Whoso + Gatsby

Question 1

STRUCTURE

Answer 1

Petrarchan sonnet form- idealised women

Question 2

The futility of the chase is similar to Gatsby

Answer 2

likens the futility of such to the metaphor of a ‘net (seeking) to hold the wynde’

Question 3

‘the vayne travaill hath weried me so sore’

Answer 3

emphasis on his physical and emotional suffering
though the speaker’s pursuit is in ‘vain’ he can ‘by no means…draw from the deer’ and thus ‘follows’ her.

Question 4

‘graven with Diamondes in letters plain’

Answer 4

‘string of pearls ‘

Question 5

‘for Cesars i ame’

Question 6

whoso doesnt CHALLENGE gender roles within society , it REINFORCES them: the speakers’ comparison of love to a hunt dramatically limits the possibilities for women, who are relegated to the status of animals

Question 7

‘there are only the pursued, pursuing, the busy and the tired’

Question 8

’ (Gatsby) wanted nothing less of Daisy than to go to Tom and say ‘I never loved you.’

Question 9

‘he kept looking at the child with surprise. I don’t think he…really believed of its existence before’

Answer 9

foregrounds the identity of Daisy as something other than an intangible,illusive concept

Question 10

Gatsby seeks to attain a close proximity to Daisy