April 1st
Friendship
Nick is the only person, aside from Gatsby’s father, who attends the funeral. What kind of friendship do Nick and Gatsby have? What does Nick derive from this friendship?
Nick and Gatsby does not have true friendship. They are different because Nick is old money and he knows better than Gatsby who is new money. Nick understands him and feels sympathy for his action. Gatsby is kind of using Nick. Nick is still in friendship even though he knows he is getting used by Gatsby to meet Daisy. He feels sympathy for Gatsby so he helps him. Even though, he is feeling Gatsby, he is being judgmental.
Alienation
At one party, Nick observes, “People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away” (p. 37). Soon afterward, Tom breaks his lover’s nose. Does Fitzgerald use parties to highlight his characters’ failures to relate to one another? Do Gatsby’s parties reflect genuine celebration or a kind of mourning?
There relationship is not genuin or meaningful. They are wanting friends but not really that much. Trying to look like they are just having a good time. They are not really celebrating because they are nothing to celebrate but they just need to act like celebrating cause they need to.
March 21
Why does Gatsby stop giving parties?
He used to give parties because he wanted to meet Daisy. Now that they meet frequently he does not need to arrange the party.
When does Tom first realize that Daisy loves Gatsby?
When Daisy was talking with Tom and Gatsby. She said lets all go to town, Gatsby and Daisy was staring at each other but not just a stare so Tom realized they both had something going on. Kind of realized that Daisy loves Gatsby.
Why is Myrtle Wilson upset when she sees Tom and Jordan?
Because she thinks Jordan is Tom’s wife.
How does Gatsby characterize Daisy’s voice? What do you think he means by this?
Her voices is full of money meaning she sounds like pampered princess.
Why does Tom insist that Daisy go home with Gatsby? What do you think this tells us about Tom's character and his relationship with Daisy?
Because Tom knows that Daisy will not leave him because of money. Tom and Daisy, they both did not build the relationship with love. Tom thinks social status is important.
What indications are there are the end of the chapter that Tom and Daisy are going to stay together despite his philandering and her love for Gatsby?
They are going to stay together and are talking with each other and body language are saying that they are going to stay with each other. Protecting each other.
At the end of the chapter, Gatsby is standing alone, looking out at Daisy’s house. Where else in the novel does he do this? How is this different?
When Gatsby is first seen, he is looking towards Daisy’s house with hope but now he does not because he knows that she will not leave her husband.
March 15th
Describe the effect of rain on the plot.
- Rain describes the Gatsby’s mood and he was nervous and when they were meeting the mood was awkward.
Think of a time when you dreamed of getting something (an object, an award, a job, even a boyfriend/girlfriend). How can the attainment of the goal be less satisfying than the pursuit of the goal? Is it worth it in the end?
- Because of wanting something so badly that the person gets to miss things that they can make them happy. They missed lots of situation that it could have been memorable but they were being blind from there obsession of wanting something.
Gatsby finally met with Daisy, yet was afraid to talk to her at first. Why?
Gatsby still likes her and he is stuck in the past. He could not get over with the past that he did not know what to say so he was afraid.
Speculate why Gatsby, now that he is with Daisy, is described as “running down like an over-wound clock” (93).
Things that he has been holding by winding the clock are released that he does not know what to do but to show is stuff inside the closet.
Daisy cries into a pile of Gatsby’s shirts during a tour of his house. Why is she crying?
She regrets marrying Tom and cries because she did not know Gatsby will be this rich and maybe there is some kind of emotion situation going on.
More of Gatsby’s past is revealed in this chapter. It is effective that the truth is revealed after we have seen Gatsby’s present wealthy lifestyle, for it shows how Gatsby came to live in such a glamorous illusion. What truths do you learn about Gatsby in this chapter?
He met Dan Cody and spent his young adulthood life with him. Gatsby was the one who made himself a story about his background. Basically, he made up is background,
Compare Jay Gatsby to the American dream.
He is typical American dream representor and he wanted to rich and have convient life with set background and he became like that.
Reread p. 103-104. What does Gatsby not realize is happening? How does this relate to the fact that Gatsby is “new money”?
Tom and his friend invites Nick and Gatsby to dinner party sarcastically but Nick was well educated and he knows they don’t want he and Gatsby to come to dinner. Gatsby on the other hand, does not know this and he want to go.
Does Daisy approve of Gatsby’s party? Why or why not?
She hates it because they are new money
Reread 110-112. What does Gatsby want Daisy to do?
Gatsby wants Daisy to leave Tom.
What is the significance of Gatsby telling Nick about his and Daisy’s first kiss?
The moment that he became a different person. He could do everything from that point to want her.
Five Green Lights
1. Making better life than my expectation
2. Doing challenges by myself without involving other people.
3. Finding good friend
4. Getting to know more about reality
5. Predicting the future. Not about me but the world news.
Who I want to be friend with in Great Gatsby?
If I can be friend with a person in the book, it will be Gatsby because he has a lot of secret and knowing those secret will be fun. However it might be tragic or scary to know those secret he is hiding from me. Knowing the secret might hurt person's feelings and they might hide it for a good read that if anybody knows, they might get hurt by his secret.
If I can't be friend with Gatsby, I will be friend with Daisy. I want to know why she could not wait for Gatsby. It is because of money or scared that he died or not. Ask her if he was alive what would she think about him or does she regret that she marry the current guy and not waiting for Gatsby. Gossiping with this girl will be crazy and complicated but as a same girl it would be fun to talk with each other, at least once.
Questions Feb 22nd
Chapter 3
Look back at the first paragraph of chapter 3. This paragraph hints at one of the major themes of this novel. What is it and how does it hint to it?
The theme of this chapter is wealth (Gatsby is showing his wealth in the party like the car, big house, etc), isolation (isolation between people at the party and Gatsby), lies and deceit (Nick's girlfriend, Baker, she is a liar), passion and forgiveness (Nick forgives Baker even though she is not honest person because he loves her.).
What is Nick’s cardinal virtue? What is ironic about this?
His father told him that Nick should not judge people because he had advantage that other people did not have. However, this whole book is in Nick's perspective and in his perspective he judges people.
Chapter 4
List the details that Gatsby tells Nick about Gatsby’s life.
He was educated in Oxford. He was a major. He shows that he got a medal. Showed picture of Oxford school.
Gatsby is not telling the truth about his life. Can you find any parts of his story that make you suspicious?
He says that he is from San Francisco and say that San Francisco is in mid west.
He has weird friend.
When he shows picture of Oxford. He can not believe him with medal and other and does not know what to believe in.
He tell about his life that Nick never asked.
What is your impression of the kind of person Mr. Wolfsheim is?
He was a gambler. Not a good person. He might be a Corpse dealer. He were human teeth. He scares people.
What does Jordan Baker reveal about Gatsby?
She tell him that Gatsby is in love with Daisy in 1917. She told him she will wait for Gatsby . However, she accepted marriage proposal from Tom while Gatsby was in war.
Explain what happened with their relationship after Gatsby and Daisy met.
Gatsby and Daisy was in love together. However, Gatsby was in war that she needed to wait for him but she could not wait and accepted Tom's marriage proposal. Gatsby was Nick to arrange the meeting between Daisy and him so that they can get back together.
Letter's to my friend
Dear Juliana
Yesterday I went to a big party and I really enjoyed it and lots of weird things happened and mysteries. There was drunk guys with owl eye spectacles like my glasses in library. Everyone was fighting with his or her spouse. It was kind of Chaos. There was orchestra and it was elegant in a way. I think lots of uninvited people came to the party. Maybe you should’ve come to this party. I was trying to find Gatsby but it seems like nobody knows where he is or how he looks like. It’s funny that we do not know that face of who made this party. I was passing by piano and I saw a red hair women crying while she sang with piano. Her mascara was all over her face. Now I think of it. I think Gatsby is pretty rich and I saw a Rolls Royce.
Ashley Kim
Answer Three Questions
Why do you think Nick mentioned "Beauty and the Beast, Loneliness, Old Grocery House, Brook'n Bridge"?
Beauty and the Beast, Loneliness, Old Grocery House, Brook'n Bridge, the meaning of this might be loneliness and the setting is very dark. Beauty and the Beast can be the description about Myrtle and Tom.
What does the valley of ashes symbolize?
Ashes symbolizes place of uninterrupted desolation.
Why are they having affairs? (Tom and Myrtle)
Myrtle and Daisy have different personality. Tom is not sick of Daisy but he does enjoy having affair with Tom. However, he love Daisy that if Myrtle say something about Daisy he gets mad.
Why is Nick telling this story? Why is Nick “confused
and a little disgusted” (p. 20)
Everyone is judgmental and Nick is judging someone and getting disgusted and confused. Nick is telling this story about going to east egg. There is west and east eggs. The difference between those two, east is old money which they have been rich for long and west is new money which they have just been rich. Nick has went to the old money party which he met his classmate Tom has invited. Tom's wife Daisy, she is Nick's cousin and she has invited her friend name Jordan Baker. She told Nick that Tom was having affair with other girls and cheating on Daisy. Nick has been confused why he was doing those action and little disgusted by his action. I think he was being disgusted because he could not do anything about the situation Tom cheating on her cousin and sad that she did know about this situation. Even if she did she could not do anything about it. He must be teling the story about this even the old money does not the always the right things and even if there are in east egg some people does not have enough power over someone.
Friendship
Nick is the only person, aside from Gatsby’s father, who attends the funeral. What kind of friendship do Nick and Gatsby have? What does Nick derive from this friendship?
Nick and Gatsby does not have true friendship. They are different because Nick is old money and he knows better than Gatsby who is new money. Nick understands him and feels sympathy for his action. Gatsby is kind of using Nick. Nick is still in friendship even though he knows he is getting used by Gatsby to meet Daisy. He feels sympathy for Gatsby so he helps him. Even though, he is feeling Gatsby, he is being judgmental.
Alienation
At one party, Nick observes, “People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away” (p. 37). Soon afterward, Tom breaks his lover’s nose. Does Fitzgerald use parties to highlight his characters’ failures to relate to one another? Do Gatsby’s parties reflect genuine celebration or a kind of mourning?
There relationship is not genuin or meaningful. They are wanting friends but not really that much. Trying to look like they are just having a good time. They are not really celebrating because they are nothing to celebrate but they just need to act like celebrating cause they need to.
March 21
Why does Gatsby stop giving parties?
He used to give parties because he wanted to meet Daisy. Now that they meet frequently he does not need to arrange the party.
When does Tom first realize that Daisy loves Gatsby?
When Daisy was talking with Tom and Gatsby. She said lets all go to town, Gatsby and Daisy was staring at each other but not just a stare so Tom realized they both had something going on. Kind of realized that Daisy loves Gatsby.
Why is Myrtle Wilson upset when she sees Tom and Jordan?
Because she thinks Jordan is Tom’s wife.
How does Gatsby characterize Daisy’s voice? What do you think he means by this?
Her voices is full of money meaning she sounds like pampered princess.
Why does Tom insist that Daisy go home with Gatsby? What do you think this tells us about Tom's character and his relationship with Daisy?
Because Tom knows that Daisy will not leave him because of money. Tom and Daisy, they both did not build the relationship with love. Tom thinks social status is important.
What indications are there are the end of the chapter that Tom and Daisy are going to stay together despite his philandering and her love for Gatsby?
They are going to stay together and are talking with each other and body language are saying that they are going to stay with each other. Protecting each other.
At the end of the chapter, Gatsby is standing alone, looking out at Daisy’s house. Where else in the novel does he do this? How is this different?
When Gatsby is first seen, he is looking towards Daisy’s house with hope but now he does not because he knows that she will not leave her husband.
March 15th
Describe the effect of rain on the plot.
- Rain describes the Gatsby’s mood and he was nervous and when they were meeting the mood was awkward.
Think of a time when you dreamed of getting something (an object, an award, a job, even a boyfriend/girlfriend). How can the attainment of the goal be less satisfying than the pursuit of the goal? Is it worth it in the end?
- Because of wanting something so badly that the person gets to miss things that they can make them happy. They missed lots of situation that it could have been memorable but they were being blind from there obsession of wanting something.
Gatsby finally met with Daisy, yet was afraid to talk to her at first. Why?
Gatsby still likes her and he is stuck in the past. He could not get over with the past that he did not know what to say so he was afraid.
Speculate why Gatsby, now that he is with Daisy, is described as “running down like an over-wound clock” (93).
Things that he has been holding by winding the clock are released that he does not know what to do but to show is stuff inside the closet.
Daisy cries into a pile of Gatsby’s shirts during a tour of his house. Why is she crying?
She regrets marrying Tom and cries because she did not know Gatsby will be this rich and maybe there is some kind of emotion situation going on.
More of Gatsby’s past is revealed in this chapter. It is effective that the truth is revealed after we have seen Gatsby’s present wealthy lifestyle, for it shows how Gatsby came to live in such a glamorous illusion. What truths do you learn about Gatsby in this chapter?
He met Dan Cody and spent his young adulthood life with him. Gatsby was the one who made himself a story about his background. Basically, he made up is background,
Compare Jay Gatsby to the American dream.
He is typical American dream representor and he wanted to rich and have convient life with set background and he became like that.
Reread p. 103-104. What does Gatsby not realize is happening? How does this relate to the fact that Gatsby is “new money”?
Tom and his friend invites Nick and Gatsby to dinner party sarcastically but Nick was well educated and he knows they don’t want he and Gatsby to come to dinner. Gatsby on the other hand, does not know this and he want to go.
Does Daisy approve of Gatsby’s party? Why or why not?
She hates it because they are new money
Reread 110-112. What does Gatsby want Daisy to do?
Gatsby wants Daisy to leave Tom.
What is the significance of Gatsby telling Nick about his and Daisy’s first kiss?
The moment that he became a different person. He could do everything from that point to want her.
Five Green Lights
1. Making better life than my expectation
2. Doing challenges by myself without involving other people.
3. Finding good friend
4. Getting to know more about reality
5. Predicting the future. Not about me but the world news.
Who I want to be friend with in Great Gatsby?
If I can be friend with a person in the book, it will be Gatsby because he has a lot of secret and knowing those secret will be fun. However it might be tragic or scary to know those secret he is hiding from me. Knowing the secret might hurt person's feelings and they might hide it for a good read that if anybody knows, they might get hurt by his secret.
If I can't be friend with Gatsby, I will be friend with Daisy. I want to know why she could not wait for Gatsby. It is because of money or scared that he died or not. Ask her if he was alive what would she think about him or does she regret that she marry the current guy and not waiting for Gatsby. Gossiping with this girl will be crazy and complicated but as a same girl it would be fun to talk with each other, at least once.
Questions Feb 22nd
Chapter 3
Look back at the first paragraph of chapter 3. This paragraph hints at one of the major themes of this novel. What is it and how does it hint to it?
The theme of this chapter is wealth (Gatsby is showing his wealth in the party like the car, big house, etc), isolation (isolation between people at the party and Gatsby), lies and deceit (Nick's girlfriend, Baker, she is a liar), passion and forgiveness (Nick forgives Baker even though she is not honest person because he loves her.).
What is Nick’s cardinal virtue? What is ironic about this?
His father told him that Nick should not judge people because he had advantage that other people did not have. However, this whole book is in Nick's perspective and in his perspective he judges people.
Chapter 4
List the details that Gatsby tells Nick about Gatsby’s life.
He was educated in Oxford. He was a major. He shows that he got a medal. Showed picture of Oxford school.
Gatsby is not telling the truth about his life. Can you find any parts of his story that make you suspicious?
He says that he is from San Francisco and say that San Francisco is in mid west.
He has weird friend.
When he shows picture of Oxford. He can not believe him with medal and other and does not know what to believe in.
He tell about his life that Nick never asked.
What is your impression of the kind of person Mr. Wolfsheim is?
He was a gambler. Not a good person. He might be a Corpse dealer. He were human teeth. He scares people.
What does Jordan Baker reveal about Gatsby?
She tell him that Gatsby is in love with Daisy in 1917. She told him she will wait for Gatsby . However, she accepted marriage proposal from Tom while Gatsby was in war.
Explain what happened with their relationship after Gatsby and Daisy met.
Gatsby and Daisy was in love together. However, Gatsby was in war that she needed to wait for him but she could not wait and accepted Tom's marriage proposal. Gatsby was Nick to arrange the meeting between Daisy and him so that they can get back together.
Letter's to my friend
Dear Juliana
Yesterday I went to a big party and I really enjoyed it and lots of weird things happened and mysteries. There was drunk guys with owl eye spectacles like my glasses in library. Everyone was fighting with his or her spouse. It was kind of Chaos. There was orchestra and it was elegant in a way. I think lots of uninvited people came to the party. Maybe you should’ve come to this party. I was trying to find Gatsby but it seems like nobody knows where he is or how he looks like. It’s funny that we do not know that face of who made this party. I was passing by piano and I saw a red hair women crying while she sang with piano. Her mascara was all over her face. Now I think of it. I think Gatsby is pretty rich and I saw a Rolls Royce.
Ashley Kim
Answer Three Questions
Why do you think Nick mentioned "Beauty and the Beast, Loneliness, Old Grocery House, Brook'n Bridge"?
Beauty and the Beast, Loneliness, Old Grocery House, Brook'n Bridge, the meaning of this might be loneliness and the setting is very dark. Beauty and the Beast can be the description about Myrtle and Tom.
What does the valley of ashes symbolize?
Ashes symbolizes place of uninterrupted desolation.
Why are they having affairs? (Tom and Myrtle)
Myrtle and Daisy have different personality. Tom is not sick of Daisy but he does enjoy having affair with Tom. However, he love Daisy that if Myrtle say something about Daisy he gets mad.
Why is Nick telling this story? Why is Nick “confused
and a little disgusted” (p. 20)
Everyone is judgmental and Nick is judging someone and getting disgusted and confused. Nick is telling this story about going to east egg. There is west and east eggs. The difference between those two, east is old money which they have been rich for long and west is new money which they have just been rich. Nick has went to the old money party which he met his classmate Tom has invited. Tom's wife Daisy, she is Nick's cousin and she has invited her friend name Jordan Baker. She told Nick that Tom was having affair with other girls and cheating on Daisy. Nick has been confused why he was doing those action and little disgusted by his action. I think he was being disgusted because he could not do anything about the situation Tom cheating on her cousin and sad that she did know about this situation. Even if she did she could not do anything about it. He must be teling the story about this even the old money does not the always the right things and even if there are in east egg some people does not have enough power over someone.