1. Gatsby Chapter 9

2. Do Now: Take out Chapter 9 Questions Today: Review Chapter 9 and Color Symbols HW: Quote portion of handout.

3. Question 1: Your opinion

4. Question 2: Henry Gatz He received a telegram to come. Called Gatsby- Jimmy Shaky, weak, and from Minnesota.

5. Question 3: He is proud. Picture in his wallet Gatsby bought him a house, seems happy.

6. Question 4: Because, he wants to make him feel comfortable. He was a great man. Nick believed in Gatsby and what he wanted.

7. Question 5: Klipspringer had a picnic Lived with Gatsby He wants his tennis shoes back. Shows that he was just using Gatsby.

8. Question 6: Wolfsheim didn’t want to get involved. He is tied up in a business deal. Illegal Activities

9. Question 7: No real friends.

10. Question 8: Father, Nick, Owl Eyes, Servants. This shows the reader that NONE of Gatsby’s partygoers really cared about him at all; they were all just using him for what they could get out of him—parties, alcohol, a place to stay, a good time—and none would be there for him if he needed them.

11. Question 9: Gatsby’s schedule shows that since his youth, he has been a determined individual, determined to make something of himself and to be a good person while he was at it. He left home in search of the ‘American Dream’ and while he does earn the material success, he doesn’t let him ruin him like so many others do; he did become a better person, better than those who belong to the upper class to which he struggled to belong.

12. Question 10 & 11: She makes a reference about a bad driver. This is another reference to the carless lives that people live. They watch out for themselves not others. Nick does not believe in this philosophy.

13. Question 12: Tom confesses that he told Wilson that Gatsby owned the car and where Wilson could find Gatsby. Tom says Gatsby had it coming.

14. Question 13: Talks about how he suffered by giving up his apt and saw the “damn box of dog biscuits.”

15. Question 14: *The reader is never given enough information to know whether or not he’s saying this to cover Daisy or if he really believes Gatsby was the driver. Nick leaves the reader with… “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

16. Question 15: He really just can’t handle the east.

17. The final chapter of the novel again draws attention to the green light at the end of the dock, and in turn, to the hopes and dreams of society. Readers are left with a final image of Gatsby. Nick again reminds the reader of the line separating dreams from reality, causing everyone to stop and wonder about the dreams people chase.

18. Questions and answers to consider: Is everyone, like Gatsby, chasing illusions while neglecting reality? Can anyone ever escape being held by the past, continually working to get back to better times and sometimes missing the joy of the present? According to Nick, the more Gatsby reached for his dream, the more it retreated into the shadowy past, taking him further and further away from what is real. Gatsby had hope and believed in the bounty of what was ahead, but it brought him face-to-face with his own destruction. Perhaps there's a bit of Gatsby in everyone. After all, society is, as Nick says, "boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”