The Great Gatsby Study Guide and notes

The Great Gatsby Study Guide and notes

 

 

The Great Gatsby Study Guide and notes

The Great Gatsby Study Guide

Chapter One
1. What are the recent events in Nick’s life, which have most vividly affected his personality?
The “Great War” and his time living in the East.

2. How does Nick perceive himself?
As a none judgmental person

3. Describe the Buchanan’s house.
Mansion - beautiful.

4. How does Nick know Daisy and Tom?
He and Daisy are distant cousins.

5. Describe Tom. What is your impression of him?
Athletic, large, rough, racist, snobby, a cheater

6. What kind of person is Daisy?
Sad, beautiful, gossipy, “air-head”, sarcastic

7. How does Nick feel about Daisy and Tom after his first visit with them?
Disgusted, the visit was a little awkward, over-whelmed

8. How does Nick fit into East Egg and West Egg societies?
He left his home town for a new beginning. He does exactly “fit in” because he is not among the “super rich” and he is not an Easterner.

9. How does Fitzgerald introduce the theme of gesture or superficiality?
Through elaborate description of the homes and personalities of Tom and Daisy…. The implied is that they are very stuck on themselves.

10. How much do we know about Gatsby at the end of this chapter?
Very little - he likes to be left alone, and he lives in West Egg.

Chapter Two
1. What kind of place must one pass through on the way between East/West Egg and New York City?
An industrial zone called the Valley of Ashes

2. What symbolic significance does the oculist’s billboard play throughout the rest of the novel?
Symbolic of a moral conscience! The idea that “God” is always watching. The fact that it is weathered and beat up is part of the symbolism, suggesting that morals and ethical living are not being preserved.

3. Identify Myrtle and George Wilson.
They live in the Valley of Ashes. They are the working class. George literally gets his hands dirty for a living. They are foils (literary characters that directly contrast each other) to Tom and Daisy.

4. How does the get-together in the New York apartment highlight the theme of the American Dream?
For Myrtle it is an escape from low class to money, luxury, and classy living – the “Dream” of “having it all.”

5. What reason does Myrtle give for marrying George Wilson?
She thought he was a gentlemen (had money) and could supply her with a comfortable life, when in reality, he was poor working class.

6. How is Myrtle contrasted with Daisy?
Myrtle is poor & in working class/aggressive and loud. Daisy is upper class/golden girl, passive/quiet/thin/pretty

7. What does Tom do to Myrtle when she mentions Daisy’s name? Why?
Punch/smacks her. He doesn’t want to be reminded of what he is doing. Power & control

8. Why does Nick agree to go along with Tom to New York to meet Myrtle’s friends?
Tom emphasizes how important is to Myrtle-

Chapter Three
1. What symbolic correspondence is Fitzgerald asking us to make between the preparations for Gatsby’s party and the arrival of guests?

 

2. What kinds of people come to Gatsby’s parties?
Rich, Selfish, indulgent, gossipy, famous people

3. How does Nick meet Gatsby?
Talking to who he thought was a stranger about not meeting the host Gatsby.

4. Is Gatsby a “phony”?

5. What mystique has developed about Gatsby?
He killed a man. German spy.

6. What purposes do the two digressions (Owl-eyes in the library and the car wreck) serve?
It shows us people who have every advantage and opportunity in life being careless with what they have – a general sense of –take it all for granted.

7. What is happening to Nick’s reaction to Jordan Baker? What is their relationship?
He thinks he might be in love with her…. Maybe. She is an untruthful person and a bad driver.

Chapter Four
1. What is the common denominator to all the stories about the people who meet at Gatsby’s parties?
People who are using him for his money and wealth

2. Who is Klipspringer?
He stays at Gatsby’s so often, he is nicknamed “the boarder.”

3. What “matter” does Gatsby have Jordan Baker discuss with Nick?
Gatsby asked Jordan to ask Nick to invite Daisy over for tea so that he, Gatsby, can be reunited with her.

4. Who is Wolfsheim? Where does Nick meet him?
In the city, Nick has a lunch with Gatsby and Wolfshiem is there. He is an associate of Gatsby’s, a “mobster,” who fixed the 1919 World Series.

5. What does Wolfsheim tell Nick about Gatsby?
That he is a gentleman of “good breeding,” not the type to go after anybody’s wife or anything. (FORESHADOWING!!!)

6. How does Nick know that Gatsby is lying when he starts his recitation of his life-story?
Gatsby says “educated at Oxford,” just a little too quickly. Nick notices he hurries through the sentence, and it appears as Jordan said, Gatsby isn’t being truthful.

7. What is the essence of Gatsby’s materialistic dream?
He wants DAISY to complete the dream!!!

8. What symbolic value does Daisy hold for Gatsby, and how is it the culmination of all his dreams?
Once he is with Daisy, he will have “made it!” It represents his complete achievement of the American Dream: the money, the material possessions, and the perfect, old-money, upper-class woman!

Chapter Five
1. Describe the meeting between Gatsby and Daisy. Why is he so nervous?
Gatsby is nervous because he has waited five years for this moment, to be reunited with her. He is in love with her and has been attaining all his wealth for chance to win her over!

2. How does the Gatsby façade start to fade when he comes over for tea?
He is nervous, shaking, clumsy, tripping over stuff, and completely un-composed.

3. How long did it take Gatsby to make the money to buy the mansion?
3 years

4. Why does Gatsby want Daisy to see the house and his clothes?
He wants to show off, proving to her that he can give her anything she wants, fulfill her every want and desire. Thus, Daisy would have no reason to reject him.

5. What is significant about the scene with Gatsby’s shirts?
The shirts are silver, gold, expensive material, symbolizes Gatsby’s wealth and that money is no object; that like the upper class should, he has the best of everything just because he can afford it.

6. What had the green light on the dock meant to Gatsby?
The Green light is a symbol of hope. It literally means “go.” It’s blinking at the end of that dock is representative of how close Gatsby is to fulfilling his dream. He just needs to “go for it” with Daisy.

7. How does Daisy begin to fail Gatsby as a dream-girl?
He realizes now that he is with her again, that the reality of being with her is not as fantastic and perfect as the dream of being with her. Very often our fantasies are much more perfect than the reality of a situation.

Chapter Six
1. Why does Nick tell us the story of James Gatz now instead of earlier in the book?
Nick is telling the story in the order in which the events happened and the same order in which he learned information so that we can experience the events as he did.

2. What is Gatsby’s real history? Where is he from?
Jay Gatz from Michagan; poor parents. He wanted to separate himself from that and recreate himself as he wants to be. He was digging clams and “getting by,” using women, living day to day until he met Dan Cody.

3. What did Dan Cody do for Gatsby?
Cody introduced Gatsby to the world of money and fine living. He dressed him, traveled with him and exposed him to how to conduct himself as a man of wealth and power.

4. How did the materialistic vision get its start in Gatsby?
While poor and working along the shore of Lake Superior, he dreamed of a life of grandeur, feeling destined for a life of greatness.

5. What is Daisy’s opinion of Gatsby’s party? How does this affect him?
She doesn’t seem to like it… it seems vulgar to her. She does enjoy the time she is off with Gatsby alone. Gatsby is deeply disappointed she didn’t like his party and he stops having them after that.

6. What does Gatsby mean by his fierce reaction to Nick’s statement about not repeating the past? Gatsby truly believes that if the setting is created, the past can be recaptured: the feelings, the situation, the intensity of moments can be relived. Nick tells him this isn’t true. Gatsby responds strongly that “you certainly can” because his whole reason for all the money and everything he has done for the past 5 years has been riding on that idea that reliving the past is possible.

7. How do we see Nick’s coming to understand the totality of Gatsby’s vision?
Nick realizes that Gatsby is a dreamer. He is a person who is chasing an ideal, that has a level of perfection that doesn’t really exist.

8. What does Gatsby want from Daisy?
He wants her to leave Tom but specifically telling him she never loved him. Her saying that to Tom, in Gatsby’s mind, “undoes” her marriage to him. Gatsby needs to believe that Daisy never wanted anyone but himself. The idea that Daisy loved another man is unbearable to him.

Chapter Seven
1. Why is Gatsby so disconcerted when he sees the Buchanan child?
It is a reality check!!! The child does not fit into Gatsby’s vision of the ease with which Daisy can simply leave Tom and “cancel” that part of her life. The child is a complication to his dream.

2. How deftly does Fitzgerald handle the mechanics of getting the people to New York?
They have cars and ability. The idea is presented as “something to do,” to relieve awkward tension.

3. What does Wilson do to Myrtle? Why?
He locks her in their apartment. He has become aware that Myrtle is up to something, most likely an affair, and he isn’t going to let her out.

4. What does Gatsby think about Daisy’s relationship with Tom?
He thinks it is a sham, that she married Tom because she tired of waiting for him to return from the war.

5. Why does Gatsby insist that Daisy say she never loved Tom?
Because that is a crucial piece to his vision of he and Daisy being together, that there was never an interruption in their love.

6. What happens on the way home from New York?
Gatsby hits Mrytle and kills her.

7. How does Tom react to the death of Myrtle?
He is shocked and blames Gatsby. He also will not leave Wilson’s garage until he is sure Wilson knows that the big yellow car isn’t his, that is belongs to another man so that Wilson wont’ think Tom himself killed her.

8. Why does Gatsby take the blame about the accident?
He is trying to protect Daisy from Tom.

9. What is ironic about Gatsby’s watching the window for a signal, to make sure that Tom is not abusing Daisy? Daisy and Tom are in the kitchen having beers and eating cold chicken. They are talking intimately and repairing their “relationship.”

10. What is the true relationship between Daisy and Tom by the end of this chapter?
They have “made up,” and their marriage is back in tact.

Chapter Eight
1. What does Gatsby tell Nick about his past? Is it true?
He tells about the relationship he and Daisy had, the actual time spent together and how he had to go off to war, and Daisy was supposed to wait for him to return. He also let Daisy believe that he [Gatsby] was from the same social class as her. He let her be deceived because he loves her.

2. How satisfactory is Nick’s explanation of Gatsby’s attraction to Daisy?
Very intense and specific.

3. How do you explain Gatsby’s remark that Daisy’s love for Tom was insignificant because it was just “personal”?
Daisy was supposed to love someone like Tom, someone who was from her social class and met her parents’ and society’s expectations.

4. What does Michaelis believe caused Myrtle to run?

5. Why did she run?
She thought Tom was driving that car because he was driving it earlier in the day.

6. Why does Wilson believe Gatsby is a killer?
He was hunting for the owner of the big yellow car. He knew Tom knew because Tom was driving it as the beginning of that fateful day. So, Tom told Wilson who owned the car.

7. What does Wilson do?
He goes to Gatsby’s house, shoots and kills him, and then shoots himself.

8. Do we accept as coming from Fitzgerald himself Nick’s pronouncement that Gatsby is worth the rest of the others?
Well, Nick has proven to be a reliable narrator for sure. Gatsby seems to have romantic and sincere intentions, however, he still did many immoral things to get money and reconnect with Daisy.

9. What is ironic about Gatsby’s demise?
Daisy is the who actually killed Myrtle; she was the one who was driving.

Chapter Nine
1. What is saddening about Wolfsheim’s not coming to Gatsby’s funeral?
He spoke so highly of Gatsby and claimed to be one of his closest friends.

2. Why does Fitzgerald introduce the character of Mr. Gatz?
It gives the reader a new perspective of Gatsby. Instead of a smooth-talking, aloof, wealthy many, we see Gatsby as someone’s son, a loved child of humble people. It takes away some of the mystique

3. What do we learn about Gatsby’s dream-future in his ledger in his copy of the Western novel?
He was DRIVEN, even as a young man. He has self-discipline and a very early understanding that dreams take work!

4. What does Nick say about people like Daisy and Tom? How are we to judge Nick’s reaction to Tom and Daisy?
He says they are careless people who make big messes and leave others to clean up after them. Nick’s reaction is based on the actions he observed throughout the summer.

5. What happens between Nick and Jordan Baker?
They part company, break up. Nick is so disgusted with all their unethical, immoral behaviors. There is no ugly fight, rather, they just stop talking.

6. Why does Nick return to the Midwest?
He has to get away from all the memories of the drama, the disgusting things he saw in people.

7. What significance lies in the passage about the Dutch sailors, about the boats going against the current? Gatsby spent a lot of timing trying to be someone he is not, a wealthy, upper class person. All the money, all the possessions, can’t make him fit in, like “boats going against the current.” It is futile.

8. How does this book show the destructive power of the American dream?

 

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The Great Gatsby Study Guide
Chapter One
1. Explain what Fitzgerald achieved by using Nick’s point of
view to tell Gatsby’s story?
He’s able to analyze and criticize.
2. What do we learn about Nick Carraway in the introductory
section of the novel?
From a good family, in bonds.
3. In discussing East Egg and West Egg, Nick states: “To the
wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity
in every particular except shape and size.” Indicate what the
“dissimilarities” might be.
Type of people that live there, type of homes they have.
4. Compare the home of Nick, Gatsby, and the Buchanans. How does
each home reflect the personality of its owner?
Nick’s is inexpensive; Gatsby’s is showy; the Buchanans’
represents old money.
5. Fitzgerald’s description of Tom, Daisy, and Jordan creates
not only an impression of physical appearance, but also
contains added information. What do you learn about their
history and interests from their gestures and mannerisms?
Tom’s having an affair and is abusive; Daisy is superficial
and delicate; Jordan is independent and athletic.
6. When Nick leaves the Buchanans’ house, he is “confused and a
little disgusted.” Why?
He doesn’t understand why Daisy stays with Tom; he wants her
to take the baby and leave.
7. Though we do not meet Gatsby until Chapter 3, we hear
references to him in the conversations of others. What
impressions do you get?
Various: mostly he’s a man of mystery, related to Kaiser
Wilhelm.
Chapter Two
8. In what way is the description in the opening paragraphs of
Chapter 2 appropriate to the total atmosphere of this
chapter? What is symbolic about the “Valley of Ashes” and
“the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg”?
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Morality -- a lack of it, lifeless, moral grotesqueness. Eyes
serve as a reminder.
9. Evaluate Myrtle’s talk of her unhappy marriage. What does she
seem to be trying to justify?
She thinks she’s better than her husband. She’s trying to
justify her affair.
10. How does Myrtle’s speech reveal her character?
She’s simple and materialistic.
11. What does the scene in the New York apartment reveal about
Tom? About Myrtle?
Tom: violent, selfish. Myrtle: puts on airs, sexual,
materialistic.
12. Does Nick enjoy the afternoon at the apartment in New York?
Why or why not?
No, he wants to get out and walk around the park. Yet he’s
intrigued by the group.
Chapter Three
13. Chapter 3 describes Gatsby’s “little party”. Enumerate
details about the party itself, about their conversation and
behavior.
Party: elaborate and weekends, guests: came and went,
superficial intros, behavior (everyone wants something).
14. Describe the meeting between Nick and Gatsby. Comment on
Fitzgerald’s skill in preparing for Gatsby’s entrance into
the story.
Gatsby is portrayed as polite, unassuming, ready to please.
15. In what way are Nick and Gatsby similar at this point? How
are they paradoxical?
They are both outsiders, uncomfortable in this world.
16. What is the reason for Nick’s breaking the story at this
point? Read the section beginning with “Reading over what I
have written so far . . . ”
He wants to assure the reader that this wasn’t the only thing
that occupied him.
17. At the end of Chapter 3, Nick meets Jordan again. The author
includes several episodes that emphasize her carelessness and
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basic dishonesty. Discuss these instances. What do they
reveal about Jordan? About Nick?
Jordan: hypocrisy, likes honesty but doesn’t possess it.
Nick: appears honest, tenderness for Jordan.
18. Notice the last paragraph in Chapter 3. Is Nick being overly
proud here? Discuss.
Yes, he himself is dishonest. He hasn’t broken off his
engagement yet.
Chapter Four
19. The introductory section of Chapter 4 gives a long roster of
those who attended Gatsby’s parties. How do they behave
toward their host? Why do they accept his hospitality?
They speculate about his past. They come for a good time.
20. Describe Gatsby’s car.
Long, rich cream color, numerous windows, green upholstery.
21. Discuss the details that Gatsby shares with Nick about his
past.
Son of wealthy people, war hero, educated at Oxford.
22. Does Nick believe Gatsby’s story? Why or why not?
No, because Gatsby hurries and chokes over “educated at
Oxford.”
23. Who is Meyer Wolfsheim? What seems to be his connection with
Gatsby?
A gambler who fixed the 1919 World Series, an associate of
Gatsby’s, known him for years, maybe a gangster.
24. Jordan Baker tells Nick’s story about Daisy, Gatsby, and Tom.
Summarize the story.
Gatsby and Daisy knew each other in Louisville, where he was
a lieutenant. Soon he shipped overseas, and Daisy married
Tom.
25. Explain the epigraph on the title page of the novel. What
does it reveal about Gatsby and his love for Daisy?
Gatsby has acquired his possessions and money in order to
earn Daisy’s love, the one thing he cannot buy.
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26. Do we know why Gatsby has so many parties? Why did he buy the
house? Explain.
House: across the bay from Daisy, has parties there so Daisy
will attend.
27. What new meaning do you see in the last two paragraphs of
Chapter 1? What does Nick mean when he says,” Then it had not
been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June
night”?
He was thinking of Daisy.
28. When Gatsby spoke to Jordan in his library in Chapter 3, he’d
already devised a plan involving Nick. What was it? Why did
he not ask Nick directly?
Gatsby would go to Nick’s to meet Daisy. Nick would invite
Daisy for tea. Perhaps Gatsby felt he had offended Nick
earlier.
Chapter Five
29. Gatsby’s actions in preparing for Daisy’s arrival seem both
flamboyant and absurd. What does he do? Why?
Gets grass cut, numerous flowers and cakes.
30. Discuss Gatsby’s actions once Daisy arrives. How do we know
he is nervous? How does he try to impress her?
Leaves her in the room, hands in pocket, pale as death.
31. Toward the end of the chapter, Nick attempts to explain “the
expressions of bewilderment that had come back into Gatsby’s
face.” What explanation does Nick give? Why, in his opinion,
is Daisy not at fault?
Idealization of Daisy -- moment realized.
32. Describe Daisy’s reaction during the course of her meeting
with Gatsby.
Much crying.
33. Has Nick been affected by the meeting between Gatsby and
Daisy? In what way?
Sympathetic, recognizes Gatsby’s dream, sees their love.
Chapter Six
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34. What is Gatsby’s real name? Why and when did he change it?
James Gatz, to reinvent himself, to become the person he
wants to be.
35. In what way was Dan Cody in Gatsby’s destiny?
Gatsby tasted the good life and went after it.
36. Why does Tom attend Gatsby’s party? How does this scene
reveal the contrast between Gatsby and Tom?
He’s keeping an eye on Daisy. Tom is accepted, while Gatsby
is not.
37. What is deeply ironic in Tom’s statement, “ . . . I may be
old-fashioned in my ideas but women run around too much these
days to suit me”?
It points out a double standard.
38. Note the reactions of Tom and Daisy at the different times
during Gatsby’s party? Did they enjoy themselves? Explain.
No. Tom’s uncomfortable (doesn’t like being pointed out as a
polo player, observes people in oblivion). Daisy doesn’t like
the guests.
39. What suspicions does Tom have about Gatsby? What does he vow
to do?
Gatsby got his money underhandedly. He vows to find out who
he is and how he got his money.
40. What do Nick and Gatsby talk about after the party?
Whether Daisy enjoyed herself; Gatsby’s plans with Daisy.
41. What is Gatsby expecting of Daisy that prompts Nick to warn
him, “I wouldn’t ask too much of her . . . . you cant repeat
the past”?
Tell Tom she never loved him, marry Gatsby at her house in
Louisville.
Chapter Seven
42. Note the use Fitzgerald makes of the weather as a background
for significant events. Point out examples in this chapter
and in previous chapters.
Oppressive heat, sun a constant in modern wasteland.
43. Gatsby has made some changes in his lifestyle that so concern
Nick that he goes to check on him. What changes do you note?
Why did he make them?
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No parties, fired servants -- no need to party because he has
Daisy now, servants fired to prevent gossip.
44. Analyze Daisy’s attitude toward her child in this chapter and
in Chapter 1. Is she a good mother? Explain why Gatsby looked
“at the child with surprise.”
Not a doting mother -- not a priority. It’s a realistic
reminder of Daisy’s obligations.
45. With whom does Tom talk on the telephone early in the
chapter? About what?
Talking to George. About selling his car to him.
46. What startling discovery does Tom make shortly after lunch?
Tom realizes that she’s been having an affair with Gatsby.
47. What does Gatsby mean when he says that Daisy’s voice is
“full of money”? why does Fitzgerald put these words in
Gatsby’s mouth and not Nick’s?
Her voice rings and jingles like coins. Gatsby says it as a
reminder that he recognizes that she needs money to be happy.
48. What arrangements are made regarding the passengers of each
car on the trip to the city? Why?
Gatsby drives Tom’s coupe with Daisy, while Tom arrives in
Gatsby’s car with Nick and Jordan.
49. Eyes play a significant role in this chapter. Explain.
Realization (Tom). Ever-watching (Dr. Eckleburg). Realization
(George).
50. Explain Nick’s statement paralleling Tom and Wilson: “It
occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in
intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between
the sick and the well.” Refer to the text and explain what
prompted Nick to say this.
Nick sees that tom and George have made parallel discoveries
about their wives.
51. What does Gatsby do that makes Nick want “to get up and slap
him on the back”? Why does Nick feel this way?
Gatsby simply tells the truth. He gets the upper hand.
52. Does Daisy know what love is? Whom does she really love?
No -- to her love is a fleeting emotion. She does love Tom
(what he can provide) -- and herself.
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53. In what way is each of the major characters involved in the
tragedy that occurs at the end of this chapter?
The exchange of cars (and the re-exchange of them) represents
layers of deceit.
54. Is there any significance in the fact that the day is Nick’s
birthday?
A novel about Nick’s education. This tragedy is part of his
bildungsroman (coming of age).
55. Why is it necessary for the author to introduce a new
character, Michaelis, at this point­ in the novel?
Allows us to find out what happened to Myrtle and George
prior to and during the accident.
56. Explain what Nick means when he says, “ . . . suddenly I
guessed at the truth”?
Daisy was driving the yellow car.
Chapter Eight
57. At the beginning of the chapter, the story in interrupted at
its most dramatic point. What is the author’s purpose in
breaking the story here?
Understanding now the “dream” developed.
58. What prompted Gatsby to talk freely to Nick, when he was
unwilling to do so in the past?
Perhaps it’s an attempt to keep a dying dream life.
59. What further information do we learn about Gatsby?
The intensity of their love. Daisy couldn’t wait; she wanted
her life to take shape now.
60. As Nick leaves Gatsby the morning after the accident, he
remarks, “They’re a rotten crowd.” Who are the people “they”
refers to? Why are they “rotten”?
Jordan, Daisy, Tom -- “they” -- they’re “rotten” because they
possess the snobbery of the aristocracy.
61. What is the compliment that Nick pays to Gatsby? Why does
Nick fell compelled to compliment him?
“You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” The
sincerity of Gatsby’s pursuit and his dream is far more
genuine than the superficiality of Jordan, Tom, and Daisy.
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62. Explain Nick’s meaning when he balances Gatsby’s supposed
“corruption” against his “incorruptible dream.”
Although Gatsby has participated in underhanded and illegal
activities, his dogged pursuit of his dream is his redeeming
quality.
63. How does Wilson view the “eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg”?
Does Wilson’s statement have a symbolic meaning for the novel
as a whole? Explain.
God = eyes. Wilson is playing God at this point.
64. Trace the movements of Gatsby and Wilson at the end of
Chapter 8. What is Nick’s meaning when he says, “ . . . the
holocaust was complete”?
Death = holocaust. Death of Gatsby = death of a dream.
Chapter Nine
65. What makes Nick assume responsibility for the funeral
arrangements? Specify the things he did.
No one else would. Letter to Wolfsheim.
66. What version of the tragedy appeared in the newspapers? How
would you account for the fact that this version went
unchallenged and uncorrected?
Wilson is struck by grief, Myrtle was not involved in an
affair. That’s what people want to believe.
67. How did Gatsby’s father learn of the tragedy? To what extent
does the father know his son?
It was in the Chicago newspapers. The father doesn’t know
about Gatsby’s dark side, is other life.
68. Discuss the significance of Gatsby’s boyhood program for
self-improvement.
He believed if you worked hard enough, you could achieve the
American Dream.
69. What is the irony of Gatsby’s funeral?
Many people used to go to his parties. No one goes to his
funeral.
70. What is the significance of including the scene with Jordan
Baker?
Nick cuts the last ties with the East. Last item left to
conclude.
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71. What moral judgment does Nick make about Tom and Daisy?
Discuss.
They were careless people. They retreated back into their
money or vast carelessness and let other people clean up
their messes.
72. Explain the significance of the last page of the novel in
relation to Gatsby’s dream and to the American dream.
The dream is always behind us.

 

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