1. YOUR MOTIF/THEME

2. YOUR EXPLANATION OF IT (1 sentence) 3. CONTEXT and QUOTE from Chapter 2

4. How does the quote show the motif or theme? (commentary)

5. What message might the author's use of the motif or expression of the theme mean?

2. In Chapter 2, there seems to be a distinction made about Catholicism.

3. At the party, Catherine, Myrtle's sister, tells Nick that Myrtle and Tom cannot get married because Daisy is Catholic and divorce is forbidden. “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."

4. Catherine isn't familiar enough with religion to speak authoritatively about it. It's like name dropping - she knows of it but doesn't know it.

5. It's ironic that religion is thrown around like a a badge or morality. Why would Tom take care to protect Daisy's catholicism in not divorcing but would flagrantly violate religion and morals in having an affair? Seems to suggest appearances are valued over reality.

2) In chapter 2, characters recognize disillusion in their lives

3) Myrtle is talking to Catherine about how she feels about marrying Mr.Wilson "...when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake." (Pg 35)

4) Myrtle thought really highly of Mr.Wilson, but she later realizes the marriage was not as great as she had imagined.

5) Not everything is how it seems

2. In Chapter 2, there are some affairs going on. Both Myrtle and Tom are cheating on their spouses.

3. Tom makes Nick go to NY with him to meet his lover, Myrtle, in the city. "Then I heard footsteps on a stairs, and in a moment the thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the office door... walking through her husband as if he were a ghost, shook hands with Tom, looking him flush in the eye." (25)

4. We see Myrtle completely disregard her husband once Tom walks into the building. When she "walks through her husband as if he were a ghost", it is clear how much she cares for Tom, and how little she cares for her husband.

5. It is ironic because Daisy knows that Tom is having an affair, yet she is still married to him and trusts him.

-There are many good things and bad things that happen throughout the chapter, with many ups and downs that set off many sets of mind.

-Such as one moment towards the end of the chapter when it says "Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy... I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life." letting off a positive feeling from Nick, and then about a paragraph later we see "

Daisy!' shouted Mrs. Wilson. 'I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai ——' Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand."

-The quote(s) show the motif in the chapter because of the drastic change in town within a paragraph of each other, and this happens multiple times in the chapter.

- He wants to convey the reader and make him or her feel uncomfortable. He wants the reader to notice the drastic changes of people when they drink, to notice Myrtle's changes in personality, and to notice Tom's changes as well. He uses it as a way to understand the darker side to some characters.

2. In Chapter 2 Fitzgerald develops the motif of betrayal.

3. To begin with, Tom and Nick picked Myrtle up at the train station. As Nick narrated, "So Tom Buchanan and his girl and I went up together to New York — or not quite together, for Mrs. Wilson sat discreetly in another car." 

4. This quote shows the level betrayal because not only is he is betraying Daisy by having an affair, but he is doing under the watch of Daisy's cousin Nick.

5. Fitzgerald is implying that everyone is hiding behind a shroud of secrets, but eventually the truth is revealed.

2. In Chapter 2, there is a distinct lack of color to describe the Valley of Ash. 

3. When Nick first sees the valley just sees the lack of color. "This is a valley of ash - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens"

4. Nick's place is described in vivid colors so the contrast in the valley is very noticeable.

5. The contrast in color may describe the difference in the way Nick sees the wealthy and the common folk.

1. COLOR

2. Throughout Chapter 2, Fitzgerald utilizes the use of color to make a thorough distinction between the two cultures of West Egg and the Valley of Ashes

3. Tom and Nick arrive in the valley of ashes to meet his mistress. The valley of ashes is portrayed as a, "gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it" meanwhile, looming over the valley are, "the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg...[which] are blue and gigantic" (pg 23).

4. The motif of color is apparent in this situation because emphasizes the texture and contrast between two different boroughs of New York, the Eggs and the Valley. In the movie, Tom's blue car stands out even more against the ash gray color of Wilson's neighborhood.

5. Fitzgerald uses the motif of color to display the connection between how a situation is perceived visually and the economic status of the people living in the area.

1. Motif: Color

2. In Chapter 2, in describing the valley of ashes, Fitzgerald uses the color gray.

3. When Tom and Nick drive into the valley of ashes, it is obvious they have entered a new world compared to where they live. "Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak... immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight."

"The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic — their irises are one yard high." 

4. In comparison to the colors used to describe West Egg, East Egg, and New York, the gray color used to describe the valley of ashes depicts a depressing image and is a representation of poverty.

This billboard is unique in that this was the only object in the valley that was described with different color than gray. The color blue symbolizes faith for the people who do not live in the Valley of Ashes because they depend on more materialistic things. The eyes could be the faith of God and everyone who lives in the valley have abandoned him.

5. People are obsessed with wealth.