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16 Cards in this Set
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- 3rd side (hint)
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Themes |
Society and Class - Youare who you're born into, and attempting to change classes just leads totragedy. Socialnorms are insurmountable (incapable to overcome) barriers between people.Inter-class relationships are impossible. Love - the result of self-deception (allowing oneself to believe that a false ideais true) and denial (refusing to tell the truth) Visions of America - Gatsbyis an example of the failure of the American Dream. It is supposed to stand forindependence and the ability to make something of one's self with hard work,but in the end it is more about materialism and selfish pursuit of pleasure. Wealth - Moneycannot bring you happiness or class. Thebook demonstrates the emptiness and decay of moral values created by the wantfor money. Dissatisfaction/ Attaining happiness - Lackof happinessAlthoughit seems like the wealthy characters have it all, not a single one of themseems happy. Wealthdoesn't satisfy your desires. (they'redissatisfied with marriage, with love, with life, and most of all withthemselves.) |
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Purpose |
The lesson is that money can't buy happiness/ or true love/ or personal connections. =true |
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"I hope she'llbe a fool – that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautifullittle fool.' " - Daisy |
MEANING OF QUOTATION - Beautiful but too foolish (unwise), so her feels arent hurt. Experience of abandoment of Tom made her realize caring = dangerous and lead to unhappiness.
CHARACTERIZATION Daisy is wise - because she knew of affair She undermines the intelligence of women by saying a girl can only have fun if she is beautiful and simplistic.
THEME Attaining Happiness/ ?Dissatisfaction? Girls are expected to not know of husband affairs More straightforward and simplistic = happier society with no worrying, trust issues or people takng advantage. |
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"And so we beaton, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - Nick Carraway (after Gatsby's death)
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M: Boat is G. struggling to go towards past. Nick is current - heading to present. G. wants to relive the past and Nick tries telling him it is the present. (Current is strong)
C: Gatsby struggles to achieve his dream
T: G. ingores Nick about it being the presrnt now. Failure of happiness = no matter how hard it gets, we will push on even if forces are against us. |
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Boat is G. struggling to go towards past. Nick is current - heading to present. G. wants to relive the past and Nick tries telling him it is the present. (Current is strong) C: Gatsby struggles to achieve his dream T: G. ingores Nick about it being the presrnt now. Failure of happiness = no matter how hard it gets, we will push on even if forces are against us. |
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" He put hishands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house,as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away andleft him standing there in the moonlight--watching over nothing. " - Nick (Watching over Daisy after accident) |
MEANING Daisy still with Tom by choice Money didnt buy her love Daisy was worth nothing, but G. denies this.
CHARACTERIZATION Daisy - She has novalue. Gatsby - his dreamis empty because she is worth nothing. He's been chasing something that seemedreal to him. Nick - admits that Gatsby's dream has ended.
THEME Wealth / Attaining happiness G. is still not happy and has failed. Wealth cannot break her relationship with Tom.
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"He [Gatsby] had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night." - Nick (Towards the conclusion of the book) |
MEANING 'dream' represents D. and her world. G. thought he got close but truth was he'd never be the same social status. Past= only place possible
CHARACTERIZATION Gatsby - He came 'along way' but happiness remained far. Dreams cannot be bought
THEME Wealth / Attaining happiness Wealth could not buy social status / or hapiness (dreams fulfilled)
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"You can'trepeat the past." "You can't repeat the past?" "Why ofcourse you can!" (Nick, Gatsby) |
MEANING: Tries to change his past He goes to great lengths to relive the past
CHARACTERIZATION He believes he can recreate the past and live it once more.
THEME Society and Class/ Vision ofAmerica/ Dissatisfaction/ Attaining happiness Repeat of past = American self-determination Reality: no one can change past, time does pass. |
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"Her voice isfull of money" - Gatsby to Nick (Before they head into town) |
MEANING Emphasises you must be born with money.
CHARACTERIZATION G. is lying about past. G. is attracted to voice because symbolizes wealth, class, beauty, security, and power
THEME G. only loves the idea of her and her representation of voice.
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'They're a rotten crowd' I shouted, across thelawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together' " - Nick (Before Gatsby is killed) |
MEANING - Gatsby - who is aliar and a criminal - is better than the rotten crowd (Tom and Daisy)
CHARACTERIZATION Tom, Daisy, andJordan are "rotten" because they are morally corrupt as they onlycare about themselves and their status. To them personalitywas nothing, they judged people on how their wealth was gained. Nick - His view onthe upper class and how he admires Gatsby's love and determination to obtainDaisy. He admires this because it goes against how shallow the wealthy are.
THEME Society and Class Shows the decay of social values that the upper class had. |
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"They werecareless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and thenretreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it wasthat kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." - Nick |
MEANING - Rich people's crimesjust don't seem to count as much as poor people's crimes. CHARACTERIZATION Tom and Daisy -Represents their more corruption that resulted from the pursuit of materialwealth. Jordan Baker -"was incurably dishonest" and cheats in a golf tournament and ruins acar by leaving it with the top down in the rain and then lies about it. THEME Society and Class/ Visions of America. Gives an impressionthat these people live life freely so they revolve around pleasing themselvesand getting new possessions that make them look good. |
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" I lived atWest Egg, the – well, the least fashionable of the two, though this is a mostsuperficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrastbetween them. My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards fromthe Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve orfifteen thousand a season. The one on my right was a colossal affair by anystandard … My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, and it hadbeen overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbour'slawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires—all for eighty dollars amonth." - Nick |
MEANING The west egg isdescribed to be the less liked and thateast egg (old money) was thought as being better. The use of"colossal affair" reflects how hard and obvious Gatsby is trying toshow off his wealth in a particular way.The use of"factual imitation" means Gatsby's mansion is awkward andout-of-place. Gatsby's mansion is"spanking" new, but it tries to look old. It's covered in ivy, whichgives it a "classic" look and imitates the "Ivy League" ofelite colleges. The ivy is"raw" and forms a "thin beard" like a child's, not a matureman's one that has grown over time. THEME Society and Class - There is a cleardifference between the two sides. Both locations are wealthy but it is thematter of whether you are born rich is how the location is divided up. ^4~5 |
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CONFLICT |
Gatsby Internal: Jay Gatsby has an internal conflict with his past. Gatz was born in North Dakota and lived his early years in significant poverty. He has always destined to be something more (e.g. given by the list of how to improve himself) Daisy External: Tom's unfaithfulness towards Daisy (e.g. he sleeps around). She has the ability to leave, yet she stays because of his security with money. Daisy Internal: Though she loved him, she was unwilling to marry him because he did not meet the standards set by her parents and, evidently, by herself. Despite this conflict she marrys Tom. Tom External: He is arrogant and aggressive and treats everyone else badly. 1 |
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EAST EGG (EAST HAMPTON) |
"indiscerniblebarbed wire" Sums up the socialbarrier between the two eggs which even money can't get you in." "the whitepalaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water…" The use of"palaces" relates to royalty/ American aristocrat's.
"sundials andbrick walls and burning gardens" "the front wasbroken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold." oTS}y`̐ |
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WEST EGG (WEST HAMPTON) |
Description ofNick's house: "aneyesore" (ugly) That’s"squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve of fifteenthousand a season." "weather-beatencardboard bungalow at eighty a month," "lessfashionable of the two," "the nouveauriche" Description ofGatsby's House: "a thin beardof raw ivy" |
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V. OF A. |
Everything in it isgrey and lifeless. "a fantasticfarm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesquegardens" "spasms ofbleak dust" "ash-grey" The men working onthe railroad are also grey. Sensing death possibly? The imagery of dustand ashes recalls to death. "small block ofyellow brick sitting on the edge of the waste land" |
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NEW YORK CITY |
"flappers"- term used to describe young women who dressed in revealing clothing and hadshorter hair styles. "large andstifling" the heat is a metaphor for the emotional tension that isbuilding. "the wronghouse. But no one knows the woman's name and no one cares." The woman isdrunk. This sums up theheartlessness of New York society in which moral values are decayed. < |
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