Multi Genre Project - Troxell by Quinn Troxell

Favorite Quote: "'They're a rotten crowd,' I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together'" (Fitzgerald, 95)

25qtroxell — 2024-03-12 15:51:23 UTC

This is my favorite quote because it's pretty much the last thing Nick says to Gatsby and it represents a culmination of everything they've been through together. It shows how even though he may have some problems with Gatsby's actions, in the end he has respect for him and cares about him enough to tell him so.

Recipes

25qtroxell — 2024-03-13 16:14:40 UTC

Recipe for vehicular manslaughter:

1 Bottle of whiskey

1 Yellow Rolls Royce

2 Spouses in quarrel

1 Distracted driver

1 Mistress running in the road

When Myrtle ran into the road she thought it was Tom but the car heading towards her "didn't stop: it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment, and then disappeared around the next bend". When we learn about what was happening behind the wheel Gatsby says "You see, when we left New York she was very nervous and she thought it would steady her to drive and this woman rushed out at us just as we were passing a car coming the other way," (Fitzgerald, 89). When they left New York they had all been drinking and it can be extrapolated that Daisy was under the influence and not in the right space to be driving.

Wanted Poster

25qtroxell — 2024-03-19 15:49:46 UTC

After Myrtle is killed by Daisy driving the yellow car, Wilson can't hold himself together and barely sleeps. Later in the night Wilson's demeanor changes, "About three o'clock the quality of Wilson's incoherent muttering changed-he grew quieter and began to talk about the yellow car. He announced that he had a way of finding out whom the yellow car belonged to" (Fitzgerald, 96). The morning after Myrtle was killed, Wilson searches for the owner of the yellow Rolls Royce and after many hours of asking around he finds out the it belongs to Gatsby and believes that he was the one to kill her as well as the one that she had an affair with. Due to all of the emotions and distress Wilson is experiencing at the time he finds Gatsby and decides to kill him and then himself.

Why do we still read Gatsby?

25qtroxell — 2024-03-21 01:42:34 UTC

The Great Gatsby was published in 1925 and has been taught in schools for a long time and I believe it is still taught because of its use of symbolism and because of how different people can analyze and interpret said symbols. One of the most pervasive symbols throughout the story is the green light that Gatsby sees from a distance and Gatsby's infatuation with the light. The light was symbolic of Gatsby's chase for things that were out of his reach, mainly Daisy and the book ends with Nick saying, "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—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further..." (Fitzgerald, 110).

Party Invitations

25qtroxell — 2024-03-21 01:49:44 UTC

In the story, we are led to believe that Nick was the only person to actually be invited to one of Gatsby's parties. There could have been many different reasons that Gatsby chose to invite Nick to his party, such as to use him to get to Daisy, or just because he had no real friends. However, the only thing that seems clear is that Gatsby wanted to get closer to Nick. Gatsby's attempt to get closer to Nick with this invitation ultimately works. The first party that Nick attends leads to their whole relationship that grows throughout the story, to where Nick becomes Gatsbys only true friend who was there for him at the end, "About five o'clock our procession of three cars reached the cemetery and stopped in a thick drizzle before the gate—first a motor hearse, horribly black and wet, then Mr. Gatz and the minister and me in the limousine, and a little later four or five servants and the postman from West Egg, in Gastsby's station wagon, all wet to the skin," (Fitzgerald, 106).

Dear Reader,

25qtroxell — 2024-03-21 02:12:05 UTC

I wrote this multi-genre project to demonstrate the more pivotal parts of the story and illustrate the romanticism within The Great Gatsby. I wrote each genre to show what all of the events that transpired in the story lead up to and what the consequences of each characters actions resulted in.