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The Great Gatsby notes

American Literature (Clemson University)

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The Great Gatsby

1924, during Prohibition

Introversion:
 “Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope” pg 2
o So hypocritical
 “Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.” Pg 4
 “Sophisticates—God, I’m sophisticated” pg 17
o Daisy telling herself that so that she and others will believe it

Consequences of Wealth:
 “One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that
everything afterward savors of anticlimax” pg 6
 “With her chin raised a little, as if she were balancing…” pg 8

Coping with Loneliness:

 “That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” pg 17
 “I was alone again in the unquiet darkness” pg 21

Superiority: Tom’s racism, Daisy reactions

Who/what makes you morally better?
Attaching morality to money
Symbols:
 billboard
 colors
 egg  fragile

Performances in Maggie, A Girl of the Streets

What makes love real love?
Colors attached

Hypocrisy
 Tom on how Daisy is cheating on him:
o “Nowadays people begin by sneering at family institutions…” p130
o “Mr. Nobody from Nowhere” about Gatsby

Materialism
 Asserting dominance through wealth
o Tom vs Gatsby
 Daisy crying over the shirts

Mortality
 Deaths of Myrtle, Gatsby, and George
 The mortality of Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship

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