Hedonism & The American Dream

Question 1

Gatsby’s self invention

Answer 1

He must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty.

Question 2

Gatsby and the green light

Answer 2

‘He stretched out his arms toward the dark water … he was trembling.’ ‘…distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. ‘

Question 3

Nick’s reaction to Gatsby’s life story

Answer 3

Then I saw it, it was all there. I saw the skins of tigers flaming in his palace on the grand court, I saw him opening a chest of rubies, with the crimson red light, the depths, the gnawing of his broken heart.

Question 4

The final line

Answer 4

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Question 5

Daisy’s description of her daughter

Answer 5

“And I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

Question 6

Jordan about privacy

Answer 6

I like large parties, they’s so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

Question 7

Daisy’s tears

Answer 7

Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormingly.

Question 8

Metaphor for Gatsby’s fantasy

Answer 8

Unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on fairy’s wing.