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Author F. Scott Fitzgerald was known to be a heavy alcoholic; people believed he died indebted and desperate. Ernest Hemmingway famously blamed Fitzgerald’s alcohol abuse on his wife Zelda, But Julie M. Irwin believed that Fitzgerald’s alcoholism could not be blamed. Deeply in debt, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood in 1937 to try his hand at screenwriting. It became clear that he was not good at two things, writing movies and staying sober. His drinking interfered badly with his work. By 1939 he had lost his contract with Metro Goldwyn Mayer, he spent that year moving form freelance movie gigs. He even got fired from the set of Winter Dreams, an adaption of one of his own stories. Four days before Christmas in 1940, Fitzgerald died of a heart attack at Sheilah Graham's apartment (one of his mistress’s). He was 44. His final novel, The Last Tycoon, was published a year later.

In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald seemed to have mentioned alcoholism often. Even though at this time alcohol was prohibited, all the party Gatsby hosted served alcohol. As we learn early in the book Gatsby did not drink in his early years when he was sailing with Dan Cody. He saw what effects this had on Cody; therefore he chose to avoid them. This symbolizes how the author felt about being an alcoholic, Fitzgerald knew it was wrong but his addiction to it could not be changed. Another example in which alcohol was mentioned was with Nick Carraway, he became drunk for the second time in his life at a hotel with Tom Buchanan. Alcohol took a big key role for Fitzgerald when he wrote The Great Gatsby.

http://www.shmoop.com/f-scott-fitzgerald/alcoholism-death.html

Reflection

1.Nick compared Gatsbys smile to jesus, because it wasn't just his smile, but how he looked, he looked almost god-like to him

2.Daisy's outlook on life in the 1920s is, if the girls are fools, it'll be a better life for them. I think it's that she means to be a fool, but to play the role of one. She's not implying that her daughter grow up and be ditzy and not know how the world works, but she should understand the womens role in soicety.

3.The valley of ashes is significant out of the book because of what the valley of ashes represent in the book. It's where everyone's moral values have withered away too, along with beliefs too. The valley of ashes is like god watching over all of the sins happening

4. This mightv'e not seem to be a very good quotes. But it was when she said it and how she said. It wasn't just the shirts that she thought was beautiful, but how Gatsby was living; she though his life was beautiful and she knew she wouldn't be able to live such a life with him. During this whole part, it started to dawn on her that she wasn't single, and she couldn't be with Gatsby, having fun like they were together.

5.Tom makes a very hypocritical remark towards Gatsby while he's talking to his friend. He's trying to seem like the goody two shoes husband by making this remark, but all he did was show to the readers that he's very jealous and obviously doesn't like Gatsby (not like he didn't like him from the start

6.Like I said in the 3rd one, this billboard is like the eyes of god, watching over everyone's sins and seeing everyone true selves. On the billboard, are Eckleburgs blue eyes, with his spectacles, and nothing else. That's why I say the eyes of god, it's main focal point is his eyes. It's very run down, so either they wanted it to look like that over the time period, or they just forgot about the whole billboard in general.

10 significant people

7. This happened when Daisy and Gatsby re-met after 8 years. They were so hypnotized by eachother's gaze that, nothing else really mattered, then what was in front of them. It was like they were the only two people on earth, even though Nick is still in the room at this time. Nick was like a shadow to them, even though Daisy held out her hand, she still wasn't thinkinh that much about Nick, but she still knew he was there and he was one of the reasons behind them meeting again.

8.Gatsby wants Daisy to forgot everything that happened in the middle of when they met. He wants her to forget everything with Tom, her "feelings" towards Tom, and he only wants her to himself. I feel that he was very demanding at this point, and sort of acted like a kid,it was like he didn't want to share anything that was his. In this moment I don't think he thought about the consequences and how all of it will unravel at the end, and he was very surprised when she chose Tom when they were in the hotel room and Gatsby was yelling.

Review:

9.It's wrapping up the whole book and the theme, he pretty much said "hey,life goes on, all you have to do is live with it. He's implying that people dwelling on the past aren't being affective in the present, and they aren't learning from it or re-evaluating from it. They won't be able to escape the past it they dwell, not meaning you can't still have the memories and think about them, but don't let it bother you so much that you can't let go and it sticks with you forever. Life goes on, all you can do is live in the now.

10.His dad him to never judge someone by how they look, act, and them all around. But, you do see in the in book that Nick isn't judging them, but evaluating their choices. It's not hat he's out there judging, but he's intensely characterizing them

1."He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced , or seemed to face, the whole external world for and instant and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. it understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself" -Nick chp. 3

Analysis

Expression

Irreverent

What is Tom beginning to realize about Daisy?

2. "I hope she'll be a fool-that's the best thing a girl can in this world. a beautiful little fool."-Daisy Chp.1

We learned in Chapter 6 that Daisy does not appear impressed by Gatsby's parties, so he becomes depressed.

Quote on "living in the now"

Quote on "living in the past"

Green Light (from where Daisy lives) = Gatsby's American Dream

3."This is the valley of ashes- a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air... the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up impenetrable cloud."

His American dream seems more unattainable.

Collage

His dream is to be with Daisy.

4."It makes me sad because I've never seen such- such beautiful shirts before"

5."I wonder where in the devil he met Daisy. By god, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish."

Definition: a lack of respect for something serious

6."But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg."

Symbolism

The Color Yellow

symbolic of wealth & prosperity

7."They had forgotten all about me but Daisy glanced up and held out her hand; Gatsby didn't know me now at all. I looked once more at them and they looked back at me, remotely, possessed by intense life."

8.He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: I never loved you." After she obliterated four years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken."

Inexplicable

9."So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessely into the past.'

Definition: unable to be explained or accounted for

10. Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages you've had."

Man vs. Man

Man vs. Self

Man vs. Society

Symbolism

Vocabulary

Man vs. Nature

1.Gold Digger-Kanye west

2.Face Down-The red jumpsuit apparatus

3.Forget you- Ce Lo green

4.Justin Timberlake- My love

Man vs. Technology

Eyes: Represents a god that sees and judges all

Incredulous

Portentous

Valley of Ashes: represents moral/social decay

Conflicts

This idea was prevalent in the 1920's.

1920's: parties, alcohol,

shorter dresses & hair for girls

Definition: unwilling or unable to believe something

Definition: threatening, ominous, foreboding

Assignment

Go to missmoeller.edublogs.org and leave a comment on the blog post "Great Gatsby - Conflict."

Read Chapter 7

Agree/disagree with your classmates.

What conflict is coming into play in this chapter?

Psychological article and reflection

Focus: How do we analyze conflicts in The Great Gatsby?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Do Now: What do you think about Gatsby now? Did it change from what you thought before?

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24,1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Fitzgerald's mother, Mary McQuillan was froman Irish-Catholic family that had made a small fortune in Minnesota as wholesale grocers. His father, Edward Fitzgerald, had opened a wicker furniture business in St. Paul, and, when it failed, he took a job as a salesman. After graduating from the Newman School in 1913, Fitzgerald decided to stay in New Jersey to continue his artistic development at Princeton University. Fitzgerald joined the army and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry and assigned to Camp Sheridan outside of Montgomery, Alabama. And that is where he met Zelda Sayre, the daughter of the Alabama supreme court judge. After the war ended in November 1918, Fitzgerald married Zelda and moved back to St. Paul to rewrite his novel. In 1924, Fitzgerald moved to France, and it was there, in Valescure, that Fitzgerald wrote what would be credited as his greatest novel, The Great Gatsby. He died December 21, 1940, at age 40. He died beliveing himself a failure, however since his death he has gained a reputation as one of the pre-eminent authors in the history of American literature due almost entirely to the enormous posthumous success of The Great Gatsby.

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