https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u Its a blog about Gatsby en-us 2021-04-01 17:48:12 UTC 2025-11-12 14:33:48 UTC hello@padlet.com rallen20222_1 https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1434461205 Nick Carraway describes one of his former Yale college colleagues, Tom Buchanan, in the first chapter of The Great Gatsby. Tom Buchanan is Nick's cousin and lives in the East Egg with his wife Daisy. “Two sparkling arrogant eyes had built superiority over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward,” Nick says of Tom. Tom comes across as a liar in this definition. Nick also used the terms supercilious, fractiousness, and scorn to characterize Tom. Being supercilious means acting or appearing as though one believes one is superior to others. The characteristic of being inclined to disobedience and a lack of discipline is known as fractiousness. Contempt is described as a lack of respect combined with a strong dislike. All of these definitions make Tom seem to be a jerk.Tom's home is a red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion with a rosy-colored interior. The color red is synonymous with hostility and contempt. Daisy, on the other hand, is depicted in a white gown, which is synonymous with purity and harmony. I believe Tom is represented by the red in the Buchanan mansion, and Daisy is represented by the white, but there is more red mentioned in the story.]]> 2021-04-19 17:57:22 UTC https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1434461205 rallen20222_1 https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1461032360 This expanding book introduces four new locations: the east and west eggs, the valley of ashes, and finally New York. First, all of the old money or people born into wealth are definitely changing how they handle money; they are possibly treating this money as though it is nothing special, and are perplexed as to how others survive without it. The west egg, on the other hand, are people of new money or a booming trade who got rich quickly, they treat money very differently, they are more likely to save because they know what it is like to be without, they are probably more likely to be kinder and more generous to those trying to get where they are now, they are probably more likely to be kinder and more generous to those trying to get where they are now, they are probably more likely to be kinder and more generous to those trying to get where they are now. Then there's the Valley of Ashes, which is described as a bleak place with the colors used and the use of smoke, leading me to believe that this is a very industrial place with no hope of improvement. Finally, there is New York, which was and still is a place where dreams come true, and the people who live there are dreamers and determined people who refuse to let life control them; instead, they take control of their lives. Overall, these types of people will be interesting to see if from the eve of a newcomer in the world's largest city.]]> 2021-04-26 18:20:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1461032360 rallen20222_1 https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1461033756 Jordan's perspective on car accidents and careless drivers demonstrates how carefree and reckless she is. It means that her social class is very high because she doesn't care whether she can afford a new drive without being sticky to her car. When it comes to setting, social classes come from each city, West Egg is full of "new" money, and East Egg is filled with money from its heritage. I think that in more than one social class, certain characters can "pass." For instance, Gatsby's party can make fantastic items such as outfits and jewelry part of a higher social class. And you can tell by what she says and by the way she acts that she doesn't need or want to care and she's perfectly fine with being selfish, she has the money to spare so it shouldn't matter to her. That's what happens when you have the high social class, that's just part of the perks of having plenty of cash. ]]> 2021-04-26 18:20:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1461033756 rallen20222_1 https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1486635445 The new information we receive from Mr. Wolfsheim is that gatsby is a great guy like an outstanding fellow. But Mr. Wolfsheim is a gambler and someone who fixed a World Series baseball game. He doesn’t seem like a man you can really trust, how can you trust a man who not only gambles but is wanted for a crime. And if gatsby is good friends with this man he would look like not everything he says is true about him. Gatsby says he’s a man who just moved here fought in a war and he got his money when his parents died but he’s friends with a gambler. So what would that say about his character that he hangs out with an is good friends with gamblers. It just seems very suspicious.]]> 2021-05-03 18:14:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1486635445 rallen20222_1 https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1522608470 Despite the fact that in our society, green is associated with money and riches. Which is a nice way to reflect Gatsby, but this color is represented as much more in Chapter 5, in my opinion. Green gave Gatsby a sense of security and hope. It was a way for him to remain strong and create the life he now has. He used his affection for Daisy to get to where he is now because of Daisy's wealth dream. The color green can also reflect a new beginning in Daisy and Gadsby's love and the future for them. However, it may also reflect Gadsby and Daisy's history and the friendship that is developing between Gadsby's desire to be wealthy and Daisy's fantasy of the color green.]]> 2021-05-13 20:16:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1522608470 rallen20222_1 https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1532624186 Gatsby first portrayed himself to Nick as having been reared in a wealthy family from the Midwest but reared in San Francisco and having typically graduated from Oxford. And after all of his family members died, he inherited all of the money, which he lost in the panic of World War I but recovered back three years later through oil and pharmaceutical enterprises. In reality, his name was James Gatz, and his family was a poor and failed agricultural family from North Dakota. In addition, he attended St. Olaf Community College and worked as a janitor until quitting because he thought the work was beneath him. Then, at the age of 17, he returned to the shores of Lake Superior and met Dan Cody, who hired him, sailed with Gatsby, and showed him how rich people behaved and behave. He inherited $25,000 after 5 years but was unable to accept it. When he met Dan Cody on his boat, Nick assumed he was already prepared with his new name and persona, Jay Gatsby, and had "witnessed the beginning of his career." Those aspects demonstrate his eagerness and wish to be wealthy, as well as his desire to achieve all he pictured in his thoughts. Changing his name and trying to claim what he believes should be his.]]> 2021-05-17 18:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1532624186 rallen20222_1 https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1568883460 I do believe gatsby loves daisy but he has obsessed over her and that’s not always a good thing to do but I do respect that he kept his love for her over a 5 year period and tired to get money to be with her over that time. Daisy on the other hand is confused does she love gatsby who she had loved a long time ago or Tom someone who gave her the things she wanted and they had a child. It’s hard to say who daisy loves, she may love the both in different ways and I think Tom loves the idea of daisy and girl to have kids and make him look good. Now with nick I think he may love Jordon but I think he doesn’t really care, he has fun with Jordan and then kind of ignores her. Or he’s gay]]> 2021-05-28 15:46:31 UTC https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1568883460 rallen20222_1 https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1580689894 The book's cover depicts two emerald eyes peering over the city. We may deduce from the cover that these are the same eyes as Doctor T. J. Eckleburg's. I'm not sure what this is intended to signify, but if I had to guess, I'd say it means that someone is always watching and that the acts you choose will have to live with and suffer the repercussions. That, I believe, is significant because of what each character has done without everyone's awareness, as well as the consequences of concealing secrets and the simmering eruption that resulted.]]> 2021-06-02 20:25:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1580689894 rallen20222_1 https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1580732950 Nick compiles a list of everyone who visited Gatsby's parties that summer, a who's who of the country's wealthiest and most influential individuals. He then relates a lunch date he had with Gatsby in New York. Gatsby tells Nick about his background as they travel to the city, but his account sounds exceedingly implausible. He claims, for example, to be the son of affluent, deceased Midwest parents. When Nick asks where he is from in the Midwest, Gatsby responds, "San Francisco." Gatsby then goes on to enumerate a long and ridiculously comprehensive list of accomplishments: he claims to have been educated at Oxford, to have gathered jewels in European capitals, to have hunted large game, and to have received several awards in World War II. all these answers Gatsby's gives nick seem a little to perfect so nick is still a little skeptical.]]> 2021-06-02 20:48:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1580732950 rallen20222_1 https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1580747788 Nick returns home from the city following a date with Jordan. He is shocked to discover Gatsby's home brightly illuminated, but it appears to be empty, since the home is completely silent. Gatsby approaches Nick from across the yard as he goes home, startling him. Gatsby is impatient and nearly anxious to please Nick, inviting him to Coney Island and then to swim in his pool. Gatsby is worried, Nick knows, since he wants Nick to approve to his idea of asking Daisy around for tea. Nick informs Gatsby that he will assist him with the scheme. Gatsby, overjoyed, quickly offers to have Nick's lawn mowed. This is all a little strange, and Gatsby seem to be a little peculiar.]]> 2021-06-02 20:56:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1580747788 rallen20222_1 https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1584501556 Tom and Daisy attend a party at Gatsby's place a Saturday night. Despite toms lack of interest in the party, Tom's animosity for Gatsby drives him to keep an eye on Daisy. This time, Gatsby's party has a considerably greater negative impact on Nick, he finds the celebration suffocating and realizes that even Daisy is having a miserable time. Tom irritates her by informing her that Gatsby's riches is derived from bootlegging. She retorts furiously that Gatsby's fortune stems from a drug stores he controls. So tom only stays to keep an eye on daisy and to see the fuss about Gatsby.]]> 2021-06-04 04:48:41 UTC https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1584501556 rallen20222_1 https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1594928237 As we see in chapter 7 as Gatsby is at daisy's house along with Jordon baker and nick. There trying to decide what they want to do about the heat daisy suggests going in the town, and also asks tom to get some drinks and when he leaves she kisses Gatsby. Now I don't know about you but OMG! toms like in the next room, geez man you guys are bold as heck. but that boldness leads to Gatsby downfall as he starts to think he's the top dog and has an intimate stare down with daisy and then they ruin the secret and Tom finally realizes Gatsby has a thing for daisy and daisy has a thing for Gatsby.]]> 2021-06-09 05:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1594928237 rallen20222_1 https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1594953394 Gatsby had a dream ever since he met daisy and had planned for about 5 years to try and marry the women he was obsessed with. when he finally had what he needed in order to marry daisy she was already married so he plotted and was nearly successful in his attempt. but sadly for Gatsby he was murdered by toms mistresses husband and in the pool he never used until the one day someone came was looking for him. and just like that his dream was over but I don't he ever really saw the reality in imagination, some things are just a bit too far out of reach.]]> 2021-06-09 05:42:49 UTC https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1594953394 rallen20222_1 https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1594975997 The novel depicts the amir can dream as a goal only some can achieve and how strange it is too see what people will do to get they're dream. "We drew in deep breaths . . . as we walked back . . . through the cold vestibules, unutterably aware of our identity with this country for one strange hour, before we melted indistinguishably into it again". This quote comes at the end of the novel, when Nick recalls being in college and taking the train home to the Midwest with his fellow students. After the train leaves Chicago and begins heading west, Nick and his friends are aware of themselves as true Westerners, which to Nick is very different from being an Easterner. The novel, he says, is really a novel about the West, where he and the other primary characters came from, and goes so far as to blame their inability to adapt to the East for all that happened.]]> 2021-06-09 05:55:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1594975997 rallen20222_1 https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1605750405 We see Nick try and plan a funeral for his friend and how even though all these people loved his party's none will even show up to his funeral. He starts to feel disgust and to top the cake daisy doesn't even call even though she was a cause to his death and not to mention when someone calls to try and get there shoes back like come on that's just messed up. I think nick felt a responsibility to Gatsby to try and make sure everything would go smoothly, and I'm sure he was pleasantly surprised when he found out Gatsby's father was gonna show up but still. I think nick just kind of lost faith in people after he saw one of the greats pass away.]]> 2021-06-14 18:09:02 UTC https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1605750405 rallen20222_1 https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1605751309 The text is comparable to Romeo and Juliet in ways that there is love and tragedy. In this text Gatsby has a love that cannot be because the women he used to love is now married and in the same case with Romeo and Juliet they are lovers who cannot be together because of there houses. And they both go around sneaking with each other doing things they probably shouldn’t. The only thing that’s a bit different is that Romeo and Juliet is in a more medieval time and that The Great Gatsby takes place in the 1920’s. Oh yeah also only Gatsby dies not daisy like in Romeo and Juliet where they both die.]]> 2021-06-14 18:09:30 UTC https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1605751309 rallen20222_1 https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1605751670 I relate to this book in many ways, I really relate to the character nick I get the being isolated and kind of being friends with people and I also understand the idea of just being a person who looks around the party’s and observe what’s going on. But I can also relate to Gatsby he has a dream and will make it happen by any means. I have goals that I will work hard for and will strive to achieve them and just like gatsby I have a little list of things I should do to better myself. And some experiences that are similar to the book that have happened to me are that the people who know Gatsby don’t really know Gatsby they just know who he is they don’t take time to be his friend and nick was an interesting type of friend. ]]> 2021-06-14 18:09:40 UTC https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1605751670 rallen20222_1 https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1605752200 I perceive the concepts depicted in The Great Gatsby in contemporary American culture. Celebrities most frequently represent the American dream of having money for happiness, which is the notion of glamorizing money and celebrity's. I believe that this has led many people to believe that money is the only way to obtain fulfillment and pleasure, and therefore is leading to many people feeling less fulfilled when they don't have money or spending money they don't have and then going into debt. Which isn’t a very good goal to have, we need to stop this harmful thinking and try to move forward and better ourselves.]]> 2021-06-14 18:09:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1605752200 rallen20222_1 https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1610513987 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UgQc0uCfSanR0-sZK7gBiAPU1W6BOH4LxLrN5EPP-xU/edit]]> 2021-06-16 17:37:22 UTC https://padlet.com/rallen20222_1/2lk181hh5wj7v53u/wish/1610513987