+ the great gatsby review of f. scott fitzgerald chapter 6 analysis april 2011 – may 2011
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The Great Gatsby
Review of F. Scott FitzgeraldChapter 6 Analysis April 2011 – May 2011
+Review, Author – The Way Up
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1896 – 1940 (Laurel Avenue, Minnesota)
Father went bankrupt but he stilled played with the wealthy kids in town Paradox - self-contradictory
Enrolled in WWI, met Zelda Sayre (very animated) – the couple became celebrities of the Jazz Age Had an appetite for excess Expatriate – withdraw from his/her native country
1925 – Charles Scribner’s Sons publishes The Great Gatsby
+Review, Author – The Way Down
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1896 – 1940 (Laurel Avenue, California)
1932 – Zelda suffered a mental breakdown, never recovered
Wrote stories acknowledging his wife’s illness and his own alcoholism
1937 – Fitzgerald relocated to California
1940 – Fitzgerald passed away of a heart attack while writing the novel, The Last Tycoon
+Chapter Six – Analysis
Gatsby “sprang from his Platonic conception of himself,” which refers to that his ideal form
Gatsby modeled himself of an ideal version of Jay Gatsby
Striving to be the man he envisions in his fondest dreams Think about Daisy being unable to fulfill his ideal vision
of her
Gatsby = novels representative of The American Dream Myth of the “self-made man”
+Chapter Six – Analysis
Gatsby leaves St. Olaf college because he feels degraded being a janitor – gross humiliation of what he imagines for himself
This damages his actual circumstances since graduating from a university would enhance social standing
Sensitivity to class – yearns for wealth, sophistication and elegance, which he imagines wealth provides
+Chapter Six – Analysis
Dan Cody/Gatsby Similarities
Early hardships turned to self-made millionaire
Generous to friend and subordinates
Additional analysis
America may no longer be a place where the self-made man can thrive
Cody drinks – cannot make a place for himself Passes away... Treachery of the woman he loves
Foreshadowing
+Chapter Six – Analysis
Awkward luncheon – Old Money vs. New Money
Underlines the hostility of the American 1920s toward the figure of the self-made man
Tom Buchanan and Mr. and Mrs. Sloane treat Gatsby with contempt because he is not of the long-standing American upper class – like East Eggers are
Gatsby may be wealthier than Tom, but is regarded as socially inferior – West Egger
+Chapter Six – Analysis
Daisy
Narrow-minded – East Egger
Symbol of everything that Gatsby wishes to posses Wealth and sophistication
Although she posses these traits, these traits are the reason she cannot fulfill his dreams
She would never sacrifice her own status to be with him Cares more for privilege than Gatsby’s love
+Chapter Six – Key Questions
1. How truthful was Gatsby when he relayed the story his life to Nick? Why does Fitzgerald tell the story of Jay Gatz now?
2. Describe the meeting of Tom and Gatsby. What does this meeting reveal about them?
3. Why did Daisy and Tom find Gatsby’s party loathsome?
4. How did Gatsby measure the success of his party?
5. When Nick told Gatsby that “you can’t repeat the past,” Gatsby replied, “Why of course you can!” Do you agree with Nick or Gatsby?
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