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Nick
Modernism
Quotes
Symbols Revisited
Lit Terms
100
Nick goes to New York to become this.
What is a bondsman?
100
Modernist identities that developed in literature by 1945 include:
At least 1 1. Denizen of the wasteland: wanderer through a war-wearied landscape, spiritually exhausted, in search of new values. 2. Member of the Lost Generation: disillusioned, self-indulgent, escapist, expatriated. 3. Triumphant commoner: believer in the innate strength of those who remain close to the land. 4.African American Artist: creator of art drawn from the African American experience
100
"Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"
Who is Jay Gatsby
100
The sightless eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg represent these four things:
Okay, at least three 1.the ambitions of a once thriving oculist. 2. the eyes of a God who is no longer present. 3. George Wilson. 4. Gatsby's inability to see things as they really are.
100
hulking. ... hulking
What is repetition?
200
This is how much Nick's cottage costs per month
What is $80 dollars a month?
200
Modernist artists depended primarily on
What is experimentation? "Make it new"
200
“Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive.”
Who is Tom Buchanan
200
Car crashes and drunkenness.
What is the destructive, carelessness with which people treat each other.
200
The fact that we know Tom's having an affair with Myrtle, but George doesn't and he's standing right next to the both of them asking about that car Tom was going to sell him.
What is dramatic irony.
300
Nick's attracted to Jordan initially because she is
What is contemptuous?
300
What imagist poet is famous for giving the modernist rallying cry: "Make it new?"
Who is Ezra Pound?
300
“I married him because I thought he was a gentleman … I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.”
Who is Myrtle Wilson?
300
Wilson's anemic face
What is death
300
Belasco
What is an allusion
400
Nick's background accomplishes this in terms of presenting him as a narrator.
What is establishes the moral foundation by which Nick will view others, and presents him as an unbiased and reliable narrator.
400
What values, attitudes, and ideas grew from the major social and political events in the first half of the 20th century
At least 1: Disillusionment with old ideas and values Greater democratization with an expanding middle class Wider cultural awareness Fragmentation of experience
400
"God sees everything."
Who is George Wilson?
400
The Beautiful Shirts (also a great pop/punk band name of posers)
What is wealth!
400
Fitzgerald following Gatsby's kiss with Daisy at his party with the backstory of how he accomplished his will under the mentorship of Dan Cody
What is juxtaposition.
500
Nick's choice to return here at the end of the novel insinuates that Americans should value rural life as urban attempts at the American Dream are inherently corrupt and hollow
What is Minnesota?
500
"Stream of conciousness" is this
What is the natural flow of thoughts, memories, and insights.
500
“I won’t be able to get away for the funeral, but will you please send my shoes?”
Who is Klipspringer
500
Wolfsheim's cuff buttons made of human molars
What is opulence through death (the man is making a fashion statement, wearing death around).
500
"two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all"
What is an oxymoron?