The Great Gatsby Flashcards
Define American Dream
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Rebellion
Goes against American Dream - “I decided to go back home”
Rebellion
Gatsby has both good and bad inside him
American Dream
Fails because of “Human condition” - humans are flawed, Dream is not
American Dream
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I light my lamp beside the golden door
American Dream
Last and greatest of all human dreams
American Dream.
A fresh green breast of the new world
American Dream
The ash grey men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air
American Dream
Introductions forgotten on the spot
American Dream
The seeking of it leads to destruction - “accidental burden”
American Dream
People are like foam - empty, disintegrate easily
TJ Eckleburg - missing nose, mouth, perfection is disintegrating
Moths - not invited, weak, trying to be butterflies,
Hedonistic - excess
American Dream
But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paint less days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground
American Dream
Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruit error in New York. Every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back for in a pyramid of purples halves
America Dream
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went among the whispering so and the champagne and the stars
Gatsby
“Studying needed inventions”
Gatsby
Relations with Meyer wolfsheim call his legitimacy into question
Gatsby
Redeemed by his love for daisy
Gatsby
An extraordinary gift for Hope
Gatsby
It is what preyed on Gatsby. What foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams
Gatsby
The service of a vast, vulgar, meretricious beauty
Daisy
Plaza Hotel scene - we begin to see the real her
Myrtle
Sympathetic because of upbringing but hate because of affair. Does she love tom or use him
Gatsby
Paid a high price for living too long with s single Dream
George and myrtle Wilson
Outsiders desperate to enter American Dream
Myrtle Wilson
Killed by Gatsby’s car - representation of her dreams
George Wilson
Ironically fixes cars that represent the ideologies that trap him
Gatsby
There was something gorgeous about him
Gatsby
You can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can
Daisy
They were careless people, tom and daisy, they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made
Daisy
I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool
Daisy
She wanted her life shaped now, immediately
