Non-Verbal Communication In 'The Great Gatsby'
What non-verbal communication is your character doing?
-Movement
-Expression
1. Walks to table stand, pours a drink
2. Sits down in armchair, has a drink
3. Slouches down into seat
4. Moans
5. Wipes forehead with napkin
6. Culches glass firmly
7. Rises from chair and walks to the window
8. Hold hands behind back and looks around the room in a pensive manor
9. Brushes away tear
10. Turns around and grips the back of the armchair
11. Turns back towards window
12. Pulls back the curtain and looks towards Gatsby’s mansion
13. Draws curtains closed
14. Sits down in armchair
What is your character saying?
“Terrible business that, about Myrtle” …show more content…
“I can’t say I’m completely innocent”
“I mean none of us are, are we?”
“If Daisy ever discovered about my affairs with Myrtle, it would create the perfect bullet to fire”
“My whole empire is balancing on the edge of a catastrophe”
“What kind of image will I have without a respectable wife”
“At least not nearly as much as I have been appalled tonight by Daisy and Gatsby’s so called burning passion”
“Gatsby is nothing but a fraud, and a hoodwinker”
“All he has is his money, and a mouth that can’t seem to stop boasting about it”
“Using his fortune as a weapon against me”
“I have offered my wife the world, what can he possible top with that” “He is taking my wife on some kind of wild ride and I won’t stand for it”
“My wife loves me dearly”
“Gatsby must be delusional, if he thinks that he and my wife are just going to skip off into the sunset”
“The reputation of Daisy and myself is in tatters, owing to idle gossip and malicious scandal regarding affairs that cannot be substantiated and have now been made public”
“My affair will die with Myrtle, and as for my wife, I will see to it that Jay Gatsby will not live to see her again”
“It is unacceptable what he has done to sweet Myrtle, her life has been tragically cut …show more content…
To express some form of empathy towards the current situation.
Frustration caused by Gatsby’s motives
Thinking back to the hotel in New York
Attempt to raise his profile above Gatsby’s
To express anger to the thought of Gatsby killing his wife.
Empathy to the horrific sights Daisy has just witnessed
Finding a way for George to escape his new found misery
Remembering myrtle in vibrant and colourful memories
Meaning Tom will miss her
Thinking of the affair between him and Myrtle
Meaning Daisy and Gatsby’s
-Movement
-Expression
1. Walks to table stand, pours a drink
2. Sits down in armchair, has a drink
3. Slouches down into seat
4. Moans
5. Wipes forehead with napkin
6. Culches glass firmly
7. Rises from chair and walks to the window
8. Hold hands behind back and looks around the room in a pensive manor
9. Brushes away tear
10. Turns around and grips the back of the armchair
11. Turns back towards window
12. Pulls back the curtain and looks towards Gatsby’s mansion
13. Draws curtains closed
14. Sits down in armchair
What is your character saying?
“Terrible business that, about Myrtle” …show more content…
“I can’t say I’m completely innocent”
“I mean none of us are, are we?”
“If Daisy ever discovered about my affairs with Myrtle, it would create the perfect bullet to fire”
“My whole empire is balancing on the edge of a catastrophe”
“What kind of image will I have without a respectable wife”
“At least not nearly as much as I have been appalled tonight by Daisy and Gatsby’s so called burning passion”
“Gatsby is nothing but a fraud, and a hoodwinker”
“All he has is his money, and a mouth that can’t seem to stop boasting about it”
“Using his fortune as a weapon against me”
“I have offered my wife the world, what can he possible top with that” “He is taking my wife on some kind of wild ride and I won’t stand for it”
“My wife loves me dearly”
“Gatsby must be delusional, if he thinks that he and my wife are just going to skip off into the sunset”
“The reputation of Daisy and myself is in tatters, owing to idle gossip and malicious scandal regarding affairs that cannot be substantiated and have now been made public”
“My affair will die with Myrtle, and as for my wife, I will see to it that Jay Gatsby will not live to see her again”
“It is unacceptable what he has done to sweet Myrtle, her life has been tragically cut …show more content…
To express some form of empathy towards the current situation.
Frustration caused by Gatsby’s motives
Thinking back to the hotel in New York
Attempt to raise his profile above Gatsby’s
To express anger to the thought of Gatsby killing his wife.
Empathy to the horrific sights Daisy has just witnessed
Finding a way for George to escape his new found misery
Remembering myrtle in vibrant and colourful memories
Meaning Tom will miss her
Thinking of the affair between him and Myrtle
Meaning Daisy and Gatsby’s