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”
