Chapter 2 assignments by JASMINE-MARIE JOHNSON https://padlet.com/22jjohnson5/cbxf9cvtubh2atfl The analysis, poem, and symbolic representation en-us 2021-04-16 12:51:34 UTC 2025-04-06 21:07:28 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f973.png Analysis about Nick's urge to walk in the park 22jjohnson5 https://padlet.com/22jjohnson5/cbxf9cvtubh2atfl/wish/1425188228 In chapter 2 When Nick, Catherine, Tom, and Myrtle are at the apartment in the city Nick mentions that he wished he could walk to the park. He is uncomfortable at the apartment with the others and wants to leave but is unable to because of Tom, Myrtle, and Catherine. Nick says in the beginning of the book that only one person was discluded from his disgust that summer. He was disgusted by the people he was surrounded by that night and would rather walk in the park by himself than be at the apartment.]]> 2021-04-16 13:00:23 UTC https://padlet.com/22jjohnson5/cbxf9cvtubh2atfl/wish/1425188228 Analysis Continued 22jjohnson5 https://padlet.com/22jjohnson5/cbxf9cvtubh2atfl/wish/1430719430 Nick Comes from Chicago where People are more about work than party. It is strange for him to be going from a place like that to a city that's all about partying and having fun. He mentions that he had only ever been drunk once before that night, which is because he had never experienced that type of living before he went to New York. Being a man from the West, he spent most of his life working and minding his own business and he had to adapt to the life of New York. But sometimes he just wants to get away from it all and he knows it would be peaceful and quiet to go to the park and walk in the night.]]> 2021-04-18 22:38:23 UTC https://padlet.com/22jjohnson5/cbxf9cvtubh2atfl/wish/1430719430 Page 35 paragraph 5 22jjohnson5 https://padlet.com/22jjohnson5/cbxf9cvtubh2atfl/wish/1430721504 "I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the Park through  the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild, strident argument which pulled me back as if with ropes into my chair."(Fitzgerald) The author used the simile to compare the group to being tied to a chair with rope to represent Nick's feelings of being trapped with the group. ]]> 2021-04-18 22:40:36 UTC https://padlet.com/22jjohnson5/cbxf9cvtubh2atfl/wish/1430721504 Page 35 paragraph 5 (for analysis continued) 22jjohnson5 https://padlet.com/22jjohnson5/cbxf9cvtubh2atfl/wish/1430734445 When Nick looks out the window he "sees" himself looking in through the window. "I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life." (Fitzgerald) The author put this in there to compare his two points of view. While Nick was curious and excited about the life of the city, he was also repelled as a hard working man who spent his time getting his work done. In the window was the version of himself that was disgusted by what he was doing.]]> 2021-04-18 22:53:11 UTC https://padlet.com/22jjohnson5/cbxf9cvtubh2atfl/wish/1430734445 Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Eyes 22laaron https://padlet.com/22jjohnson5/cbxf9cvtubh2atfl/wish/1432743213 2021-04-19 12:40:21 UTC https://padlet.com/22jjohnson5/cbxf9cvtubh2atfl/wish/1432743213 The Valley of Ashes Poem 22laaron https://padlet.com/22jjohnson5/cbxf9cvtubh2atfl/wish/1432756525 The Valley of Ashes
Lech Kintzel

Behind a cloud of thick, black smoke
Lies the valley that many spoke
The bright red flames have long been stoked
And build up ashes on old, dim coats

Where young and wealthy turn their gaze
Not to see his Satan’s haze
Hard work makes a poor day’s pay
And ashes make the buildings raise

Rich men can only wait and hope
They’ll never see that somber dome
Covered in soot, the devil wrote
Desolate plains of ash called home

Where Robber Baron’s sit and prey
Good men live like old chewed hay
A hot summer sun makes clear as day
The ashes never burn away

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