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“a sense of fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth”

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Nick
Chapter 1
Class
Poems: Belle, Whoso, Maid

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“extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness”

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Nick - about Gatsby
Chapter 1
Idealistic
Poem: sonnet 116

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“their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and class”

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About East and West Egg
Chapter 1
Class
Poem: Bell, Whoso, Maid

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“Tom Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch”

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Nick - Tom’s characterisation
Masculinity, arrogance
Possessive

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“His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor”, “her low, thrilling voice”, “her voice glowing and singing”, “an excitement in her voice that men… found difficult to forget”

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Tom and Daisy’s voices
Chapter 1
Common use of voices for characterisation
Female power
Male dominance

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6
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“Tom’s got some woman in New York” “She might have the decency not to telephone him at dinner time”

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Jordan on affair
Chapter 1
Infidelity
Myrtle constantly being between them or there
Class
Sexuality

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7
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“I hope she’ll be a fool…a beautiful little fool”

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Daisy - on daughter
Chapter 1
Quote from Fitzgerald’s wife Zelda
Female power and oppression

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8
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“he stretched out his arms towards the dark water…I distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away”

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Nick - first sight of Gatsby
Chapter 1
Unattainable love
Idealised
Supernatural depiction of Gatsby

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9
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“valley of ashes”

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TS Elliot poem
Chapter 2
Consequences of industrial movement
Class
First meet Myrtle - locations reflect characters

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10
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“the eyes of Doctor TJ Eckleburg”

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Religious figure
Chapter 2

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11
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“He was a blond, spiritless man”

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George Wilson
Chapter 2
La Belle men
Class

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12
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“the thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light”, “walking through her husband as if he were a ghost”

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Myrtle’s introduction
Chapter 2
Female power
Sexuality
Class

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13
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“Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!”

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A three person relationship
Chapter 2
Physical
Loud
Passion

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14
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“Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once”, “he was a German spy during the war”

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Building anticipation over Gatsby
Chapter 3
Illusion
Duality

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15
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“old sport”

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Gatsby’s attempt at higher class status
Chapter 3
Class
Illusion

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16
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“rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance”

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Gatsby
Chapter 3
Godlike presentation

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17
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“It takes two to make an accident”

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Jordan - Foreshadowing
Chapter 3
Tragic love

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18
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“It is an old timetable now, disintegrating at its fold”

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Chapter 4
The age of this tale
Old tragic end

19
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“The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at”

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Jordan retelling Gatsby and Daisy’s past
Chapter 4

20
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“She wouldn’t let go of the letter…only let me leave it in the soap-dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow”

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Jordon on Daisy and Gatsby’s past
Chapter 4
Tragic love

21
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“Tom ran into a wagon… she was one of the chambermaids”

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Jordan on Tom and Daisy’s past
Chapter 4
Foreshadowing crash
Class
His preference- feels powerful
Sexuality

22
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“The day agreed upon was pouring rain”, “it stopped raining”

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Chapter 5
Pathetic fallacy
Impending tragedy
Short lived happiness

23
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“Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes”, “You’re acting like a little boy”

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Chapter 5
Gatsby reduced by Daisy
Vulnerability
Stuck in past
“Pale as death” - mirrors end

24
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“He literally glowed”, “My house looks well doesn’t it”

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Gatsby
Chapter 5
Daisy’s affect
His attempt to impress

25
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“That’s my affair”

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Gatsby
Chapter 5
Secret identity
Unnatural

26
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“Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light he now vanished forever”

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Anticlimactic
Chapter 5
Loved the chase
Doesn’t live up to idealised version

27
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“that voice was a deathless song”, “They had forgotten me”

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Chapter 5
La Belle
Trance of Daisy’s voice
In own world
Idealised

28
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“James Gatz - that was really, or at least legally, his name”

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Chapter 6
Illusion
Identity

29
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“women run around too much these days to suit me”

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Tom
Chapter 6
Possessive

30
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“She didn’t like it”

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Gatsby and Daisy
Chapter 6
All for her
From another world to hers

31
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“walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favours and crushed flowers”, “Cabt repeat the past…Why of course you can”

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Gatsby’s idealistic hope
Chapter 6
Stuck their
Romantic
Tragic

32
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“It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night”

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Gatsby
Chapter 7
Goal met
Parties were for her

33
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“Her voice is full of money”

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Gatsby on Daisy
Chapter 7
His infatuation
Real admiration for her wealth

34
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“His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control”

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Tom’s panic
Chapter 7
Loss of control
Combined with alcohol

35
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“sit back and let Mr Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife”

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Tom and Gatsby
Chapter 7
Class
Toxic masculinity

36
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“Your wife doesn’t love you”

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Gatsby
Chapter 7
Speaks for Daisy

37
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“you want too much”, “I did love him once - but I loved you too”

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Daisy
Chapter 7
Some of the few words she’s able to get in
Overwhelmed by Gatsby’s obsession

38
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“He was his wife’s man and not his own”

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Myrtle and George
Chapter 7
Female power

39
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“There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy abut the picture”

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Daisy and Tom
Chapter 7
Been together for a long time
Love formed
Bond

40
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“left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing”

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Gatsby
Chapter 7
Illusion
Delusion

41
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“He was clutching at some last hope and I couldn’t bear to shake him free.”

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Gatsby
Chapter 8
Illusion
False hope
Tragedy

42
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“and the holocaust was complete”

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Gatsby and George’s deaths
Chapter 8
Massacre
Devastation
Tragedy

43
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“They were careless people”

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Tom and Daisy
Chapter 9
Class
Superiority

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