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2 “Chapter VIII” The End

3 Chapter VIII: Question #1 What does this reveal about each of them?
How does Nick’s reaction to the events of the night before compare to Daisy and Tom’s and Gatsby’s? What does this reveal about each of them?

4 How does this reflect his changing view of Gatsby?
Chapter VIII: Question #2 How has Nick’s perception of Gatsby’s house changed at the beginning of the chapter? How does this reflect his changing view of Gatsby?

5 What does Gatsby share with Nick the morning after the accident?
Chapter VIII: Question #3 What does Gatsby share with Nick the morning after the accident? Why is Gatsby so open with him now?

6 What is the recurring imagery in Gatsby’s description of Daisy?
Chapter VIII: Question #4 What is the recurring imagery in Gatsby’s description of Daisy? What value has he placed on her?

7 Chapter VIII: Question #5
To what lengths is Gatsby willing to go in order to achieve his “incorruptible dream?”

8 What changes in Nick’s opinion of Jordan? Why does he refuse her date?
Chapter VIII: Question #6 What changes in Nick’s opinion of Jordan? Why does he refuse her date?

9 Summarize the events at the garage after the accident.
Chapter VIII: Question #7 Summarize the events at the garage after the accident.

10 What clues lead Wilson to the truth about Myrtle?
Chapter VIII: Question #8 What clues lead Wilson to the truth about Myrtle? Why doesn’t he suspect Tom?

11 What do the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg symbolize to George?
Chapter VIII: Question #9 What do the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg symbolize to George? What judgment does he see in the eyes?

12 What realization does George come to when staring at the billboard?
Chapter VIII: Question #10 What realization does George come to when staring at the billboard?

13 What does Michaelis’s interview of George reveal about his life?
Chapter VIII: Question #11 What does Michaelis’s interview of George reveal about his life?

14 How does George find out what he wants to know?
Chapter VIII: Question #12 How does George find out what he wants to know? What happens in the missing time?

15 How has Gatsby lived “too long with a single dream?”
Chapter VIII: Question #13 How has Gatsby lived “too long with a single dream?” What cost does this bear?

16 Chapter VIII: Question #14 For what phone call is Gatsby waiting?
Why will it never come?

17 Why don’t the servants react to the gun shots?
Chapter VIII: Question #15 Why don’t the servants react to the gun shots? How does this add to the irony of Gatsby’s death by Wilson?

18 Chapter VIII: Question #16 In what ways are Gatsby and Wilson similar?

19 How is Nick’s final assessment of the situation fitting?
Chapter VIII: Question #17 How is Nick’s final assessment of the situation fitting?

20 Why doesn’t the story end here? What questions remain to be answered?
Chapter VIII: Question #18 Why doesn’t the story end here? What questions remain to be answered?

21 Essential Questions Don’t forget them!

22 EQ #1: How does the past we experience affect our future actions/ perspectives?

23 EQ #2: How does being a caring and empathetic person make you vulnerable to being taken advantage of?

24 EQ #3: How can the American Dream be simultaneously inspiring and demoralizing?


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