IDENTITY IN F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S THE GREAT GATSBY SARAH CUTSFORTH FALL, 2010 Image …is everything.

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IDENTITY IN F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S THE GREAT GATSBY SARAH CUTSFORTH FALL, 2010 Image …is everything.

1920 s Post World War I André Breton Paris Dada Surrealism: A movement in art and literature that flourished in the early 20th century. Surrealism aimed at expressing imaginative dreams and visions free from conscious rational control. definition: The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

SURREALISM: PURE PSYCHIC AUTOMATISM BY WHICH IT IS INTENDED TO EXPRESS, EITHER VERBALLY OR IN WRITING, THE TRUE FUNCTION OF THOUGHT. THOUGHT DICTATED IN THE ABSENCE OF ALL CONTROL EXERTED BY REASON, AND OUTSIDE ALL AESTHETIC OR MORAL PREOCCUPATIONS. SURREALISM IS BASED ON THE BELIEF IN THE SUPERIOR REALITY OF CERTAIN FORMS OF ASSOCIATION HERETOFORE NEGLECTED, IN THE OMNIPOTENCE OF THE DREAM, AND IN THE DISINTERESTED PLAY OF THOUGHT. IT LEADS TO THE PERMANENT DESTRUCTION OF ALL OTHER PSYCHIC MECHANISMS AND TO ITS SUBSTITUTION FOR THEM IN THE SOLUTION OF THE PRINCIPAL PROBLEMS OF LIFE. “Surrealist Manifesto” 1924, André Breton

Translation: “This is not a pipe.” René Magritte Belgian Painter Surrealist “The Treachery of Images”

The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture "This is a pipe," I'd have been lying!

“HE HURRIED THE PHRASE “EDUCATED AT OXFORD,” OR SWALLOWED IT, OR CHOKED ON IT, AS THOUGH IT HAD BOTHERED HIM BEFORE. AND WITH THIS DOUBT, HIS WHOLE STATEMENT FELL TO PIECES, AND I WONDERED IF THERE WASN’T SOMETHING A LITTLE SINISTER ABOUT HIM, AFTER ALL.” (NICK CARRAWAY) This is not a… Jay Gatsby

James gatz Jay Gatsby From the Midwest Farmer parents Poor Not fancy College drop-out Bootlegger From San Francisco Moneyed Family Wealthy Super fancy Oxford Man! Was in drugs…was in oil…self-made. Identity vs. Image

“THERE MUST HAVE BEEN MOMENTS EVEN THAT AFTERNOON WHEN DAISY TUMBLED SHORT OF HIS DREAMS-NOT THROUGH HER OWN FAULT, BUT BECAUSE OF THE COLOSSAL VITALITY OF HIS ILLUSION. NO AMOUNT OF FIRE OR FRESHNESS CAN CHALLENGE WHAT A MAN WILL STORE UP IN HIS GHOSTLY HEART.” (NICK CARRAWAY) This is not a … Daisy Buchanan

Daisy Gatsby’s Daisy Beautiful cynical Spoiled Lives for $$$ Loves Tom…and Gatsby…and maybe some others Beautiful Charming Perfect Lives for Gatsby Loves ONLY Gatsby Identity vs. image

1. HOW DOES THIS PIECE OF THE BOOK REPRESENT IMAGE? HOW DOES IT APPLY TO THE CHARACTER’S IDENTITY? 2. HOW DOES IDENTITY/IMAGE FACTOR IN YOUR OWN LIFE? IN SOCIETY? Who we are to family Who we are to friends Idea of celebrity “Perfection” as a possibility/impossibility The benefits/disadvantages of maintaining an image JOURNAL: Pick a character & find a quote or passage