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What's in a Name?
Plod Through Plot
He Said, She Said
Quality Quotes
Literary Elements
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The narrator of the book, claims to be honest
Who is Nick?
100
This is what the green light symbolizes
What is Daisy and the American Dream?
100
This is what is going on when this quotes is said: “‘She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ‘All right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world. A beautiful little fool,’” (Fitzgerald 17).
What is Daisy in her lawn explaining to Nick her response when she discovered her baby was a girl?
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What is the importance of this quote to the book? “Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afreait of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth,” (Fitzgerald 2).
What is since Nick supposedly doesn't judge anyone, he is often privy to the secrets of others. If you judge people, you can't get to know them long enough to hear full truths about them?
100
A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.
What is an allusion?
200
Gatsby's lover, and her voice is said to be full of money
Who is Daisy?
200
Nick says that The Great Gatsby is a story about what part of the country?
What is the West?
200
The conversation about Tom's woman in New York during the first dinner party is happening between...
Who are Nick and Jordan?
200
What is the importance of this quote? “Thirty – the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair. But there was Jordan beside me, who, unlike Daisy, was too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age,” (Fitzgerald 135).
What is Nick is pointing out that with age you come to know that dreams don't always come true. He and Jordan realize that it is unhealthy to hold onto a dream for too long which is what Gatsby does. Time is an important part of The Great Gatsby, and Gatsby has not changed with time because his dream has remained the same since he was a teenager?
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A statement that contradicts itself and still seems true somehow.
What is paradox?
300
Occasionally violent, hulking brute concerned with the condition of civilization
Who is Tom?
300
In the book the wealth and recklessness of the 1920s is often symbolized by what recurring symbol
What is the automobile?
300
This quote is said after what major event? “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams – not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. If had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart,” (Fitzgerald 95-96). incident in the story:
What is right after Daisy and Gatsby spend the afternoon together for first time in about 5 years. Nick sets it up?
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What is the importance of this quote: “It passed, and he began to talk excitedly to Daisy, denying everything, defending his name against accusations that had not been made. But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room,” (Fitzgerald 134).
This is the moment where Gatsby's dream is officially over. She draws further away from Gatsby and closer to Tom. He grasps to try and get her back, but he does not succeed, and he loses her forever.
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Style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer.
What is diction?
400
Tries desperately and unsuccessfully to escape the hopelessness of the Valley of the Ashes.
Who is Myrtle?
400
In The Great Gatsby this season symbolizes new beginnings
What is Autumn/Fall?
400
What is going on when this quote happens in the story: “—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 way, that might have been the end of a dock,” (Fitzgerald 21).
What is Nick sees Gatsby for the first time after returning from Daisy and Tom's at the beginning of the book?
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What does this quote mean? “—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 way, that might have been the end of a dock,” (Fitzgerald 21).
What is here we see the first instance of the American Dream represented by the green light. Daisy is the green light, and from the very first chapter we see that Gatsby is so entranced by the green light (Daisy) that he doesn't realize that he is in the presence of others. The green light, Daisy, is what he is living for?
400
A figure of speech where an object, person, or situation has another meaning other than its literal meaning.
What is Symbolism?
500
Surprised that Gatsby's books are real and is the only party guest to attend Gatsby's funeral
Who is Owl Eyes?
500
This is what makes Gatsby's character the GREAT Gatsby
What is his extreme ability to dream?
500
What is this quote in response to? “I would have accepted without question the information that Gatsby sprang from the swamps of Louisiana or from the lower East Side of New York. That was comprehensible. But young men didn’t – at least in my provincial inexperience I believed they didn’t – drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island Sound,” (Fitzgerald 49).
What is to all of the rumors Nick has been hearing about Gatsby?
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What is the importance of this quote? "He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass."
What is Nick speculates on the sense of loss that Gatsby must have been feeling on the day of his murder. He feels, that with Daisy gone forever, Gatsby may have come face to face with the "real world" for the first time in years?
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A literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer.
What is repetition?