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Sub-plots:


Motifs- Eyes; Time; The Green-light; Money; Friendship; Realization



Characters: Klipspringer
Nick
Daisy
Gatsby
Gatsby's Servant


Owl Eyes
Gatsby
Nick
Dan Cody
Tom Buchanan
Mr. and Mrs Sloane
Miss Baedecker

Study questions for chapter 7

1.) the rain in chapter 5 when Daisy and Gatsby are first reunited. In chapter 7, the heat, because everyone is angry.

2.) He stopped his parties because Daisy didn't enjoy them.

3.)Daisy treats her like a Doll and she doesn't actually take care of her, her maid does. Gatbsy looks at the child in surprise because he hadn't really believed her to be true before and now she is the first obstical in his dream vision of life with Daisy.

4.) Tom is talking to Mr. Wilson about the car he was going to give to Mr. Wilson.

5.) That Daisy loves Gatsby and there is something going on between the two of them.

6.) He means her voice sounds like money, "the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it..." Nick doesn't say it because he can't place exactually what her voice reminds him
of.

7.) Gatsby and Daisy in Tom's car, and Tom, Nick, and Jordan in Gatsby's car. Daisy wanted to go with Gatsby, Tom wanted to take Gatsby's car, and Nick and Jordan are sort of together so they rode together.

8.) Dr. T.J. Eckleburg's eye reminded Tom he needed to get gas for the car. Eyes are all seeing, some see things other's can't like Owl eyes, and everyone sees things differently.

9.) Mr. Wilson had just found out that his wife has been cheating on him and living a different life. Tom had also found out this same discovery about his own wife not long before.

10.) Gatsby tells Tom when, why, and how long he attended Oxford. Nick was glad when Gatsby told Tom the truth about Oxford when Tom was trying to make Gastby look bad in front of everyone.

11.) We think she does know what love is but just gets confused when Gatsby comes back into her life and the old flame lights up again. She married Tom because of money and it was the right thing to do, but she had always loved Gatsby.

12.) Gatsby and Daisy were in the car that hit Myrtle. Tom, Nick and Jordan stop at the scene of the crash. Tom was in a bad situation because he had been driving the car earlier. Tom loses Myrtle.

13.) yes his age. He is now thirty and in your 30's you are supposed to be grown up and be responsible. The 20's are when you are establishing yourself.

14.) So that there is more than one witness. To make it more realistic.

15.) he realizes that Gatsby is lying so he asks if Daisy was the one driving. He can tell Gatsby is lying because of the way he is acting about it, not know who she was, saying he didn't know what happened and the they couldn't swerve.

16.) He concluded that Daisy and Tom weren't happy, but yet they weren't unhappy either. Nick doesn't like Gatsby anymore. Nick is just tired of everyone.

17.) Nick leaves Gatsby watching over nothing. Gatsby is taking the roll as the knight is shining armor towards Daisy but he is mistaken on his purpose and how Daisy actually sees Gatsby.

journal/ notes for Chapter 7

It was one Saturday night and Nick became curious when Gatsby was not hosting a party. So he went over to see what was up and found out Gatsby had fired all of his servants a replaced then with people Gatsby later told Nick "wouldnt gossip." Gatsby called Nick the next day inviting him to lunch over at Daisy's. Nick agreed and the next day they went over to Daisy's for lunch.
It was an extremely hot day, and everyone was slow and sitting around when Nick and Gatsby showed up. Tom was talking onthe phone with Mr. Wilson about a car but everyone thought it was Myrtle. As soon as Tom came into the room, Daisy sent him to get some drinks, and while Tom was away, she kissed Gatsby, telling him she loved him. Also while Tom is away, Nick and Gatsby get to meet Pammy, Daisy's daughter. Surprising Gatsby and making his dream less true. Pammy doesn't stay long and then Tom comes back with some drinks. They talk over drinks, and this is when Tom realizes something is between Gatsby and Daisy and so he takes up Daisys suggestion about going into town. Tom, Nick, and Jordan ride in to town in Gatsby's yellow car, and Gatsby and Daisy ride in Daisy's coupe, Tom is geting angrier every minute. On their way into town, Tom stops for gas and talks to Mr. Wilson who informs Tom that he is leaving and taking his wife West.
In town, They all decide to rent a room at the plaza hotel. Here the conversation gets heated until Tom and Gatsby are fighting. Until finally Gatsby tells Tom the Daisy doesn't love him and she never did. Daisy for the most part does not deny this and in fact tell tom this her self. Tom tells Daisy and Gatsby leave, and take Gatsby's car this time. Before nick, jordan and Tom leave, Nick realizes it is his birthday, and he is now 30.
On there way home, they pass by Mr. Wilson's and see a huge commotion, and decide to stop and check it out. Myrtle had been hit by a car, dieing instantly. This deeply upset Tom, and from the witnesses description it was Gatbsy who hit her, but Nick is later told the it was Daisy driving. When They all finally get home, all nick wants to do is go home, not even hangout with Jordan. Tom goes inside to talk to Daisy and call a cab for Nick. While outside, Gatsby comes out of the bushes and informs him what happened and that He will what in the bushes all night in cause Daisy needs his help. and so Nick left.

Climax- Daisy tells tom she never loved him

Characters: Nick, Gatsby, Unfamiliar butler: replacement, Gatsby's new butler, he is rude; Daisy's Butler- lets Nick and Gatsby in; Tom, Jordan, Pammy: Tom and Daisy's child. Mr. Wilson, Myrtle,

Symbols: Pammy- a doll to Daisy but realization for Gatsby, Biloxi- just appearing and know one knows abu them, just rumors; Nick's birthday: 20's establishing yourself, 30's growing up and taking responsibilities. Michaelis- neighbor of Mr. Wilson, saw the accident. Well dressed Negro- witness who saw the car

Ironies: In the room at the Plaza hotel is when Gatsby is going to try to break up Tom and Daisy but down stairs there is a wedding going on. Tom gets mad at Daisy about cheating when he is cheating on her with Myrtle. Myrtle thinks Jordan is Daisy in the Car.

Motifs: West-wild west, starting a new life; Gatsby's mad expression: shows that there is somehting dark about him, Meyer Wolfsheim made Gatsby; Car wrecks- wreckless people; Time- it being Nicks birthday

Tom: "I've heard of making a garage out of a stable, but I'm the first man who ever made a stable out of a garage." making fun of Myrtle.

Journal Entry/ notes on chapter 6

Return of Gatsby's Parties

This chapter start by a reporter coming to Gatsby asking Gatsby to give him a statement, any statement. Then Nick goes into telling Gatsby's true back story and how he really had gotten his money. Gatsby has always lived in a dream, but was born into a poor family, with his parents being "shiftless and unsuccessful farm people." At age 17 he had created the imagionary life any 17-year old boy would want, to him, he was son of God, and was faithful to this conception to the end. Living in Michigan, for years he worked as a clam digger, and a salmon fisher on Lake Superior, anything that brought him food and bed. He also learned of women at an early age, but he was still unhappy at night, and each night he would and on to his fantacy life until he fell asleep. Gatsby then attended college but only stayed two weeks because it did not live up to his dream and he didn't like being a janitor, which was his way to pay for college. Back at Lake Superior, Gatsby noticed Dan Cody's yacht, which represented all the beauty and glamour in the world, so Gatsby Oared out to it and met the rich Dan Cody. Cody took Gatsby aboard and gave him a job. Gatsby worked for Cody for 5 years until Cody died. It is because of Cody that Gatsby does not drink, Gatsby was also left 250,000 dollars that he lost do to legal reasonings. But Gatsby did recieve the appropriate education, that helped him in his success.
Nick tells use this nowso we know the truth about Gatsby, and then Nick goes into a story about one sunday afternoon when Nick and Mr. and Mrs. Sloane rode up to Gatsby's house on horse back. They all have a quick convorsation and Gatsby has been invited over to Daisy and Tom's house for dinner. they are a little ineasy inviting him because he is not from old money and so he would not fit into the crowd. That Saturday, Tom and Daisy attend one of Gatsby's parties. all night, Daisy and Gatsby hung out and danced together. Gatsby also makes fun of Tom, calling him the polo player. At the end of the night, Gatsby tells Nick that he his going to fix everything just the way it was before. Gatsby needed to figure out a moment in his past to go back to that would fix everything now.
(Flash back)
It was one autum night, 5 years ago and Gatsby was with Daisy and they were walking down the street. They came to a stop and Gatsby kissed Daisy, ending this chapter.

Gatsby is an invention of james Gatzs

People who were never, but ended up to be very important: Alexander Hamliton- singley set up the banks of america, got us out of debt after the revolution
Abraham Lincoln

Motif- Eyes and looking through someone elses eye, Owl- eye, Time, stopping time, trying to live in past, Three O'clock in the Morning walts

Symbol- Fairies- dreams, unreality, Yacht- to Gatsby it is a symbol of all the beauty and glamour in the world. Horse back- Safety, The kiss between Gatsby and Daisy- locking Gatsby in the time and dream of his forever.

Aullision- Lutheran college of St. Olaf's in southern Minnesota, Three O'Clock In The Morning, Fox trot

Gatsby calls everyone "Old Sport" -type of familiality, part of the connection of the establish ment
Sports: tennis, gold, pollo, and football- old sport

Characters: Dan Cody, and old man the was Gatsby's boss and who taught him everything. Tom Buchanan: Husband of Daisy, Doesn't like Daisy running around, people who cross Tom usually get hurt. Mr and Mrs. Sloane- friends of Tom's, invite Gatsby to dinner, rich from old money, examples of the super rich. Miss Baedecker- Really drunk women, a wreck, some of the people that come to Gatsby's party and are out of control.

Mr. Sloane doesn't like Gatsby or have him at the party because he is an Outsider and seem to be and embarresment because he is not of old money

Falling short of his dream, or the american dream because he is not of old money and can't fit in.

West Egg- New Money, Birth if dreams, wild west anything can happen, reinveent or recreat themselves
James Gatz (Jay Gatsby) self made man
Dan Cody mentor (Nevada Silver mines, yukon) Self made man

St. Olaf- not a name, unknown

Yacht- Tuolomee- To all of Me

East Egg- Old money, Birth of Dreams

Vocab words, Janurary 19th

1) Wan adj; lacking in forcefulness, competence, or effectiveness
The wan general lost his position because no one would listen to him
2) Prodigality N; wasteful extravagance in spending
The prodigality of the girl made her go broke.
3) Feigned adj; pretended; sham; counterfeit
The feigned money was no use at the stores.
4)Languidly ADV; lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow and relaxed
The basketball languidly ran down the court, and because of that the other team got a lot of fastbreak.
5) Colossal adj; extraordinarily great in size, extent, or degree; gigantic, huge
The science fair project turned into a colossal disaster when nothing was working.
6) Complacency N; self- satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition,etc. The boys complacency with where he was placed in the class, made him rude.
7) Levity N; Lightness of mind, character or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness
The girls levity made her boss think she was not serious and so he never promoted her.
8) Extemporizing Adverb?; to speak extemporaneously, ( done, spoken, performed etc., without special advanced preperation, inpromptu)
The girl was nervous while extemporizing because she didn't know much about her topic.
9) Supercilious Adj; Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression
The supercilious expression on the girls face crept out the teacher.
10) Infinitesimal Adj; indefinitely or exceedingly small; minute
The infinitesimal mouse could not survive because it was always push way from the food.
11) Fractiousness Adj; readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome
The fractiousness boy got a technical almost every game

Journal/ notes for Chapter 5

Summary: When nick finally comes home, at about 2 am, it looks like his house is on fire but it is only that Gatsby has all of the lights turned on in his house. As his taxi pulls up, Gatsby is coming to met him at first Gatsby is trying to get Nickto come and hangout wiht him but Nick rejects the offers becasue it is so late, then they talk about when Daisy's will come to visit. During their talk Gatsby also asks nick if he would want to work an off to the side job to make a little extra cash, Nick also rejects this idea. Then Nick goes home. The next morning Nick calls Daisy and invites her over for tea. A few days later/Day daisy was to come over, Gatsby has Nicks lawn mowed, and flower brought over. Gatsby comes over about two hours early and nervously waits for Daisy to arrive. about to minutes before 4, gatsby almost chickens out but Nick convinces him to stay and a few minutes later Daisy arrives. As Nick brings her in, Gatsby snuck out the back door and comes around to the front, making Nick invite him in, and so Daisy and Gatsby met again.
finally together again, they sat in akwardness for awhile, talking about this and that but both uneasy, Nick just tries to stay out of the way for the most part. Gatsby tries to chicken out once more telling Nick he had made a horrible mistake but Nick just told him to man up, he did and went back into the room to talk more to Daisy. As the night goes on, the tension in the room eases up and Daisy and Gatsby talk a little more. Then Gatsby invites them over to his house to show Daisy around. He shows off his house to Daisy and values his house to how much Daisy likes it. They go all through the house, the Marie Antoinette music-rooms, Restoration salons, and the library. They go upstairs and through the bedrooms, running into the "border", until finally the come to Gatsby's room. Gatsby shows them all of his dress shirts neatly stacked and starts pulling them out. This action makes Gatsby more real to Daisy and so she starts crying. After seeing the house, they were going to see the grounds, pool and hydroplane but it began to rain and so they were stuck inside. Gatsby points out the green light that burns on Daisy's dock only to realize that now it is just a light. Then someone calls Gatsby on the phone, but Gatsby quickly ends the conversation and Daisy calls him over to look at come pink clouds outside.. Then Gatsby calls Klipspringer to come and play the piano, he plays The Love Nest. Nick being forgotten quietly leaves Gatsby and Daisy to eachother.
Beginning- There is no party it is quiet, but Gatsby house looks like the world fair. Gatsby is a perfectionist, wants everything to be perfect for Daisy to see

Immanuel Kant- known for staring at a steeple while thinking"liberated science from religion and religion from science" "terminated one sided thinking". people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/kantbio.html

website for allusions in the Great Gatsby: www.fcps.edu/westspringfieldhs/academic/english/1project/99gg/99gg2/allusion.htm

symbols: shirts: they make Gatsby more real to Daisy, which is why she cries over them; Green light: goes away when Daisy and Gatsby get together, now it is just a light at the end of the dock. Pink and gold clouds. Rain. Time- clock, five years next Novemeber; falling of the clock-time has stopped

Daisy's voice is the only thing that cannot be imagined, it is so enchanting

foreshadow: "Daisy tumbled Short of his Dreams", Daisy: Gatsby had made up an ideal of her, a statue of perfection but no one can live up to that. Dan Cody; the man in Detroit


Characters: Ewing Klipspringer "the border"- basically lives at Gatsby's, Gatsby has him play the piano while Daisy is over. Owl eyes, Gatsby, Nick, Daisy Fay(fairy)

Allusion: The Love Nest; Marie Antoinette, Kant

journal entry/ notes for Chapter 4

Summary: It is a sunday and this chapter starts off with Nick telling use about a times table he has made that is a list of people who have been attending Gatsby's parties. Then he tells use the story of one july morning when Gatsby came over to Nick's house and took him out to lunch, in the car ride, gatsby tells nick a little about himself. Where he went to school, and how he got to be so rich. Gatsby even has sovenirs to prove his tales. Nick and Gatsby eat lunch with a man named Mr. Meyer Wolfsheim. At lunch Mr. Wolfsheim and Gatsby talk all of their memories about eating at the Metropole. We learn the Mr. Wolfsheim is a gambler who fixed the world series. After Mr. Wolfsheim left, Nick introduced Gatsby to Tom, Daisy's husband, but Gatsby, not wanting to know Tom, Quickly disappeared. Then Nick goes into explaining his lunch date with Jordan. She tells Nick the story she knows about Gatsby and Daisy. Jordan tells Nick how gatsby bought his house because it was across from Daisy and how he hoped she would one day venture into one of his parties but she never did. Then she tells him that Gatsby wants Nick to have Daisy over for lunch, and to tell Gatsby so that he can come over and see Daisy. Nick agreed and pulled Jordan closer to him, ending the chapter.
Times July 5th 1922,
Symbol: Time is important (timetable- July 5, 1922) records names of people who attended Gatsby
~ 1917/1918- Gatsby/Daisy, Tom/Daisy's Marriage
~ Gatsby- Medal WWI, Photo at oxford
~Fixed World Series, Murder of Rosenthal
Chapter 4 is all about time, and history. Gatsby wants to turn back time
reoccuring: bad drivers

Foreshadow: he explains the car because it is a foreshadowthat it will be crashed

Symbol: cars and careless drivers symbolize life; Nick's time-table, the green light that Gatsby holds his arms open to; $350,000 Necklace tom buys Daisy, Christmas card from the commissoner

Metaphor: people are wreckless

Motifs/ symbols- Gatsby's car (extremely bright yellow), Tom's accident (affair w/ chambermaid in Santa Barbara)

fib about Gatsby: killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.

Gatsby's Story: went to Oxford, from the mid west (San Fransisco) born into a rich family and they all died so he got a lot of money. Lived in Europe doing this and that to forget something very sad that happened to him. (Daisy) foreshadow. fought in the war

Gatsby has things to back up his story:
Police was going to pull him over for speedingbut then he realizes Gatsby is friends with the comissioner. There is a business connection the Gatsby and the police because Gatsby is a boot legger

Foreshadow: "Gatsby's very careful about women. He would never so much as look at a friend's wife

Characters: Mr. Wolfsheim, Business connection to Gatsby, he is a gambiler who fixed the world series in 1919. He is wearing human Molars- for cuffs, has bad pronunciation odviously did not go to oxsford

Fixing the 1919 world series represents that the idea that the last faith tha american can go and enjoy is corrupted. Baseball is the American dream.

Allusion: fixing the world series, shooting of Rosy Rosenthal, Metropole, Muhlbach Hotel, Songs-"Sheik of Araby"; WWI, 1919 World series; Arnold Rothstein (actual gangster Mr. Wolfsheim is based off of)

Sehlbach Hotel: Irony Fitzgerald got married at this hotel

Gatsby is the hero but he is connected to some bad things

Nick introduces Gatsby to Tom. Gatsby disappears because he doesn't want to know Tom.

Subplots: Nick and Jordan

Type of conflict: Person vs. Person

Inciting event: meets Jordans at Gatsby's party
With her date because she is smarter than he is so she has the upper hand.

Raising Action: Nick asks Jordan out
Nick remembers a rumor about jordans cheating in a golf tournament, but doesn't care though he claims that Jordans is incurably dishonest.
Jordans says Ittakes two to make an accident and the she likes nick becasue he is careful, while she is not.
Nick realizes the needs to offical break is off with some girl, and tennis player, back home
Jordan tells nick the back story about Gatsby and Daisy and Nick and Daisy
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Type of conflict: Person vs society, Person Vs. Slef
Conflict: Gatsby has spent five years trying to earn grand riches so he can win Daisy back. He is slightly disillusioned by the memory of Daisy and wants the past to be relived. Part of the conflict is that he is unacceptable by part of society because he is new money, he hasn't been educated at a grand University and his money is "gangster" money. the other part of his conflict is that he is existing in a dream and beliefs all he has to do is present himslef to Daisy and She'll say, "Tomi never loved you." and run away with Gatsby back to Louisville to live happily ever after

Exposition: Nick sees Gatsby alone in his yard with his hands stretched out across the water at the green light at the end of the dock. He is reaching for Daisy's house

Inciting: Nick accepts Gatsby's invitation to come to Gatsby's party

Raising Action Nick meets Gatsby and begins to learn about Gatsb'y past
Gatsby calls on nick

journal entry on chapter 3.

Summary- This chapter begins with Nick telling use that Gatsby has parties all of the time. That they are huge parties, lots of people and food and alcohol. Everyone goes to them. There is a full orchestra and dancers. In this chapter, Nick has been invited to one of these parties and because he was invited, he will go, though he wouldn't if he had not been invited. After sitting at the bar alone for awhile, Nick notices Jordan and hangs out with her during the party. He mets a lot of people, mostly friends of Jordans, and hears rumors about Gatsby. After dinner Jordan and
Ncik go and look for Gatsby because neither of them have met him before. They looked at the bar, and looked over the party from the top of the steps but couldn't find him so they went to look in the Library. In the library they did not fine Gatsby but a man who was inspecting the books, amazed by how many there were and that they were not fake. After talking to the Owl Eye man, Jordan and Nick went back outside, were Nick starts talking to a man he doesn't know, only to find out that it is Jay Gatsby. during their talk, Gatsby had to leave to take a call inw hich time Nick asked Jordan about Gatsby but she hardly knew him. during their talk, A butler comes for Jordan, telling her Gatsby wants to talk to her. While Nick is alone, he goes inside and listens to a girl who is singing but crying at the same time. because, and he learns that she had a fight with a man who said he was her husband, in fact a lot of girls in the room were having fights with man who said they were their husbands. After about an hour, Nick is about to leave when Jordan and Gatsby come out of a room. Jordan briefly talks to Nick before saying her good byes. and then Nick say good bye to Gatsby. As Nick walks out he sees there has been a crash and watches the commotion for a little before going home. Nick ends the chapter by telling us other things that have happened, besides the parties he has attended, like work, and his relationship with girls. He hung out with Jordan too.

Themes: Confusion
realsim
Drinking

Characters: Jordan Baker- a golfer and friend of Nick, Nick- the main character, new to the fast life, twins in the Yellow dresses- Friends of Jordan, Jay Gatsby-Host of the party, young, no one really knows the truth about him, Owl Eye- Confused guy who is first seen in the library and is also in the crashed car, butler- Gatsby's servant,

Symbols: the party

Allusion: Follies

Foreshadow: Gatsby talking to Jordan,

Symbols: Books, Parties

chapter two- theparty of people trying to live a dream that is not going to happen

Settings- East Egg- success, old money
West Egg- new wealth
Valley Ashes- Fail
New York- Where dreams meet reality

The Follies- Dancing girls

Vocab words jan. 5th

Armistice- N. A temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement of the warring parties; truce
There was an armistice in the water gun fight after a kid got hurt.

Debutante- N. A young woman making a debut into society.
the young debutante got in a fight at one of her lunch ins.

Destitute- Adj. without means of subsistence; lacking food, clothing, and shelter.
The man was in a destitute state and probably wouldn't survive the winter.

Inebriated- Adj. To make drunk; intoxicate
the inebriated boy could not drive so he called for a taxi.

Mesmerize- V. to spellbind, fasinate
the girl was mesmerized by the party and lights she didn't see tha man and ran into him.

Sardonic-Adj. Characterized by bitter or scornful derision(ridicule, mockery); mocking; cynical; sneering
The boy had very few friends because of his sardonic ways.

Decadent- Adj. characterized by decadence (the act or process of falling into an inferior condition or state), esp. culturally or morally
The decadent man used to be a famous actor but now lived with his mother

Rendezvous- N. an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place
The boy and girl made an rendezvous for lunch

Distraught- Adj. Distracted; deeply agitated
The distraught man soon became and aloholic.

Risque- Adj. daringly close to indelicacy or impropriety; offcolor
The risque headband the girl was wearing made the ref question himself whether or not he should tell her about it since is was a dark navy blue, not black like the rest of the girls.
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18th Amendment- 1919; Prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages

19th Amendment- 1920; Gave women the right to vote