The Great Gatsby

Question 1

Define American Dream

Answer 1

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Question 1

Rebellion

Answer 1

Goes against American Dream - “I decided to go back home”

Question 2

Rebellion

Answer 2

Gatsby has both good and bad inside him

Question 4

American Dream

Answer 4

Fails because of “Human condition” - humans are flawed, Dream is not

Question 5

American Dream

Answer 5

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

Question 10

American Dream

Answer 10

Last and greatest of all human dreams

Question 11

American Dream.

Answer 11

A fresh green breast of the new world

Question 12

American Dream

Answer 12

The ash grey men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air

Question 13

American Dream

Answer 13

Introductions forgotten on the spot

Question 14

American Dream

Answer 14

The seeking of it leads to destruction - “accidental burden”

Question 15

American Dream

Answer 15

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

Question 16

American Dream

Answer 16

But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paint less days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground

Question 17

American Dream

Answer 17

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

Question 18

America Dream

Answer 18

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went among the whispering so and the champagne and the stars

Question 23

Gatsby

Answer 23

“Studying needed inventions”

Question 24

Gatsby

Answer 24

Relations with Meyer wolfsheim call his legitimacy into question

Question 25

Gatsby

Answer 25

Redeemed by his love for daisy

Question 29

Gatsby

Answer 29

An extraordinary gift for Hope

Question 30

Gatsby

Answer 30

It is what preyed on Gatsby. What foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams

Question 31

Gatsby

Answer 31

The service of a vast, vulgar, meretricious beauty

Question 32

Daisy

Answer 32

Plaza Hotel scene - we begin to see the real her

Question 33

Myrtle

Answer 33

Sympathetic because of upbringing but hate because of affair. Does she love tom or use him

Question 34

Gatsby

Answer 34

Paid a high price for living too long with s single Dream

Question 36

George and myrtle Wilson

Answer 36

Outsiders desperate to enter American Dream

Question 37

Myrtle Wilson

Answer 37

Killed by Gatsby’s car - representation of her dreams

Question 38

George Wilson

Answer 38

Ironically fixes cars that represent the ideologies that trap him

Question 40

Gatsby

Answer 40

There was something gorgeous about him

Question 41

Gatsby

Answer 41

You can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can

Question 42

Daisy

Answer 42

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

Question 44

Daisy

Answer 44

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

Question 45

Daisy

Answer 45

She wanted her life shaped now, immediately