Driving by Shael Stein https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu en-us 2019-03-20 19:19:31 UTC 2025-11-14 18:15:19 UTC hello@padlet.com She loves her clothes 2062483 https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344408898 2019-03-23 00:57:33 UTC https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344408898 She loves her parties 2062483 https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344408961 2019-03-23 00:58:08 UTC https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344408961 She loves her money 2062483 https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409038 2019-03-23 00:59:05 UTC https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409038 2062483 https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409107 2019-03-23 00:59:55 UTC https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409107 She loves him 2062483 https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409139 2019-03-23 01:00:18 UTC https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409139 Or what she believed to be him 2062483 https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409172 2019-03-23 01:00:43 UTC https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409172 Ruby red smiles and ivory white lies 2062483 https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409209 2019-03-23 01:01:19 UTC https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409209 Spitting saccharine syllables “in the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again” (9) 2062483 https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409244 2019-03-23 01:01:43 UTC https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409244 The kind of voice that she’s aware she has 2062483 https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409296 2019-03-23 01:02:22 UTC https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409296 Southern belle turned upper-class fake 2062483 https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409372 2019-03-23 01:03:11 UTC https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409372 2062483 https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409446 2019-03-23 01:04:05 UTC https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409446 Her heart yearned for him but he “was poor and she was tired of waiting for [him]” (130) 2062483 https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409522 2019-03-23 01:05:07 UTC https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409522 Daisy Buchanan: A Loss of A Person 2062483 https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409538 Daisy is portrayed as a stereotypical wealthy housewife; however, there isn’t much more to her character than that. She is shallow, selfish, artificial, and poor at handling her emotions. She is sometimes described almost in an antagonistic sense and undergoes little character development throughout the novel. A question that was raised is, how does someone end up this way? Surely no one is born with the morals (or lack thereof) and vanity she has. I believe her upbringing must have had something to do with it—her family pushed their beliefs and ideals onto her; her mother is even mentioned to have made her marry Tom due to Gatsby’s financial status and having been drafted into the war at the time. Tom may also have had an effect on her personality. Therefore, she joined the other elites in being ingenuine and careless. As Louis Rene Beres puts it, she became lost in the “mass” instead of following her own decisions and being her own individual.]]> 2019-03-23 01:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409538 Forced into someone else just because he was into her 2062483 https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409579 2019-03-23 01:05:50 UTC https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409579 2062483 https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409949 2019-03-23 01:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344409949 Driving cars, driving wedges, driving force 2062483 https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344410049 2019-03-23 01:11:31 UTC https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344410049 “Smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into [her] money or [her] vast carelessness” (179) 2062483 https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344410128 2019-03-23 01:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344410128 Only thinking about herself, but who else does she have to? 2062483 https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344410156 2019-03-23 01:12:43 UTC https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344410156 2062483 https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344410241 2019-03-23 01:13:45 UTC https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344410241 2062483 https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344410281 2019-03-23 01:14:15 UTC https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344410281 2062483 https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344410361 2019-03-23 01:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/344410361 Message from MrG sglass771 https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/346574267 I like how you organized/wrote this. It definitely resembles a poem. I don't know if that was your intention--but it flows really nicely. Especially the beginning.

I like your point about her lack of character development. That's an important term, although we didn't really use it in class. The funny thing about this novel is that I don't think any of the characters show development. In fact, that's probably one of the reasons I didn't like it for a long time. It was hard for me to care about any of these people since they all are so shallow. But then I realized this is Fitzgerald's point as he offers a pretty damning critique of the 20s. Since the book has stayed relevant, it makes me think that we still behave much the same way. We are still obsessed with the same entitlement and desire for wealth and things.

I wanted to hear a little more at the end. Like your take on what you think Fitzgerald is doing by presenting us with wealthy characters who, as you put it, are so full of vanity and so disingenuous.

Thanks for the work!]]> 2019-03-29 14:36:18 UTC https://padlet.com/2062483/zn3rzwydxwgu/wish/346574267