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Page 1: THE GREAT GATSBY Novel Analysis By Emily White Kathy Saunders AP English Literature April 9, 2014

THE GREAT GATSBY

Novel Analysis By Emily White

Kathy Saunders AP English Literature

April 9, 2014

Page 2: THE GREAT GATSBY Novel Analysis By Emily White Kathy Saunders AP English Literature April 9, 2014
Page 3: THE GREAT GATSBY Novel Analysis By Emily White Kathy Saunders AP English Literature April 9, 2014

AUTHOR

F Scott Fitzgerald• Born in St. paul, Minnesota in 1896• The Great Gatsby is his 3rd book• Not a great student• Attended Princeton University (1913)• Never graduated, enlisted in US Army in 1917 (End of WWI)• Met first wife (Zelda Sayre) while stationed in Montgomery,

Alabama• Published his first novel and married Zelda Sayre in 1920

• She delayed their wedding until he proved successful

• Lived in NY, Paris, and the Riviera• Died of a heart attack in 1940 (age 44)• Led a life much like Gatsby’s

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HISTORICAL INFO

Roaring 20s = “Jazz Age”

(Coined by Fitzgerald)

Controversy

(Flappers, Speakeasies)

Prohibition

(Bootleggers)

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PLOT DIAGRAM

Daisy rejects Gatsby,

Myrtle dies, Gatsby is

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Confrontation

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Tom

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THEMES

The Decline of the American Dream

The Emptiness of Upper Class Society

The Difference between Social Classes

Looking for the Past in the Future

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CHARACTER ANALYSIS

Nick Carraway (Protagonist)- “Care Away,” gets Daisy and Gatsby back together

Jay Gatsby-HOPEFUL, doesn’t drink, committed to winning Daisy back, “man of leisure” but doesn’t use pool

Daisy Buchanan- vapid, feels entitled can’t make difficult choices, careless • Gatsby- “Her voice is full of money”

Tom Buchanan- played rugby, controlling Jordan Baker- professional golf player, Nick’s love

interest Meyer Worlfsheim- Arnold Rothstein (fixed 1919 world

series) George B. Wilson- Tom’s mistress’ husband, Myrtle Wilson- Tom’s mistress

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QUOTES

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages you’ve had”• Gatsby’s Father

“I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool-that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”• Daisy Buchanan

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”• Nick Carraway

“Look here, old sport, what’s your opinion of me anyhow?”• Jay Gatsby

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QUOTES “He wants to know if you’ll invite Daisy to your

house some afternoon and then let him come over.”• Jordan Baker

“There was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding. He literally glowed.”• Nick Carraway

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”• Jordan Baker

“They’re a rotten crowd, you’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” I’ve always been glad I said that.• Nick Carraway to Jay Gatsby

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QUOTES

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with summer.”• Jordan Baker

“Her voice is full of money”• Gatsby

“‘No… I just remembered that today’s my birthday.’ I was thirty.”• Nick Carraway

“She didn’t answer. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”• Nick Carraway about Jordan

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QUOTES “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.” • Nick Carraway

“I never loved him,” she said, with perceptible reluctance. • Daisy Buchanan

“They were careless people”• Nick Carraway

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”• Nick Carraway