Gatsby quotes
I hope she will be a fool
Daisy Buchanan on her daughter
Dimmed a little by many paintless days under the sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.
TJ Eckleburg billboard
Body of water between the Island and Manhattan
Long island Sound
“blond, spiritless man, anaemic and faintly handsome.”
Mr George Wilson
Minutes you have to prepare your notes
20
Civilization is falling to pieces
Tom Buchanan
This can be observed from Gatsby's dock, gleaming and coming accross the bay
The Green light (from Buchanan's dock)
They are not perfect ovals, they are both crushed flat at the contact end—but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead.
The eggs (East and West egg)
They live together in a ramshackle garage in the squalid “valley of ashes,” a pocket of working-class desperation situated midway between New York and the suburbs of East and West Egg.
Myrtle Wilson and George Wilson
What are you supposed to do in the first 3-4 minutes of the interview
Describe the excerpt (not the whole plot) in detail higlighting the events, characters and relevance
“I married him because I thought he was a gentleman,” she said finally. “I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.”
Myrtle Wilson of her husband George
Symbol of wisdom, truth and literacy (was drunk)
Owl Eyes
A long stretch of desolate land created by the dumping of industrial debris.
The Valley of Ashes
Some say he killed a man once
Jay Gatsby
What are you supposed to do in the second part of the interview 4-5 minutes
Aswer the examiner questions abour the first part (dialogue like)
Some say he killed a man once
Jay Gatsby
White, pure, naive
Daisy
Five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in NY tho this place.
Gatsby's mansion
Not only did she cheat to win her first major golf tournament, she’s also incurably dishonest. According to Nick, this character constantly bends the truth in order to keep the world at a distance and protect herself from its cruelty.
Jordan Baker
In the third and last part of the interview we will speak about
IB Themes
'Come to lunch some day'
and
'I didn't know I was touching it' (a lever)
Mr Mckee
This hasn't been used, pretentious and deceitful
Unread books with uncut pages (Gatsby's library)
Country where Nick's housemaid comes from
Finland
His grandfather brother started the wholesale hardware business that his father carries on today
Nick Carraway
You will know beforehand what excertps you will be able to choose from. TRUE or FALSE
FALSE