1. How does knowing Gatsby's past and idealistic personality shed light on his actions?
2. How does chapter 6 explore the divide between the 'Old Rich' and the 'New Rich?'
3. How does Gatsby's view on Daisy and their past characterize him?

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1. How did Gatsy's expectations of Daisy differ from reality? What may have caused him to have such expectations?
2. What is the significance of Myrtle Wilson's death?
3. How might Tom have reacted differently if he had known who was really driving the 'yellow car'?

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" I knew that except for the half hour  she'd been alone with Gatsby she wasn't having a good time"

- Daisy shows her affection to Gatsby through the eyes of Nick
- Nick observes that Daisy is happier with Gatsby more than Tom

"I'd like to know who he is and what he does ... And I think ill make a point of finding out."

- Tom begins being suspicious with Gatsby
- He see's that Gatsby has some sort of interest with Daisy
- He begins to act like an antagonist

"I wouldn't ask too much of her ," I ventured. "You cant repeat the past."  "Cant repeat the past?" Why of course you can!"

- Gatsby shows that he wants to change things to the way things were in the past
- He shows that his love for Daisy is becoming obsessive
- this scene shows how much Gatsby has changed from being James Gatz

The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. 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. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.

- Shows Gatsby's roots
-  shows how Psychology of Gatsby when he was young and why he invented Jay Gatsby

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Scene 1
A reporter travels to Gatsby's manor to interview him

Scene 2
he was fishing for Salmon and digging up calms on Lake Superior, he warned a yacht about an incoming storm.

Scene 3
When Nick stops by Gatsby's house one day, he is surprised to see his friend Tom there.

Scene 4
On the following Saturday night, Daisy and Nick have an unpleasant time at another one of Gatsby's elaborate parties.

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Scene 1

Buchanan House

Characters: Daisy, Tom, Gatsby, Nick, Jordan

Plaza Hotel

Characters: Daisy, Nick, Gatsby

Myrtles accident in Valley of ashes

Characters: Myrtle, Tom, Gatsby, Tom,  Daisy

Buchanan House (Outside)

Characters: Gatsby and Tom

Buchanan's Garden

Characters: Gatsby

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"there was no such difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the poor”

- On their way to New York City, Nick, Jordan, and Tom stop at Wilson’s gas station and find that Wilson is gravely ill. Wilson has discovered that his wife, Myrtle has been having an affair, and “the shock has made him physically sick”

"She never loved you, do you hear? She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved any one except me!"

-  Gatsby says this to Tom during their argument over who Daisy really loves; he says that Daisy only married Tom for his wealth. This is significant as it advances the plot in articulating the powerful rivalry between the two men and the significance of money in that rivalry.

"Oh, you want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love you now – isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once – but I loved you too.“

- Daisy’s admission of her feelings for Tom proves what everyone but Gatsby knows to be true: You can’t repeat the past.

“… as obscurely as it had begun, his career as Trimalchio was over”

- At the beginning of chapter seven, as Nick explains that Gatsby has ceased to throw his infamous weekend parties, he draws an allusion to Trimalchio ⎯ a fictional character in first century AD Roman. The Great Gatsby. The brief allusion to Trimalchio has a two-fold effect ⎯ it emphasizes Gatsby’s rise from his humble beginnings in North Dakota to his current position of power and wealth and it foreshadows Gatsby’s sharp decline from power that takes place throughout chapter seven.

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1) North Dakota is dominated by plains, which made the territory easy for farming. Therefore, there were a lot of farming population in North Dakota during the 1920s. In the story, Gatsby's family is also one of the farming family, who primarily relied on agriculture to seek for lives.
2) In this chapter, Gatsby reveals his past. Jay Gatsby's real name was actually Jay Gatz, who was born under a poor family, and changed his name that had a meaning "son of god". Even though Gatsby is just direct derivation of Gatz and Jay from James, it gave a huge change in Gatsby's life. More interestingly, Gatsby is today used as a word that means extravagant, cool, stylish, and giving off swagger.
3) Socioeconomic inequality is clearly depicted in this chapter by the change in Gatsby's social status. Born in a poor family, Gatsby has always crave for better living. He eventually earned a lot of money through illegal ways. Later on, Gatsby was able to be welcomed by the rich and entertain a lot of people. Therefore, this is definitely showing the theme of inequality by describing poor as inferior, whereas rich as superior.

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"He couldn't possibly leave Daisy until he knew what she was going to do. He was clutching at some last hope and I couldn't bear to shake him free.

It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody told it to me because "Jay Gatsby." had broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice." (141)
- Gatsby is in trouble and realizes that his dream cannot be achieved.
- Gatsby is depicted as fragile figure
- Gatsby hurts his feeling and his dream
- American dream, Identity

"'God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!'."

Standing behind him, Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, which had just emerged, pale and enormous, from the dissolving night.

"God sees everything," repeated Wilson."
- Wilson pledges to revenge to Gatsby, who he thought murdered Daisy
- TJ Eckleburg symbolizes the corrupted god, who never does anything to the problem but rather just watching at it.
- Transformation, Corruption

"The chauffer -- he was one of Wolfshiem's proteges -- heard the shots"
-  Wolfshiem is described as Gatsby's lifelong, close friend. However, now the author reveals the driver is someone who is hired by Wolfshiem in order to spy Gatsby.
- Society is full of lies and deceit and people are always looking for chances to get benefits
- Corruption, Transformation

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Trimalchio (noun): a lavish host in a Latin Work by Petronius. Someone who was slavery that later became rich

Affront (noun): a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act of disrespect

croon (verb): to sing or hum in a soft voice

genially (adverb): warmly and pleasantly; cordial

boisterously (adverb): rough and noisy manner

Tumultuous (adjective): raising a great clatter and commotion

rancor (noun): bitter resentment or ill will; hatred

magnanimous (adjective): generous in forgiving an insult or injury

presumptuous (adjective): going beyond what is right or proper; excessively forward

truculent (adjective): cruel, savage and brutal

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Chapter 7 brings the conflict between Tom and Gatsby into the open, and their confrontation over Daisy brings to the surface troubling aspects of both characters. Throughout the previous chapters, hints have been accumulating about Gatsby’s criminal activity. Research into the matter confirms Tom’s suspicions, and he wields his knowledge of Gatsby’s illegal activities in front of everyone to disgrace him. Likewise, Tom’s sexism and hypocrisy become clearer and more obtrusive during the course of the confrontation. He has no moral qualms about his own extramarital affairs, but when faced with his wife’s infidelity, he assumes the position of outraged victim.

The importance of time and the past manifests itself in the confrontation between Gatsby and Tom. Gatsby’s obsession with recovering a blissful past compels him to order Daisy to tell Tom that she has never loved him. Gatsby needs to know that she has always loved him, that she has always been emotionally loyal to him. Similarly, pleading with Daisy, Tom invokes their intimate personal history to remind her that she has had feelings for him; by controlling the past, Tom eradicates Gatsby’s vision of the future. That Tom feels secure enough to send Daisy back to East Egg with Gatsby confirms Nick’s observation that Gatsby’s dream is dead.

Gatsby’s decision to take the blame for Daisy demonstrates the deep love he still feels for her and illustrates the basic nobility that defines his character. Disregarding her almost capricious lack of concern for him, Gatsby sacrifices himself for Daisy. The image of a pitiable Gatsby keeping watch outside her house while she and Tom sit comfortably within is an indelible image that both allows the reader to look past Gatsby’s criminality and functions as a moving metaphor for the love Gatsby feels toward Daisy. Nick’s parting from Gatsby at the end of this chapter parallels his first sighting of Gatsby at the end of Chapter 1. In both cases, Gatsby stands alone in the moonlight pining for Daisy. In the earlier instance, he stretches his arms out toward the green light across the water, optimistic about the future. In this instance, he has made it past the green light, onto the lawn of Daisy’s house, but his dream is gone forever.

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Redolent (adj)
(p.148/155)
with a strong, pleasant, or particular scent;

Corroborate (verb)
(p.153/161)
to give or represent evidence of the truth of something; to confirm or
substantiate

Amorphous (adj)
(p.161/169)
1) without any clear shape, form, or structure;
2) not obviously belonging
to any particular category or type

Cahoots (informal plural noun)
(p.154/162)
informal plural noun: questionable collaboration; secret partnership

Vestibule (noun)
(p.153/160)
1) an enclosed area at the entrance of a railroad car;
2) a small room/hall
between an outer door and the main part of the building

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Scene 1
Gatsby's Hall telling Nick of how he really felt, and we find out more about who Gatsby really is as well as his intentions.

Scene 2
Gatsby's first time meeting Daisy (Telling Nick)

Scene 3
Gatsby when he had to leave for the war and so on (Telling Nick)

Scene 4
Back to Gatsby's place as Nick is about to leave, but doesnt want to leave Gatsby alone.

Scene 5
Tom in his office calling Gatsby

Scene 6
Wilson's home as Michaelis is trying to comfort him. Wilson says he has 'way of finding out.'

Scene 7
Back to Gatsby's House

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1. From the perspectives of the younger Gatsby and Daisy, what is the significance
of how they saw each other?
2. How is Nick's development as a character represented here?
3. How is Gatsby swimming in the pool significant?

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Adventitious

Occurring accidentally or spontaneously.

Pasquinade

Text that humorously copies somebody's style.

Superfluous
Excessive.

Addenda
Things to be added; an addition.

Ulster
A loose, long overcoat made of heavy, rugged fabric and often belted.

Vain
unproductive of success.

Pander
To cater to the tastes and wants of others
To exploit their weakness.

Elocution
An expert manner of speaking involving control of voice.

Commensurate
Proportionate; adequate.

Elude
To evade.

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“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but thats no matter--to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther...And one fine morning----
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

- This quote describes both Gatsby and the American Dream as a whole
- American Dream is “receding” and “eluding”. The American Dream is a bluff, made impossible by the emptiness and corruption of the upper class, even though people want to believe otherwise.
- Also reflects Gatsby’s own pursuit of the American Dream, and how he believed in the green light and his unwavering belief that he could achieve it and despite the reality.

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”

- This further emphasizes the theme of moral decay of the upper class. Daisy and Tom don’t have to worry about the consequences of their actions because they have money to fall back to. This carelessness and lack of concern for other people clearly illustrates the dehumanization and apathy of the upper class.

"If he'd of lived he'd of been a great man. A man like James J. Hill. He'd of helped build up the country."

-  Foreshadowing, that if Gatsby had lived, he could have been great and would have accomplished amazing things for himself and others
- Might have been able to change many things in West egg
- Others could have respected him more and actually become friends with him if he had provided for West egg or even the 'country'

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1. Police and reporters gathered in Gatsby's house when his death was revealed

2. Nick, who feels he was the only friend of Gatsby, feels responsible for organizing a funeral for Gatsby. However, his calls were all rejected, even from Daisy.

3. Henry C. Gatz, Gatsby's father shows Nick Gatsby's time schedule and Hopalong Cassidy, a book he read in childhood. Nick realizes Gatsby's punctilious, zealous personality.

4. Nick decides to go back to the West.

5. Nick sees the green light from Daisy's house, just as how Gatsby embraced his life-long dream.

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1) Chapter 8 reveals the true nature of people and reminds us how people’s moral codes can be easily shedded away. As long as it was in line of their own personal goals, they would be willing to do anything for it.

2) The chapter also shows the reality between the relationship between Daisy and Gatsby. The reality that Gatsby doesn’t know her.  He was stuck on the ideal that Daisy still loves him and that it was inevitable that she would end up with him and that she needed him to swoop in and save her from Tom. But in reality it is shown that Daisy really didn’t need Gatbsy.

3) The chapter signifies the end of an era.  The tragic side of the American Dream shown through George Wilson’s murder of Gatbsy. This is shown more gradually as each chapter passes by. Gatsby becomes weaker and more vulnerable until finally it resulted in his death.

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1.  What is the significance of the rain right before Gatsby's funeral?
2. Gatsby achieved a lot in life and was able to attain immense wealth. However, none of his acquaintances arrive at his funeral. Why could that be?
3. How is the American dream manifested through Gatsby's characteristics as described by Meyer?