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What is it with Daisy crying over Gatsby's shirts?
JS

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Why do Gatsby's beautiful shirts cause Daisy to cry?
DG

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What is the significance of the pianist's song on page 95?

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Why does Gatsby think that money and determination will get him everything he wants?

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What was the author's purpose of talking about Gatsby's past? (ZL)

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What is the purpose of the story about the thatched roofs?
(ZL)

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"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, 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."
DG

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How has Gatsby and Daisy's relationship changed over the five year separation?

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What does the motif of weather, rain in this instance, have to do with Nick's tea party?

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Why does Gatsby insist on repeating the past, and will he be successful?

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Why do Gatsby and Daisy always want Nick to stay around?

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Does Gatsby really expect things between him and Daisy to go back to how they were five years ago? How does he expect to deal with Tom?

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"He could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder." (page 110)

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" James Gatz- that was really, or at least legally, his name." (98)

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"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. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time... No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart," (95-96).
DG

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"The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself." (98)

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"Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry" (88)

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Why is Tom so protective of Daisy when he is having an affair on the side and appears to be abusive toward her in the first place? Is he actually being protective or is he just jealous of Gatsby?

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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" (105-6) ZB

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Is Gatsby associated in this "side business for the thrill or because he is in need of the cash?

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Why would Tom be "perturbed by Daisy's running around alone" (104)? Is it because he is afraid she will cheat on him?
JS

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Would Daisy Fay have fallen in love with James Gatz as she did with Jay Gatsby, or is she attracted to his success?
DG

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"It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment." (pg104)

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What motive does Gatsby have in making more money than he already has? Or is he participating in some sort of side business to bolster his reputation?

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"Can't repeat the past? ... Why of course you can!" (110)

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"As I went over to say good-by I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby's face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years! There must have 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...."(Fitzgerald 95).   ZL

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"Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry" (88).

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"It was the hour of profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air." (Page 95)

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On things for sure and nothing's surer, The rich get richer and the poor get children-- 95

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" But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. " (99)

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"The truth was the Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprung 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..." (pg 98).

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"He 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," (91).

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"But there was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding. He literally glowed: without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room" (89)
JS

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Why does Gatsby think that he can still win over Daisy? ZB

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Will Gatsby steal Daisy from Tom?