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The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby. Take Notes. Background Discussion. Prohibition Speakeasies and Bootlegging The Jazz Age Suffragette Movement and Sexual Freedom Rise of the Stock Market and Speculation Movie Industry Organized Crime Industrial Magnates and High Society

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The Great Gatsby

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  1. The Great Gatsby Take Notes

  2. Background Discussion • Prohibition • Speakeasies and Bootlegging • The Jazz Age • Suffragette Movement and Sexual Freedom • Rise of the Stock Market and Speculation • Movie Industry • Organized Crime • Industrial Magnates and High Society • The Lost Generation and Roaring Twenties • Long Island • Southampton

  3. About Gatsby • Tom: dictator/bully • Daisy: clinging vine • Myrtle: clinging vine/weakling • Gatsby: calculator • Nick: nice guy/judge • George: nice guy/protector • Jordan: calculator

  4. Themes • The corruption of the American Dream • Sight and Insight (Many images of blindness/No one seems to see what is really going on) • The meaning of the past(holds something for Gatsby and Nick; a simpler, nobler time;when people believed in the importance of the family and church) • The education of a young man (Bilungsromen: German for Initiation theme: growing up. Nick writes the Great Gatsby to show what he has learned.) • Illusion vs. Reality

  5. Color Symbols • Gray: death, lifelessness (people &land) • Green: money (light at end of Daisy’s peer), Gatsby’s goal • Blue: dream (eyes of Dr. Eckleburg-rep’s. sightlessness) • White: corruption is underneath-wedding cake, Daisy’s and Jordon’s clothes(airiness and fairylike) • Darks & Lights: Gatsby’s world is deceptive • Gold or Yellow: wealth, materialism • Red: violence/violent death • Pink: violence underneath

  6. Other Symbols • Valley of Ashes: The Wasteland-T.S. Eliot • Daisy: wealth, position, status, “golden girl,” • Eckleburg: represents capitalistic profit(He is the God of the Wasteland.) • Ashes: gray, lifeless, wasteland, death, True Reality • Apartment: on outside, a beautiful wedding cake; inside, there is corruption, greed & selfishness • Gatsby’s house: white: garden: blue Chauffer’s uniform:blue

  7. More Symbols • Buchanan’s house: red and white/carpet crimson • Nick’s boats: red & gold: dream stained by violence • Myrtle: wears brown when in Valley of Ashes; changes to ecru or cream dresses; she becomes unreal and someone else. • Sunday: Most people worshipping/ people at Gatsby’s house partying: un-God-like • East and West: represent old and new wealth, names of people who go to Gatsby’s parties are listed: reader knows the difference between the old and new wealth(the new have acquired wealth by ruthless means.)

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