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Dissatisfaction -
- "‘You see I think everything’s terrible anyhow,’ she went on in a convinced way. ‘Everybody thinks so—the most advanced people. And I KNOW."
- "‘Neither of them can stand the person they’re married to.’"
Wealth -
Tom Buchanan's Past
- "His family were enormously wealthy—even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach—but now he’d le Chicago and come east in a fashion that rather took your breath away: for instance he’d brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest"
-"To the young Gatz, resting on his oars and looking up at the railed deck, the yacht represented all the beauty and glamor in the world."
Lies + Deceit -
-"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."

-"a suggestion that she had moved her ball from a bad lie in the semi-final round. The thing approached the proportions of a scandal—then died away."
Memory + the past -
-"‘Why, yes. I was in the Ninth Machine-Gun Battalion.’

‘I was in the Seventh Infantry until June nineteen-eigh- teen. I knew I’d seen you somewhere before.’"

-"One October day in nineteen-seventeen...His name was Jay Gatsby and I didn’t lay eyes on him again for over four years—even after  I’d met him on Long Island I didn’t realize it was the same man."
"‘I wouldn’t ask too much of her,’ I ventured. ‘You can’t repeat the past.’

‘Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!’"

-"He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the re- public rolled on under the night. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one ne morning——

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Mortality -
-"‘He’s dead now. He used to be my best friend years ago.’"
-"to where Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick, dark blood with the dust."
-"It was a er we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete."
-"‘Look here—this isn’t Mr. Gatsby. Mr. Gatsby’s dead.’"

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PART I:

NOTES:
Began after the first world and ended in the Great Depression. Duel Consciousness - W.E.B. DuBois. Langston Hughes: Wrote poetry in High school and went to Colombia Uni and dropped out. Combined formal poetry and oral tradition.

What was its impact?

Inspired literature, poetry, music, drama, dance and fashion (both social and political). Helped redefine how black culture was perceived while also integrating black and white cultures. Set up for the civil rights movement.

Why is it important to know?

Birthed / helped famous artists like Langston Hughes. Inspired cultural pride for African Americans and helped them establish their own identity.

How does it fit in with your knowledge of this time period?

This fits in the early 1920's. This was right after WWI and there were a lot of people coming home. The country was booming due to technological advancements and a burst of new culture. This could be seen in the case of the Harlem Renaissance, it was an event that reflected the movement of the country.

PART II:

Who were they?

Marcus Garvey gave speeches for Black Nations and Pan-Africanism movements.

Why were they important and what was their contribution to the time period?

Garvey's activism was a factor in the start of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s / 60s. He also inspired Garveyism, a ideology that advocates for self-governing black nations in Africa.

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West Egg -
West Egg is referred to as less than East Egg. The people are described the same too. This doesn't change throughout the novel. Nick lives there, and despite Gatsby's mansion being right next to it, his house is always describes as lackluster. While Gatsby's mansion being there can be seen as a sign that he is out of touch or behind what he wants to achieve.
- "the less fashionable of the two"
-"Or perhaps I had merely grown used to it, grown to accept West Egg as a world complete in itself, with its own stan- dards and its own great gures, second to nothing because it had no consciousness of being so, and now I was looking at it again, through Daisy’s eyes. It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have ex- pended your own powers of adjustment."
Gatsby's Mansion -
Gatsby's Mansion is initially treated like a palace that holds parties and is owned by a mysterious man. As the book progresses the way Fitzgerald portrays the place deescalates. It loses its grand manor and begins to become lonely because of the lack of people in it. Eventually, at the end of the novel, it becomes a shell of what it was, losing its charm and becoming empty constantly.
- "It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night—and, as obscurely as it had begun, his career as Trimalchio was over."
- "it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden."
-"His house had never seemed so enormous to me as it did that night when we hunted through the great rooms for cigarettes. We pushed aside curtains that were like pavilions and felt over innumerable feet of dark wall for electric light switches—once I tumbled with a sort of splash upon the keys of a ghostly piano. ere was an inexplicable amount of dust everywhere and the rooms were musty as though they hadn’t been aired for many days. I found the humidor on an unfamiliar table with two stale dry cigarettes inside. rowing open the French windows of the drawing-room we sat smoking out into the darkness."
-" Gatsby’s house was still empty when I left —the grass on his lawn had grown as long as mine"
Tom Buchan's Mansion
In contrast with Gatsby's Mansion, Tom's house never loses its charm. Its described consistently as a huge house with many rooms and always stunning. It keeps its glamour, even when the people inside don't.
- Described as grand in the beginning, as expected of the houses on East Egg.
- "their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial man- sion overlooking the bay. e lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens"
-"Just as Daisy’s house had always seemed to him more mysterious and gay than other houses so his idea of the city itself, even though she was gone from it, was pervaded with a melancholy beauty."
Valley of Ashes -
The Valley of Ashes is the poor section of the city. Its described as dusty and decaying. For the main cast, its only ever ran through to get Myrtle, or deal with George. There is never something pretty or grand described when talking about the Valley of Ashes because it pales in comparison to East and West Egg.
- "About half way between West Egg and New York the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. is is a valley of ashes"
-"the valley of ashes is bounded on one side by a small foul

river"

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Nick -
Honest
-"It made no di erence to me. Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply—I was casually sorry, and then I forgot."
-"‘I don’t like mysteries,’ I answered. ‘And I don’t under- stand why you won’t come out frankly and tell me what you want. Why has it all got to come through Miss Baker?’"
Observant
- "this was a permanent move, said Daisy over the telephone, but I didn’t believe it"
-"It seemed to me that the thing for Daisy to do was to rush out of the house, child in arms—but apparently there were no such intentions in her head."
Judgemental
- "I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said. It made me uneasy, as though the whole evening had been a trick of some sort to exact a contributory emotion from me."
-"I think he hardly knew what he was saying, for when I asked him what business he was in he answered ‘ at’s my a air,’ before he realized that it wasn’t the appropriate reply."
-"I’ve always been glad I said that. It was the only compliment I ever gave him, because I disapproved of him from beginning to end."

Gatsby -
Innocent
-"They shook hands brie y and a strained, unfamiliar look

of embarrassment came over Gatsby’s face."
-"‘Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.’"

-"An hour later the front door opened nervously, and Gatsby in a white flannel suit, silver shirt and gold-colored tie hurried in. He was pale and there were dark signs of sleeplessness beneath his eyes."
Mysterious
-"my eyes fell on Gatsby, standing alone on the marble steps and looking from one group to another with approving eyes."
-"‘No, old sport, I’m not. But Miss Baker has kindly consented to speak to you about this matter.’"
-"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.’"
Dreamer
-"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."
-"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."
-"‘I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before,’ he said, nodding determinedly. ‘She’ll see.’"
-"If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream."
George -
Faithful
"‘How long have you been married, George? Come on there, try and sit still a minute and answer my question. How long have you been married?’

‘Twelve years.’"

Submissive
-"When any one spoke to him he invariably laughed in an agreeable, colorless way. He was his wife’s man and not his own."
-"‘I don’t mean that,’ explained Wilson quickly. ‘I just

meant——‘"

Afraid of God
-"‘I spoke to her,’ he muttered, a er a long silence. ‘I told her she might fool me but she couldn’t fool God. I took her to the window—’ With an e ort he got up and walked to the rear window and leaned with his face pressed against it, ‘—and I said ‘God knows what you’ve been doing, ev- erything you’ve been doing. You may fool me but you can’t fool God!’ ‘"
-"‘God sees everything,’ repeated Wilson."
Myrtle -

Vivacious
- "Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment and as she expanded the room grew smaller around her until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot through the smoky air."
-"Beat me!" he heard her cry. "Throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward!"
Snobby
-"‘I’d like to get one of those police dogs; I don’t suppose you got that kind?’"
-"Mrs. Wilson rejected the compliment by raising her eye- brow in disdain.

‘It’s just a crazy old thing,’ she said. ‘I just slip it on some- times when I don’t care what I look like.’"

-"‘My dear,’ she told her sister in a high mincing shout, ‘most of these fellas will cheat you every time. All they think of is money. I had a woman up here last week to look at my feet and when she gave me the bill you’d of thought she had my appendicitis out.’"
Daisy -
Careless
- "I came into her room half an hour be- fore the bridal dinner, and found her lying on her bed as lovely as the June night in her owered dress—and as drunk as a monkey. She had a bottle of sauterne in one hand and a letter in the other."
-"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then re- treated back into their money "
-"‘I don’t care!’ cried Daisy"
Innocent
-"I glanced at Daisy who was staring terrified ed between Gatsby and her husband"
-"She didn’t see why he couldn’t come. She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all."
-"For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes."
Delicate
-"Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.

‘ They’re such beautiful shirts,’ she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. ‘It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before.’"
-"‘But it’s so hot,’ insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, ‘And everything’s so confused. Let’s all go to town!’"

Tom -
Arrogant
- "This fellow has worked out the whole thing. It’s up to us who are the dominant race to watch out or these other races will have control of things."
Unfaithful
- "Tom’s got some woman in New York."
Aggressive
- "gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward"
-"Making a short de movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.'
-‘Mr. Gatsby!’ He put out his broad, at hand with well- concealed dislike"
Jordan -
Liar
-"she left a borrowed car out in the rain with the top down, and then lied about it"
-"At her rst big golf tournament there was a row that nearly reached the newspapers—a sug- gestion that she had moved her ball from a bad lie in the semi- nal round. e thing approached the proportions of a scandal—then died away. A caddy retracted his statement and the only other witness admitted that he might have been mistaken. e incident and the name had remained together in my mind."
Cynical
-"I suppose you’ve got to make your house into a pigsty in order to have any friends—in the modern world.’"

Impolite
-"‘The rumor is,’ whispered Jordan, ‘that that’s Tom’s girl on the telephone.’"
-"I suppose you’ve got to make your house into a pigsty in order to have any friends—in the modern world.’"
-"Probably it had been tactful to leave Daisy’s house, but the act annoyed me and her next remark made me rigid.

‘You weren’t so nice to me last night.’"

-"You threw me over on the telephone. I don’t give a damn about you now but it was a new experience for me and I felt a little dizzy for a while.’"
Meyer Wolfsheim -
Mysterious
-"As he shook hands and turned away his tragic nose was trembling. I wondered if I had said anything to offend him."
-"‘Meyer Wolfshiem? No, he’s a gambler.’ Gatsby hesitated, then added coolly: ‘He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series back in 1919.’"
Weird
- "A succulent hash arrived, and Mr. Wolfshiem, forget-

ting the more sentimental atmosphere of the old Metropole, began to eat with ferocious delicacy."
-"‘Finest specimens of human molars,’ he informed me."
Says too much
-"‘You’re very polite but I belong to another generation,’ he announced solemnly. ‘You sit here and discuss your sports and your young ladies and your——’ He supplied an imaginary noun with another wave of his hand—‘As for me, I am fifty years old, and I won’t impose myself on you any longer.’"

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Who were they?

Scott Fitzgerald was an author who had written about the post-war youth. Zelda was a rich girl from the south who had rejoined with Scott after the release of his first book.

What was their relationship like?

They had become reliant on alcohol. Zelda was relying on Scott's income. They lived in the moment, doing what they wanted to do. Zelda started chasing and Scott found out, which hurt their relationship greatly.

What was F. Scott's motivation for his writing?

Scotts motivations for his writing were his own experiences and wants. He wrote off of what he desired or the way he wanted things to go. External influences were his alcoholism, Zelda, and the roaring 20s.

How did they represent the 1920's?

The Fitzgerald represented the 1920s because they were an example of the glamorous lifestyle that the 1920s presented. They lived lavishly, relying on Scott's book sales, outspending their income. They also reflected the decline during the Great Depression during the late 1920's-1930s', as their lives spiraled downhill, parallel to the economy.

Two key interesting facts you learned

Scott had withdrawn from Princeton after flunking out and then joined the army in the wake of the war. Zelda and Scott had broke off the engagement before rejoining. Zelda developed Schizophrenia later in the marriage.