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The Great Gatsby Flashcards

1
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How did Fitzgerald die and when?

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He died of a heart attack in 1940

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2
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Name three themes from The Great Gatsby

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  • The American Dream
  • Honesty
  • Class
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The American Dream

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The American Dream and its obtainability is the overwhelming theme of the Great Gatsby

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Honesty

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Within the world of Gatsby what is honest, dishonest, right, and wrong is all related to class

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Class

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Class and the separation of classes is a prominent part of The Great Gatsby
Old Money is superior to New Money and can not be compared by status

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6
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Nick Caraway is presented to the reader as an ___________________

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impartial narrator

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7
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Nick despises all that __________ represents but is in _________of him all at the same time

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1- Gatsby

2- Admiration

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8
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The road to _____ _______ is a ________ land. This is an important _______.

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  1. New York
  2. Waste
  3. symbol
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9
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The _____ of Dr. T.J _______ are repressive of the eyes of ______

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  1. Eyes
  2. Eckleburg
  3. God
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10
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______ and _______ are foils for one another

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  1. Myrtle

2. Daisy

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11
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what is a foil character?

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Characters that are opposite of each other

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12
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What Describes and parodies the Jazz age

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the party

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13
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What do the cars represent?

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They are a luxury item & a sense of danger in luxury.

Owl eyes wrecks because he is drunk

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14
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Nick seems to think _________ is one of the last honest people in the world

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Gatsby

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15
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The emphasis on Gatsby

They say….

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The Others Say..
		○ he's a bootlegger 
		○ he's killed a man
		○ He is the nephew of van Hindenburg
He is the second cousin of the Devil
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16
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The emphasis on Gatsby

He says…

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Gatsby Says
		○ He is from "San Francisco"
		○ He studied at Oxford
		○ Lived in all the capitals of Europe 
He enlisted in the army
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17
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What is the green light a symbol of ?

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  • Gatsby’s dauntless romantic optimism
  • Daisy
  • The American Dream
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18
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Gatsby is extremely insecure over his friendship with ______.

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Nick

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19
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Gatsby can’t believe anyone would be his friend if he didn’t have _____.

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money

20
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_____ is the only one who doesn’t look at class as a basis for friendship

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nick

21
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He wants to live in the past or at least freeze time

A

Gatsby

22
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Nick calls _______ an “over-wound clock”

A

Gatsby

23
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Gatsby and his issues with time are symbolized by ____________________.

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The knocking over of the clock

24
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Who’s desired to stop time and are the attempts successful?

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Gatsby and no

25
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What is “Ain’t We Fun” ? what does it imply, and what is it a contrast of?

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Song , Implies a carefree life , & A contrast with the oppressiveness of society

26
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What makes “ain’t we got fun” ironic

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“no money, oh but honey “Ain’t We Got Fun” , Daisy rejected Gatsby originally because of his lack of wealth

27
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• Gatsby and the American Dream
○ Gatsby “sprang from his _______ conception of himself”
○ He is trying to ______himself
○ Changing his _____ but keeping it similar shows he is reinventing himself on his own terms
○ His __________ adds to the concept of the poor child becoming a self-made man
○ The janitorial job shows his ________ to class (sophistication and elegance)

A
  1. Playtonic
  2. perfect
  3. name
  4. childhood
  5. sensitivity
28
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Dan Cody

A 
○ Self-made billionaire 
		○ From humble beginnings 
		○ Generous with money 
		○ Unable to find his place in society 
downfall brought on by his love
29
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Daisy

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○ She represents everything Gatsby wants to be (an aristocrat) (sophistication)
○ Because she is all Gatsby wants to be she can never be anything to him

30
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________ becomes discrete and concerned about pubic appearance

_______ flaunts the _____

A
  1. Gatsby
  2. Daisy
  3. affair
31
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Who Is more concerned with the level of class of the man whom Daisy is cheating with than the fact that she is cheating on him

A

Tom

32
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Who is “worth the whole damn bunch put together

A

Gatsby

33
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______ admires his optimism but he has complete disapproval for his “activities”

______ is a dreamer- a visionary

Nick is a shining ____ of a true person during an age of _______

A
  1. Nick
  2. Nick
  3. star
  4. cynicism
34
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________ mistake was in loving _______

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  1. Gatsby’s

2. Daisy

35
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Gatsby and Wilson are doubles, how?

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The both die for who they love

36
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Gatsby, along with _______focus his attention on a meaningless _______ (symbolism)

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  1. Wilson

2. object

37
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Who is the eyes in the billboard

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Wilson is the eyes

38
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how is Gatsby’s death sooooo Gatsby ?

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○ We find him swimming on the first day of fall
○ It is too cold to swim and he cannot accept the fact that summer is fading
○ He fights the passage of time again

39
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“So we beat on boats against the _______ , borne back ceaselessly into the ________.”

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  1. current

2. Past

40
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America as an entire entity was Founded on

A

ideals of progress and equality

41
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West Egg vs. East Egg

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○ West- manifest destiny

○ East- corrupt with greed

42
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The green light - Gatsby is looking ______ to the light like the green of America’s land once symbolized ______

A
  1. East

2. hope

43
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• Gatsby’s death represents the ruin of _________.

A

America

44
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“I hope when she grows up she’ll be a pretty little fool because that’s all girl should be” -

Who said this? Who was that person speaking about?

A

Daisy and about her daughter, Pammy

45
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Who did Fitzgerald marry?

A

Zelda Sayre

46
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extra

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extra

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