Gatsby Chapter Quotes by jasmine froese https://padlet.com/jasmine_froese28/7ew7d83hnusa Made with a lightning strike of genius en-us 2018-04-23 13:27:32 UTC 2018-06-18 13:13:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Clouds.png Chapter 1 jasmine_froese28 https://padlet.com/jasmine_froese28/7ew7d83hnusa/wish/255770479 "And I hope she'll be a fool-that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." (21)
Significance: Daisy is expressing a pessimistic attitude; she is implying that woman have a difficult role to play in the world and the only way for her daughter to be happy is to conform to a patriarchal society.]]> 2018-04-26 17:55:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jasmine_froese28/7ew7d83hnusa/wish/255770479 Chapter 2 jasmine_froese28 https://padlet.com/jasmine_froese28/7ew7d83hnusa/wish/255774281 "This is the valley of ashes-a fantastic farm where ashes grow...of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air." (27)
Significance: This description contrasts both Eggs and creates a dominant impression of poverty and desolation in the valley. ]]> 2018-04-26 18:03:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jasmine_froese28/7ew7d83hnusa/wish/255774281 Chapter 3 jasmine_froese28 https://padlet.com/jasmine_froese28/7ew7d83hnusa/wish/260671262 "I'd got the impression that he was picking his words with care." (53)
Significance: The first time that Nick realizes that Gatsby hides himself behind his smile; the importance of not revealing his true self. ]]> 2018-05-15 00:15:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jasmine_froese28/7ew7d83hnusa/wish/260671262 Chapter 4 jasmine_froese28 https://padlet.com/jasmine_froese28/7ew7d83hnusa/wish/260671438 "He wants her to see his house." (84)
Significance: Gatsby specifically wanted for Daisy to see the lavish lifestyle he's living in order to impress her for her to value him for his possessions. ]]> 2018-05-15 00:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jasmine_froese28/7ew7d83hnusa/wish/260671438 Chapter 6 jasmine_froese28 https://padlet.com/jasmine_froese28/7ew7d83hnusa/wish/260671602 "She never loved you, do you hear? She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible  mistake, but in her heart she never loved any one except me." (130)
Significance: All Gatsby wants is for Daisy to say she never loved Tom. He can't accept the fact that the past can't be changed and that Daisy will never be the same girl he once new. 
]]> 2018-05-15 00:17:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jasmine_froese28/7ew7d83hnusa/wish/260671602 Chapter 7 jasmine_froese28 https://padlet.com/jasmine_froese28/7ew7d83hnusa/wish/260671818 "Some weather!...Hot!...Hot!...Hot!...Is it hot enough fr you? Is it hot? Is it?..." (121)
Significance: The intense heat of the day foreshadows the tension that pervades the scene. ]]> 2018-05-15 00:18:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jasmine_froese28/7ew7d83hnusa/wish/260671818 Chapter 8 jasmine_froese28 https://padlet.com/jasmine_froese28/7ew7d83hnusa/wish/260672528 " If that was true that he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. he must have looked up at the unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass." (169)
Significance: The withering rose symbolizes the strive for the American Dream and how it's all withering up in a materialistic world that has lost sight of hope and happiness. ]]> 2018-05-15 00:24:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jasmine_froese28/7ew7d83hnusa/wish/260672528 Chapter 5 jasmine_froese28 https://padlet.com/jasmine_froese28/7ew7d83hnusa/wish/262463720 "Daisy put her arm through his abruptly but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever." (98)
Significance: Now that Daisy is right next to him, he feels that the symbol of the green light has lost all significance as he comes faced with the reality that his dreams will never be attained. ]]> 2018-05-21 18:17:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jasmine_froese28/7ew7d83hnusa/wish/262463720 Chapter 9 jasmine_froese28 https://padlet.com/jasmine_froese28/7ew7d83hnusa/wish/262466937 "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."
Significance: Compares boats drifting towards a discovered land to Gatsby struggling to hold onto the past and desperately trying to recreate it. ]]> 2018-05-21 18:25:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jasmine_froese28/7ew7d83hnusa/wish/262466937