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Context

Theme

Significance

“'You two start on home, Daisy,' said Tom. 'In Mr. Gatsby’s car.' [...] It was seven o’clock when we got into the coupe with him and started for Long Island” (104).

“There was an inexplicable amount of dust everywhere, and the rooms were musty, as though they hadn’t been aired for many days. I found the humidor on an unfamiliar table, with two stale, dry cigarettes inside” (113).

Dust symbolizes a person's past.

It does not matter what you do or how hard you try you can never escape your past, because it's always a part of you.

“A white ashen dust veiled his dark suit and his pale hair as it veiled everything in the vicinity -- except his wife, who moved closer to Tom” (22).

A little while later Mr. Wilson and Mrs. Wilson get into a fight resulting in Mrs. Wilson “rushing

out” into the road trying to flag down a “passing a car” that she thought contained her lover, Tom Buchanan (110).

You can never hide from your past

"For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes. All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the BEALE STREET BLUES. While a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers shuffled the shining dust." (116).

"'It was the man in that car. She ran out to speak to him and he wouldn’t stop'" (122).

Analysis Part 2

Even when her "fire" was put out it was "violently" theatrical.

The other car, the one going toward New York, came to rest a hundred yards beyond, and its driver hurried back to where Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick dark blood with the dust" (137).

"violently extinguished"

"Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment" (26).

"Mrs. Wilson had changed her costume some time before, and was now attired in an elaborate afternoon dress" (25).

"With the influence of the dress her personality had also undergone a change" (25).

"and as she expanded the room grew smaller around her" (26).

"The intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive hauteur" (25-26).

Hauteur = to act better than everyone else.

Myrtle = Star of her own rich dream

Mingle = fuse or unite

Dust symbolizes the past

Her past was always a part of her

Analysis Part 3

Analysis Part 1

"Perspiration"

"The Death Car"

Passage

The Dust in the Past

Created by: Isabella Dusbabek

and Olivia Fromm

“I married him because I thought he was a gentleman,” she said finally. “I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe” (29).

Suggests she was scared she was going to have to live the rest of her life in poverty.

"Michaelis and this man reached her first, but when they had torn open her shirtwaist, still damp with perspiration, they saw that her left breast was swinging loose like a flap, and there was no need to listen for the heart beneath. The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long" (137).

“The ‘death car,’ as the newspapers called it, didn't stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment, and then disappeared around the next bend. Michaelis wasn't even sure of its color he told the first policeman that it was light green.

"as if she had choked"

"in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long"

"The 'death car,' as the newspapers called it, didn't stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment, and then disappeared around the next bend. Michaelis wasn't even sure of its color — he told the first policeman that it was light green. The other car, the one going toward New York, came to rest a hundred yards beyond, and its driver hurried back to where Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick dark blood with the dust.

Michaelis and this man reached her first, but when they had torn open her shirtwaist, still damp with perspiration, they saw that her left breast was swinging loose like a flap, and there was no need to listen for the heart beneath. The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long" (Fitzgerald 137).

As if it was hard for to give up the facade she had tried so hard to create

"Light Green"

“'Was Daisy driving?'”

“'Yes,' he said after a moment" (105).

"I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock" (138).

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