Chap 6 Flashcards
Reality / real name / not glamorous
“James gatz of North Dakota”
“Torn green jersey”
Parents / realty
“His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people” contrasts to what he tell nick in chap 4 “I am the son of some wealthy people in the middle west”
Can’t escape reality
Reality / down fall / too large mind
“His imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all”
Gives birth to own imagination
“Sprang from his platonic conception of himself”
Inevitable fate
“He was faithful to the end”
Gatsbys flaw / reality / dreams make life bareable but they can be broken easily
“Satisfactory hint of the unreality is reality a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s Wing”
Mad when he was young because his success was taking too long
“Drums of his destiny … despising the janitors work”
Symbol of beauty / glamour / daisy represents this
“The yacht represented all the beauty and glamour in the world”
Strips away glamour
“Clear this set of misconceptions away”
Passive Agressive to Tom
I know your wife, continued gatsby , almost aggressively
Tom doesn’t care
Tom reality / spoils parties / foregrounds destructive effect
“His presence gave the evening its peculiar quality of oppressive “
Foreboding death / destroy dream- gatsby
“Felt an unpleasantness in the air, a pervading harshness”
Toms eyes
“Toms arrogant eyes”
Toms view on new money / critique of American dream
“A lot of these newly rich people are just big bootleggers”
Dream gone / daisy lacks romance
“In the very casualness of Gatsbys party there were romantic possibilities totally absent from her world”
Gatsbys realisation / daisy had gone / sufferinf
“I feel far away from her”
“She didn’t like it”
Gatsby wants daisy to deny her love for Tom
“He wanted nothing less of daisy than the she should go to Tom and say “I never loved you” “
Erase past
You can’t repeats the past
Central flaw
“Why ofc you can!” Repreat the past
“He looked around him wildly as if the last were lurking here in the shadow … just our of teach of his hand”
What he desires
“I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before”
“He wanted to recover something”
Moon imagery / glamour / dream
“Sidewalk was white with moonlight”
Gatsby can only achieve dream on his own/ metaphor for finding life he always wanted
“A ladder and mounted to a secured place above the trees - he could Climb to it, if he climbed alone.. he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder”
Daisy becomes dream / dream corrupted / fate determined
“He knew that when he kissed this girl and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again”
Limited dream / reduced
His lips touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete
