Gatsby

Question 1

Grande

Answer 1

“Tries to elevate his past to the level of Tom and Daisy’s which, if possible, would grant him a similar social status.”

Question 2

Mazzeno

Answer 2

“Gatsby is the archetypal American character: he is self-made, a man who literally invents or reinvents himself.”

“Gatsby represents the world of the ostentatious newly rich, however he remains a romantic idealist.”

Question 3

Rothman

Answer 3

“Gatbsy is magnetic in part because he accepts everyone, no matter what it is they idealise.”

Question 4

Fam

Answer 4

“From Daisy’s point of view, reuniting with Gatsby is miserable not only because of the inextinguishable flame between the two past lovers, but also because Gatsby now has in his grasp, the upper class lifestyle she needs, yet she is not with him.”

Question 5

Hays

Answer 5

Even Daisy finally realizes the safety of staying “with her own kind,” those of her social class, however repellent her husband is.

Question 6

Hays

Answer 6

Tom, Myrtle, Jay, and Daisy all commit adultery. Some students may think Tom and Myrtle’s affair is cheap and disgusting, Jay’s and Daisy’s romantic, but both are the same morally and legally, yet we still have the myth of family values preached to us, despite the behavior of our legislators