Chapter 1

Write down one passage that develops each one of the following characters. Include the page number and a reason for why this passage is developing Gatsby: Daisy: Jordan: Tom: Gatsby: Daisy: Jordan: Tom:

 Who is the narrator?  Nick Carraway  Where is he from?  Midwest: Minnesota  Where did he move to?  East—New York—West Egg  Narrator represents Fitzgerald (the author)— living in a wealthy part of town w/o being wealthy—makes him an ideal narrator. Why?  Cousin Daisy  An outsider reflecting on observation rather than experience  Experiences and explores an INNER CONFLICT

 Where in America?  Where specifically?  East Egg ▪ Daisy/Tom’s house  West Egg ▪ Gatsby’s house ▪ Nick’s house  Setting adds to EXTERNAL CONFLICT  West Egg Vs. East Egg

 Phone call for Tom:  Who is calling? ▪ Tom’s Mistress  Why are they calling? ▪ Booty call?  What is noteworthy about this call? ▪ Jordan explains to Nick ▪ Daisy knows, but does nothing ▪ No judgment  Introduces an EXTERNAL CONFLICT (man vs. man)

 Valley of Ashes (chapter 2)  Between the “EGGS” and Manhattan  TJ Eckleburg ▪ Eye doctor billboard  Who lives here? ▪ Myrtle and George  Manhattan (chapter 2)  Who lives here? ▪ Jordan’s Aunt ▪ Myrtle and Tom’s Apartment

 Green?  Light?  Function?  Who looks at it?

 Changing Morality  Achieving the American Dream:  Tom and Daisy  Nick and Jordan  Myrtle and George  Gatsby

 Gatsby’s house  Parties; lavish; garish; ostentatious  Everyone is invited; No one knows anybody  What goes on at these parties? ▪ Drinking ▪ Goofing off ▪ Irresponsibility  New York is a world of “sugar lumps” and white beauty—much like Daisy who dresses in white and seems so sweet—the city lacks real substance. It is a city of wild promise.

TOM’S PARTY  Intimate  Drinking  Violence  Entitlement GATSBY’S PARTY  Lavish  Drinking  Irresponsibility

Write down one passage that develops each one of the following characters. Include the page number and a reason for why this passage is developing Nick Myrtle George Nick Myrtle George

 MOTIF: rumors & gossip  Who loves to gossip? ▪ Jordan Baker  Whose mysterious life is surrounded by gossip? ▪ Gatsby—money? ▪ He killed a man once ▪ He was a German spy during the war ▪ he’s a bootlegger ▪ nephew of Von Hindenburg ▪ Jordan—profession? ▪ Cheating in golf

 Nick’s List:  Why keep it?  Names on it: Belcher, Smirks, Haag ▪ Vulgar sounding ▪ Fitzgerald’s POV: Pointlessness and violence of “these people” ▪ Doctor Civet drowned, Ripley Snell went to prison, Earl Muldoon’s brother strangled his wife, etc.  Gatsby: Showing off or something more?

 Car—symbolizing ease and wealth BUT  Immorality of materialistic dream = wreck  Carelessness with the dream (they are all drunk as they are leaving)  New York—an illusion of happiness

 Exposes Gatsby’s true self  Foreshadows the destruction of his dream—it is the destruction of his image.  What is Gatsby’s dream?  Daisy  Repeating the past  Doomed to fail?  Daisy’s maiden name was “Fay”—a synonym for fairy—ethereal quality