Crash Course: The Great Gatsby Part 2

The focus question of this presentation is 

• a) Can Daisy love anyone?

• b) How is Tom punished in the novel?

• c) Is Gatsby truly great?

• d) Will Nick marry Jordan?

• e) Does Myrtle stay with George?

Critic Matthew Brucolli says Gatsby is great because of

• a) impeccable taste in clothes

• b) generosity to people he doesn't know

• c) unwavering commitment to his dreams

• d) his desire to defeat Tom Buchanan

• e) his willingness to give out second chances

Like Romeo and Juliet, Gatsby is obsessed with

• a) forbidden love

• b) finding out who his parents were

• c) loyalty to best friend

• d) guilt for his friend's death

• e) time

Green says that Gatsby wants to restore

• a) Nick's house to its former glory

• b) the beautiful past

• c) the beautiful future

• d) George's Wilson's business

• e) Tom Buchanan's soul

If Gatsby only wanted Daisy to run away with him now - forget the past....do you think she would have gone? Would they have been able to live happily ever after? Is Gatsby sabotaging himself by demanding that Daisy confess that she "NEVER" loved Tom?

According to Green, Gatsby is doomed by

• a) his own noble actions toward Daisy

• b) Nick's betrayal of their friendship

• c) Jordan's scandalous lies about the accident

• d) the hypocritical culture that bad-mouths him

• e) a and d

According to Green, the perfect symbol for American hypocrisy and debauchery (sinfulness) is

• a) The Civil War

• b) Reconstruction

• c) The Roaring 20s

• d) Prohibition

• e) The Stock Market Crash

According to Green, the novel's culture cares nothing for

• a) poor people

• b) children

• c) justice

• d) happiness

• e) marriage

The characters who survive the novel share this trait:

• a) cruelty

• b) carefulness

• c) carelessness

• d) a love of laissez-faire economics

• e) hard work

Answer John Green's question....is Gatsby great?  Write a complete paragraph about Jay Gatsby.