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What quote by Thomas Parke D’Invilliers is used in the preface of the novel?

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If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry ‘Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!’

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How does Nick describe Gatsby in Chapter 1?

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He states there was ‘something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life’

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What does Nick blame in Chapter 1 for Gatsby’s downfall?

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Nick shifts the blame away from Gatsby by saying ‘it it what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams’

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How is Tom described by Nick in Chapter 1?

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‘He seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat’

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How are Daisy and Jordan introduced in Chapter 1?

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‘Two young women ballooned slowly to the floor’

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How is Daisy’s voice initially described by Nick in Chapter 1?

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‘Low, thrilling voice.. each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again’

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How does Nick describe Daisy’s reaction to Myrtle calling at dinner in Chapter 1?

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‘Then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk’

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How does Nick describe his personal reaction to Daisy’s voice in Chapter 1?

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‘Her voice compelled me forward breathlessly’

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How does Daisy describe her perceived role of women in the America of the 1910s in Chapter 1?

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‘That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool’

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How does Nick describe his perceived falsities in Daisy’s voice in Chapter 1?

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‘The instant her voice broke off, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said’

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How does Nick describe his first physical interaction with Gatsby at the end of Chapter 1?

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‘A figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbours mansion and was standing with his hands in his pockets, regarding the silver pepper of stars’

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How is the motif of the green light first introduced in the end of Chapter 1?

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‘Involuntarily, I glanced seaward and distinguished nothing but a single green light’

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In Chapter 2, how does Nick describe the citizens of the Valley of Ashes/ the lower classes of America?

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‘Ash grey men, who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air’

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How is the motif of Dr T.J. Eckleburg first introduced in Chapter 2?

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‘The eyes of Dr T.J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic.. they look out no face’

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How is Myrtle described and immediately sexualised in Nick’s first encounter with her in Chapter 2?

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‘She carried her flesh sensuously..there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves in her body were continually smouldering’

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How is Myrtle described in the apartment to present the idea of her as a false character?

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‘Mrs Wilson had changed her costume some time before and was now attired in an elaborate afternoon dress of cream coloured chiffon’

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How does Nick describe the fleeting, impersonal quality of Gatsby’s parties in Chapter 3?

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‘In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whispering and the champagne and the stars’

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How does Owl Eyes summarise the fleeting, false nature of Gatsby’s house?

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‘Muttering that if one brick was removed, the whole library was liable to collapse’

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How is Gatsby’s smile described in Chapter 3?

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‘It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life’

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How does Nick describe Gatsby’s presence at his parties in Chapter 3?

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‘Girls were putting their heads on men’s shoulders in a puppyish, convivial way.. but no one swooned backward on Gatsby, and no French bob touched Gatsby’s shoulder, and no singing quartets were formed for Gatsby’s head for one link’

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How does Nick depict Gatsby’s loneliness in the final moments of his first party in Chapter 3?

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‘A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of Farewell’

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How does Nick describe his relationship with Jordan in Chapter 3?

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‘I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.’

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How does Nick attempt to establish himself as a reliable narrator in Chapter 3?

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‘Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known’

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How is Daisy and Jordan’s behaviour as women in the 1920s excused by Nick in Chapter 4?

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‘Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply’

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25
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What is Gatsby’s repeated motif used to attempt to emulate the speech of the higher English classes?

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‘Old sport’

26
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How is Gatsby’s discomfort at his past demonstrated in his speech to Nick regarding Oxford in Chapter 4?

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‘He hurried the phrase ‘educated at Oxford’ or swallowed it, or choked on it, as if it had bothered him before’

27
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How is Nick’s unreliable willingness to believe in Gatsby demonstrated in Chapter 4?

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‘Then it was all true’

28
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How does Fitzgerald present women’s expectations to settle in marriage in the 1920s through Daisy and Tom’s relationship?

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‘Next day at 5 o’clock, she married Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver’

29
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How are the extent of Gatsby’s efforts and dreams for Daisy demonstrated in Chapter 4?

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‘He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths- so that he could ‘come over’ some afternoon to a strangers garden’

30
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How does Nick establish Jordan as a ’real’ woman in comparison to Daisy in Chapter 4?

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‘Unlike Gatsby and Tom, I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs’

31
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How does Nick describe Daisy’s voice upon her first meeting with Gatsby?

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‘Daisy’s voice on a clear, artificial note’

32
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In Chapter 5, how is Gatsby’s demeanour around Daisy described?

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‘a strained counterfeit of perfect ease’

33
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How does Nick establish Gatsby’s equating of wealth to his love for Daisy in her being in his house for the first time?

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‘he hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her’

34
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What is Daisy’s response to Gatsby’s wealth in Chapter 5?

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‘They’re such beautiful shirts’ she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds.
‘It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such-such beautiful shirts before’

35
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How does Nick describe Gatsby’s vision of Daisy and what she represents in Chapter 5?

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‘now it was again his green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one’

36
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In the Chapter 6 James Gatz narrative, how does Nick describe Gatsby’s invention of his characterisation?

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‘Invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to his conception he was faithful to the end’

37
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How does Fitzgerald establish Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy though his inability to accept her as a realistic woman of her era?

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‘He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say ‘I never loved you’’

38
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What quote by Gatsby summarises the key moral message of the novel in Chapter 6?

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‘Can’t repeat the past?’ He cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!’

39
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How is Gatsby’s equating love and his vision of wealth demonstrated in the final elements of Chapter 6?

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‘He knew that when he kissed this girl and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God’

40
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How does Fitzgerald evoke flower imagery to enhance Daisy’s status as an ethereal being and Gatsby’s committing to this vision in Chapter 6?

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‘at his lips touch, she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete’

41
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In Chapter 7, how does Nick present Gatsby’s desperation for Daisy’s approval?

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‘The whole caravansary had fallen in like a cardhouse at the disapproval in her eyes’

42
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How is Tom and Daisy’s superficial relationship with their daughter presented in Chapter 7?

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‘The bles-sed pre-cious…. You dream, you, you absolute little dream’

43
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How is Daisy’s voice and the wealth it represents demonstrated in Gatsby’s description of it in Chapter 7?

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‘Her voice is full of money’

44
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How is Daisy’s status according to Nick and Gatsby demonstrated in Chapter 7?

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‘High in a white palace, the kings daughter… the Golden Girl’

45
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How does Tom describe Daisy and Gatsby’s relationship in Chapter 7?

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‘sit back and let Mr Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife’

46
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How does Tom justify his misogynistic attitudes within his relationship with Daisy?

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‘I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time’

47
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In Chapter 7, how does Tom assert his dominance over Gatsby regarding his relationship with Daisy?

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‘I think he realises that his presumptuous little flirtation is over’

48
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How is Myrtle described in death to reiterate her status as a sexualised woman?

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‘Her life violently extinguished.. left breast swinging loose like a flap… she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long’

49
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How is Daisy and Tom’s relationship described in the end of Chapter 7?

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‘There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said they were conspiring together’

50
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How does Fitzgerald evoke moonlight imagery to present loneliness in Gatsby in Chapter 7?

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‘left him standing there in the moonlight, watching over nothing’

51
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How does Fitzgerald present an explicit comparison between Gatsby’s love for Daisy and his desire for wealth?

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‘It excited him too that many men had already loved Daisy. It increased her value in his eyes’

52
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How does Fitzgerald present Daisy as selfish as a result of her wealth in Chapter 8?

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‘She vanished into her rich house, into her rich, full life, leaving Gatsby nothing’

53
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How is Daisy’s wealth and her status compared to Gatsby demonstrated in Chapter 8?

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’Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor’

54
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In Chapter 8, how does Fitzgerald present the idea of Daisy’s lack of decision over her own future in 1920s America?

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‘And all the time something within her was crying for decision’

55
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How does Fitzgerald present the ethereal, unrealistic quality of Gatsby’s dream for wealth and love in his retelling of his meeting of Daisy in Chapter 8?

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‘He stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a whisper of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him’

56
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How is Nick presented as an unreliable narrator in his final words to Gatsby directly in Chapter 8?

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‘It was the only compliment I ever gave him because I disapproved of him beginning to end’

57
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How does Fitzgerald present the novels main theme of obsession with capitalism and wealth through George and Michaelis from the valley of the ashes?

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George: ‘God sees everything’
Michaelis: ‘That’s an advertisement’

58
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What does Nick describe as Gatsby’s final downfall in Chapter 8?

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He ‘paid a high price for living too long with a single dream’

59
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How does Nick suggest the destruction of Gatsby’s dream has affected his worldview?

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‘he found what a grotesque thing a rose is’

60
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How does Nick describe the destructive qualities of the excessive wealth of Tom and Daisy in Chapter 8?

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‘They were careless people, Tom and Daisy. They smashed up things and creatures and retreated back into their money and their vast carelessness’

61
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How does Nick summarise Gatsby’s dream and desires in the final paragraph of the novel?

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‘Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future’

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