Gatsby Anticipation Guide

The Great Gatsby
ANTICIPATION GUIDE
English 11: Mr. Borah/Mrs. Lee
Directions: Answer the following questions based on your own experiences, thoughts, and beliefs. Answer in complete sentences.
1. How might people who are born into wealth compare and contrast to those who are “nouveau riche” or acquired their wealth overnight? People who are born into wealth tend to be greedy and selfish, while people who acquire their wealth understand the concepts of hard labor and selflessness.

2. Would you date or marry someone just for money? What would be the advantages and disadvantages of doing this? I would not, the person who I date or marry should be the one I’m attracted to and I know who is for me and one that I can deal with the rest of my life.
Advantages would of course being wealthy, disadvantages would be never finding your true love and being truly happy.

3. What defines a person’s social class today? Would you date or marry someone below your own social class? What would be your parent’s reaction? How would you or your parents be different if the person was above your social class? The social classes today are radically different parts of the world. For the USA, I suppose the social classes are combined with the wealth classes.
I would definitely date someone below my social class if I’m attracted to them and I like that person. I would make my parents respect my decisions, by then I will be an adult and they shouldn’t be telling me what to do and what to think.
If the person was above my social class, I’d be surprised. My parents would likely be impressed and fearful that the person may be using me somehow. Wealthy people always have an Agenda to ensure their power.

4. What dreams and hopes do you have for your future? Go to college, get a degree. Be happy, successful, debt free. Have a girlfriend, a wife later on, then have kids. Own a Tesla model S, or even future models as they come out. Also, I hope to go to another planet before I die or at least go into space. That’d be quite the adventure…

5. What goals do you have for life in the next five years? 10 years? 20 years? Survive college, get a degree, a job. Be happy, travel the world, and make new friends, foreign and domestic. Get a girlfriend, then have a wife. Then have kids maybe, if the world hasn’t become too bad by pollution or war.

6. Can money really buy happiness? Explain. No, fiat currency such as the dollar cannot buy happiness for all people. The rich benefit and sort of happy, but us people in the middle and lower classes suffer as we pay all the taxes.
Money, such as currency can only bring distrust, debt, and suffering to all.
Gold and Silver are the only hard value assets that never go away, even though they don’t insure happiness either, they at least act as a safeguard for your wealth when all the currencies collapse (aka the dollar).

7. Is the love of money really the root of all evil?
Yes it is, it breeds greed, corrupted, and power hungry people into the world. It causes nations to go to war for profit, companies to pollute the environment, and the thirsty government to tax its innocent citizens.