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Great Gatsby 1-5 Flashcards

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1
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Gatsbys car

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Rich cream color, labyrinth of windshields, flashy, swollen with boxes

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Daisy’s wedding

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She was a hot mess, drunk and crazy because she want happy with her marriage

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Wolfshein

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The man gatsby and nick meet, he rigged the World Series, gambler

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Jordan’s role in chapter 4

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Informant, tells nick about gatsby and Daisy’s love when they are young

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Toms car accident in chapter 4

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He was with another woman when daisy and home were on honeymoon and he got into an accident with her, scandalous

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Gatsbys truth about the past ch 4

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He was in the war and has medal to prove it, he went to oxford and has a picture to prove it, says he’s from Midwest then San Francisco, his money was handed down

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Why does Fitzgerald list all the guests in ch 4

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To show connections between the people and gatsby

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Nick says, “there are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” What does Nick mean? How does each character in the novel fit into this schema?

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Pursued- Daisy by gatsby, gatsby by the guests
Pursuing- gatsby and nick pursuing daisy
Busy-tom with the ladies, nick with his job
Tired- nick from work, daisy from her marriage

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How does Fitzgerald use weather to show mood

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The rain is sadness and waiting and nerves it gets sunny when gatsby and daisy are together, daisy is gatsbys sunshine

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The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. How is that appropriate for Daisy’s voice?

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It’s medicine or intoxicating

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What is the purpose of the broken clock in ch 5

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Time is standing still when daisy and gatsby are together

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He has been full of ideas for so long… he was running down like unwound clock. Explain

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Gatsbyhad built her up in his head for so long that he is overwhelmed with emotions

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Characterize gatsby in ch 5

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He is nervous and fumbling around daisy

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West egg

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Nick lives here, new money, less fashionable

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East egg

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Tom and daisy live here, old money

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Valley ashes

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Between things fantastic form where valley of ashes row Dr. TJ Ecklebury eyes

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Nicks house

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Small, eye sore over looked cardboard

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Gtatsbys house

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Mansion, modeled after hotel after a hotel, 40 acres of lawn+garden

19
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Buchanon’s house

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Burying gardens, vines, golden, organic, airy home

20
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NY apartment

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Small filled to the brim with furniture

21
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Characterize Nick

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Main character, Daisy’s cousin, from his point of view, from Midwest, bondsman

22
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Characterize tom

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Married to daisy, cheating, player, old money, nasty, peaked in college

23
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Who is the foil of tom

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Wilson

24
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Who is the foil of daisy

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Myrtle

25
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Characterize Daisy

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Nicks cousin, married to tom, pretty lady, aloof, bright eyes, sultry voice

26
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Characterize Jordan

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Miss baker, good girl, golfer, slender, gossipy

27
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Characterize Wilson

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Myrtles husband going no where

28
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Characterize myrtle

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Toms mistress, stout, mid thirties

29
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Characterize Gatsby

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Rich man, new money, mysterious, tell nick all about him

30
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I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world… explain

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Daisy wants her daughter to be aloof and not realize how bad her position is in this world

31
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… Except a single green light, minute and far away… explain

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Jealousy, Daisy’s dock light that gatsbys staring at

32
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Feign

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Pretend to be affected by a feeling state or injury

33
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Supercilious

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Behaving or looking as thought one thinks one is superior to others

34
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Complacent

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Showing smug or in critical satisfaction with oneself or achievements

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Intimation

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An indication or hint

36
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Contiguous

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Sharing a common border touching

37
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Strident

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Loud or harsh grating

38
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Deft

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Nearly skillful and quick in ones movements

39
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Permeate

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Spread throughout something

40
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Vacuous

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Having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence mindless

41
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Corpulent

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A fat person

42
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Provincial

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Of a concerning a province of a country or empire

43
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Somnambulatory

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Sleepwalking

44
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Obstinate

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Stubbornly refusing to change ones opinion

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