Romance
- Created by: Honor Burke
- Created on: 13-02-20 14:54
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- Romance
- Nostalgia
- Gatsby's 'love' is corrupted by nostalgia
- Illusion of the American Dream
- James Gatz: 'Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies', 'the clock ticked on the wash stand'
- 'He could climb to [the ladder] ... and once there he could **** on the pap of life'
- Gatsby's 'Schedule'
- Daisy is preoccupied with ideas of adoration; seeks this: 'Do they miss me?', 'are you in love with me ...?'
- Relationship told in flashbacks; romanticised/filtered: 'Shining hair', 'it was a cold fall day', Daisy 'dressed in white', 'red, white, and blue banners in front of all the houses'. 'White with moonlight', 'a stir and bustle among the stars'
- Daisy misunderstood/romanticised: 'perhaps Daisy never went in for amour at all- and yet there's something in that voice of hers', '"But it's so hot," insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears'- overwhelmed
- 'Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols'
- True love
- Is true love possible in 1920s America?
- Nick and Jordan: 'you threw me over on the telephone', 'half in love with her'- love not fully possible
- Motif of bad marriages
- Marriage underneath the party: 'portentous chords' vs argument
- Dan Cody and Ella Kaye: 'Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died'
- Daisy is simply a 'nice' girl whom he 'felt married to', 'a grail', 'gleaming like silver'- formal and detached. Gatsby goes after her because of her wealth: 'her porch was bright with the bought luxury of star shine', 'ripe mystery' about her house- romanticised and objectified: just the pathway to being 'safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor'
- Intercepted with phone calls, romantic anticlimaxes
- Nick and Gatsby: 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together', Nick 'erased' an 'obscene word' on Gatsby's house
- Myrtle's lovers: 'Tears were overflowing down [Tom's] face', Wilson 'swaying back and forth'
- Is true love possible in 1920s America?
- Nostalgia
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