Explain that quote!
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
Daisy is stating that for women to be happy in this world, they have to ignore the injustices done to them and just embrace their beauty because that is how they'll get where they want to go.
The root in Frederick Douglass
Frederick's strength and confidence
1925
Published date of The Great Gatsby
"At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete."
Similar & Metaphor
What was the name of the slave owner Frederick battled with?
Mr. Covey
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
This is Wolfshiem making an excuse for not coming to Gatsby's funeral, but he makes a good point -- you need to love your friends and show your appreciation while they are alive and not when they are dead.
The Valley of Ashes
The socioeconomic divide between the rich and the poor
1920-1930
The Roaring Twenties, or The Jazz Age
"It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood."
Metaphor - The Battle with Mr. Covey
Name the five main characters from The Great Gatsby, in order of importance.
Nick
Gatsby
Daisy
Tom
Jordan
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...
Nick has now combined Daisy in his resentment of Tom, due to her not even acknowledging Gatsby's death. He realizes neither Tom nor Daisy care because they can always retreat back to their money to get away from their problems, and leave other people (Nick) to deal with the consequences.
The green light
Gatsby's hope that one day he and Daisy will be together again
1922
The date in which The Great Gatsby is set.
Name each character type and give an example.
Dynamic - Gatsby
Static - Tom, Daisy
Flat - Jordan
Round - Nick
The name of Frederick's friend who gave him the supernatural root.
Sandy Jenkins
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter -- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... And one fine morning ----
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Nick highlights the struggle to re-create the past while also trying to adapt to the future. The past serves as ideas for the future, and we cannot get to that future without struggling to get over that past, and failing, while the future barely stays outside of our grip.
Gray-clad soldiers
The grey symbolizes the confederate army.
1920
The year in which the 19th amendment was passed - granting women suffrage.
An example of this literary device is Frederick Douglass describing the blood on his face
Imagery
Name the author of The Great Gatsby.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
No -- Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
Nick is referencing Daisy and how she ruined him because of how obsessed he was over his dream for her. Gatsby's hope in a world where people were careless is what Nick admired, and what Nick hated about New York is how the Jazz Age ruined that hope.
Doctor TJ Eckleburg
He represents, at least to George, the eyes of God and the judgemental aspect of what every character is doing in the book.
1917
The year in which Daisy and Gatsby meet for the first time and fall in love.
Name the three points of view used in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
Omniscient
Objective
Third-Person-Limited
Why did Mr. Covey treat Frederick nice when he returned to the plantation?
It was Sunday, and Covey didn't want to be mean on God's day.