Great Gatsby Essay Quotes by Cecily Girton https://padlet.com/cgirton1/w76fmj6fld9uvknb Under the prompt you have chosen, COMMENT at least one quote you will use on your essay. You must CITE YOUR QUOTE for full credit. en-us 2022-11-07 13:51:18 UTC 2025-11-29 18:38:53 UTC hello@padlet.com PROMPT 1: cgirton1 https://padlet.com/cgirton1/w76fmj6fld9uvknb/wish/2373103562 Tom Buchanan and George Wilson are more similar than different. Compare and contrast these two men according to their attitudes toward women, their ways of showing violence, and their reactions to being cuckolded (cheated on). What is Fitzgerald revealing about the nature of man?]]> 2022-11-07 13:53:03 UTC https://padlet.com/cgirton1/w76fmj6fld9uvknb/wish/2373103562 PROMPT 2: cgirton1 https://padlet.com/cgirton1/w76fmj6fld9uvknb/wish/2373107316 Fitzgerald’s novel focuses on the male characters, but the author also has several female characters, each with her own desires, motivations, and needs. Write an essay comparing and contrasting Daisy Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, and/or Jordan Baker. Ultimately, what is Fitzgerald’s message to the reader about women and feminine power?]]> 2022-11-07 13:55:03 UTC https://padlet.com/cgirton1/w76fmj6fld9uvknb/wish/2373107316 PROMPT 4: cgirton1 https://padlet.com/cgirton1/w76fmj6fld9uvknb/wish/2373108851 Consider this final statement from Nick in Chapter 9: “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us ... So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” (180) Using characters and situations from the novel, examine this last passage from the novel and explain how it supports Fitzgerald’s message to the reader about the American Dream.]]> 2022-11-07 13:55:50 UTC https://padlet.com/cgirton1/w76fmj6fld9uvknb/wish/2373108851 PROMPT 3: cgirton1 https://padlet.com/cgirton1/w76fmj6fld9uvknb/wish/2373110138 The theme of seeing and not seeing, or variations on blindness, permeates the novel. Eyes are everywhere. Analyze the treatment of blindness, and of seeing/not seeing, in the novel and show how these images are used to emphasize Fitzgerald’s message to the reader.]]> 2022-11-07 13:56:29 UTC https://padlet.com/cgirton1/w76fmj6fld9uvknb/wish/2373110138 about why jimmy changed his name https://padlet.com/cgirton1/w76fmj6fld9uvknb/wish/2373447417 2022-11-07 16:45:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cgirton1/w76fmj6fld9uvknb/wish/2373447417 https://padlet.com/cgirton1/w76fmj6fld9uvknb/wish/2373455749 " Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with........." (Fitzgerald 151)]]> 2022-11-07 16:50:04 UTC https://padlet.com/cgirton1/w76fmj6fld9uvknb/wish/2373455749 "I want to get one of those dogs," she said earnestly. "I want to get one for the apartment. They're nice to have-a dog." (Fitzgerald 27) https://padlet.com/cgirton1/w76fmj6fld9uvknb/wish/2373543547 2022-11-07 17:37:48 UTC https://padlet.com/cgirton1/w76fmj6fld9uvknb/wish/2373543547 Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes. ( Fitzgerald 151) https://padlet.com/cgirton1/w76fmj6fld9uvknb/wish/2373555691 2022-11-07 17:45:05 UTC https://padlet.com/cgirton1/w76fmj6fld9uvknb/wish/2373555691 “It’s up to us who are the dominant race to watch out or these other races will have control of things” ( Fitzgerald17). https://padlet.com/cgirton1/w76fmj6fld9uvknb/wish/2373787653 2022-11-07 20:08:08 UTC https://padlet.com/cgirton1/w76fmj6fld9uvknb/wish/2373787653 https://padlet.com/cgirton1/w76fmj6fld9uvknb/wish/2376133128 "The chauffer- he was one of Wolfsheim's proteges- heard the shots...it was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the garderner saw Wilson's body a little way off i the grass, and the holocaust was complete" (Fitzgerald 162).]]> 2022-11-09 03:42:56 UTC https://padlet.com/cgirton1/w76fmj6fld9uvknb/wish/2376133128