https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr A Reading of Fitzgerald's Gatsby en-us 2018-11-08 13:09:15 UTC 2018-11-09 02:57:08 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302064068 Much of Tom's distaste for other races comes from a deep-rooted insecurity and need to feel superior to others. It is worth noting that no other characters in The Great Gatsby seem to share Tom's views. This is a large part of the reason that I think his views come from the issues he has with himself.]]> 2018-11-08 14:17:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302064068 https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302065225 Gatsby symbolizes the American mind, running towards dreams and hopes are ingrained into Americans, but so is disgracing others and destroying not only ones dreams, but the dreams of others and dragging them into the abyss with them. Gatsby reaches for his dream, destroying others’ dreams along the way, hoping to gain his own, but he fails, fading without a wisp of a dream left afterwards.]]> 2018-11-08 14:18:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302065225 https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302065361 When I was reading I noticed that each character had some sort of lies that they told to others or to themselves. This fits to all 5 of the main characters and with Nick as the narrator because he focuses on this particular character flaw thought the book, even when it isn't outright stated. Each one has their own set of issues built solely on lies.]]> 2018-11-08 14:19:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302065361 https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302065449 Gatsby goes through character changes as he starts as a cool character and ends up being pretty sketchy in my opinion. This is shown through his changing words and changing with Daisy. For being a popular man he ultimately does look pretty bad and daisy doesn’t even bother showing up to his funeral, which shows how much she cares, but being so insistent about pursuing daisy pushes him to the edge and makes him go over that cliff of almost madness.]]> 2018-11-08 14:19:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302065449 https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302065539 Overall, the relationships in this book are fake and very unhealthy, which is  quite odd (and slightly funny) when this book is often viewed as the embodiment of American culture. One example of this is how in my opinion Tom and Daisy never actually loved each other but instead loved each other's wallet's. 

]]> 2018-11-08 14:19:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302065539 https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302065804 The common belief is that Gatsby likes Nick because Nick is a direct connection to Daisy. However, the real reason Gatsby latches onto Nick as a friend is because of the way Nick perceives Gatsby. Nick's admiration and curiosity for Gatsby is palpable and manipulated. Gatsby allows Nick to put him on a pedestal and only likes the man that Nick makes him out to be. 

]]> 2018-11-08 14:19:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302065804 https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302066128 Nick as a character come off as a good guy because he doesn’t do anything that is seen as immoral. Nick sets up the affair with Daisy and Gatsby but he does it be a people pleaser. However, Nick never does anything but observe. In the very end he finally goes to set things straight with Jordan but there is a lack of detail regarding the entire conversation. Nick holds criticism but then criticizes silently in his mind. It’s very easy to criticize when you are on the outside. Nick never talks about himself he only narrates on the other main characters.]]> 2018-11-08 14:20:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302066128 https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302066636 At the end of the book, Nick can be best described as admiring Gatsby. Nick knew that Gatsby was so close to his dream but could not attain it. Nick also realizes that Gatsby tried his hardest to achieve his dreams just to fall short, and that trait of high aspirations is a key part of human nature. In the last few lines of the book, Nick is praising Gatsby’s belief in himself to go after his dream. ]]> 2018-11-08 14:20:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302066636 https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302066705 Gatsby and Daisy are just having an affair for the idea of loving each other. I believe that they have lust for each other, but not love. Daisy just enjoys that a guy actually cares about her and wants to be with her. I think Gatsby is just in love with the idea of Daisy. The distance between them because of war made it more romantic to both of them than it actually was.]]> 2018-11-08 14:20:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302066705 https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302066793 Fitzgerald made Gatsby into a character that was deeper than just being the “Great Gatsby”; he designed him in an effort to get the reader to ponder the nature of the environment Gatsby was in and why he would have two fairly opposite characters all wrapped into one -- in an attempt to fit in with the “old money.”]]> 2018-11-08 14:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302066793 https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302066955 Daisy may have fell in love with this new, wealthy Gatsby at first but soon realized their differences in social class bring up makes them incompatible. Gatsby wasn’t born into wealth like her so he lacks the “breeding” like the rest of the characters. Daisy is appalled by the lifestyle of people of “new money”, thus her relationship with Gatsby was just her feeding on his attention towards her. ]]> 2018-11-08 14:20:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302066955 https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302067982 It also says, “We all believed for a moment that the clock had smashed in pieces on the floor.” The three of them in the room, seeing the spark that was relit between Gatsby and Daisy, believed for a moment that they had actually brought back the past, and that Gatsby and Daisy could truly pick up their love where they left off years ago. ]]> 2018-11-08 14:22:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302067982 https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302068780 At this time in the book, Gatsby no longer has to reach out towards the object that gave him hope and represented his dream. However, Gatsby is somewhat distracted by the fact that the green light had lost its significance when he is with Daisy. Gatsby is aware that the light had lost its significance and this could figuratively represent that the “light” between Gatsby and Daisy has fizzled out, just as the green light had fizzled out in meaning for the characters.]]> 2018-11-08 14:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302068780 https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302069096 Gatsby fails to understand that Tom and Daisy have been married for nearly 5 years, and therefore his desire for Daisy to drop everything and denounce her love for Tom is unrealistic. Rather than moving on, he has worked tirelessly day after day to reach for the unreachable. In his efforts to rewrite his past, he has created a false version of himself in his attempts to please daisy, ultimately at the expense of his own personal well-being. ]]> 2018-11-08 14:23:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302069096 https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302073060 Fitzgerald makes it apparent that having one goal is unrealistic, yet an ironic reality that all Americans face as they dream for the future. For Gatsby, the green light has been a “single dream” that has consumed his life for five years. This light, which embodies Gatsby’s hope for an “orgastic future”  with Daisy, resulted in no future for him at all. When the light burned out, Gatsby was living so far in the past that there was no prospect for the future. Although Gatsby was physically murdered by George, he metaphorically died when he stopped believing in his dream.]]> 2018-11-08 14:28:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302073060 https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302076274 2018-11-08 14:32:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lanctotd/vf4ytxhla4pr/wish/302076274