The Great Gatsby - Chapters 5 - 9

Interpret what themes continue to develop as Gatsby responds to Nick's not wanting to go to Coney Island so late at night:

"Well, suppose we take a plunge in the swimming-pool?

I haven't made use of it all summer?"

• wealth & excess

• double standards & class conflict

• sacrifice & isolation

• idealism & the American Dream

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in the text of The Great Gatsby motifs of yellow & gold serve to further describe characters and their situations.

What best analyzes the line from the tea party scene:

"An hour later the front door opened nervously, and Gatsby, in a white flannel suit, silver shirt, and gold-colored tie, hurried in."

• While Gatsby's "gold-colored tie" illustrates his optimism for getting Daisy, it also symbolizes his desperate attempt to appear like "old money," hence Gatsby is "fake" while Tom Buchanan is, in fact, old money.

  (Gold was the currency before paper money.)

• While Gatsby's "gold-colored tie" illustrates his optimism for avoiding criminal investigations, it also symbolizes his desperate attempt to not appear like an "old gangster"; Gatsby appears "fake" while Wolfsheim was authentic in his trophy tie.

  (It may be assumed that Wolfsheim took an enemy's tooth.)

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What is Jay Gatsby's original name & home location?

• James Gatz from North Dakota

• Dan Cody from Lake Superior

• James Gatz from Minnesota

• Dan Cody from California

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What line does NOT capture Gatsby's self-invention vision?

• "So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end."

• "Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace."

• "The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself."

• "Cody was fifty years old then, a product of the Nevada silver fields, of the Yukon, of every rush for metal since seventy-five."

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What best characterizes Gatsby's relationship to women from the following line:

"He knew women early, and since they spoiled him he became contemptuous of them, of young virgins because they were ignorant, of the others because they were hysterical about things which in his overwhelming self-absorption he took for granted."

• While women adored Jay Gatsby, he was critical of them.

• Jay Gatsby did not have time to have a relationship or to even date.

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What lines best shows Jay Gatsby's quixotic personality & idealism?

• "And she doesn't understand," he said. "She used to able to understand. We'd sit for hours---"

• "Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"

• "She didn't like it," he insisted. "She didn't have a good time."

• "I feel far away from her," he said. It's hard to make her understand."

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Why does Fitzgerald allude to Trimalchio at the start of Chapter 7?

• As an ancient man who dressed to be rich, Trimalchio serves as a good comparison to Jay Gatsby who wants to appear rich.

• As Pinocchio's creator, Trimalchio serves as a good comparison to Jay Gatsby who wants to create a better & richer version of himself.

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What was NOT ever a possible name for Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby?

• Under the Red, White, and Blue

• Trimalchio

• The Great Gatsby

• Oh, Daisy!

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What line shows Daisy's duplicity?

• "As he left the room again she got up and went over to Gatsby and pulled his face down, kissing him on the mouth. "'You know I love you,'" she murmured.

• "Bles-sed pre-cious," she crooned, holding out her arms. "Come to your own mother that loves you."

• "'She doesn't look like her father," explained Daisy. "'She looks like me."

• "'But it's so hot,'" insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, "'and everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!"

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What literary device best fits the following line?

"'But it's so hot,'" insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, "'and everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!"

• Pathetic Fallacy: The summer heat compares to the heated tension among Tom, Jay, & Daisy.

• Characterization: Daisy's superficial nature and pleasure-seeking personality must have constant change or she just gets bored to tears.

• Tone: Daisy's desperate tone connects to her desperate desire to go shopping in the city.

• Epiphany: Daisy's sudden realization that it is actually summer time and not cold makes her need to shop for summer clothes.

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