Various
Identify lit.dev. in the following quote:
At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.
simile:
like a flower
She smiled slowly and, walking through her husband as if he were a ghost, shook hands with Tom, looking him flush in the eye.
as if he were a ghost
How is Daisy connected to the French theme?
borne in Louisville (French heritage)
“He came to us dead broke. He was very glad to pick up some money, old sport.”
“Don’t you call me ‘old sport’!” cried Tom.
old sport
Who is who here?
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
GG - pursuing
D - pursued
Wilson - tired
Tom - busy
Identify lit.dev. in the title:
“The Great Gatsby”
Alliteration (G)
Assonance (a, t)
Who was "bleeding fluently" on the couch in ch.2 and what does it foreshadow?
Myrtle
death
How is Gatsby connected to the French theme?
his mansion was "a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy"
“I’ll tell you God’s truth.” His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by. “I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West — all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford, because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition.”
“I’ll tell you God’s truth.”
educated at Oxford
What does it tell us about the AD?
For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing.
a promise
a fairy’s wing - not real? luring?
What character symbolises hope, love, purity and innocence?
Daisy
Identify foreshadowing here:
A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.
the wine-colored rug
Daisy causing bloodshed
How is Gatsby and Nick connected to the French theme?
WW1
"We talked for a moment about some wet, gray little villages in France."
“I mean it,” she insisted. “I’d love to have you. Lots of room.”
Gatsby looked at me questioningly. He wanted to go, and he didn’t see that Mr. Sloane had determined he shouldn’t.
“I’m afraid I won’t be able to,” I said.
()
“I haven’t got a horse,” said Gatsby. “I used to ride in the army, but I’ve never bought a horse. I’ll have to follow you in my car. Excuse me for just a minute.”
()
“My God, I believe the man’s coming,” said Tom. “Doesn’t he know she doesn’t want him?”
"he didn’t see"
What does it tell us about the AD?
I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed — that voice was a deathless song.
luring
trapp
Siren
perish
What character symbolises love, beauty, fertility?
Myrtle
Identify foreshadowing here:
Luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers, and set it back in place. (…)
I think we all believed for a moment that it had smashed in pieces on the floor.
the clock
G. saving D. and losing his own life.
How is Daisy and Tom connected to the French theme?
"They had spent a year in France"
French windows of their house
Who could have said it?
How is it connected to the theme of "not belonging"?
“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 / Daisy
trying to be/look/seem someone he is not
What does it tell us about the AD?
"he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward — and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.
a single green light:
light - longing, dream
green - luring, illusion, hope
water between - unreachable
Fill in the blank:
The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of __.
His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of __.
God
Identify foreshadowing here:
Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips, 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. “Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.”
four candles
D. responsible for destruction of: G, T, M, N.
How is Myrtle connected to the French theme?
furniture:
"a copy of Town Tattle over the tapestry scenes of Versailles"
How is it connected to the theme of "not belonging"?
Her eye-brows had been plucked and then drawn on again at a more rakish angle, but the efforts of nature toward the restoration of the old alignment gave a blurred air to her face.
true nature comes through the constracted persona making illusion obvious
`What does it tell us about the AD?
He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was. . . .
His life had been confused and disordered -
it ruins him...