Great Gatsby Questions

The Great Gatsby Study GuideChapter 11. explain what Fitzgerald achieved by using slits point of view to tell Gatsbys fable? He achieves a wider look at things.2. What do we learn to the highest degree knap Carra personal manner in the introductory section of the novel? He is upper middle class and went to college.3. In discussing East Egg and West Egg, ding states, To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size. evoke what the dissimilarities Attitude, east egg is traditional west egg is the new rich.4. might be. Compare the homes of incision, Gatsby and the Buchanans. How does each(prenominal) home reflect the personality of its owners? pass is not tawdry and sm on the whole Gatsby is a show off of his big home and throws his money around. They just want to fit in. They are classic.5. Fitzgeralds description of Tom, Daisy, and Jordan creates not all an impression of physical appearance, but also contains ad ded information. What do you learn virtually their hi tosh and interests, and from their gestures and mannerisms? Tom tends to be a show off and shows what he has. Daisy is a manipulated and whispers so batch can bend close. Jordan plays golf and athletic and tom boy and very independent and not married and commands attention.6. When incision dates the Buchanans house, he is confused and a little disgusted. why? What does this suggest about his values? Because he knows Toms a player. He values. fellowship and people.7. Though we do not meet Gatsby until Chapter 3, we hear references to him in the conversations of others. Note each reference. What impression do you get? Snobby, stuck up, and flounders his money.Chapter 21. I 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 Dr. T. J. Eckleburg? Void if life, depressing. (Grey) Lack of life.2. Evaluate myrtles talk of her unhappy marriage. What does she incurm to be trying to justify? How she is unhappy with her husband.3. How does Myrtles speech reveal her character? She wants to play the victim.4. What does the diorama in this New York apartment reveal about Tom? About Myrtle? He does not care and slaps myrtle. She is desperate.5. Does Nick enjoy the subsequentlynoon at the apartment in New York? why or why not? No, because of the incident between Tom and Myrtle.Socratic Seminar QuestionsChapter 31. Chapter 3 describes Gatsbys little party. Enumerate details 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 meeting between Nick and Gatsby. remark on Fitzgeralds skill in preparing for Gatsbys entrance into the story. Very, Awkward. He uses hints.3. In what way are Nick and Gatsby similar at this point? Why are they paradoxical? He sounds just like Nick and ea t things in common. Had a normal conversation.4. What is the reason for Nicks 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, Nick meets Jordan again. The seed includes several episodes that emphasize her carelessness and basic dishonesty. Discuss these instances. What do they reveal about Jordan? About Nick?6. Notice the make it paragraph in Chapter 3. Is Nick being overly proud here? Discuss. He is thinking too much of himself, and not of others.Chapter 41. The introductory section of Chapter 4 gives a long roster of those who attended Gatsbys parties. How do they behave toward their host? Why, then, do they accept his hospitality? They go to use Gatsby.2. Describe Gatsbys car? Its a cream color, Bright with snickel.3. Discuss the details that Gatsby shares with Nick about his past. He was in the war, and his family had passed by. He travele d to the big cities. He won a medal from war.4. Does Nick believe Gatsbys story? Why or why not? No, because things dont 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 both business associates.6. Jordan Baker tells Nick about Daisy, Gatsby, and Tom. Summarize the story. When daisy meets a guy named Jay Gatsby who is a soldier and is engaged 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 away her pearls from tom then they take her a cold bath and make her hurry downstairs.7. excuse the epigraph on the title page of the novel. What does it reveal about Gatsby and his love for Daisy? He is willing to do anything for daisy.8. Do we know why Gatsby has so many partie s? Why did he buy the house? Explain. For daisy because he likes her. He wants for daisy to show up.9. 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 is trying to reach out for her. He is talking about daisy.10. When Gatsby spoke to Jordan in his library in Chapter 3, he had devised a plan 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 hands are just weighed into his pockets.2. Discuss Gatsbys actions once 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 back into Gatsbys face. What explanation does Nick give? Why, in his opinion, is daisy not at gap? He has been building this up and now he has achieved his goal. Because he built her up too much.4. Describe Daisys reactions during the course of her meeting with Gatsby. Shes so emotional.5. Has Nick been affected by the meeting between Gatsby and Daisy? In what way? Yes, because he was disappointed for Gatsby.Chapter 61. What was Gatsbys real name? Why and when had he changed it? crowd together Gatz. He changed it at the age of 17 he changed it because of Dan cody.2. In what way was Dan Cody involved 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 married woman and he wants to know more about Gatsby. Gatsby is generous and Tom is not.4. What is deeply ironic in Toms statement, . . . I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me ? He is a hypocrite.5. Note 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 only 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 find 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 Tom that she does not love him.Chapter 71. Note the use Fitzgerald makes of the weather as a background for portentous events. Point out examples in this chapter and in previous chapters. Its white-hot boiling. Points out its hot Its Hot said by Daisy.2. Gatsby has made some changes in his lifestyle that so concerned Nick that he went to stamp dow n 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 child 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 in short after lunch? Daisys affair6. What does Gatsby mean when he says that Daisys voice is full of money? Why does Fitzgerald put those words in Gatsbys emit 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.Dai sy and Gatsby ride in the white coupe. Tom had a plan going on.8. Eyes 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 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. 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 Really loves Tom.12. In what way is each of the main characters involved in the tragedy that occurs at the end of this chapter?13. Is there any significance in the fact that the day is Nicks birthday? Nick sees his 30th birthday as a significant entrance into a wor ld of loneliness, a thinning list 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 bureau when he says, . . . suddenly I guessed at the truth?16. At the end of Chapter 7 Nick observes Gatsby, Tom, and Daisy after the accident. What conclusions 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 starting to hit him. Ever since he and Daisy fell apart when she marrie d Tom, he has altogether devoted his life to acquiring wealth to impress Daisy and when her back. He has devoted his whole life and heart to this woman, and so as he watches her slipping away from him again, he knows nothing 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 purpose in breaking the story here? He had known what he was doing all along and justified his attentions.2. What had prompted Gatsby to talk freely to Nick now, when he was unwilling to do so in the past?3. What further 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 compell ed 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. Trace the movements of Gatsby and Wilson at 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 aught 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 indication 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 with Jordan Baker? Jordans scene drives apart her relationship with Nick7. What moral thought 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 violate as long they continue to have their luxurious lives.8. Explain the significance of the last page of the novel in relatio n to Gatsbys dream and the American Dream. Nicks reflections at the end of Chapter Nine of The Great Gatsby bring the motif of geography to a conclusion as Nick philosophizes that the story of Gatsby is conclusively a story