Chapter 6: Directions: Be sure to answer all questions in complete sentences. You must answer all parts of the question for credit. Words to remember: You can t repeat the past. 1. In 3-5 sentences, summarize Gatsby s origin story. 2. Why do many celebrities (John Legend, Vin Diesel, Nicki Minaj, Jamie Foxx, Bruno Marz) change their names? Why does James Gatz change his name? 3. What was Dan Cody s flaw and how does it influence Gatsby? 4. What happened to the fortune that Gatsby was about to inherit from Dan Cody? 5. Why does F. Scott Fitzgerald tell us this information now? Why not give us Gatsby s backstory in Chapter 1 or 2? 6. When Nick next sees Gatsby, who is there with him? 7. Gatsby invites Tom and his friends to stay for dinner and they politely decline. Tom insincerely invites Gatsby over for dinner, but Gatsby accepts. Why is this such a big deal? 8. Compare and contrast this party to the party in Chapter 3. Why does this one feel different? 9. According to Tom, how did Gatsby earn his money? According to Daisy, how did Gatsby earn his money? Which one is closer to the truth? Do you think the truth at this point matters? Explain your thoughts. 10. What does Gatsby want from Daisy? Be specific. 11. You can t repeat the past. Can t repeat the past? Gatsby cried incredulously. Why, of course you can! I m going to fix everything just the way it was before. She ll see. For someone who at the start of the chapter seemed to be trying to avoid his past, why is Gatsby so fixated on reliving it? 12. Go back through the chapter and make a list of the colors mentioned and what they are describing. Make sure you include the page number. (I would highly suggest creating some sort of table in your notes because you will be keeping track of the colors mentioned in each chapter of this book.) Color Description from the text Page Number Red Tom s House: a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, 6 overlooking the bay Red Tom s House: brick walks and burning gardens 6
Vocabulary: Look at the chapter list on page 5. Write a complete sentence for each word. Meretricious Ineffable Reverie Lethargic Menagerie Discussion Notes from Class:
Chapter 7: Directions: Be sure to answer all questions in complete sentences. You must answer all parts of the question for credit. Words to remember: She s going to stay there till the day after tomorrow, and then we re going to move away. 1. Fitzgerald makes an allusion to Trimalchio. Who is Trimalchio? Why is he referenced? 2. What character is introduced in this chapter and why does her appearance surprise Gatsby? 3. Explain the moment where Daisy says: You re always so cool. How is that Daisy telling Gatsby, I love you. 4. What does Tom insist on doing at this very moment? What is Daisy s reaction? 5. Why does Wilson need money all of a sudden? 6. What parallel does Nick make between Wilson and Tom? 7. Who does Myrtle think Jordan is? 8. What s the story with Gatsby being an Oxford man? 9. What does Gatsby tell Tom? Why on earth would he tell Tom this? 10. She hesitated. Her eyes fell on Jordan and me with a sort of appeal, as though she realized at last what she was doing and as though she had never, all along, intended doing anything at all. But it was done now. It was too late. Explain Daisy s internal conflict. 11. Who wins the argument? How can you tell? 12. What happens to Myrtle? Why does she run towards the yellow car? 13. How does Nick feel towards everything that has happened up to that point? Be specific. 14. Give 3 details that Gatsby reveals about the accident? 15. What are Tom and Daisy doing in the kitchen? How are supposed to feel about this? 16. Go back through the chapter and make a list of the colors mentioned and what they are describing. Make sure you include the page number. (I would highly suggest creating some sort of table in your notes because you will be keeping track of the colors mentioned in each chapter of this book.) Color Description from the text Page Number Red Tom s House: a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, 6 overlooking the bay Red Tom s House: brick walks and burning gardens 6
Vocabulary: Look at the chapter list on page 6. Write a complete sentence for each word. Caravansary Harrowing Abyss Rancor Magnanimous Discussion Notes from Class:
Chapter 8: Directions: Be sure to answer all questions in complete sentences. You must answer all parts of the question for credit. Words to remember: You may fool me, but you can t fool God. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- 1. Cite evidence from Chapter 8 Why was Gatsby so in love with Daisy? 2. Why doesn t Nick want to leave Gatsby? 3. What tone is being created in this chapter? 4. Nick switches the narrative in the middle of this chapter to talk about something that he was not there to witness. How does he know what was going on at Wilson s? Can we still trust Nick as a narrator? 5. For Wilson, what do the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleberg represent? Why is that significant? 6. Who does Wilson think Myrtle s lover is? 7. What happens at the end of the chapter? 8. Look back over the chapter and pick out two sentences where Fitzgerald is using foreshadowing. 9. How does the foreshadowing affect the mood? 10. No telephone message arrived, but the butler went without his sleep and waited for it until four o clock until long after there was any one to give it to if it came. I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn t believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared. If that was true, he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. What phone call was Gatsby waiting for? Do you think he had given up on his dream? 11. Go back through the chapter and make a list of the colors mentioned and what they are describing. Make sure you include the page number. (I would highly suggest creating some sort of table in your notes because you will be keeping track of the colors mentioned in each chapter of this book.) Color Description from the text Page Number Red Tom s House: a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, 6 overlooking the bay Red Tom s House: brick walks and burning gardens 6 Vocabulary: Look at the chapter list on page 6. Write a complete sentence for each word. Pavilion Unscrupulously
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Chapter 9: Directions: Be sure to answer all questions in complete sentences. You must answer all parts of the question for credit. Words to remember: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- 1. How does Catherine feel about Gatsby and Myrtle s affair? 2. Who does Nick try to contact in the wake of Gatsby s death? Why? 3. What character is introduced at the end of the novel? Why is this surprising? 4. How does Nick s plan for a big funeral go? 5. What does Mr. Gatz show Nick? 6. What is Eastern life? How does Nick feel about it? Is he right? 7. What do Jordan and Nick say to each other? 8. When Nick sees Tom, what does Nick initially refuse to do? 9. What role did Tom have in Gatsby s death? 10. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made What do Tom and Daisy represent? What statement is Fitzgerald trying to make about those in the upper class? 11. What is Nick s final message to the reader? 12. Go back through the chapter and make a list of the colors mentioned and what they are describing. Make sure you include the page number. (I would highly suggest creating some sort of table in your notes because you will be keeping track of the colors mentioned in each chapter of this book.) Color Description from the text Page Number Red Tom s House: a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, 6 overlooking the bay Red Tom s House: brick walks and burning gardens 6
Vocabulary: Look at the chapter list on page 5. Write a complete sentence for each word. Deranged Superfluous Aesthetic