1. The Great Gatsby
Chapter 6 & Test Review

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3. “James Gatz”
“James Gatz – that was really, or at least legally, his name. He changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career – when he saw Dan Cody’s yacht drop over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior.”
His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people – his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.”
“So he invited just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year- old boy would be likely to invent, and to his conception he was faithful to the end.”

4. “James Gatz”
His embarrassment at having to work as a janitor in college contrasts with the promise that he experiences when he meets Dan Cody, who represents the attainment of everything that Gatsby wants. Intensely aware of his poverty, the young Gatsby develops a powerful obsession with amassing wealth and status. Gatsby’s act of rechristening himself symbolizes his desire to abandon his lower-class identity and recast himself as the wealthy man he envisions.
When Cody died, he left Gatsby $25,000, but Cody’s mistress prevented him from claiming his inheritance. Gatsby then dedicated himself to becoming a wealthy and successful man.

5. Tom’s at Gatsby’s House?
Tom and the Slones stopped for a drink at Gatsby’s house
Theme: Social Class
Tom and the Slones disapprove of Gatsby, yet they act incredibly polite
Behind his back they mock and despise him for being “new money”
Tom is suspicious of Daisy and Gatsby
“I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.”  How ironic!

6. Tom & Daisy Attend Gatsby’s Party
“Perhaps his presence gave the evenings it peculiar quality of oppressiveness – it stands out in my memory from Gatsby’s other parties that summer.”
“…the same many-colored, many-keyed commotions, but I felt an unpleasantness in the air, a pervading harshness that hadn’t been there before. Or perhaps I had merely grown used to it, grown to accept West Egg as a world complete in itself, with its own standards and its own great figures, second to nothing because it had no consciousness of being so.”
“…now I was looking at it again, through Daisy’s eyes. It was invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your powers of adjustment.”
Gatsby asked the Buchanan’s if they see “the faces of many people [they have] heard about” and Tom replies that they “don’t go around very much… in fact, I was just thinking I don’t know a soul here.”

7. Daisy didn’t enjoy the party…
“She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented ‘place’ that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village – appalled by its raw vigour that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing. She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.”

8. Can the past repeat itself in the present?
“…after she was free, they would go back to Louisville and be married from her house – just as if it were five years ago.”
“You can’t repeat the past… Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!”
“I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before.”
“He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.”

9. Can the past repeat itself in the present?
Gatsby, distraught, protests that he can. He believes that his money can accomplish anything as far as Daisy is concerned. As he walks amid the debris from the party, Nick thinks about the first time Gatsby kissed Daisy, the moment when his dream of Daisy became the dominant force in his life. Now that he has her, Nick reflects, his dream is effectively over.

10. Ch. 1 – 6 Test 10 Multiple Choice
6 Matching: Match the quote with the character
5 Long Answer Questions
WHAT/HOW SHOULD YOU STUDY?
Review the chapter notes and slides
Highlight and annotate the chapters
Review important quotations
Understand the symbols and themes, and examples of each
Recognize the character changes and development
Watch the videos for further support

11. Summary Reporter wants to learn more about the “celebrity” Jay Gatsby
Readers discover information about his past
Gatsby meets guests – including Tom at his house. They leave without him
Tom and Daisy attend Gatsby’s party together. Gatsby is upset because Daisy didn’t seem happy.
Gatsby wants to “make things as they once were”
Nick describes the meeting between Gatsby and Daisy from the past – Gatsby obsesses to recreate/relive the memory

12. Old Money vs. New Money
The conflict between Gatsby and Tom, new money and old money, continues to build.
Gatsby fails to understand the “old money” behavior of insincere politeness; he mistakes it for actual politeness.
“Old Money” hides its cruelty and calls it good manners.
Nick has clearly come to sympathize with Gatsby against Tom. Tom’s negativity about the party is to be expected. But that Daisy has a bad time suggests that Gatsby might not so easily be able to recreate their love. There may be too many obstacles

13. Brainstorm notes on the below themes…
Society & Class
Gender
The American Dream
Time
Love
Marriage
Perception vs. Reality
Education

14. Motifs Geography Weather East Egg represents the old aristocracy
West Egg = the newly rich
Valley of ashes = moral and social decay of America
New York = uninhibited, amoral quest for money and pleasure
West (places like Minnesota) are connected to more traditional social values and ideals
The weather matches the emotional and narrative tone of the story
Example: Gatsby and Daisy’s reunion begins when it is raining outside, proving awkward and sadness, and their love reawakens as the sun comes out

15. The Green Light At the end of Daisy’s East Egg dock
Represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future
Ch. 1: he reaches toward the green light as the guiding light to lead him to his goal
American Dream

16. The Valley of Ashes First introduced in Ch. 2 Between West Egg and NYC
Long stretch of desolate land created by the dumping of industrial ashes
Represents the moral and social decay that results form the uninhibited pursuit of wealth, as the rich indulge themselves with regard for nothing but their own pleasure
George Wilson, lives among the dirty ashes and looses his vitality as a result

17. The Eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg
A pair of fading, bespectacled eyes painted on an old advertising billboard over the valley of ashes
God staring down and judging American society
God replaced by capitalism, materialism, and the superficial
Watchful eye
Blindness of the characters
Watching the corruption