Great Gatsby Questions

The large Gatsby Study GuideChapter 11. Explain what Fitzgerald achieved by using dents heading of view to tell Gatsbys reputation? He achieves a wider look at things.2. What do we learn somewhat incision Carra mood in the introductory section of the young? He is upper middle class and went to college.3. In discussing East clod and West Egg, incision states, To the wingless a more(prenominal) arresting phenomenon is their dis correspondingity in every particular(a) tho shape and size. Indicate what the dissimilarities Attitude, east nut case is traditional west egg is the b are-assed rich.4. talent be. Compare the homes of snick, Gatsby and the Buchanans. How does each home reflect the reputation of its owners? incision is non flashy and sm every last(predicate) Gatsby is a envision off of his big home and throws his capital around. They just want to fit in. They are classic.5. Fitzgeralds description of tom turkey, Daisy, and Jordan creates non just now an im pression of corporal appearance, but also contains added information. What do you learn ab reveal their hi narrative and interests, and from their gestures and mannerisms? turkey cock t repeals to be a expose off and shows what he has. Daisy is a manipulated and whispers so bulk can b lay off close. Jordan plays golf and athletic and tom turkey boy and very indep destructionent and not married and commands attention.6. When chip leaves the Buchanans firm, he is confused and a little disgusted. wherefore? What does this send word ab out(p) his values? Because he knows Toms a player. He values. Friendship and people.7. Though we do not meet Gatsby until Chapter 3, we hear references to him in the confabulations of others. cross off each reference. What impression do you get? Snobby, stuck up, and keels his money.Chapter 21. I what right smart is the description in the opening splits of Chapter 2 appropriate to the total air of this chapter? What is emblematical mor e or less the valley of ashes and the look of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg? profane if life story, depressing. (Grey) Lack of life.2. Evaluate Myrtles inter incline of her unhappy marriage. What does she seem to be trying to liberate? How she is unhappy with her husband.3. How does Myrtles speech let on her character? She wants to play the victim.4. What does the picture in this newborn York by(predicate)ment reveal well-nigh Tom? roughly Myrtle? He does not motorcare and slaps myrtle. She is desperate.5. Does cut enjoy the afternoon at the apartment in New York? Why or wherefore not? No, because of the incident betwixt Tom and Myrtle.Socratic Seminar QuestionsChapter 31. Chapter 3 describes Gatsbys little party. enumerate expand about the party itself, about the guests and about their conversation and behavior. He has caters, replaces dresses, has a buffet, serves two dinners.2. Describe the coming upon between dent and Gatsby. Comment on Fitzgeralds skill in preparing fo r Gatsbys catch into the story. Very, Awkward. He uses hints.3. In what focal point are snick and Gatsby similar at this point? Why are they ludicrous? He sounds just like chip and check things in common. Had a normal conversation.4. What is the reason for break offs breaking the story at this point?Read the section beginning with Reading over what I have written so far . . . Proving that his normal. They are very similar5. At the end of Chapter 3, come off meets Jordan again. The author includes several episodes that emphasize her carelessness and prefatory dishonesty. talk about these instances. What do they reveal about Jordan? closely Nick?6. Notice the closing curtain paragraph in Chapter 3. Is Nick being overly proud here(predicate)? Discuss. He is thinking besides such(prenominal) of himself, and not of others.Chapter 41. The introductory section of Chapter 4 gives a commodious roster of those who attended Gatsbys parties. How do they dress toward their hos t? Why, then, do they accept his hospitality? They go to use Gatsby.2. Describe Gatsbys car? Its a cream color, Bright with nickel.3. Discuss the detail that Gatsby shares with Nick about his past tense. He was in the war, and his family had passed away. He traveled to the big cities. He won a medal from war.4. Does Nick believe Gatsbys story? Why or why not? No, because things assumet match up. Because Gatsby carries a picture and a medal.5. Who is Meyer Wolfsheim? What seems to be his connection with Gatsby? He is Gatsby Acquaintance. Because theyre two business associates.6. Jordan Baker tells Nick about Daisy, Gatsby, and Tom. summarise the story. When daisy meets a guy digitd Jay Gatsby who is a soldier and is in use(p) but he goes to war and she ends up and leaves the house and she gets caught but doesnt speck her parents and still goes out with no soldiers. Gets engaged in February and marries. The night be for her wedding she gets smashed and gets drunk and throws awa y her pearls from tom then they take her a cold clean and cave in her hurry downstairs.7. Explain the epigraph on the agnomen page of the novel. What does it reveal about Gatsby and his get by for Daisy? He is willing to do anything for daisy.8. Do we know why Gatsby has so many parties? Why did he sully the house? Explain. For daisy because he likes her. He wants for daisy to show up.9. What new sum 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 is trying to orbital cavity out for her. He is talking about daisy.10. When Gatsby spoke to Jordan in his library in Chapter 3, he had devised a fancy involving Nick. What was it?Why did he not ask Nick directly? Because wanted nick to invite daisy to nicks and Gatsby would show up to nicks house.Chapter 51. Gatsbys actions in preparing for Daisys arrival seem both flamboyant and absurd. What does he do? Why? Hes trembling and his pass on are just weighed into his pockets.2. Discuss Gatsbys actions at one time Daisy arrives. How do we know he is nervous? How does he try to impress her? He shows his house.3. Toward the end of the chapter, Nick attempts to explain the expression of bewilderment that had come foul into Gatsbys face. What explanation does Nick give? Why, in his opinion, is daisy not at fault? He has been create this up and now he has achieved his goal. Because he create her up too much.4. Describe Daisys reactions during the course of her meeting with Gatsby. Shes so emotional.5. Has Nick been moved(p) by the meeting between Gatsby and Daisy? In what way? Yes, because he was disappointed for Gatsby.Chapter 61. What was Gatsbys real fall upon? Why and when had he counterchanged it? James Gatz. He changed it at the age of 17 he changed it because of Dan cody.2. In what way was Dan Cody problematic in Gatsbys destiny?3. Why does Tom attend Gatsbys party?How does this scene reveal that contrast between Gatsby and Tom? Because he was asked to and to keep an eye on his wife and he wants to know more about Gatsby. Gatsby is generous and Tom is not.4. What is deeply ironic in Toms assertion, . . . I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these twenty-four hour periods to suit me? He is a hypocrite.5. pedigree the reactions of Tom and Daisy at different times during Gatsbys party. Did they enjoy themselves? Explain. No, Tom did not enjoy himself and Daisy all liked the actress under the tree.6. What suspicions does Tom have about Gatsby? What does he vow to do? His past where he got his money because thinks hes a bootlegger. He will run a risk out the truth about Gatsby and everything about Gatsby.7. What do Nick and Gatsby talk about after the party? How daisy didnt like it.8. What is Gatsby expecting of Daisy that prompts Nick to warn him, I wouldnt ask too much of her . . . You cant repeat the past? For Daisy to tell To m that she does not bop him.Chapter 71. flavor the use Fitzgerald makes of the weather as a orbit for significant events. Point out examples in this chapter and in previous chapters. Its intense boiling. Points out its hot Its Hot said by Daisy.2. Gatsby has make some changes in his lifestyle that so concerned Nick that he went to check on him. What changes do you note? Why did he make them? The staff was fired and he rehired new people except the gardener because daisy did not see him. To make it all about Daisy.3. Analyze daisys attitude toward her squirt as evidenced in this chapter and in Chapter 1. Is she a good mother? Explain why Gatsby looked at the child with surprise. She agreed to stay with her husband for her child. He didnt think she was the women she was 5 years ago and the baby cant go away4. With whom does Tom talk on the telephone early in the chapter? About what? George about the car deal.5. What startling discovery does Tom make shortly after tiffin? Dai sys affair6. What does Gatsby mean when he says that Daisys vocalisation is full of money? Why does Fitzgerald put those actors line in Gatsbys mouth and not Nicks? She has changed. Its a way of Gatsby way of growing up.7. What arrangements are made regarding the passengers of each car on the trip to the city? Why? Tom, Jordan, Nick take the yellow car.Daisy and Gatsby ride in the innocence coupe. Tom had a plan going on.8. look play a significant role in this chapter. Explain. Gods watching you and watches everything.9. Explain Nicks statement paralleling Tom and Wilson. . . . it occurred to me that thither was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so cloudy as the difference between the sick and the well. have-to doe with to the text and explain what prompted Nick to say this. The both discovered that there wifes are having affairs.10. What does Gatsby do that makes Nick want to get up and slap him on the back? Why does Nick feel this way? Because he said that he wife does not love him.11. Does Daisy know what love is? Whom does she really love? No. She loves Gatsby but sincerely loves Tom.12. In what way is each of the main characters involved in the cataclysm that occurs at the end of this chapter?13. Is there any deduction in the fact that the day is Nicks birthday? Nick sees his thirtieth birthday as a significant entrance into a world of loneliness, a thin make of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair. 14. Why is it necessary for the author to introduce a new character, Michaelis, at this point in the novel?15. Explain what Nick means when he says, . . . shortly I guessed at the truth?16. At the end of Chapter 7 Nick observes Gatsby, Tom, and Daisy after the accident. What terminations does he reach? After observing Gatsby, Tom, and Daisy after the accident at the end of chapter 7 of the Great Gatsby, Nick comes to the conclusion that Myrtle must have been hit by Gatsby and Daisy, driving back from the city in Gatsbys big yellow automobile.17. Explain the last paragraph of Chapter 7.Before the trip into the city and the accident, Gatsby was convinced that Daisy was in love with him and would without a doubt leave Tom for him. When he watches Daisy and Tom in the kitchen, the reality of the situation is start to hit him. Ever since he and Daisy fell apart when she married Tom, he has entirely abandoned his life to acquiring wealth to impress Daisy and when her back. He has devoted his solely life and heart to this fair sex, and so as he watches her slipping away from him again, he knows zip more than to return to his vigil over the woman that has controlled his life.Chapter 81. At the beginning of the chapter, the story is interrupted at its most dramatic point. What is the authors point in breaking the story here? He had known what he was doing all a extensive and confirm his attentions.2. What had prompted Gatsby to talk freely to Nick now, when he was nonvolunt ary to do so in the past?3. What encourage information do we learn about Gatsby? He loved Daisy and wrote her.4. As Nick leaves Gatsby the morning after the accident, he remarks, Theyre a rotten crowd. Enumerate the people they refers to. Why are they rotten?He refers to Tom, Daisy. Because they are hypocrites, Liars.5. What is the compliment that Nick pays to Gatsby? Why does Nick feel compelled to commend Gatsby? He only complimented them only once. He really wanted to give him a push.6. Explain Nicks meaning when he balances Gatsbys supposed corruption against his incorruptible dream. Nick means that Gatsby used an illegal and corrupt way of obtaining money all in the name of a pure uncorrupted dream of starting a life with the love of his life, Daisy.7. How does Wilson view the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg? Does Wilsons statement have a symbolic level for the novel as a whole? Explain. They are the eyes of god. God is watching you.8. adopt the movements of Gatsby and Wilson a t the end of Chapter 8. What Nicks meaning when he says, . . . the holocaust was complete? When George dies its the end of the Holocaust.Chapter 91. What makes Nick assume responsibility for the funeral arrangements? Specify the things he did. Because nobody comes thru. Calling people for the funeral. Trying to find Gatsby father to be there and getting Daisy to be there as well.2. What version of the tragedy appeared in the newspapers? How would your account for the fact that this version went unchallenged and uncorrected? Portraying George was crazy.3. Hos had Gatsbys father learned of the tragedy? To what extent does the father know his son? The papers. That he was proud of his son he knows him as a figure not as a son.4. Discuss the significance of Gatsbys boyhood program for self-improvement? It got him to change himself.5. What is the irony of Gatsbys funeral? How nobody shows up to a funeral but to a party people showed up.6. What is the significance of including the scene w ith Jordan Baker? Jordans scene drives apart her intercourseship with Nick7. What moral judgment does Nick make about Tom and Daisy? Discuss. The moral judgment that Nick makes regarding Tom and Daisy is that they are self-centered people who do not care whose lives they hurt as long they continue to have their luxurious lives.8. Explain the significance of the last page of the novel in relation to Gatsbys dream and the American Dream. Nicks reflections at the end of Chapter Nine of The Great Gatsby bring the motif of geographics to a conclusion as Nick philosophizes that the story of Gatsby is conclusively a story