great gatsby

• "In my younger and more vulnerable years"


  Chapter 1 - implies he is still vulnerbale - fresh eyes to narrative of wealth?
• Just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had"


  Chapter 1 - Nick Caraway - privledge, money and class
• "I lived at West Egg, the - well, the less fashionable of the two"


  chapter 1 - Nick - shame, money , class divide between new and old money
• "across the courtesy bay the white palaces of the fashionable East Egg glittereed along the water"

  chapter 1 - the use of the world 'white' for money and wealth and also desciption of the difference eggs- East Egg is much more prestigous and elite.
• "They had spent a year in France for no particular reason"


  Chapter 1 - Nick about Tom - privledge, money and class
• "Sturdy straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner."


  Chapter 1 - description of Tom- intimidating, strong and powerful man
• "Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face"


  Chapter 1 - description of Tom- intimidating, strong and powerful man
• "I hate that word hulking" - Tom "hulking" - insisted Daisy


  Chapter 1 - dynamic between Nick and Tom - love, relationships and marriage.
• "Turning me around with one arm"


  Chapter 1 - Tom's need for control, using Nick as a pawn - power, control , social roles.
• "the frosted wedding-cake of a ceiling"

  chapter 1 - the home of Tom and Daisy - many layers to the house and to them? - establishes white as a colour of wealth
• "They were both in white"


  chapter 1 - associating white with wealth as both Jordan and Dasiy are wearing it - contrast to the poverty of grey in the Valley of Ashes.
• "I hope she's a fool... that's the best thing a girl can be"


  Chapter 1 - Gender roles and expectations, Daisy hopes her child is a fool
• "complete self-sufficency"


  chapter 1 - about Jordan- Gender roles
• "All the cras have the left wheel painted black as mourning wreath"


  chapter 1 - idea of death and cars planted in reader's mind, foreshadowing, the wealthy behind death.
• "No thanks" says Jordan to the cocktails.


  Chapter 1 - Class, the working-class dimished by the upper class.
• "farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens"


  chapter 2 - desciption of the valley of ashes- dark, grey, dirty and ugly.
• "The eyes of Doctor T.J Eckleburg" "blue and gigantic"

  chapter 2 - the eyes are like God, all-seeing and powerful, controlling the working- class.
• "Valley of Ashes"


  chapter 2 - the name is self is projecting the idea of death and cremation- suggesting death occurs there frequently.
• "He was a blond, spiritless, anaemic and faintly handsome"


  chapter 2 - desciption of George as if he is a ghost a shell of who he used to be "faintly handsome", his energy and himself is drianing out of him- poverty and struggle.
• "' I don't mean that ... I jeant meant'- His voice faded off"


  chapter 2 - George's depiction of the lost generation and how the upper class ignore the working-class.
• "no facet or gleam of beauty...vitality about her" "she wet her lips"


  chapter 2 - desciption of Myrtle, althought not beaitiful has life to her as in she is chasing after something despertaley, she is hungry for money when she sees Tom.
• "walking through her husband as if he were a ghost" (as she is walking towards Tom)


  chapter 2 - power dynamic, makes Tom more powerful and weakens George.
• "He's so dumb he doesn't know he alive"


  chapter 2- Tom about George - reinforces classism from Tom , ghost imagery again.
• "I want to get one of those dogs"

  Chapter 2 - Myrtle's power over Tom , gender roles and money
• "I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe."

  chapter 2 - Myrtle - money and marriage- expectations.
• "furniture entirely too large for it"

  chapter 2 - desrciption of the home Tom brought for Myrtle- need for possesions even though the house can't hold it - she is just taking whatever she can- want for the American Dream
• "Neither of them can stand the person they're married to "

  chapter 2 - Tom+Daisy and Myrtle+Geroge, love and marriage , reaons for marriaging aren't love but other things i.e money, status.
• "Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!" shouted Mrs Wilson. "I'll say it whenever I want to! Dai-" Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.


  chapter 2 - power, violence
• "He borrowed somebody's best suit to he married, and never even told me about it"

  chapter 2 - George's false appearance- evryone wants to appear more wealthy than they really are- capitalism and need and want for the American Dream
• "in his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings


  chapter 3 - Gatsby and the people who attend his partieas are meaningless and are only attrached to his money
• "On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvre"


  chapter 3 - Gatsby's wealth- surplus of wealth, using food to decorate, sparkly expensive food as decor.
• hair bobbed in strange new ways"


  chapter 3 - new generation, the roaring 20's, women are changing in their styles,
• "eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing brushes"


  chapter 3 - highlights his wealth but also how many people came and the state the house was left in. People leave his home in a mess
• I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited.'

  chapter 3 - Nick and Gatsby's relationship begins and his different from the rest - he actually cares about him.
• "he killed a man once.'

  'It's more that he was a german spy in the war.'


  chapter 3 - a rumour about Gatsby that someone says at his party, highlights the emptiness of the people and the mystery of Gatsby
• It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance


  chapter 3 - Gatsby's smile when he first meets Nick
• "old sport"


  chapter 3 - Gatsby is pretending to be something which is isn't
• She was incurably dishonest.'


  chapter 3- Nick's desciption of Jordan - disconnect from the upper class.
• "He was not drinking helped to set him off from his guests"

  chapter 3 - Gastby is different from the rest- 1920's not allowed to drink, corruption, he is corrupt in other ways?
• "For a moment, I though I loved her"


  chapter 3 - Nick+Jordan