Great Gasby ': Cheating Vs. Valley Of Ashes'

Great Gasby notes 2/1/13
[ telephone] [ telephone] [Themes]
- dinner White- daisy and Jordan $
- Tom > daisy Purity (Mistress) Green Light- daisy
Cheating v. Valley of Ashes
-angry

[EAST EGG]. [WEST EGG]
Richer. Newcomers to wealth Hard working
"Old money". " New money" Humble
> born
rich, inheritance. Work for it. Goals

[Grow up a fool].
Narration-present
Ignorance is bliss. > story- past
Innocent > present

CHARACTERS

[NICK]
WWI Family Values
Midwest- Minnesota - Narrator
(Moral fiber)

Yale- wrote for newspaper
Reflecting on experiences. WEST EGG
Bonds salesmen
Reserved judgement

[Tom]/ foil Gasby]

[Myrtle Wilson]
Married to George Wilson
Having an affair with Tom
Un satisfied with her life

[George Wilson]
Hopeless owner of auto shop at the edge of the valley
Married to myrtle

[Catherine]
Myrtle sister

[Jay Gasby]
A "newly rich"
Throws some wild parties
Nicks neighbor
Lives in a "gaudy" mansion

2/6/13
New York [blue collar]. [whote collar]
- place of freedom. Work with hands. Work with mind
- place of secrecy

Valley of ashes
- home to poor people outcast by cities
- place where ashes from cities are dumped
- valley of ashes symbolizes as dumping land and moral decay
- the ashes itself represent the rich people's
morals

[Colors]
White- morality

The purpose of the doctor ecklburgs eyes represent eyes of god

[Moral decline]
-People do not care about morality anymore.
-Tom cheats on daisy with myrtle and does not even feel guilty
-Toms affair with myrtle does not seem to bother Nick too much even though Daisy is Nicks cousin
-they lost connection with god

[Violence and Power]
- it's a minor theme in the chapter but later on becomes more important
- Tom taunts and overpowers Wilson using his social status
- he punches myrtle in the face and breaks her nose
- his actions unwittingly remind people around him that he is in authority over them

2/13/13

Gold= money
White = purity

It seems as though Gasby is starting to realize that she isn't as into

"The dream" was letting him down. Over the years he had made such prodigious expectations of what it would be like that was impossible for it to be what he wanted.

That daisy starts crying the fact that she is crying shows us that she is only worried about the money. She cries because of the money not because of any feelings for Gasby.