https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2018-04-23 13:45:38 UTC 2026-01-30 08:41:37 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254422098 Why does Gatsby think that he can still win over Daisy? ZB]]> 2018-04-23 14:36:45 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254422098 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254422103 Will Gatsby steal Daisy from Tom?]]> 2018-04-23 14:36:46 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254422103 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254422135 "But there was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding. He literally glowed: without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room" (89)
JS ]]> 2018-04-23 14:36:49 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254422135 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254422255 " But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. " (99)]]> 2018-04-23 14:37:00 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254422255 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254422313 "The truth was the Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprung from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God - a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that - and he must be about His Father's business..." (pg 98).]]> 2018-04-23 14:37:07 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254422313 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254422589 On things for sure and nothing's surer, The rich get richer and the poor get children-- 95]]> 2018-04-23 14:37:36 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254422589 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254422685 "It was the hour of profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air." (Page 95)]]> 2018-04-23 14:37:48 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254422685 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254422817 "He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes," (91).]]> 2018-04-23 14:38:02 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254422817 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423157 Would Daisy Fay have fallen in love with James Gatz as she did with Jay Gatsby, or is she attracted to his success?
DG]]> 2018-04-23 14:38:42 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423157 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423226 "As I went over to say good-by I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby's face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years! There must have moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams-not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything...."(Fitzgerald 95).   ZL]]> 2018-04-23 14:38:49 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423226 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423236 "Can't repeat the past? ... Why of course you can!" (110)]]> 2018-04-23 14:38:50 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423236 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423237 What motive does Gatsby have in making more money than he already has? Or is he participating in some sort of side business to bolster his reputation? ]]> 2018-04-23 14:38:50 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423237 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423239 Why would Tom be "perturbed by Daisy's running around alone" (104)? Is it because he is afraid she will cheat on him?
JS]]> 2018-04-23 14:38:50 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423239 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423435 Is Gatsby associated in this "side business for the thrill or because he is in need of the cash? 

]]> 2018-04-23 14:39:08 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423435 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423485 "It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment." (pg104)]]> 2018-04-23 14:39:13 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423485 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423492 "Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry" (88).]]> 2018-04-23 14:39:14 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423492 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423536 "I knew that except for the half hour she'd been alone with Gatsby she wasn't having a good time" (105-6) ZB]]> 2018-04-23 14:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423536 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423610 Why is Tom so protective of Daisy when he is having an affair on the side and appears to be abusive toward her in the first place? Is he actually being protective or is he just jealous of Gatsby?]]> 2018-04-23 14:39:26 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423610 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423733 "The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself." (98)]]> 2018-04-23 14:39:42 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423733 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423736 "Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry" (88)]]> 2018-04-23 14:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423736 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423739 "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time... No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart," (95-96).
DG]]> 2018-04-23 14:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254423739 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254424031 "He could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder." (page 110)]]> 2018-04-23 14:40:12 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254424031 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254424269 " James Gatz- that was really, or at least legally, his name." (98)]]> 2018-04-23 14:40:34 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254424269 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254424289 Does Gatsby really expect things between him and Daisy to go back to how they were five years ago? How does he expect to deal with Tom?]]> 2018-04-23 14:40:36 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254424289 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254424577 Why do Gatsby and Daisy always want Nick to stay around?]]> 2018-04-23 14:41:11 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254424577 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254424612 Why does Gatsby insist on repeating the past, and will he be successful?]]> 2018-04-23 14:41:16 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254424612 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254425226 What does the motif of weather, rain in this instance, have to do with Nick's tea party?]]> 2018-04-23 14:42:25 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254425226 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254425297 How has Gatsby and Daisy's relationship changed over the five year separation? ]]> 2018-04-23 14:42:32 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254425297 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254425682 "The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end."
DG]]> 2018-04-23 14:43:13 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254425682 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254425925 What is the purpose of the story about the thatched roofs? 
(ZL) ]]> 2018-04-23 14:43:35 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254425925 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254426087 What is the significance of the pianist's song on page 95?]]> 2018-04-23 14:43:54 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254426087 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254426974 What was the author's purpose of talking about Gatsby's past? (ZL)]]> 2018-04-23 14:45:13 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254426974 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254428785 Why does Gatsby think that money and determination will get him everything he wants?]]> 2018-04-23 14:47:33 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254428785 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254430487 Why do Gatsby's beautiful shirts cause Daisy to cry?
DG]]> 2018-04-23 14:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254430487 https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254430571 What is it with Daisy crying over Gatsby's shirts?
JS]]> 2018-04-23 14:50:26 UTC https://padlet.com/readk/ij1bj7eyimaf/wish/254430571