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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. “ Then wear the gold hat if that will move her: If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry, “ Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you. ” - Thomas Parke D ’ Invilliers. Key Facts.

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  1. The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott Fitzgerald

  2. “Then wear the gold hat if that will move her:If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,Till she cry, “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,I must have you.”- Thomas Parke D’Invilliers

  3. Key Facts • Genre– Modernist, Jazz Age novel, novel of manners • Time written: 1923 –24 • Narrator: Nick Carraway – not only narrates but implies that he is the book’s author • Point of view: first and third person – some sections presented objectively and some sections presented with his own interpretations

  4. Tone: Nick’s attitudes towards Gatsby are ambivalent and contradictory – at times he seems to disapprove of Gatsby’s excesses and at other times, he admires Gatsby and describes him in a nostalgic tone • Tense: past • Setting: Summer 1922 • Place: Long Island and New York City • Protagonist: Gatsby and/or Nick

  5. Characters • Nick Carraway: narrator and moral arbiter of The Great Gatsby • Tom Buchanan: represents brutality and the moral carelessness of the established rich • Daisy Fay Buchanan: Nick’s distant cousin and Tom’s wife. She is the “golden girl” who has become the incarnation of Gatsby’s dream • Jordan Baker: an attractive woman golfer who becomes involved with the narrator and who is given to compulsive lying • Jay Gatsby: a racketeer and a romantic idealist, he devotes his life to amassing the wealth he thinks he need to win Daisy and thereby make his dream come true

  6. George Wilson: the proprietor of a shabby garage in the Valley of Ashes. • Myrtle Wilson: a woman of ludicrous ostentation, whose “animal vitality” attracts Tom • Owl-Eyes: A stout, middle-aged man who attends Gatsby’s parties • Meyer Wolfsheim: The Jewish gambler and racketeer who is Gatsby’s business associate

  7. Symbols • The Valley of Ashes and ashes – the modern world • The green light at the end of Daisy’s dock • East Egg and West Egg • The parties • The careers of the main characters • The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg – God • The automobile – an ideal based on materialism is ultimately destructive

  8. Themes • The decline of the American Dream • The spirit of the 1920s • The difference between social classes • The role of symbols in the human search for meaning • The role of the past in dreams of the future

  9. Motifs: • The connection between events and weather • The connection between geographical location and social values • Images of time • Extravagant parties • The quest for wealth

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