The Great Gatsby by Lili Landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m Organization Chart en-us 2019-03-14 14:03:01 UTC 2019-03-16 03:13:40 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Clouds.png Characters lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341331811 2019-03-14 14:03:01 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341331811 Setting lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341334666 2019-03-14 14:07:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341334666 East Egg lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341335141 2019-03-14 14:08:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341335141 West Egg lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341335427 2019-03-14 14:08:37 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341335427 Gatsby's House lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341335665 2019-03-14 14:09:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341335665 Buchanan's House lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341335898 2019-03-14 14:09:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341335898 The Valley of Ashes lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341336904 2019-03-14 14:11:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341336904 Jay Gatsby lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341340540 2019-03-14 14:17:24 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341340540 Tom Buchanan lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341341086 2019-03-14 14:18:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341341086 Daisy Buchanan lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341342900 2019-03-14 14:20:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341342900 Nick Carraway lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341343735 2019-03-14 14:22:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341343735 George Wilson lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341577509 2019-03-15 00:06:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341577509 Jordan Baker lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341577831 2019-03-15 00:08:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341577831 Myrtle Wilson lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341578734 2019-03-15 00:13:31 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341578734 Meyer Wolfsheim lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341579024 2019-03-15 00:15:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341579024 Symbols lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341579523 2019-03-15 00:18:08 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341579523 The American Dream lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341579706 2019-03-15 00:19:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341579706 Wealth lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341579907 2019-03-15 00:20:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341579907 Memory & The Past lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341580353 2019-03-15 00:22:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341580353 Marriage lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341580592 2019-03-15 00:23:31 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341580592 Lies & Deceit lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341580744 2019-03-15 00:24:31 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341580744 The Fitzgerald's lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341581437 2019-03-15 00:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341581437 Harlem Renaissance lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341582474 Part II]]> 2019-03-15 00:34:31 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341582474 Harlem Renaissance lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341582475 Part I]]> 2019-03-15 00:34:31 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341582475 Honest lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341586037 "And with this doubt, his whole statement fell to pieces, and I wondered if there wasn't something a little sinister about him, after all." (Chapter 3, page 65) As a narrator, Nick is honest with his findings, describing all of the people he encounters blatantly. ]]> 2019-03-15 00:52:37 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341586037 "Well, about six weeks ago, she heard the name Gatsby for the first time in years... she came into my room and woke me up, and said: "What Gatsby?" and when I described him – I was half asleep – she said in the strangest voice that it must be the man she used to know. It wasn't until then that I connected this Gatsby with the officer in her white car. " lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341940750 (Chapter 4, page 145)]]> 2019-03-15 21:47:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341940750 "The Carraways are something of a clan, and we have a tradition that we're descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather's brother, who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War, and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on to-day." lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341941806 (Chapter 1, page 5)]]> 2019-03-15 21:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341941806 "The fact that he had one was insisted upon wherever he was known. His acquaintances resented the fact that he turned up in popular restaurants with her and, leaving her at a table, sauntered about, chatting with whomever he knew." lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341942123 (Chapter 2, pages 3&4)]]> 2019-03-15 21:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341942123 "Her voice is full of money," he said suddenly.That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money – that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it… high in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl..." lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341942902 (Chapter 7, page 99)]]> 2019-03-15 22:05:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341942902 "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." lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341943117 (Chapter 2, page 98]]> 2019-03-15 22:07:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341943117 I lived at West Egg, the – well, the least fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season. The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard …" lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341943836 (Chapter 1, page 14)]]> 2019-03-15 22:15:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341943836 "Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay> lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341944764 (Chapter 1, page 6)]]> 2019-03-15 22:25:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341944764 "...a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.” lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341945448 (Chapter 2, page 23]]> 2019-03-15 22:32:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341945448 "Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water...'' lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341949667 (Chapter 1, page 5)]]> 2019-03-15 23:00:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341949667 "...a colossal affair by any standard...with a tower on one side...a marble swimming pool...Gatsby's mansion." lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341949975 (Chapter 1, page 5)]]> 2019-03-15 23:04:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341949975 Observant lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341952778 "He hurried at the phrase...or swallowed it, or choked on it, as though it bothered him before." (Chapter 3, page 65) Nick observes all of the characters in depth, paying attention to small details in order to read the characters.]]> 2019-03-15 23:39:10 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341952778 Lonely lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341953578 "I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table-the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone" (Chapter 3, page 42) Nick spends his time caring and listening to others that he becomes so lonely and yearning for lov]]> 2019-03-15 23:47:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341953578 Fierce lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341955266 "'Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!' shouted Mrs. Wilson. 'I'll say it whenever I want to!'" (Chapter 2, page 37) This shows Myrtle's fierce and blunt character]]> 2019-03-16 00:13:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341955266 Regretful lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341955829 "'I married him because I thought he was a gentleman...I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe." (Chapter 2, page 34) This quote said by Myrtle shows how much she regrets her marriage.]]> 2019-03-16 00:23:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341955829 Desperate lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341956422 "'She really ought to get away from him...They've been living in that garage for eleven years.'" (Chapter 2, page 35) This shows Myrtle's desperation to leave her depressing marriage.]]> 2019-03-16 00:31:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341956422 Isolated/Alone lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341957014 "The minister glanced several times at his watch, so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. But it wasn't any use. Nobody came." (Chapter 9, page 174) This shows that despite the huge parties, Gatsby was truly alone.]]> 2019-03-16 00:40:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341957014 Optimistic lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341958169 Throughout the novel, Gatsby yearns for Daisy and believes he can win her over by displaying his wealth. He shows off his mansion to Daisy and Nick after tea, in hopes of winning her back. Although he does, his optimism fails him because Daisy and Gatsby are just not meant to be. ]]> 2019-03-16 00:57:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341958169 Romantic lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341958627 "...there were twinkle-bells of sunshine in the room, he smiled like a weather man, like an ecstatic patron of of recurrent light..." (page 89) After repairing things with Daisy, the readers and Nick learn Daisy completes Gatsby, making him romantic and cheerful.]]> 2019-03-16 01:05:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341958627 Materialist lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341959676 "'They're such beautiful shirts,' she sobbed...'It makes me sad because I've never seen such-such beautiful shirts before.'' (page 92) This shows how much Daisy values things over love.]]> 2019-03-16 01:23:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341959676 Greedy lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341960160 "I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him...but she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon.." (page 164) Shows that although Daisy loves Gatsby she'd rather remain unhappy with Tom if it meant she can still have the wealth instead of mourning the lost of her lover. ]]> 2019-03-16 01:28:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341960160 Tragic lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341960694 When Daisy has her daughter, she wishes her to grow up to be a "beautiful little fool" She says this because she believes the only way for a girl to be happy with a rich man is to act clueless and be beautiful. ]]> 2019-03-16 01:35:08 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341960694 Mysterious lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341961199 Little is told about Meyer which adds to his mystery]]> 2019-03-16 01:41:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341961199 Sketchy lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341961315 He does not attend Gatsby's funeral. His excuse is he doesn't like to get mixed up things. Gatsby also uses Meyer to get new servants who are sketchy.]]> 2019-03-16 01:42:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341961315 Judgmental lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341961450 Wolfsheim exposes many characters throughout the novel. He informs the readers that Nck is judgmental. ]]> 2019-03-16 01:44:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341961450 God-fearing lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341961782 "God sees everything" (page 105) He tells this to Myrtle when he suspects her of cheating.]]> 2019-03-16 01:50:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341961782 Depressed lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341961998 After Myrtle dies, George is struck with Depression and with no way to cope.]]> 2019-03-16 01:54:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341961998 Unhinged lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341962099 After receiving a letter that Gatsby is responsible for Myrtle's death, he murders Gatsby.]]> 2019-03-16 01:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341962099 Arrogant lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341962566 "'Now don't think my opinion on these matters is final...just because I'm stronger and more of a man than you are.'" (page 7) Tom calls himself stronger and more of a man shows how stuck up he and superior he thinks he is.]]> 2019-03-16 02:04:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341962566 Agressive lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341963006 "'I know you didn't mean to, but you did do it. That's what I get for marrying a great, big, hulking..." (page 12)]]> 2019-03-16 02:10:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341963006 Short-fused lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341963205 "Making a short deft moment, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his opened hand." (page 37) Myrtle simply said Daisy repeatedly and it cause Tom to break her nose, knowing Myrtle was drunk.]]> 2019-03-16 02:13:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341963205 Cheater lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341963869 "She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage and, given this unwillingness, I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young.." (page 158)]]> 2019-03-16 02:24:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341963869 Dishonest lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341964204 "She was incurably dishonest." (page 158)]]> 2019-03-16 02:28:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341964204 Smart lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341964525 "Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever, shrewd men, and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible." (page 158)]]> 2019-03-16 02:34:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341964525 Impact lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341964964 Reconstructed Americans knowledge and thinking on African American culture. It started the eventual Civil Rights movement]]> 2019-03-16 02:42:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341964964 Importance lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341965149 Caused African Americans to take pride in their culture and express themselves through music, art, literature, etc. ]]> 2019-03-16 02:45:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341965149 How it fits into my knowledge of the time period lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341965245 In my American Pop Culture class, I learned about new genres and artists of this genre entering the music scene. This genre was jazz and it was concentrated in big cities like New York City and New Orleans]]> 2019-03-16 02:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341965245 Louis Armstrong lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341965497 trumpeter, bandleader, singer, soloist, film star and comedian.]]> 2019-03-16 02:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341965497 Importance lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341965756 Introduced jazz to the music industry. He changed the jazz world too with his music.]]> 2019-03-16 02:54:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341965756 Contributions lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341965863 1st African American jazz musician to write an autobiography, first African-American to get featured billing in a major Hollywood movie with his turn in Pennies from Heavenand the first African-American entertainer to host a nationally sponsored radio show

]]> 2019-03-16 02:56:24 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341965863 Scott F. and Zelda Fitzgerald lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341966229 Both novelists and artists who were entailed to promote romance and Jazz]]> 2019-03-16 03:02:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341966229 Their relationship lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341966409 They were an iconic couple. Both popular, glamorous, and independent. They fed off each other's creativity for inspiration in their works.]]> 2019-03-16 03:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341966409 F. Scott's motive for writing lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341966511 Alcohol and Zelda]]> 2019-03-16 03:07:08 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341966511 How they represented the 1920s lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341966551 "The roaring 20s" was known for its glamour and parties. Zelda and Scott F. were both very glamorous, rich, and loved to party and drink]]> 2019-03-16 03:07:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341966551 2 facts lilia_landers https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341966662 -Zelda originally broke off the long distance relationship
-Zelda was a muse for most of Scott's female protaginists. ]]> 2019-03-16 03:09:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lilia_landers/8hqpbdgaz1m/wish/341966662