SETTING
West Egg differs from East Egg in this way.
a.West Egg, associated with new money, has lower social status than East Egg, a place associated with older wealth.
b. West Egg is a place marked by poverty and hopelessness, while East Egg is rich.
c. East Egg may not have much money, but it is fashionable.
d. East Egg is where the affluent, well-respected Jay Gatsby lives.
What is A?
West Egg, associated with new money, has lower social status than East Egg, a place associated with older wealth.
This passage suggests that---
Daisy leaned forward again, her voice glowing and singing.
“I love to see you at my table, Nick. You remind me of a — of a rose, an absolute rose. Doesn’t he?” She turned to Miss Baker for confirmation: “An absolute rose?”
This was untrue. I am not even faintly like a rose. She was only extemporizing*
a. Nick has a showy style, seeking attention like a rose.
b. Daisy is jealous of Gatsby's bond with Nick
c. The words Daisy and rose reveal a motif of the flowers that bloom in summer.
d. Daisy is just putting on a show
What is D?
Daisy is putting on a show.
The luminescent imagery here---
"the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch, open toward the sunset, where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind.
“Why CANDLES?” objected Daisy, frowning. She snapped them out with her fingers. “In two weeks it’ll be the longest day in the year.” She looked at us all radiantly."
a. foreshadows the problems between Tom and Daisy.
b. implies Nick’s aversion to wealthy people.
c. provides a harsh reminder of the reality outside their home.
d. suggests an atmosphere of softness and beauty.
What is d?
suggests an atmosphere of softness and beauty.
This is the term for a shift or change in the meaning or argument at the end of a sonnet. It could also describe a change in another literary work.
What is a volta?
In this literary work, wealth plays a part in the setting, the characterization, and the essential mystery of who a person really is.
What is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald?
What event first came between Gatsby and Daisy?
a. Her marriage with Tom Buchanan
b. Mayer Wolfshiem
c. Reckless driving
d. WW1
What is d?
WW1
The statement Daisy made at her daughter’s birth reveals---
“And I hope she’ll be a fool, that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
a. Daisy was happy in her marriage before this point.
b. Daisy is narcissistic.
c. Daisy is more unhappy than she'd like to admit.
c. Daisy dislikes her daughter.
What is c?
Daisy is more unhappy than she'd like to admit.
This description of Tom here---
Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward. Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body—he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing, and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat.
a. reveals that he relies on his money to control others
b. depicts him as an aggressive powerful person
c. implies that he and Nick had once been in love with each other
d. draws many parallels between him and Gatsby
What is b?
depicts him as an aggressive powerful person
This word means the use of something to represent something else.
What is symbolism?
This story about workplace alienation and conflict suggests that a mild disposition provides ample cover for total insubordination.
What is "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville?
Here, as Gatsby watches the partygoers leave, ---
A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby’s house, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.
a. Gatsby’s formal behavior masks his criminal nature.
b. The tone changes subtly from levity to melancholy.
c. The end of summer has brought on the time of weeping.
d. Gatsby is taking pleasure in another successful party.
What is b?
The tone changes subtly from levity to a wistful sadness.
This description of Myrtle Wilson suggests---
She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her flesh sensuously as some women can. Her face... contained no facet or gleam of beauty, but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.
a. She is unattractive.
b. Although heavier than the beauty standard's of the time, and plain, she is full of life, a quality that is attractive.
c. Nick finds her dull.
d. Nick is strongly attracted to her.
What is b?
Although heavier than the beauty standards of the time, and plain, she is full of life, a quality that is attractive.
Daisy's outburst here---
He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray. While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher — shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and 71 faint orange, and monograms of Indian blue.
Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily. “They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such — such beautiful shirts before.”
A. Suggests Gatsby’s wealth has come too late to bring her happiness
B. Implies that Tom’s clothes are not as nice as Gatsby’s
C. Confirms her suspicion that Gatsby loves his clothes more than her.
D. Illustrates that Gatsby’s superficial nature is repellent to her less materialistic point-of-view
E. Despite her words, a sense of joy overcomes her
What is A?
Her behavior suggests Gatsby's wealth has come too late. If he had the money when they were younger they might be married.
This word means a repeating element, usually symbolic or atmospheric, in a work.
For example, these elements repeat throughout The Great Gatsby, houses, motor cars, clothing, the color yellow, light imagery, ashes, parties, and alcoholic drinks.
What is a motif?
This is a sonnet that thematically explores the impermanence of our fame and efforts.
What is "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley?
or
What is "Ozymandias" by PB Shelley?
This is a theme in The Great Gatsby.
a. The slippery nature of truth, as suggested by the characterization of Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, and Jay Gatsby
b. The primacy of social justice and human rights, evidenced by the labors of Jay Gatsby
c. The destructive effects of both poverty and wealth, illustrated by Myrtle Wilson and Jay Gatsby
d. The decadence of the period following WW1, illustrated in all the parties.
What is a?
What is c?
What is d?
The slippery nature of truth, as suggested by the characterization of Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, and Jay Gatsby.
The destructive effects of both poverty and wealth, illustrated by Myrtle Wilson and Jay Gatsby.
The decadence of the period following WW1, illustrated in all the parties.
Myrtle's transformation in NYC...
Mrs. Wilson had changed her costume some time before... With the influence of the dress her personality had also undergone a change. The intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive hauteur.
hauteur means attitude of social superiority
a. foreshadows her eventual triumph over Daisy
b. confirms that she is always true to herself
c. reveals her desire to come up in society
d. displays her taste for the finer things
What is c?
reveals her desire to come up in society
Beside her reckless driving, what does Nick hold against Jordan Baker?
a.He believes rumors that she cheated during a golf tournament.
b. She killed Jay Gatz.
c. She has been conducting an affair with Gatsby.
d. She is trying to break off their engagement.
What is a?
Nick believes the rumors that she cheated during a golf tournament
This term means a brief or passing reference to something relevant or important from history or culture.
What is an allusion?
In this ironic early feminist tale, a woman's joy at being released from matrimonial bondage gives way to shock when the love of her life turns up alive.
What is "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin?
This is a symbolic function of Gatsby's pool.
It was nine o’clock when we finished breakfast and went out on the porch. The night had made a sharp difference in the weather and there was an autumn flavor in the air. The gardener, the last one of Gatsby’s former servants, came to the foot of the steps.
“I’m going to drain the pool today, Mr. Gatsby. Leaves’ll start falling pretty soon, and then there’s always trouble with the pipes.”
“Don’t do it today,” Gatsby answered. He turned to me apologetically. “You know, old sport, I’ve never used that pool all summer?”
a. The pool symbolizes the way he has maintained the things in his world for others, not himself.
b. The pool stands for the purity of his and Daisy’s love.
c. The pool suggests the way he takes his immense wealth for granted.
d. The pool signifies a connection between this time in his life and an earlier, happier time.
What is a?
The pool symbolizes the way he has maintained the things in his world for others, not himself.
Gatsby's statement here contains this implication.
In 1922, Gatsby has already been associated with Meyer Wolfsheim, who may have fixed, or rigged, the outcome of the 1919 World Series. When Nick asks why he isn’t in jail, Gatsby responds, “They can’t get him, old sport. He’s a smart man.”
a. Wolfsheim’s intelligence is offered in contrast to the stupidity of men like Tom Buchanan.
b. Gatsby made money fixing the World Series.
c. Gatsby may believe that intelligence is more important than honesty.
d. Gatsby is being ironic since Wolfsheim has a working-class New York accent.
What is c?
Gatsby may believe that intelligence is more important than honesty.
This is foreshadowed by this imagery---
Gatsby’s home is often compared to a candle, drawing moths in passages like these--- “In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths” and “He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths.” When Nick comes home at 2 a.m. to see the peninsula blazing with light pouring out of Gatsby’s mansion, he assumes his own house is on fire.
a. Gatsby uses his wealth to attract Daisy.
b. Gatsby uses his wealth to attract socialites to his home.
c. The reporter will shine a light on Gatsby’s true identity.
d. Gatsby’s charismatic allure could be destructive.
What is d?
Gatsby’s charismatic allure could be destructive.
This term means a literary work in which the entire framework of characters, events, and situations symbolizes other historical people, events, or ideas. It is more developed than an allusion, more systematic than a symbol.
What is an allegory?
This story about workplace alienation and conflict suggests that a mild disposition provides ample cover for total insubordination.
What is "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville?