1. The Great Gatsby
By F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. Key Vocab. Setting: New York, 1922
Mood: Innocent, Euphoric, Foreboding, Dark
Protagonist: Nick Carraway
Main Characters: Jay Gatsby, Daisy and Tom Buchannan, Jordan Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson

3. Summary
The Narrator is a writer named Nick Carraway, who has moved from the Midwest to New York in 1922.
He becomes entangled in the affairs of others due to his non-judgmental character. They confide in him.

4. Summary
He moves into the small guest house next to Jay Gatsby, a mysterious billionaire who gives extravagant parties every weekend, but isn’t really seen attending. Where is the money coming from? Why the elaborate parties?
He visits his cousin, Daisy, and her husband. The next day her husband takes him for a day on the town. With his girlfriend.
In the end, after everything has been done, Nick admits there is a limit to his tolerance and forgiveness. Some people do not deserve it.

5. Carraway, the main character, chooses to hope that people are good, and have honorable intentions. He reserves judgment and holds out for the best.
Theme: Hope
Gatsby hopes beyond time and reason to be with the woman he loves.
Even after the situation has turned bleak and hopeless, Gatsby chooses to hope. He believes.

6. The GG Playlist Song Title Artist George Gershwin Beethoven
Rhapsody in Blue
Moonlight Sonata
Sing Sing Sing
So Close
Let’s Get This Party Started
All My Loving
Bad Reputation
Love is Blindness
Dirty Little Secret
A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes
George Gershwin
Beethoven
Benny Goodman
Jon McLaughlin
Pink
The Beatles
Joan Jett
Jack White
All-American Rejects
Walt Disney Records

7. So Close by Jon McLaughlin
So close to reaching That famous happy end. Almost believing This one's not pretend. And now you're beside me, And look how far we've come. So far we are. So close... Oh how could I face the faceless days If I should lose you now? We're so close to reaching that famous happy end, And almost believing, this one's not pretend. Let's go on dreaming for we know we are... so close, so close and still so far...
So Close by Jon McLaughlin
You're in my arms, and all the world is calm. The music playing on for only two. So close, together. And when I'm with you So close, to feeling alive. A
A life goes by, Romantic dreams must die. So I bid my goodbye And never knew. So close, was waiting, Waiting here with you. And now, forever, I know All that I wanted to hold you so close.

8. Dirty Little Secret by All-American Rejects
Let me know that I've done wrong When I've known this all along I go around a time or two Just to waste my time with you Tell me all that you've thrown away Find out games you don't wanna play You are the only one that needs to know I'll keep you my dirty little secret (Dirty little secret) Don't tell anyone or you'll be just another regret (Just another regret, hope that you can keep it) My dirty little secret Who has to know When we live such fragile lives It's the best way we survive I go around a time or two Just to waste my time with you Tell me all that you've thrown away Find out games you don't wanna play You are the only one that needs to know
I'll keep you my dirty little secret (Dirty little secret) Don't tell anyone or you'll be just another regret (Just another regret, hope that you can keep it) My dirty little secret Who has to know The way she feels inside (inside) Those thoughts I can't deny (deny) These sleeping thoughts won't lie (won't lie) And all I've tried to hide It's eating me apart Trace this life out