11.2 SL: My fabulous 'The Great Gatsby' revision wall by Conny Brock https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4 Here's what you need to do: Provide detailed info for each category. 1) Themes 2) Characters and characterization 3) Symbolism 4) Fitzgerald's use of language 5) F. Scott Fitzgerald 6) The Roaring 20s: flappers, music, prohibition, art deco etc 7) The American Dream 8) Key passages in the novel - at least 10, page numbers, quotes and explanation 9) Daisy and Gatsby's past 10) Setting 11) What does Fitzgerald criticize? 12) Enduring popularity: Why do you think The Great Gatsby continues to be so popular? What about it continues to appeal to readers? Do not just copy and paste, please. You can also include images, gifs and memes. en-us 2019-09-26 15:08:36 UTC 2019-09-26 15:58:53 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.pics/1/image.webp?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F26f5.png Flappers https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390108919 Stylish young party girls, who enjoyed to drink smoke, dance to jazz and practice their sexual freedom. Therefore they were seen as controversial and outrageous. First generation of independent American Woman, who pushed barriers in economic, political and sexual freedom for women.]]> 2019-09-26 15:25:37 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390108919 Music https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390109153 During the crazy nights, jazz upbeat tempo was accompanied with swing dance moves as well as charleston, flea hop and black bottom. ]]> 2019-09-26 15:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390109153 Prohibition https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390109229 18th ammendment that ends legal alcohol sales.]]> 2019-09-26 15:26:08 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390109229 Art Deco. https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390109276 2019-09-26 15:26:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390109276 Nick Caraway: https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390109772 He is the narrator, but he is not really the protagonist.
Reliable?  he is “inclined to reserve all judgments” (Gatsby, 7).
Critique: He only forbears that the people in the story -except Gatsby- don’t conform to the “fundamental decencies” (Gatsby, 7)
Relationship: when he thinks that he loves Jordan he is eager to “get [him]self out of that tangle back home” (Gatsby, 65) before being able to contract a relationship with her.
Honest and Caring: he is the only one who looks after a proper funeral for his friend Gatsby. Being Gatsby’s (only) friend is somehow Nick’s most important part in the book. Although he “disapprove[s] of him from beginning to end” (Gatsby, 160).]]> 2019-09-26 15:26:50 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390109772 Married in 1920 with Zelda https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390110416 2019-09-26 15:27:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390110416 TGG published in 1925 https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390110853 2019-09-26 15:28:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390110853 Left university in 1917 to join the army for WW1 https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390111954 2019-09-26 15:29:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390111954 The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390112112

]]> 2019-09-26 15:30:03 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390112112 The Hollowness of the Upper Class https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390112212 In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays social classes as East Egg, which is the old aristocracy and West Egg as the new rich. Fitzgerald portrays the newly rich as being vulgar, gaudy, ostentatious, and lacking in social graces and taste. In contrast, the old aristocracy possesses grace, taste, subtlety, and elegance. One example of how the new rich, such as Nick, is how Fitzgerald describes is the mansion in which Nick lives, and the Rolls-Royce he has. On the other hand the delicate and white dresses that Daisy and Jordan use, portray the elegance Fitzgerald talks about. ]]> 2019-09-26 15:30:12 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390112212 Social Class https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390112311 In the novel, social class is a general theme, that impacts on characters, but also in love. This is seen when Gatsby’s pursuit of Daisy is bound up with class. Only after collecting a large fortune he feels able to make a move towards her. ]]> 2019-09-26 15:30:19 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390112311 Love and marriage https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390112437 Love and marriage in the novel is more of a union between two people because of convenience,  than being in love. ]]> 2019-09-26 15:30:30 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390112437 Daughter in 1922: Frances Scott https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390112630 2019-09-26 15:30:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390112630 East egg: old money (Tom and Daisy) https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390113490 2019-09-26 15:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390113490 West egg: New money (Nick and Gatsby) https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390113828 2019-09-26 15:32:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390113828 green light. https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390114136 2019-09-26 15:32:55 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390114136 Dr t j Eckleburg's eyes https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390114225 2019-09-26 15:33:05 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390114225 Gatsby's mansion https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390115385 2019-09-26 15:34:42 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390115385 Jay Gatsby https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390115622 Characterization: Gatsby is never introduced globally and objectively.
“Gatsby represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.” But he “turned out all right at the end” (Gatsby, 8)
Relationship with Nick: Gatsby is grateful to meet someone who doesn’t make up any stories about him, but meets him with candidness and tolerance.
Love Life: He orders his life around one desire: to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. ]]> 2019-09-26 15:35:01 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390115622 The valley of ashes https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390115803 2019-09-26 15:35:17 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390115803 'old sport' https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390117680 2019-09-26 15:38:04 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390117680 use of color imagery https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390119466 2019-09-26 15:40:49 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390119466 LIFE https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390120304
  • For the first time, more Americans lived in cities than on farms. 
  • People from coast to coast bought the same goods (thanks to nationwide advertising and the spread of chain stores), listened to the same music, did the same dances and even used the same slang!
    • ]]>     2019-09-26 15:42:05 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390120304     Met in Camp Taylor 1918 https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390120372 Five years before the start of the novel, Jay Gatsby (who had learned from Dan Cody how to act like one of the wealthy) was stationed in Louisville before going to fight in WWI. In Louisville, he met Daisy Fay, a beautiful young heiress (10 years his junior), who took him for someone of her social class. Gatsby maintained the lie, which allowed their relationship to progress.]]> 2019-09-26 15:42:09 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390120372 wealthy - belonging to an upper class, old money family https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390121096 2019-09-26 15:43:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390121096 Valley Of Ashes https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390121223 Fitzgerald bases social classes into wealthy ones. There are people that live in the west and east egg or others that live in New York City. However there is a place in the middle that he talks about and ts the valley of ashes. It is the representation of the lower classes and the poor side of life. It is a gray and sad environment. It represents the trash of industrial society. The valley is watched over by the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg in a billboard. The eyes are used to represent the eyes of god.]]> 2019-09-26 15:43:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390121223 https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390123437 Gatsby fell in love with Daisy and the wealth she represents, and she with him (though apparently not to the same excessive extent), but he had to leave for the war and by the time he returned to the US in 1919, Daisy has married Tom Buchanan.]]> 2019-09-26 15:46:35 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390123437 Tom’s psyche https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390123605 “As for Tom, the fact that he “had some woman in New York” was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book. Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egoism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.”
    (page 20)]]>     2019-09-26 15:46:50 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390123605     Cultural commentary https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390124062 “Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.” (page 88)]]> 2019-09-26 15:47:32 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390124062 Daisy’s effect on Gatsby https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390124370 “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. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual presence none of it was any longer real. Once he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs.” (page 91).]]> 2019-09-26 15:48:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390124370 Describing the Midwest https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390124911 “That’s my middle west – not the wheat or the praries or the lost swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth, and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of the hokky wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow. I am part of that, a little solemn with the feel of those long winters…” (p.176)]]> 2019-09-26 15:48:50 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390124911 The End https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390125437 “And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light on the end of Daisy’s dock. 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 republic 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 – 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.”

    – p. 180
    ]]>     2019-09-26 15:49:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390125437     West egg https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390130579 2019-09-26 15:56:32 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390130579 East Egg https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390130620 2019-09-26 15:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390130620 Valley of Ashes https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390130679 2019-09-26 15:56:41 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390130679 New York https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390130780 2019-09-26 15:56:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390130780 gives allusion to what the lifestyle was in America during the 1920's: shows the birth of the American dream and the prominence in optimism and positivism. https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390131068 2019-09-26 15:57:12 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrock13_1/4t9veoj62nb4/wish/390131068