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Eyes/Glasses
--> An advertisement/billboard in the Valley of Ashes
--> Magazine about the rich lifestyle of the people in New York
--> Mrytle is seen buying the magazine during an outing with Tom and Nick
--> A visual reminder that 'God is always watching'
--> "“I spoke to her,” he muttered, after a long silence. “I told her she might fool me but she couldn’t fool God. I took her to the window… and I said ‘God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me but you can’t fool God” (Fitzgerald 138).
--> Lets Nick see through a different perspective
--> The life Mrytle always wanted
--> Her ticket to high society
--> The representation that Tom's lifestyle was in her grasp
Time/Clock
Green Light
--> A green light at the end of Daisy and Tom's dock
--> A clock that Gatsby knocks over during his encounter with Daisy at Nick's house
--> Represents Gatsby's hopes and dreams for the future
--> Gatsby's perfect world, including Daisy
--> How much time we have spent and how much time we have left
--> Emphasizes how much time is spent on Gatsby's pursuit of Daisy
--> clock falling means it was a waste of Gatsby's time
Green
What colours do you think are important to the Great Gatsby? Why? What do you think they represent?
Unattainable dream, hope; the green light on Daisy’s dock
White
Gold
Pink
Love, happy ‘euphoric’ stages;
Gatsby's suit
Luxury, prosperity and wealth
- when Gatsby begins to lose his wealth, yellow appears more prominent in the novel
Purity, innocence/naivety,
morally unblemished
Daisy almost always wearing white
Blue
Sadness; Gatsby lived a very ‘blue’ life
Do you think the novel had to be set in New York City?
Fitzgerald was very careful in naming his characters
“James Gatz- that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career- when he saw Dan Cody’s yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior” (Fitzgerald 91).
“... her left breast was swinging loose like a flap and there was no need to listen for the heart beneath” (Fitzgerald 121).
What kind of writing style did
Fitzgerald use to write The Great Gatsby?
Think and create a symbol that represents your life...
--> Gatsby's past is recalled in order to explain his present situation
--> Portrays rejection of his family and his original name as a necessary precondition to his later glory and wealth
--> It is told the way Nick remembers the story
--> Has a flashback about when she initially met Gatsby, and his relationship with Daisy
--> Gives the readers insight into how Nick - and therefore Fitzgerald - feels about certain situations
--> Experiences the events first hand, but merely as an observer, not taking part
Gatsby's Smile
Daisy's Voice
--> More time is spent describing the character's personalities rather than their physical traits
--> Shows Nick's character, and further, Fitzgerald's
--> This foreshadows that he will be unable to acheive his goal of having Daisy
--> Myrtle ran out to the yellow car, thinking her lover was coming to rescue her
-->“‘Beat me!’ he heard her cry. ‘Throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward!’... A moment later she rushed out into the dusk, waving her hands and shouting…” (Fitzgerald 121).
--> “In the morning,
In the evening,
Ain’t we got fun-----
One thing’s sure and nothing’s surer
The rich get richer and the poor get--children.
In the meantime,
In between time-----” (Fitzgerald 89).
--> The song is told from the perspective of a poor man who is happy
--> At his first encounter with Daisy, this foreshadows all the trouble that he will cause Daisy
Tom has “a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning forward” (Fitzgerald 23).
--> Jordan tells Nick while they are driving
--> Foreshadows an event involving driving
CLASS DISCUSSION: Is the title ironic? Was Gatsby 'great?'
Remember from Unit One...
What are the four types
of writing styles?
Descriptive
Expository
Narrative
Persuasive
Works Cited
Fitzgerald, F S. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1995. Print.
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Hendrickson, Caroline. "Style." Caroline's Study of F. Scott Fitzgerald. 20 Apr. 2009.
Web. 9 Jan. 2015. <https://chendrickson.wordpress.com/style/>.
McGregor. "The Great Gatsby." Enotes.com. Enotes.com, 20 Sept. 2008. Web. 9 Jan.
2015. <http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-was-writing-style-f-scott-fitzgerald-used-37881>.
O'Connor, Kate. "The Curious Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald." The University of Oxford.
Web. 9 Jan. 2015. <http://writersinspire.org/content/curious-life-f-scott-fitzgerald>.
Saunders, Jen. "What Does the Clock Gatsby Knocks Over Symbolize?" The
Classroom. Synonym.com. Web. 9 Jan. 2015. <http://classroom.synonym.com/clock-gatsby-knocks-over-symbolize-3490.html>.