Great Gatsby Exam Topics Flashcards
West Egg/East Egg
West Egg is the new money (pick their noses)
East Egg is old money (classy)
“A string of polo ponies from Lake Forest”
Tom, took a lot of money to do this
The Rise of the Colored Empire
Tom is a racist jerk
Just a really really big jerk
“A beautiful little fool”
If you’re beautiful you’ll get married and stuck with a douchebag guy
But - if you’re a fool then you want to get stuck with such a sucky guy
Better to be oblivious
The Wilsons
Live in Valley of Ashes
Poor and not privileged
Example: if they through a party they’d get in trouble because he’s not connected but Gatsby is connected
Wilson went crazy because wife
“Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!”
When Myrtle got his in the nose because she brought up Daisy
The rumors about Gatsby
About Gatsby
He is an enigma no one knows him
Examples: he killed a man, was a german spy
“It went in the ditch”
A car literally went into a ditch after the part
Metaphorically is money - during the 20’s they are having a good time but ends up in a ditch with the great recession
“I am one of the few honest people I have ever met”
Good guy - just got dragged into everything
Louisville
Where Daisy and Gatsby met
Daisy was star of Louisville
San Francisco
Gatsby claimed to be from here but could not get his story straight - proved by him saying he was from the midwest but also from San Francisco
Meyer Wolfscheim
Fixed world series
Straight up shady
$350,000
Cost of pear necklace
VERY expensive
Tom is not a good idea - but he had social status and money
He was a somebody
Why Gatsby bought the house
Wanted to be close to Daisy
The shirts
Daisy cried over Gatsby’s shirts
James Gatz
Gatsby’s old self
When he was super duper poor in North Dakota
“And the next thirty years?”
Daisy’s upperclass restlessness
Mr. Nobody from Nowhere
Tom being fed up with Gatsby
Example of snobbery/hypocrisy
The accident
Daisy killing Myrtle
“Watching over nothing”
Irony
Gatsby at Daisy’s house watching over her after Myrtle night
“They’re a rotten crowd”
Literally everyone in this book
Just not a good group of people whatsoever
The funeral
Gatsby is not the flavor if the month anymore
People in the 20’s are self centered
The list
Gatsby’s list from his childhood
“They were careless people”
Basically everyone
Did not care about other people and when they did there were alterear motives
“My trunk packed and my car sold”
Nick is going back home to Wisconsin where people are not this bad
