Themes: Vision And Insight

Question 1

Gatsby is the maker of spectacles in the sense that

Answer 1

He throws party’s that are intended to be seen by Daisy across the bay

Question 2

The clothes Gatsby’s wears, the cars he drives, the extravagance of his house are

Answer 2

All part of the display - all part of the spectacle

Question 3

Doctor T. J. Eckleburg is a maker of spectacles in another sense

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He makes eye glasses that correct physical distortions in vision

Question 4

One of the most striking images in The Great Gatsby presents

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The eyes of Dr T. J. Eckleburg looming over the valley of ashes

Question 5

At a crucial point in the narrative, Michaelis finds his neighbour

Answer 5

George Wilson, staring at the opticians board after Myrtles death

Question 6

George seeing clearly is not always a

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Straightforward business in this novel

Question 7

Nick Carraway is narrating Gatsby’s story as he saw it but

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He knows there are other versions which might be told from other points of view

Question 8

Fitzgerald portrays 1920’s America as a world which

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Speculation and gossip spreads rapidly and is only based on partial knowledge

Question 9

Images of sight and seeing occur

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Often in The Great Gatsby

Question 10

Owl eyes, the visitor to Gatsby’s party who wears owl-eyed spectacles, may have

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The wisdom conventionally associated with owls, his spectacles may make him look scholarly, but he has in fact been drunk for a week