1. The Great Gatsby HO72 Drama and prose post-1900 (Component 02)
Lesson 10
LO: In this lesson you will:
link images from throughout the novel.
Provide peer assessment to improve written expression (Identified as a weakness in previous essay)
Begin to prepare you for a timed essay.
Chapter 3/4

2. What is an image? A picture or statue of a person or a thing.
This is a picture of a daisy.

3. What is imagery?
A writer’s use of words to produce a picture in the mind of the reader which may carry with it certain associations.
This is an image of a daisy which could represent nature, beauty, purity, innocence, loyal love, patience or simplicity.

4. Links between imagery
Fitzgerald uses flower imagery in the novel ‘The Great Gatsby’.
He uses two names of flowers, both associated with love as names of his characters Daisy and Myrtle? Why?
He also uses the term ‘rose’ to describe the furnishings in the Buchanan’s house. Why?

5. Making links between images
Can you group the images together? co
For example, you could use the following categories:
Nature
Colour
Desolation
Places
New Technology…
Extra challenge: add your own groupings
Discuss the links between the images…and the ways in which they differ.

6. Choose one grouping and…
…analyse Fitzgerald’s use of this particular imagery in the novel ‘The Great Gatsby’…

7. Model Answer
Fitzgerald uses images of precious stones such as opals, rubies and pearls to indicate the extent of the characters’ wealth. Nick mocks Gatsby’s elaborately Romantic and invented image of himself, ‘collecting jewels, chiefly rubies’. The reader is told that Daisy chose Tom and the £35,000 string of pearls over Gatsby and love, suggesting her superficial character.

8. Giving feedback to others…
Is their writing fluent, precise and accurate?
Is it supported with quotations?
Is the analysis of the quotations clear?
Would the analysis benefit from contextual information?

9. Being more specific…
‘In the novel, everything comes down to money.’ How far and in what ways do you think money is the central issue in The Great Gatsby?
What images would you choose to refer to in your answer to this question?
Select and discuss.

10. Imagery Plenary
You would not necessarily get a question about imagery but you may need to use it to support their argument. For example, what images would you choose to include in the following essay?
‘In the novel, everything comes down to money.’ How far and in what ways do you think money is the central issue in The Great Gatsby? (Past Question)
What point could you make about how Fitzgerald uses the imagery of money to suggest that it is a central issue to the novel which could be included in this essay?

11. Have we met the objectives?
To enable you to bring together a range of linked images from throughout the novel.
To provide peer assessment to improve written expression (Identified as a weakness in previous weekly tests)
To begin to prepare you for the next timed essay.

12. Homework
Spend 20 minutes planning this essay for Thursday.