Great Gatsby

• The roaring 20's were a decade of

  change, increased wealth and freedom
• Who dominated the federal goverment?

  Republicans
• The goverment was heavily


  Corrupted
• Goverment officials


  Took bribes from criminals and businesses
• Production of what grew


  Aviation, chemicals and electronic production
• Automobile production


  tripled
• America was producing how much percentage of the world's cars


  85%
• Immigration restrictions influenced by


  radical and racial ideas
• Tom Buchanan


  Villain, dominant male, priviledged snob, antagonistic bigot
• Daisy Buchanan


  Victim, submissive female, trophy wife, vacuous dreamer
• Daisy inital ideas


  Obeying (knows about affair), limited relevance (described after jordan), questioning, unsure, unbothered
• Daisy context


  Woman beginning to question gender roles in 1920's, representation of upper class women and how they felt
• Tom initial ideas


  More present, powerful, dominant agressive, mysogynistic, matter of fact, drifting and lost
• Tom context


  Entitled men of 1920's, inbalance of power
• Tom and Daisy's relationship


  Materialistic, distant, abusive, theatrical
• Valley of ashes quotes


  "Desolate" "grotesque gardens" "Dimly" "crumbling" "ghastly" "drift endlessly" "Ash grey men" "bleak dust"
• Valley of ashes analysis


  Lonliness, poverty, grey and boring, unappealing, aimless, directionless
• Motifs in Great Gatsby

  Eyes of Eckleburg, Ash grey men
• Myrtle Wilson 


  Plant that climbs upwards, gardish, gaudy, vain, materialistic, status driven, discontent, sexual
• George Wilson


  Desperate, pushover, 'spiritless', anaemic, worn out, foolish
• Buchanan's house


  Old money, lavished (typical of upper class), expectation of upper class, european influence, conolial mansion links to slavery, red and white
• Valley of ashes 


  Desolate place for the poor, contrasts rich locations, central around labour, burnt out, service to the upper class, lack of freedom, a spectacle, congested
• Gatsby's house


  Seemingly perfect, eccentric, distraction, seems false, a distraction from something realistic, societal illusion
• Meyer Wolfsheim


  Nick immediately doesnt like him, negative description from Nick, based on a famous gambler Arnold Rothstein
• Nick Carroway


  Claims to be a non-judgmental narrator (contradiction), confliction of NYC, uncertain, attempts to be impartial
• Nick Carroway quotes


  "I began to like New York" "I felt that Tom would drift on forever" "German spy" versus "fought for americs"