Maxfield Lawley by Max Lawley https://padlet.com/max_lawley12/x3kyzhx2uyi Gatsby Wall en-us 2018-04-23 17:30:45 UTC 2018-06-20 18:38:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png Chapter 1 max_lawley12 https://padlet.com/max_lawley12/x3kyzhx2uyi/wish/267528283 "I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
I think this quote is a great example of sexism and limitations for women in the 20's. In order for a women to achieve the American dream that would mean sacrificing a variety of rights and privilege's such as education and an opinion that would be taken seriously. It was easiest and expected to succumb to the expectations of society. ]]> 2018-06-17 23:14:40 UTC https://padlet.com/max_lawley12/x3kyzhx2uyi/wish/267528283 Chapter 2 max_lawley12 https://padlet.com/max_lawley12/x3kyzhx2uyi/wish/267528625
"I told that boy about the ice." Myrtle raised her eyebrows in despair at the shiftlessness of the lower orders. " These people! You have to keep after them all the time." (2.69-70) 

People would do anything to be relevant and if they couldn't they would pretend. Myrtle was far from special yet she spoke of Tom's servents as if she could afford them. She speaks down on the servants to make boost herself but it really shows how low shes willing to stoop to acheive a taste of the American Dream.
]]> 2018-06-17 23:18:12 UTC https://padlet.com/max_lawley12/x3kyzhx2uyi/wish/267528625 Chapter 3 max_lawley12 https://padlet.com/max_lawley12/x3kyzhx2uyi/wish/267531784 "And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before." (3.1) 

This part of the novel sheds light on the part of the roaring 20's that is generally forgotten. Those who struggled to get even a taste of the American Dream and were stuck slaving away at the bottom of the economical foodchain of their society. Gatsby would hire people to maintain his image by cleaning up after his party's to be ready for the next weekend.]]> 2018-06-17 23:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/max_lawley12/x3kyzhx2uyi/wish/267531784 Chapter 5 max_lawley12 https://padlet.com/max_lawley12/x3kyzhx2uyi/wish/267532957 Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily. 
"They're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffled in the think folds. "It makes me sad because I've never seen such – such beautiful shirts before." (5.118-119)

This point is important because it shows the sad reality that Daisy would rather lie and bottle up her true feelings rather than saying too much and possibly ruining her American Dream and East Egg life.
]]> 2018-06-18 00:10:35 UTC https://padlet.com/max_lawley12/x3kyzhx2uyi/wish/267532957 Chapter 6 max_lawley12 https://padlet.com/max_lawley12/x3kyzhx2uyi/wish/267532971 "He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: "I never loved you." After she had obliterated four years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken. One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house—just as if it were five years ago. (6.125)":

Gatsby was so consumed by his Dream to make Daisy his own that his expectations and goals grew too unrealistic. He created a sense of security and self worth with the wealth he acquired that made him feel like daisy HAD to leave Tom]]> 2018-06-18 00:10:47 UTC https://padlet.com/max_lawley12/x3kyzhx2uyi/wish/267532971 Chapter 7 max_lawley12 https://padlet.com/max_lawley12/x3kyzhx2uyi/wish/267535201 "He nodded sagely. "And what's more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time." (7.251-252)

Shows the hypocritical double standards of most rich men in the 1920's. Tom felt when he cheated it was justifiable because in the end of the day she always comes back.]]> 2018-06-18 00:31:13 UTC https://padlet.com/max_lawley12/x3kyzhx2uyi/wish/267535201 Chapter 8 max_lawley12 https://padlet.com/max_lawley12/x3kyzhx2uyi/wish/267535574  "They're a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." (8.44-45) 

This highlights the special friendship that was formed between Nick and Gatsby. Despite all Nick has learnt about who Gatsby really is he still believes he's a good man.]]> 2018-06-18 00:34:11 UTC https://padlet.com/max_lawley12/x3kyzhx2uyi/wish/267535574 Chapter 9 max_lawley12 https://padlet.com/max_lawley12/x3kyzhx2uyi/wish/267535757 I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation. But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them.
"Left no address?"
"No."
"Say when they'd be back?"
"No."
"Any idea where they are? How I could reach them?"
"I don't know. Can't say." (9.4-10)

This shows the sad reality that in the end some people would side with wealth rather than true love. Fufilling that American dream could trump just about any personal dreams or relationships in the 1920's, family, lovers, and city's included.
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