Great Gatsby Questions: What new meaning do you see in the last two paragraphs? Essay Example

we hear references to him in the conversations of others. Note each reference. What impression do you get? Snobby, stuck up, and flounder’s his money.

Chapter 2

• 1. 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 Myrtle’s talk of her unhappy marriage. What does she seem to be trying to justify? How she is unhappy with her husband.
• 3. How does Myrtle’s speech reveal her character? She wants to play the victim.
• 4. What does the scene 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 afternoon at the apartment in New York? Why or why not? No, because of the incident between Tom and Myrtle.

Chapter 3

• 1. Chapter 3 describes Gatsby’s “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. Comment on Fitzgerald’s skill in preparing for Gatsby’s 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 have things in common. Had a normal conversation.
• 4. What is the
  

reason for Nick’s 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 similar

Chapter 4

• 1. The introductory section of Chapter 4 gives a long roster of those who attended Gatsby’s parties. How do they behave toward their host? Why, then, do they accept his hospitality? They go to use Gatsby.
• 2. Describe Gatsby’s car? It’s a cream color, Bright with nickel.
• 3. Discuss the details that Gatsby shares with Nick about his past. 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 Gatsby’s story? Why or why not? No, because things don’t 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 they’re 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 doesn’t 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.

Chapter 5

• 1. Gatsby’s actions in preparing for Daisy’s arrival seem both flamboyant and absurd. What does he do? Why? He’s trembling and his hands are just weighed into his pockets.
• 2. Discuss Gatsby’s actions once Daisy arrives. How do we know he is nervous?
  

How does he try to impress her? He shows his house.

Chapter 6

• 1. What was Gatsby’s real name? Why and when had he changed 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 involved in Gatsby’s destiny?
• 3. Why does Tom attend Gatsby’s 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 Tom’s 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 Gatsby’s party. Did they enjoy themselves? Explain. No, Tom did not enjoy himself and Daisy only liked the actress
  

under the tree.

Chapter 7

• 1. Note the use Fitzgerald makes of the weather as a background for significant events. Point out examples in this chapter and in previous chapters. It’s hot boiling. Points out its hot “It’s Hot” said by Daisy.
• 2. Gatsby has made 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 daisy’s 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 didn’t think she was the women she was 5 years ago and the baby can‘t go away
• 4. With whom does Tom talk on the telephone early in the
  

chapter? About what? George about the car deal.

the fact that the day is Nick’s birthday? Nick sees his 30th birthday as a significant entrance into a world of “loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair. ”

Chapter 8

• justify;">1. At the beginning of the chapter, the story is interrupted at its most dramatic point. What is the author’s 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, “They’re 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 Nick’s meaning when he balances Gatsby’s 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 Wilson’s 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 Nick’s meaning when he says, “. . . the holocaust was complete”? When George dies it’s the end of
  

the Holocaust.

Chapter 9

• 1. 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 Gatsby’s 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 Gatsby’s boyhood program for self-improvement? It got him to change himself.
• 5. What is the irony of Gatsby’s 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? Jordan’s scene drives apart her relationship with Nick
• 7. 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 Gatsby’s dream and the American Dream. Nick's 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...