WHOLE GATSBY BOOK

Question 1

setting

Answer 1

America, roaring 20s (alcohol prohibited)

Question 2

theme

Answer 2

American dream
old money vs new money
judgment 
pretending to be someone you're not 
recreating the past

Question 3

where is old money - who is in it

where is new/poor - who is in it

Answer 3

Old = East: Daisy, Jordan, Tom
New/Poor = West: Gatsby, Myrtle, George

Question 4

How to describe Tom?

Answer 4

Arrogant, dominant, aggressive, power

Question 5

How to describe Daisy?

Answer 5

manipulative “I’m paralyzed with happiness”

Question 6

how to describe jordan baker

Answer 6

doesnt acknowledge nick - chin held high

Question 7

American Dream
Tom
Daisy
Jordan

Answer 7

T: For the white race to be superior
D: Status quo - doesn’t want anything to change same as Jordan

Question 8

“And I hope she’ll be a fool, a beautiful little fool”
who is saying this? about who?
why?

Answer 8

1) daisy is saying this about her daughter
2) just like daisy goes along w/ everything - doesn’t question anything = ignorance is bliss/status quo - she wants her daughter to be the same

Question 9

how to describe gatsby

Answer 9

wants to be alone
trembling
green light (money, envy)

Question 10

why does tom have an affair w/ someone poor and not within his own crowd

Answer 10

if he were to have an affair w/ someone his own crowd - he can get his reputation ruined
but if he has the dominance over someone - he can call the shots and have no consequences

Question 11

what are the symbolism of the billboard eyes?

Answer 11

Gd/Someone is always watching = judgment

Question 12

what happens as myrtel cahnges her costume?

Answer 12

as she changes her clothes - so does her attitude - she begins acting as if she is all this and that - she begins acting as if she’s someone who is old money = pretending to be someone you’re not

Question 13

an example of tom having no consequences

Answer 13

punches myrtle in the nose - gets away w/ it

Question 14

how to describe nick

Answer 14

renting, unsure, unstable - doesn’t know where he wants to be - w/ the old mone crowd yet lives in west egg

Question 15

how is nick apart of the old crowd

Answer 15

dating Jordan

hangs out w/ them - enjoys the attention form them even if its bad

Question 16

how is nick apart of the new money crowd

Answer 16

he gets lonely sometimes - small moments

like gatsby in a way who is new money yet is alone in a big house

Question 17

how is Jordan an example that old money has no consequences/is able to get away with everything?

Answer 17

1) she cheated in a golf game - this blew up but then died down - can hint to Jordan paying her way out of it - showing ppl w/old money have no consequences
2) she drives irresponsibly - placing the blame on others, saying she doesnt have to be responsible = no consequences/not caring if anything happens she has money and most likely will get away w/ everything

Question 18

what does gatsby say abt his life vs reality

Answer 18

1) wealthy family, gets money from them = poor farmer family, gets money from bootlegging alcohol
2) educated oxford = went to st Olaf for a few weeks - dropped out bc ppl didn’t see his ‘potential’
3) from mid-west - San Francisco = actually from North Dakota
4) served in the army, traveled the world = truth
5) his name is Jay Gatsby - james gatz

Question 19

quotes abt what nick thinks abt gatsby

Answer 19

1) “why Jordan baker thought he was lying”
2) hurried the words Oxford
3) suspected he was pulling my leg
4) character

Question 20

who is meyer wolfsheim?

Answer 20

a gangster - friend of Gatsby - they work together
he fixed the 1919 world series
can imply the way tom gets his money is in an unhonest way

Question 21

Jordan explained daisys life back in Louisville

what is this showing?

Answer 21

1) daisy and gatsby were close
2) planned on running away w/ gatsby
3) her family doesn’t let her since he was poor - she doesn’t talk to her family
4) gets engaged to tom
5) gets drunk - gets a letter from gatsby and calls of the wedding
6) gets married to tom the next day
7) tom cheats on her
8) has a child with him
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she lets things happen - doesn’t try to change things - status quo

Question 22

what does a clock represent?

where is it placed?

Answer 22

1) can represent time - past
2) Fitzgerald places it front and center during gatsby and daisy reunion
3) the clock breaks - can show that maybe it isn’t possible to recreate the past and if you try to tamper w/ time it can ruin things hence clock breaks

Question 23

quotes about 17 year olf gatsby

Answer 23

never accepted his parents

he was a son of gd

Question 24

what did ella kay teach gatsby

Answer 24

the people with money can get things to go their way

Question 25

what is george wilsons american dream

Answer 25

to move west

Question 26

yellow car meaning

Answer 26

one way in the yellow car was tom and Jordan - myrtle sees this
on the way back its gatsby and daisy are in the car - myrtle thinks its tom - jumps in front of the car
yellow goes from a happy color to a color of death
this is showing pretending to be someone you’re not/ consequences

Question 27

nicks view of gatsby throughout the book

Answer 27

1) thinks he’s mysterious
2) charming - hiding something
3) delusional
4) “I disliked him so much at that time” (only cared for daisy when someone died)
5) “you’re worth more than them” - implying gatsby is better than the rotten old money crowd

Question 28

nicks relationship w/ old money

Answer 28

1) they look down on him
2) he likes the attention form them (good or bad)
3) Jordan likes careless [ppl/dumb ppl - so she can trick them and they wont know
4) nick dates her after she made her intentions clear of who she likes to date
5) “id had enough of these people”
6) they’re a rotten crowd