everything." 10. How is Gatsby introduced into the novel? His name first comes up in conversation between Nick and Jordan. Later‚ Nick sees him out on the lawn in the moonlight‚ but Gatsby quickly vanishes. These first appearances help introduce Gatsby’s mysteriousness. Chapter 2 1. What is the "valley of ashes"? The valley of ashes is an industrial zone on the way to the city. It sharply contrasts with the wealthy neighborhoods of Gatsby and the Buchanans. 2. What are the "eyes of Dr. T.
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principles of Lacan to the study of literature and explains how symbols in the literature reflect Gatsby’s desires and ties to his surrounding characters. Meehan points out Gatsby’s desire regarding Lacan’s “fundamental fantasy.” Daisy is a commodity fetish of Gatsby and simply becomes its object manifestation for Gatsby’s symbolic transformation from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby. With a chance being Gatsby’s lineage tie to America’s earliest settlers as his family may have originally
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purchase of a gaudy mansion on West Egg‚ and his lavish weekly parties are all merely means to that end. 6. Fitzgerald delays the introduction of most of this information until fairly late in the novel. Why do you think Fitzgerald would this? 7. Gatsby’s reputation precedes himGatsby himself does not even appear in a speaking role until Chapter III. Fitzgerald initially presents Gatsby as the aloof‚ mysterious host of the unbelievably opulent parties thrown every week at his mansion. He appears
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name Jay Gatsby. Mr. Gatsby is the perfect example of the torment individuals go through trying to obtain what they want but in the process having to fake who they are. Characters like Gatsby are arguably the most animated characters in the work; Gatsby’s internal conflictions are what enhance the novel as a whole. F. Scott’s Fitzgerald uses the novel to show the different social classes using the two towns‚ East Egg and West Egg. The East Egg is home to families with new money‚ they’re morality
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possessions that he does not see that money cannot buy love or happiness. Fitzgerald demonstrates how a dream can become corrupted by one’s focus on acquiring wealth‚ power‚ and expensive things. Gatsby’s American dream has become corrupted by the culture of wealth and opulence that surrounds him. Gatsby’s romantic view of wealth has not prepared him for the self-interested‚ snobbish‚ corrupt group of people with which he comes to associate. He throws lavish parties for countless people‚ yet he has
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passages on page 104 and pages 117 and 118‚ Fitzgerald utilizes diction in order to enhance Gatsby’s incarnation. The purposes of these passages is in telling of Gatsby’s dreams and ambitions‚ while displaying Gatsby’s inability to make the right decision regarding his dreams. The first passage on page 104 sets the background of Gatsby’s life‚ giving reason behind his desires for wealth and success. “[Gatsby’s] parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people…” and therefore “invented just the
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character‚ Jay Gatsby’s‚ personality. The green light reveals hope in Gatsby’s future. His mansion is also a symbol‚ representing his wealth but also how he still wishes to be classed higher in society. The Eggs also represent the barriers between the upper and lower classes of Long Island. First of all‚ the colour green that is displayed through the light that Gatsby notices "[Daisy] always [has on] that burns all night at the end of [her] dock" (91) represents Jay Gatsby’s jealousy towards
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having an affair with Myrtle Wilson‚ the wife of a garage owner in the Valley of Ashes. Nick is shocked at the lack of morality in every level. At the second party‚ Tom introduces Nick to Myrtle‚ who invites her sister Catherine and the McKees. At Gatsby’s first party in West Egg‚ Nick meets a myriad of high-profile guests‚ most of whom have not been invited‚ all of whom ignore the statute concerning prohibition. The atmosphere
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Write about some of the ways Fitzgerald tells the story in chapter 6. Fitzgerald uses Nick to introduce Gatsby’s past as “James Gatz" and his evolution into “Jay Gatsby”. Nick narrates entire the story retrospectively‚ resulting in the narration of Gatsby’s evolution containing a greater amount of Nick’s interpretations of Gatsby’s past‚ along side factuality. This is especially prominent as Nick describes Gatsby telling him “…all this very much later‚ but I’ve put it down here with the idea of exploding
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Critics of Scott Fitzgerald lend to agree that The Great Gatsby is somehow a commentary on that elusive phrase‚ the American dream. The assumption seems to be that Fitzgerald approved. On the contrary‚ it can be shown that The Great Gatsby offers some of the severest and closest criticism of the American dream that our literature affords. Read in this way‚ Fitzgerald’s masterpiece ceases to be a pastoral documentary of the Jazz Age and takes its distinguished place among those great national novels
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