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The Great Gatsby

Dive into "The Great Gatsby" Chapter III with questions on characters, literary devices, societal norms, and personal revelations. Unravel themes of past influence, empathy, and the American Dream.

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The Great Gatsby

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  1. The Great Gatsby A Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  2. “Chapter III” PARTY at gatsby’s

  3. Chapter III: Question #1 What is different about Nick and nearly everyone else at the party?

  4. Chapter III: Question #2 What is the literary device in this sentence, “In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars”? What is being compared to what?

  5. Chapter III: Question #3 How do the party-goers treat Gatsby’s house? What does such action indicate about American society at this time?

  6. Chapter III: Question #4 Who is the guy in the library? What remarks does he make and what could they imply about Gatsby?

  7. Chapter III: Question #5 What connects the narrator and Gatsby to each other? Why would such a connection matter?

  8. Chapter III: Question #6 Who calls Gatsby during this chapter? Significance of this?

  9. Chapter III: Question #7 Toward the end of the night, how are all of the women and men acting, specifically regarding each other? How is this different than at the beginning of the night?

  10. Chapter III: Question #8 Who seems to have driven his car into a ditch? Why? Who really drove the car into the ditch?

  11. Chapter III: Question #9 What had Jordan done once in a golf tournament? Why is such a thing out of character for a woman in the 1920s?

  12. Chapter III: Question #10 What event of personal significance does Nick talk about at the end of the chapter? How does this alter the way we, as the audience, view him?

  13. Essential Questions Don’t forget them!

  14. EQ #1: How does the past we experience affect our future actions/ perspectives?

  15. EQ #2: How does being a caring and empathetic person make you vulnerable to being taken advantage of?

  16. EQ #3: How can the American Dream be simultaneously inspiring and demoralizing?

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