gatsby autobiographical elements

Question 1

decadent

Answer 1

lifestyle of the roaring 20’s

Question 2

Fitzgerald wants to be like Nick —

Answer 2

honest and respected

Question 3

Fitzgerald needed money to

Answer 3

marry Zelda; like gatsby to Daisy

Question 4

Fitzgerald wanted war

Answer 4

experience like Gatsby

Question 5

Fitzgerald went to Princeton

Answer 5

Like Gatsby’s oxford; old money- respect

Question 6

Fitzgerald from the

Answer 6

midwest like tom daisy and nick

Question 7

Fitzgerald lived in

Answer 7

long island

Question 8

Fitzgerald moved

Answer 8

around like tom and daisy

Question 9

Money did not make

Answer 9

Fitzgerald happy, like Gatsby

Question 10

affairs in Fitzgerald’s

Answer 10

life; like tom and daisy

Question 11

Fitzgerald had one

Answer 11

daughter like tom and daisy; pammy and scotty

Question 12

quote about baby girl’s birth

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I hope she is beautiful, a beautiful little fool

Question 13

Zelda’s aura is like

Answer 13

daisy’s aura

Question 14

not many people came to

Answer 14

Gatsby’s or Fitzgerald’s funeral

Question 15

why was this called a tragedy?

Answer 15

there is a hero that could not escape a tragic fate.

book about losses

Question 16

how could this be an opera

Answer 16

smooth, musical feel

poetic

Question 17

critics dived 50/50 on

Answer 17

whether Tom knew that Daisy was driving Gatsby’s car

Question 18

last names of people such as Klipspringer and Wolfsheim represent

Answer 18

immigration in the 20s

Question 19

what is an elegy

Answer 19

a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead

Question 20

the great gatsby is an elegy to the

Answer 20

american dream