https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0 en-us 2023-06-02 07:13:00 UTC 2023-06-09 09:37:10 UTC hello@padlet.com procurement11 https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612700239 2023-06-02 07:20:53 UTC https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612700239 procurement11 https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612705536 He resents patronising, controlling by Tom, who, unlike Nick, inhabits the world of old money with absolute confidence. 

"I waited, and sure enough, in a moment she looked at me with an absolute smirk on her lovely face, as if she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society to which she and Tom belonged"

His lower-middle class status is juxtaposed with extreme wealth (description of house, for example). 

"My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season."

He is judgemental about the wealth around him. ]]> 2023-06-02 07:27:19 UTC https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612705536 procurement11 https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612706473 His attitudes seem to contradict what he claims about himself.

"Of course I knew what they were referring to, but I wasn't even vaguely engaged."]]> 2023-06-02 07:28:27 UTC https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612706473 procurement11 https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612709877 What is the Lost Generation?
The generation was “lost” in the sense that its inherited values were no longer relevant in the postwar world and because of its spiritual alienation from a United States that, basking under Pres. Warren G. Harding’s “back to normalcy” policy, seemed to its members to be hopelessly provincial, materialistic, and emotionally barren. 

He describes his restlessness:

He describes developing different values from his parents, and their response to this:]]> 2023-06-02 07:32:45 UTC https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612709877 procurement11 https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612712467 2023-06-02 07:36:00 UTC https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612712467 procurement11 https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612714237 He views the world with sensitivity and emotional insight: he is fascinated by people. 
"Conduct may be founded on hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on" 


He uses a very poetic register of language.

"I had no sight into Daisy's heart, but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game." ]]> 2023-06-02 07:38:23 UTC https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612714237 procurement11 https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612716212 He admires Gatsby as a symbol of hope and innocent, uncorrupted by the world. 

"Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what sshare was his of our local heavens."]]> 2023-06-02 07:40:52 UTC https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612716212 procurement11 https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612717414 How does Nick describe him in the opening? 
"Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn." Pg. 1 Tenth line from the bottom]]> 2023-06-02 07:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612717414 procurement11 https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612719201 Symbolism of the epigraph: 
-Romantic - innocent and eternally hopeful
"Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover Daisy Buchanan." Back Cover
-also ludicrous
-symbolism of wealth
"Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby's mansion." Pg 9]]> 2023-06-02 07:44:51 UTC https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612719201 procurement11 https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612720013 ""Gatsby?" demanded Daisy. "What Gatsby?"" Ph 13

]]> 2023-06-02 07:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612720013 procurement11 https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612722760 2023-06-02 07:48:30 UTC https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612722760 procurement11 https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612723077 Add quotations and analyse their connotations. 
"Two shinning arrogant eyes had establisehed dominance over his face" p10

"His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed." p10

"It was a body capable of enormous leverage-a cruel body." p10
"That's what i get for marrying a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen of a -" p13




]]> 2023-06-02 07:48:55 UTC https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612723077 procurement11 https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612723339 Add quotations and comment on them. 
"Just because I'm stronger and more of a man than you are" p10]]> 2023-06-02 07:49:18 UTC https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612723339 procurement11 https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612724082 old money represents generational wealth, money that has been passed on from generation to generation in the form of cash, investments, and property. People with old money, like Daisy and Tom Buchanan, live in East Egg. They are viewed as the upper class since their wealth has survived through generations. Tom did not work for his money like Gatsby did, which automatically places him in the upper-class. ]]> 2023-06-02 07:50:13 UTC https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612724082 procurement11 https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612724671 2023-06-02 07:51:03 UTC https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612724671 procurement11 https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612726037 2023-06-02 07:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2612726037 procurement11 https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2613445256 Flappers: young women who embraced freedom from fixed gender roles in the 1920, behaving in ways that were seen as morally shocking.

The American Dream: the belief that anyone can achieve happiness and success through hard work, whatever circumstances they are born into.

Ennui: experience of boredom with everything life has to offer.

The Lost Generation: a generation of writers who, having experienced the horrors of WW1, felt lost in 1920s America, and alienated from the moral values for their parents. ]]> 2023-06-03 08:48:25 UTC https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2613445256 procurement11 https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2619109361 "that's the best thing a girl can be in the world, a beautiful little fool." (p16)
"She told me it was a girl so I turned my head away and wept." p16

]]> 2023-06-09 07:30:12 UTC https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2619109361 procurement11 https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2619111698 Associated with artificiality and performance:

Lexical field of artificial, hyperreal (exaggerated) colours...
'They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house' (p11)

Physical mannerisms...
'she leaned slightly forward with a conscientious expression"'(p11)
'surprising me by opening up again in a flower-like way.' (p17)

Direct speech...
"I'm p-paralysed with happines" (p11)
"Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!"(p16)
"I looked outdoors for a minute, and it's very romantic outdoors. There's a bird on the lawn that I think must be a nightingale come over on the Cunard or White Star Line. He's singing away-" "It's romantic, isn't it, Tom?" (p15)





]]> 2023-06-09 07:32:41 UTC https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2619111698 procurement11 https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2619112630 Unhappy marriage
"That's what I get for marrying a brute of a man" - Daisy p13

Physically vulnerable / fragile (particularly in comparison with Tom, her husband)
"Almost before I had grasped her meaning there was the flutter of a dress and the crunch of leather boots, and Tom and Daisy were back at the table." p17


]]> 2023-06-09 07:34:00 UTC https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2619112630 procurement11 https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2619113859 Notice her behaviour when meeting Nick

"Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming, discontented face" (12)

"A subdued impassioned murmur was audible in the room beyond, and Miss Baker leaned forward unashamed, trying to hear" (p.15)

"She was extended full length at her end of the divan, completely motionless, and with her chin raised a little, as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall" (11)]]> 2023-06-09 07:35:39 UTC https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2619113859 procurement11 https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2619116956 She defies stereotypes of 'respectable femininity' of 1920s America:

Identified with sport...
"Jordan's going to play in the tournament tomorrow" (p. 17)

Smoking... 


Single (not dependent or 'attached to' a man)...
"In fact I think I'll arrange a marriage.." - Daisy (p.17)


Daisy jokes about Jordan's sexual freedom...]]> 2023-06-09 07:39:38 UTC https://padlet.com/procurement11/sww1mayfzc5lxrc0/wish/2619116956