The Great Gatsby Revision
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- Created on: 14-05-18 20:18
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- 'The Great Gatsby'
- 1920s Social Context of the novel
- The American Dream
- Gatsby-hope for a better life- obtain Daisy and adopt the 1920s wealthy lifestyle
- Myrtle- become a famous singer and part of the social rich through her sexual affairs with Tom.
- The Green light- synbolises hope for America- Gatsby's atachement with this represents him as a figure who stands for America itself (Lionel Trilling)
- Green light interpretation synbolises greed, jealousy, ambition
- land of possibilities - anyone from anyone from anywhere can achieve it
- Consumerism Society
- Roaring Twenties- economic prosperity. Old money vs new money. Old inherited money seen with social superiority
- 'The Valley of Ashes' - bleak, dark location of the poor- looked down on in society. Wilson depicted as a frail, isolated character
- Dr Tj Ecklebergs eyes- eyes of God- symbolic of observing morally corrupt society
- Selfish Attitudes
- Tom and Daisy- use their materialism to escape situations i.e both myrtle and Gatsby's death.
- Daisy uses her relationship with Gatsby to access more material items- in love with the idea of him
- Tom's selfish sexual desires. Greed- encounters with more then one woman.
- Prohibition
- Banned the manufacture and distribution of alcohol to raise moral standards yet had the oppsite effect
- Bootlegging- those who illegally supplied alcohol- Major source of Gatsbys wealth
- Jazz Age
- Social Class
- The American Dream
- Love
- Unrequited love
- Gatsby>Daisy
- Myrtle>Tom
- Wilson>Myrtle?
- Selfish Love
- Tom>Daisy
- Gatsby>Daisy
- Daisy>Gatsby
- Females in love
- Males in love
- Idealised love
- Love and pain/sadness
- Betrayal in love
- Unrequited love
- Relationships in the novel
- Tom and Daisy
- Gatsby and Daisy
- Tom and Myrtle
- Significance of Wilson in the novel
- Fitzgerald's individual experiences
- Past lovers
- Narration of the novel
- Nick Carraway
- Jordan as a 2nd narrator
- Structue of events
- Chapter 5 - Daisy and Gatsby reunite
- End of novella - Gatsby death
- Myrtles death
- Chapter 3 - Gatsby's party
- Chapter 1- Insight into Toms sexual affairs; "Tom had some other woman in New York"
- Chapter 2- Wilson and myrtle relationship- Myrtle dismissive of Wilson when Tom around
- Romantic aspects of the novel
- Influence of Keats
- Nicks description of Gatsby
- Gatsby's description around Daisy
- Critic views and approaches to the novel
- Marxist reading - analyse class structures
- Gatsby's tragic outcome is inevitable. Individual who puts energy into a personal fantasy rather than engaging with social structures
- Gatsby denies working class roots and using criminal means to enter ruling class (Bootlegger, Wolfsheim business)
- George and Myrtle Wilson in valley of ashes- how workers were oppressed in 1920s
- Dedication to copmmodites in such a society results in dysfunctional interpersonal relationships- who does daisy love?
- Indsutrialisation aftter war widened ec onomic gap between rich and poor and a feeling of alineation. - lack of personal fulfilment in the novel
- psychoanalytical critcism
- Characters have a fear of intimacy - Daisys marriage to tom is a psychological defence- not dependant on Gatsby
- Gatsby's obsession with Daisy became a means to bring into existence the person he longed to be
- Gatsby wants to become 'The Great Gatsby' - Daisy is just a prop used for his desires. Pursuit of wealth not her.
- New historicist reading
- Novel embedded within the social and economic realities in 1920s.
- Tom and Daisy's relationship moulded by classes of society
- Feminist reading
- Tom Buchanan's dominance
- "Shes not leaving me!" "once in a while I go off on a spree but I always come back" - "spree" - women seen as commodities.
- Interactions with Myrtle. Reasserts authority when he breaks her nose to silence her.
- Gatsby's pursuit and idealised version of Daisy does not help her achieve liberation
- Gatsby's assertiveness
- "She never loved you" "I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me"- Gatsby certainty and finality in tone-speaks for Daisy- perfectionism to repeat the past- contributers to his tragic fate.
- Tom Buchanan's dominance
- Lois Tyson "drama of dysfunctional love"
- Thomas Flanagan 2000 "Gatsby lives in the world of romantic enerfgies and colours"
- Lionel Trilling "Gatsby comes inevitably to stand for America itself"
- Paul Scanlon- "Gatsby like a chivalic knight- represents conventions of courtly love for Daisy"
- Edwin Clark "Fitzgerald discloses in these people a means of spirit, carelessness , absence of loyalties"
- Marxist reading - analyse class structures
- Tragedy Genre
- Is Gatsby a traigc hero or merely a deluded egotist who throws his life away focusing on one unattainable dream?
- Key Quotes around Gatsby
- Key Quotes around Daisy
- Key Quotes around Tom
- Key Quotes around Myrtle
- Key Quotes around Wilson
- 1920s Social Context of the novel
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