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The Great Gatsby - Chap 3 Flashcards

1
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Who are the main characters of this chapters?

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Nick Carraway
Jordan Baker
Owl Eyes
Jay Gatsby

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What are the key themes in this chapter?

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The Roaring Twenties
The American Dream
Old Money Vs New Money

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List some of the people and objects that tend to Gatsby’s prep for his parties

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Servants, gardeners, caterers, orchestra, fruit from a fruiterer in New York

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What did Nick say about his invite to Gatsby’s party? What did people usually do?

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“I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited”
People usually just went without an invite

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What did Gatsby’s note say to Nick (the invite) ?

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That “the honour would be entirely Gatsby’s — if I would attend his ‘little party’ that night”

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What did Gatsby say about Nick and his intentions to talk to him (in the invite) ? And what did he say stopped him from doing so?

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That “He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it”

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What was Nick sure the “young Englishmen” and the prosperous Americans” were doing? And what does this say about the atmosphere of the party?

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“I was sure that they were selling something: bonds or insurance or automobiles”
The parties were a way of gaining “easy money”

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What happened when Nick would ask people if they knew were Gatsby was?

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“The two or three people of whom I asked of his whereabouts started at me in such an amazed way, and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements”

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Who did Nick see after failing to find Gatsby?

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Jordan Baker

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What happened when a girl ripped her dress at one of Gatsby’s prior parties?

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He asked for her name and address and mailed her a new one within a week, it was £265

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What does the other girl say about Gatsby in regards to him buying a new dress for Lucille? And what does this suggest about him?

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That “there’s something funny about a fellow that’ll do a thing like that — He doesn’t want any trouble with anybody”
Suggests he doesn’t want any negative attention on him or his parties

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What rumours are shared about Gatsby during the talk with Lucille?

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“Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once”
“He was a German spy during the war”

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Where did Nick and Jordan end up when they left Jordan’s party, and what was the reason?

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They ended up at the library, in their search for Gatsby

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Who did Nick and Jordan find in the library?

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Owl eyes

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How did Nick describe Owl Eyes?

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“A stout, middle aged man, with enormous owl-eyed spectacles”

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Why is Owl Eye’s surprised in the library? And what does this suggest about Gatsby?

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The books in the library are real with actual pages, not just cardboard
It suggests Gatsby was careful and put great effort into crafting his persona

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What does Gatsby ask Nick before his identity is revealed?

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If Nick was “in the First Divison during the war” as he had seen Nick “somewhere before”

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What did Gatsby ask for Nick to join him in doing the next morning?

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Flying his hydroplane that he had just bought

19
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How does Gatsby react when Nick doesn’t recognise him?

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“For a moment he looked at me as if he failed to understand” Confusion

20
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How does Nick describe Gatsby’s smile?

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As “One of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it”

21
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How did Nick describe Gatsby’s appearance?

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As “an elegant young roughneck, a year or two over thirty”

22
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Why did Gatsby have to excuse himself from the conversation with Nick?

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Since “Chicago was calling him on the wire”

23
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What did Nick say he expected Gatsby to be?

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“A florid and corpulent man”

24
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What did Jordan respond to Nick’s questioning about Gatsby?

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That “He’s just a man named Gatsby” and that she doesn’t believe that he is an Oxford man

25
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What does Jordan say about large parties, and why does she like them?

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“I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy”

26
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What does Gatsby’s butler tell Jordan?

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That “Mr Gatsby would like to speak to you alone”

27
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What did Nick see women crying about? And what does this suggest about the upper class?

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Husbands were cheating on their wives with other women
“Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands”
Suggests the selfishness and hollowness the upper class hold

28
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How long were Jordan and Gatsby talking?

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An hour

29
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What did Jordan say to Nick about her talk with Gatsby?

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“It was simply amazing” but she “swore she wouldn’t tell it” in referral to what had been spoken about

30
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What did Jordan ask to do just as she was leaving the party?

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To come and see her, find her name in the phone book under the name of her aunt

31
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What did Nick go and tell Gatsby after feeling ashamed about staying so late?

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“To apologize for not having known him in the garden”

32
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What scene did Nick stumble upon as he was leaving the party?

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A car had crashed
“In the ditch beside the road, right side up, but violently shorn of one wheel, rested a new coupe”

33
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Who was at the scene where the car had crashed?

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Owl Eyes

34
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What does the car crash foreshadow?

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The tragedy that happens later in the book with Myrtle, and what leads to Gatsby’s death

35
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What did Nick describe towards the end of the chapter, separate to the party. Why does he do this?

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He begins to describe his day to day life throughout the summer, he does this to make it clear that he does more than just goes to parties

36
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What did Nick admit to having a brief fling with?

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He states he “even had a short affair with a girl who lived in jersey City”

37
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What did Nick say he liked about New York?

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“The racy, adventurous feel of it at night”

38
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How did Nick describe his feelings towards his and Jordan’s relationship?

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He stated “I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity”

39
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What did Nick say about Jordan’s golf scandal?

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That “she moved her ball from a bad lie in the semi-final round”
Meaning she had cheated

40
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What did Nick call Jordan after outing her golf scandal?

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“Incurably dishonest”

41
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What did Jordan say about careless people? And how does this apply to Nick?

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She says she “hates careless people.” and that’s why she likes Nick

42
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What does Nick admit to having back home?

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He admits to having a woman back home, referring to her as “that tangle back home.”

43
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What did Nick admit of of his “cardinal virtues” was?

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“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known”

44
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What is a cardinal virtue?

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They are four principle moral virtues

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