Gatsby Flashcards
A02 show friendship
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead”
Fool a02
“I hope she’ll be a be a fool. That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world”
Repeat a02
“You can’t repeat the past “ “why of course you can”
Ceaselessly a02
“So we beat on boat against the current borne back ceaselessly into the past”
Old ao2
“Old sport”
Nobody a02
“Mr nobody from nowhere”
Never loved a02
“She never loved you. She only married you because she was tired of waiting”
A03 context
Roaring 20s
Religion faded
Alcoholism
Post WW1
American dream
Patriarchal society
A04 TS Eliot
Ts Eliot “wasteland” inspired by valley of ashes. About life after WW1 “ a heap of broken images.”
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust”
American dream ideas
- America land of opportunity if you work hard
-After horrors of war people thought this was there fresh start - G symbols this as he is working hard for his success (the love)
- As his love was unsuccessful it symbolises the dream as it also failed.
- misinterpretation of ‘pursuit of happiness’ as ‘right to happiness’ = G misinterpreting daisys love for him.
- the dependence of the citizens on the country for happiness = g dependant on daisy for happiness
A05 E.L Doctorow
“The love story in TGG is a lie the characters tell themselves because they can’t face the emptiness of their own despair “
A05 Harold bloom
“G + D are doomed to fail. Daisy is not capable of the love G has for her.”
- he regards this a symbol for the American dream failure
Feminist a05
Gatsby obsession reduces her to an object of his gaze. As he stares at her across the bay.
Who do list links
(Sonnet)
“Diamonds”- objectification/ wealth/ status. Woman as accessory
“Seke to hold the wind” wind is all encompassing like speaker and gatsby obsession. Can’t hold wind. Impossibke like their love.
Extended metaphors of “green light” and “deer” to represent lover. Not humanly attainable
“Fainting I follow”- speaker chasing. Goes against Elizabethan patriarchy. Same with gatsby
Who so list 1st person narrative. Unbiased. TGG 3rd (nick) biased.
“Deer” = Anne Boleyn. Henry beheaded to keep his masculinity (toms situation)
Enjambment- tired but carries on (both)
Absent links
Differnt to gatsby. Controls woman instead of being controlled. Looks to future women rather than past. Looks to physical connection rather than emotional.
Typical poem of the time. Satirical.
“Twill plainly kill” - open / Blaise to infidelity. Suggest no control /addiction. Link to freuds ID
“To they safe bosom I retire” - come back when he’s done. Patriarchal
“Lose my everlasting rest” - loss of heaven for his sins.
Pretended to be a gynocologist to have access to women privates = sexual obsession
