The Great Gatsby by https://padlet.com/lpallasis/Bookmarks Chapter summaries, themes, quotes en-us 2022-02-07 01:46:49 UTC 2022-02-11 01:29:38 UTC hello@padlet.com Chapter 1 lpallasis https://padlet.com/lpallasis/Bookmarks/wish/2032073025 Summary:
- Introduction to the characters - Nick, Daisy, Jordan, Tom
- Dinner party - Tom and Nick has a history
- Tom is having an affair - very brief
- Introduction to Gatsby - figure reaching across the bay

Themes:
- racism
- cultural superiority
- the American dream
- moral corruption
- old money vs. new money
- love

Quotes:
-"I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”'
- “It’s up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.”
- “‘Whenever you feel like criticising anyone,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had’”
- “‘Gatsby?’ demanded Daisy. ‘What Gatsby?’"
- ‘I love to see you at my table, Nick. You remind me of a Rose’

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-Tom takes Nick to thee grey valley where they meet Wilson and his wife Myrtle, the women who Tom is having an affair with
-Tom then takes Nick and Myrtle to a party in the city with Myrtle's friends. Everyone gets really drunk and Tom ends up breaking Myrtle's nose because she mentions Daisy
Themes:
society and class- the rich characters(tom and nick) meeting the poor working class (eg the wilson's)
betrayal- tom cheating on daisy
friendship- tom and nick
time- the 1920s being an era of parties and illegal liquor
Quotes:
- "‘Neither of them can stand the person they’re married to.’
‘Can’t they?’
‘Can’t stand them.’ She looked at Myrtle and then at Tom. ‘What I say is, why go on living with them if they can’t stand them? If I was them I’d get a divorce and get married to 
each other right away.’

- ‘It’s really his wife that’s keeping them apart. She’s a Catholic, and they don’t believe in divorce.’]]> 2022-02-07 01:52:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lpallasis/Bookmarks/wish/2032073133 Chapter 3 lpallasis https://padlet.com/lpallasis/Bookmarks/wish/2032073219 Summary:
-Nick has been observing Gatsby's parties from his house. Out of no where, Nick  is personally invited by Gatsby, a very rare occasion .
-Gatsby hosts a party at his house in east egg but no one can find him.
-Rumours roam around the party by people who don't even know him: killed a man, german spy etc.
- Nick and Jordan meet up at the party.
- Gatsby is humble when first meeting Nick but he seems to be playing a facade.
- Gatsby  soon runs off with Jordan Baker leaving Nick very confused and a bit hurt.
-Nick compares toms party with Gatsby's party

Themes:
Old money vs new money - Gatsby is symbolic of new money. He is not used to the opulence so he lives lavishly trying to pursue the American dream. 
Moral Corruption -  the guest care so little about their host that they don't even have the common courtesy to find the difference between fiction and fact - only worrying about themselves and creating a version of Gatsby that meets their ideals. 

Quotes:
-'Men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.' -> people are attracted to the extravagance of Gatsby's parties and intrigued to hear the drama of his life. THE AMERICAN DREAM? MORAL CORRUPTION
-Jordan is, according to Nick, a 'fundamentally dishonest person'; she even 'cheated in her first golf tournament', he claims. Morality and honesty are at the core of Nick's character yet he overlooks other dishonesty: Nick feels attracted to Jordan despite her dishonesty, even though he himself claims to be 'one of the few honest people he has ever known'. MORAL CORRUPTION
-Nick finds Gatsby enchanting, stating that he had ‘one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it…’. It is a completely different impression from what Nick was expecting (a ‘florid and corpulent person’) due to the strange rumours he had heard previously. 


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  • Nick is introduced to Wolfshiem, a shady character, who leads him to believe that Gatsby may not be as legitimate as he says.

themes:
  • Society and Class
  • The wealthy and the working class

quotes:
  • "‘I don’t want you to get a wrong idea of me from all these stories you hear.", (Gatsby)
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- Daisy is invited to Nick's house and she meets Gatsby.
- Gatsby and Daisy are nervous when they see each other. 
- Daisy and Gatsby talk. Daisy is 'smeared with tears' and Gatsby 'Literally glowed'. 
- Daisy sees Gatsby's house and is shocked about how large it is.
- Daisy wishes she was with the wealthy Gatsby, which is proved when she cries into his shirts.


Themes:
- Love
- Old money vs new money

Quotes:
- "Im going to call up Daisy tomorrow and invite her over to tea"
- "I don't want to put you into any trouble, you see"
- "Nobody's coming to tea. It's too late!"
- "'Are you in love with me,' she said low in my ear, 'or why did I have to come alone'"
- "We haven't met for many years" - Daisy
- "I love it, but I don't see how you live there all alone" - Daisy
- "I keep it always full of interesting people, night and day" - Gatsby
- "Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily"

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- Gatsby tells Nick about his early life and how he got to where he is now.
- We learn that Gatsby is new money and not old money.
- Gatsby invites Tom to his house and Nick later joins them.
- Tom starts to recognise that Gatsbys in love with Daisy.
- Gatsby invites Tom, Daisy and Nick to his party.
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Themes:
- Memory and the past
- New money vs. Old money
- Love
- The American dream
Quotes:
- He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: "I never loved you."
- "I know your wife," continued Gatsby, almost aggressively.
- "I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before"

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- Gatsby meets Daisy's daughter for the first time
- Daisy and Gatsby find it hard to hide their love for one another
- brings the conflict between Tom and Gatsby into the open

Themes:
- Love
- Secrets

Quotes:]]> 2022-02-07 01:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lpallasis/Bookmarks/wish/2032073683 Chapter 8 lpallasis https://padlet.com/lpallasis/Bookmarks/wish/2032073757 Summary:
- As Gatsby is shot murdered by George Wilson, the sad aspect of the American ideal is revealed. The death is violent, though not unexpected, and it brings the life of the idealist to an end. The legend of Gatsby will live on owing to Nick's retelling of the narrative, but Gatsby's death heralds the end of an era.
Themes:
- tragic side of the American dream.
- Love
Quotes:
- "tossed half-sick between grotesque reality and savage, frightening dreams".
- 'Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor.' 
- "Just before I reached the hedge I remembered something . . . ‘They’re a rotten crowd,’ I shouted . . . ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.’ I’ve always been glad I said that. It was the only compliment I ever gave him, because I disapproved of him from beginning to end."
- "I thought of the night when I first came to his ancestral home, three months before. The lawn and drive had been crowded with the faces of those who guessed at his corruption—and he had stood on those steps, concealing his incorruptible dream, as he waved them good-by."
- "[P]erhaps [Gatsby] no longer cared. If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream."]]> 2022-02-07 01:53:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lpallasis/Bookmarks/wish/2032073757 Chapter 9 lpallasis https://padlet.com/lpallasis/Bookmarks/wish/2032073827 Summary:
- This chapter is centred around the fallout of Gatsby's murder, including the press and funeral arrangements.
- None of the people who were in Gatsby's life, including Daisy and Tom, are willing to be involved in his funeral.
- Nick realises the true nature of the people who surrounded Gatsby and assumes responsibility for his funeral, quickly becoming heavily invested in it.
- Nick reflects on the American Dream and connects aspects of Gatsby's life to it.

Themes:
- The American Dream
- The wealthy and the working class
- Society and class
- The Past

Quotes:
- "Practise elocution, poise and how to attain it."
- "I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailor's eyes - a fresh, green beast of the new world."
- "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 muss they had made..."
- "He did not know that [his dream] was already behind him..."
- "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
- "...as he lay in his house and didn't move or breathe or speak, hour upon hour, it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested..." ]]> 2022-02-07 01:53:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lpallasis/Bookmarks/wish/2032073827