Guiding questions: how does the description and the characters reactions create meaning in the extract?

Which themes are present?

Take 4 different highlighters – highlight and annotate the 4 points below. Also bullet point any themes
1) Narration
Pathetic fallacy
Auditory imagery (sound )
2)Gatsby For each of the 4, bullet point,
Personification and effect
How is he trying to erase the past and create his own perfect reality
What is the effect on the reader
3) Daisy (what insights about the
Words that show uncertainty (verb) characters are given) and link to
Words that show how upset she is any themes
Juxtaposition
Caesura which shows uncertainty ( caesura – is a dramatic pause)
Actions which foreshadow events (line 22 cigarette…)
4 Tom
High modality words and punctuation which show power
Materialism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne4ZA2SPCQ8- 2:36
Forceful, violent tone
Questions that illustrate how he taunts Gatsby
High modality words which illustrate his confidence
• Narration
Quote Meaning Effect on reader Link to themes

Pathetic fallacy
Auditory imagery
Throwing the
cigarette/match
• Gatsby
Quote / or line Meaning: any devices present (high modality Effect on reader Link to themes
number words, imperative, verbs, adjectives, etc)

• Daisy
Quote / Meaning: any devices present (high modality Effect on reader Link to themes
orline words, imperative, verbs, adjectives, etc)
number

• Tom
Effect
• Narration- pathetic fallacy-
• Gatsby- reader will see his disillusionment and how he is living in the past, how he
tries to create his own ideal of happiness and his distorted view of love, how he is
forcing Daisy to fit in with his fantasy and he is oblivious to her feelings, how selfish
and arrogant he is , his preoccupation with changing the past to create his own ideal
present which leads to his downfall

• Daisy – how she is torn, over powered and bullied, both men see her as a possession
and do not put her feelings first- makes the reader compassionate for how women
are treated as commodities and owned by men, she does not have a voice of her
own but is led in what to say,

• Tom- reader can see how selfish and arrogant he is, he is brash and abrasive which
depicts him as an obnoxious narcissistic man representative of the capitalist elite, he
is materialistic as he is confident that Daisy will not leave him as he is wealthy-
illustrating how materialistic he is, he is egotistical as he does not seem to be upset