Gatsby Themes by Janey Joiner https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d en-us 2021-05-02 13:48:04 UTC 2021-05-03 14:49:03 UTC hello@padlet.com The most direct example of holding onto the past leading to failure is Gatsby’s death at the end of Chapter 8. jjoiner9 https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1482449809 “A small gust of wind that scarcely corrugat-ed  the  surface  was  enough  to  disturb  its  accidental  course with  its  accidental  burden.  he  touch  of  a  cluster  of  leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of compass, a thin red circle in the water” (Fitzgerald 173). -Gabi's Group]]> 2021-05-02 13:50:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1482449809 Wilson is a direct representation of someone who could not achieve the American dream. jjoiner9 https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1482452231 “The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner... He was a blonde, spiritless man, anaemic, and faintly handsome” (Fitzgerald 28). -Soph's Group]]> 2021-05-02 13:52:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1482452231 The car is a symbol of greed and wealth. It eventually led to the death of Myrtle. Daisy's carelessness was fatal. jjoiner9 https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1482453686 “The other car, the one going toward New York, came to rest a hundred yards beyond, and its driver hurried back to where Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extin- guished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick dark blood with the dust” (Fitzgerald 105). -Margaret's Group]]> 2021-05-02 13:53:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1482453686 Gatsby's Books jjoiner9 https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1482455289 “‘The books?’ He nodded.  ‘Absolutely real— have pages and everything. I thought they’d be a nice durable cardboard. Matter of fact, they’re absolutely real’” (Fitzgerald 50). -Francesca's Group]]> 2021-05-02 13:54:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1482455289 Gatsby’s pursuit of Daisy, and by extension the wealth of her class and the lavish lifestyle necessary to live near her and achieve the happiness he wanted, in the end left him alone and abandoned. Daisy’s own pursuit of wealth and the marriage that came with it left her unhappy for a majority of the novel, and immoral at the end. jjoiner9 https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1482456219 “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated  back  into  their  money  or  their  vast  carelessness  or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” (Fitzgerald 191). -Veronica's Group]]> 2021-05-02 13:55:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1482456219 Tom is telling Wilson that Gatsby ran over Myrtle. This never happened. Daisy ran over Myrtle. https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485426043 “He ran over Myrtle like you’d run over a dog and never even stopped his car” (Fitzgerald 136). -Bella, Ashlyn, Kate, and margaret
 

]]> 2021-05-03 14:26:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485426043 Gatsby realizes that Daisy has fundamentally changed due to her wealth and lifestyle, and is a different version of herself than she once was. https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485435854 “‘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…” (Fitzgerald 128).

- Kam’Ryn and Veronica ]]> 2021-05-03 14:28:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485435854 Mr. Wilson assumed that Gatsby was the one having an affair with Myrtle and ended up killing him, even though his assumptions were wrong. https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485447635 “The touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of compass, a thin red circle in the water.
It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass” (Fitzgerald 173).
-Soph’s group]]> 2021-05-03 14:30:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485447635 Gatsby was unable to reach his dream his dream of Daisy, even though he made all of this money. This is also a representation of the American Dream, his wealth and idea of a perfect family. https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485448313 “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 ——“(Fitzgerald 138). (Beca’s group)]]> 2021-05-03 14:30:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485448313 Gatsby is another direct representation of someone who could not achieve the American Dream. https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485452064 “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” (Fitzgerald 193).  - Latrisha, Madeline, Maddie, Gabi]]> 2021-05-03 14:31:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485452064 https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485453045 An excerpt from the funeral passages: Shows that Gatsby’s carelessness and wealth got him killed— and therefore no one wanted to go to his funeral. 
“Let me know about the funeral etc do not know his family at all” (Fitzgerald 177). -Soph’s group 
]]> 2021-05-03 14:31:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485453045 Gatsby was focused on obtaining the American dream that he missed out on building genuine connections with people. Hardly anyone showed up at his funeral. https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485472851 “Go on!” He started. “Why, my God! they used to go there by the hundreds.” He took off his glasses and wiped them again, outside and in.” (Fitzgerald 134) (Margaret Clancy, Kate Langfels, Bella Kadlec, Ashlyn Foley)

]]> 2021-05-03 14:35:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485472851 Gatsby tries so hard to please Daisy with all of these materialistic things, but by achieving them he gets no happiness. The only thing that pleases him is the idea of it. https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485479710 “Well, there I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn’t care. What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?” (Fitzgerald 160). 
-Soph’s group]]> 2021-05-03 14:36:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485479710 https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485481622 Myrtle died while pursuing Tom and his wealth. Tom nor Myrtle was ever in love with each other, but they cared for what each other had to offer. Myrtle ended up dead trying to fulfill wealth by affair. 
** Nick talking about Gatsby at the end of the book- but it shows that Myrtle died
“He ran over Myrtle like you’d run over a dog and never even stopped his car” (Fitzgerald 191). -Soph’s group ]]> 2021-05-03 14:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485481622 Gatsby dropping the clock is a representation of their lost time and how things changed over time. https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485482537 “Luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers, and set it back in place. Then he sat down, rigidly, his elbow on the arm of the sofa and his chin in his hand” (Fitzgerald 67). (Beca’s Group)]]> 2021-05-03 14:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485482537 Daisy’s wealth and privilege lead her to carelessly crash into and kill Myrtle. After the crash, she is found eating chicken with her adulterer husband like nothing happened. https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485483870 “Daisy  and  Tom  were  sitting  opposite  each  other  at  the kitchen  table  with  a  plate  of  cold  fried  chicken  between them and two bottles of ale. He was talking intently across the  table  at  her  and  in  his  earnestness  his  hand  had  fallen upon and covered her own. Once in a while she looked up at him and nodded in agreement” (Fitzgerald 155). -Madeline, latrisha, maddie, gabi

]]> 2021-05-03 14:37:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485483870 Tom and Daisy are a prime example, as their wealth left them with little morals and consideration of others, such as their lack of presence after Gatsby’s death and how they blamed him despite Daisy knowing the truth of the car accident. https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485493960 “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated  back  into  their  money  or  their  vast  carelessness  or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” (Fitzgerald 191).

-Kam’Ryn and Veronica ]]> 2021-05-03 14:39:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485493960 Myrtle’s death is a direct representation that not everyone cam achieve the American Dream https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485494587 “The other car, the one going toward New York, came to a rest a hundred yards beyond, and its river hurried back to where Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick, dark blood with the dust” (Fitzgerald 147).
-Beca’s group 

]]> 2021-05-03 14:39:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485494587 Gatsby tried so hard to maintain the “Daisy” from five years ago but ultimately was holding onto something that no longer existed. He became restless. https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485498359 “I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” I ventured. “You can’t re- peat the past.”
“Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”
He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.” (Fitzgerald 85) (Margaret Clancy, Kate Langfels, Bella Kadlec, Ashlyn Foley)]]> 2021-05-03 14:40:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485498359 Myrtyle wanting to be withTom and be rich and happy with him is her American Dream. But Tom doesn’t even let her disrespect Daisy, so he’s not leaving her. https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485502353 “Some time toward midnight  Tom  Buchanan  and  Mrs.  Wilson  stood  face  to face discussing in impassioned voices whether Mrs. Wilson had any right to mention Daisy’s name.
‘Daisy!  Daisy!  Daisy!’  shouted  Mrs.  Wilson.  ‘I’ll  say  it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai——‘
Making a short det movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.” (Fitzgerald 41)
 -Kam’Ryn’s group ]]> 2021-05-03 14:40:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485502353 'He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight-watching over nothing' (Fitzgerald 145). Gatsby and Daisy's relationship may appear as a great thing, but Gatsby is actually all alone. -Madeline, Maddie, Latrisha, Gabi https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485505293 2021-05-03 14:41:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485505293 The green light from Daisy's dock is a symbol that connects to this theme because Gatsby is always reaching for it, but he can never actually get a hold on it. https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485519635 "But I didn’t call to him for he gave a sudden intimation that he
was content to be alone—he stretched out his arms toward
the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock" (Fitzgerald 24).]]> 2021-05-03 14:44:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485519635 Gatsby had a motivation to please daisy with his parties but in reality she was not happy https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485528519 “She didn’t like it he said immediately...I feel far way from her It’s hard to maker her understand” (Fitzgerald 117)-Madeline, Maddie,Latrisha, Gabi ]]> 2021-05-03 14:45:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485528519 Jordans wealth and way of life leads her to be not only careless, but dangerous. She puts herself in situations where she expects others to be careful, because she is oblivious and doesnt see consequences in her actions. https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485541444 “ ‘I am careful.’
‘No, you’re not.’
‘Well, other people are,’ she said lightly.
‘What’s that got to do with it?’
‘hey’ll keep out of my way,’ she insisted. ‘It takes two to make an accident.’ “ (Fitzgerald 64). -Marys group]]> 2021-05-03 14:48:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jjoiner9/atgkso4zu2pv1s0d/wish/1485541444