Gatsby's Failures
Mr. Gatz
What was Ladybird's real name?
Christine McPherson
When the group is in New York at the Plaza Hotel, what is ironic about the music that filters up to them from the ballroom downstairs?
The music is ironic because it is wedding music playing but at this time there is obvious verbal signs that Daisy and Tom's marriage is breaking.
How was Wilson described in the newspapers?
As a madman
When did Eya and Anna come to GNS?
blessed the school in grade 9
What is Gatsby's fatal flaw?
Gatsby's tragic flaw is his inability to wake up from his dream of the past and accept reality. His obsession with recapturing his past relationship with Daisy compels him to a life of crime and deceit.
Why does she call herself Ladybird?
- to give herself a new identity
- escape constraints in her life(ie. wealth, family, social class..)
- to recreate and represent herself independently
Why, after the death of Gatsby's Dream, does Nick describe it as a kind of mercy killing, a blessing in disguise?
It was a way of being released from being a fake person and being wrapped up in a world of lies.
What is the ultimate moral judgment does Nick make about Tom and Daisy
That they are both terrible people because they take advantage of people because they have money
where's eya from
Where did Nick go to school? (30 seconds)
Yale
Why is a city of 500,000 like Sacramento depicted as a rural place that is looked down upon and considered far more unsophisticated than that of East Coast cities? Is this depiction really correct?
Sacramento isn't rural, but a teenager like Ladybird growing up there might think it lacked personality as a town and was just generic in comparison to extravagant cities like New York that she dreamed of going to.
In the episode in the garage, what question does Michaelis continually ask Wilson? When Wilson explains how he told Myrtle, “you may fool me but you can’t fool God,” whose eyes is he staring out at? What might be the significance?
He is staring at Dr. T.J Eckleburg's eyes. This shows moral corruption.
What is the use of alcohol used to symbolize in the great gatsby?
- the moral degrade of the 1920's especially in the area of marriage and romance.
- wealth and social class
- the prohibition
- corruption, everything is blurred, unclear myrtles party
how did anna get injured?
her ballet teacher broke her back haha
What does Jordan's persona represent? (in relation to historical context)
She represents the “new women” of the 1920s. Jordan represents a new type of woman, with more freedom than those of previous generations.
Where do both Ladybird and Gatsby want to move to? What was depicted as being the revolving center of the American dream? 10 seconds!
New York, USA
What does Owl Eyes symbolize?
Owl Eyes symbolizes the true American Dream by doing things that he knows are morally right rather than doing things to try and gain materialistic items.
Fitzgerald wrote, “You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.” What did he have to say in Gatsby?
free if it makes sense!
annas favorite song
gucci flip flops
There's no mention of religion until the very end when Myrtle Wilson's husband claims that he told his wife that she couldn't fool God. Why is this the first mention of God? How does this surprise mention of religion function within the rest of the story?
free! if it makes sense
Ultimately, what allows Ladybird's tale to be an inspiring coming of age story? expand it better be good
- Ladybird reconciles with her past, and her story continues
- Ladybird came to terms with her background and reassess her beliefs.
- Ladybird, endmost growth only comes through the ability to accept the past as what it is, and to accept our identities, for our origins are what shape us as individuals.
Fitzgerald says "Gray, sun-strained eyes" and "golden arms" to describe Jordan, what does this symbolize?
emphasizing the emptiness in wealth
Daisy compares Gatsby to an advertisement of a man. Why?
Advertisements are used to convince people to buy a certain product or believe that a product does something, Daisy thinks of Gatsby this way because he convinced her that he was apart of an elite class that she belongs to.
eyas middle name
doesnt have one