Setting

Question 1

What settings do we see in the Great Gatsby?

Answer 1

• West Egg/ East Egg
• The Valley of Ashes
• New York (The Plaza Hotel, Myrtle & Tom’s apartment)
• The Scenic method (Gatsby’s parties, Nick’s house)

Question 2

East Egg
“ the white _____ of _______ East Egg…

Answer 2

“the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water” CH1

Question 3

East Egg
“a cheerful…

Answer 3

“a cheerful red-and white Georgian colonial mansion overlooking the bay” CH1

Question 4

The Scenic method-Myrtle and Tom’s apartment
“a small living room… CH2

Answer 4

“A small living room… with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it” CH2

Question 5

East Egg vs West Egg
“ East Egg condescending to West Egg and… CH3

Answer 5

“East Egg condescending to West Egg and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gaiety” CH3

Question 6

Gatby’s house
“At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I… CH3

Answer 6

“At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others…” CH3

Question 7

The Scenic method- chorus of voices CH3
“Do you want to commit suicide?”…

Answer 7

“Do you want to commit suicide?”
“You’re lucky it was just a wheel!” CH3

Question 8

Gatsby’s house CH7
“We pushed aside curtians that were like…

Answer 8

“We pushed aside curtains that were like pavilions and felt over innumerable feet of dark wall for electric light switches” CH7

Question 9

How many people went to Gatsby’s funeral?

Answer 9

“Nobody came.”

Question 10

West Egg CH9
“West Egg.. I see it as…

Answer 10

“West Egg… I see it as a night scene by El Greco: a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lustreless moon” CH9