American Corruption And Greed

Question 1

Gatsby moments

Answer 1

Gatsby’s greed for Daisy
Myrtle social climbing
Wolfsheim

Question 2

Antonia moments

Answer 2

Jim’s greed for dream of Antonia
Mrs Shimerda’s greed
Wick Cutter’s corruption

Question 3

Jim vs Gatsby dream

Answer 3

• both use the drive of greed for a woman to become successful
• corrupts their achievement of it
• gatsby’s dream of daisy so closely linked with money that in not achieving one he loses the other

Question 4

Myrtle vs Mrs Shimerda

Answer 4

• shimerda greedy because she needs to be
• myrtle attempts to social climb in a ‘corrupted’ way and suffers for it
• myrtle greedy because only way out due to lack of social mobility

Question 5

Wick Cutter vs Wolfsheim

Answer 5

• cutter is christian, contributes to churches, full of maxims but takes advantage of immigrants + sets hired girls up as prostitutes
• also kills his wife so she doesn’t get any of his money after he dies
• true greed not for anything useful or status just for the sake of having money
• wolfsheim bootlegging/fixing the world series
• hoarding women - thin veneer of social morality