time Flashcards
ch5 “nobody’s coming for tea. it too late!”
“half an hour” “decade…period…five years”
- double entendre meaning. its too late symbolises the entire problem of it being 5 years late time vs love.
- the semantic field of time indicates this will never happen as love vs time.
ch5 “luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers, and set it back in place”
- emphasises Gatsby’s inability to control time. trying to recapture the past
- eden, daisy + america = past/ hope=future
- gatsby is going in a backward direction therefore never achieving hope.
ch6 “‘cant repeat the past?’ He cried incredulously ‘why of course you can!”
- cant accept reality. The past is immutable but gatsby wants to beat the laws of physics
- he’s trying to recreate the happiest time of his life in a delusional fantasy
ch7 “anyhow - daisy stepped on it. I tried to make her stop, but she couldnt, so i pulled on the emergency brake”
- Making her stop but she couldn’t is metaphysical metaphor of their relationship. - Daisy moves with time, gatsby tries to slow her down but ultimately it ends in tragedy
Ch7 “we’re getting old’ said daisy ‘if we were young we’d rise and dance”
daisy recognises time has passed and they are no longer young and in love
Ch8 “for daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery”
- She couldn’t wait for him but so she re-entered society
- the UC have a secure world to return to and gave up hope with gatsby.
- (Orchids symbolise love and beauty and later its says “tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed” signifying her love for gatsby is over and has died.)
Ch8 “daisy began to move again with the season”
The upper class move on frequently through fickle relationships, like what jordan said. Leisure class become so bored
