GG Ch 2 by Austin McQueen https://padlet.com/austin_mcqueen/gatga35pz05l Quran (4:34) en-us 2017-04-17 18:47:49 UTC 2025-12-11 22:00:08 UTC hello@padlet.com "This is a valley of ashes - 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 though powdery air."- Ch 2, page 26 austin_mcqueen https://padlet.com/austin_mcqueen/gatga35pz05l/wish/166613645 This shows a very different side of the book, where ash fills a whole valley, and men have a hard time doing their jobs, which give a very different idea than the parties and good times in the book.]]> 2017-04-17 18:54:39 UTC https://padlet.com/austin_mcqueen/gatga35pz05l/wish/166613645 "'I told that boy about the ice.' Myrtle raised her eyebrows in despair at the shiftlessness of the lower orders. 'These people! You have to keep after them all the time.'" -Ch 2, page 35 austin_mcqueen https://padlet.com/austin_mcqueen/gatga35pz05l/wish/166613649 This shows how much of a snob Myrtle is, and shows the contempt she has for the "lower classes".]]> 2017-04-17 18:54:40 UTC https://padlet.com/austin_mcqueen/gatga35pz05l/wish/166613649 "Well, they say [Gatsby]'s a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm's. That's where all his money comes from." -Ch 2, page 36 austin_mcqueen https://padlet.com/austin_mcqueen/gatga35pz05l/wish/166613651 Gatsby has a mysterious air around him, and since not much is actually known about him, there is a lot of gossip.]]> 2017-04-17 18:54:41 UTC https://padlet.com/austin_mcqueen/gatga35pz05l/wish/166613651 "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 deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand." -Ch 2, page 41 austin_mcqueen https://padlet.com/austin_mcqueen/gatga35pz05l/wish/166613657 This shows that Tom doesn't like discussing Daisy with Myrtle, since Myrtle believes that Tom is going to marry her. It also shows how Tom immediately jumps to violence.]]> 2017-04-17 18:54:43 UTC https://padlet.com/austin_mcqueen/gatga35pz05l/wish/166613657 "'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." -Ch 2, page 37 austin_mcqueen https://padlet.com/austin_mcqueen/gatga35pz05l/wish/166613663 This lie shows that Tom's prone to lying, and blaming things on others. In this case, he obviously claimed that he couldn't get a divorce from Daisy, since she's a Catholic.]]> 2017-04-17 18:54:44 UTC https://padlet.com/austin_mcqueen/gatga35pz05l/wish/166613663