For Wednesday, read Chapter 6 in The Great Gatsby. In a comment to this post, choose a key passage (half a page to a page and a half in length) to discuss. Giving the page numbers and quoting a couple of key sentences, phrases, and/or words, analyze the passage for how it furthers the novel. What is it doing stylistically? How does it reveal something about a character? What does it add to the theme? What symbol is introduced or revisited, and what does that contribute to your understanding? If someone else has already posted by the time you get here, try to choose a different passage.
For Wednesday, read Chapter 6 in The Great Gatsby. In a comment to this post, choose a key passage (half a page to a page and a half in length) to discuss. Giving the page numbers and quoting a couple of key sentences, phrases, and/or words, analyze the passage for how it furthers the novel. What is it doing stylistically? How does it reveal something about a character? What does it add to the theme? What symbol is introduced or revisited, and what does that contribute to your understanding? If someone else has already posted by the time you get here, try to choose a different passage.
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faith bergman
6/3/2014 09:39:36 am
I think the last two pages from 110-111 say a lot in this chapter. To start off the paragraph beginning with "he talked a lot about the past..., ending with he could find out what that thing was..." (110), brings up a lot of discussion. Gatsby can't deal with what his life is like right now and he wants everything to be like what it was in the past and go back to that. However, this is something that one can't do, and Gatsby feels that he's going to somehow fix everything to how it was before. Also the last two paragraphs of this chapter are very significant as Nick discusses the time when Gatsby and Daisy kissed. He brings it up to show that now that Gatsby has daisy his dream is gone, since ultimately he has "gotten her back." This chapter really goes to show a lot about who Gatsby is as a person, and Gatsby really discovers his true identity within this chapter. The dream of getting Daisy really distorted Gatsby and the reality he had to face and now as said before as he "has her," that dream is now gone as it has essentially been completed. These passages reveal a lot about Gatsby and what he thinks of himself and how he can accomplish his goals, as well as further the novel as it has come to the point where Tom has attended one of Gatsby's parties, and now Tom is paying close attention to Gatsby who secretly met up with Tom's wife, and it furthers the novel as it's ultimately going to lead up to a bigger moment which is currently being built up within this chapter.
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Dar
6/3/2014 12:27:40 pm
"James Gatz--that was really, or at least legally...faithful to the end" (98).
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Gabryela Sinclair
6/4/2014 05:56:37 am
The second full paragraph of page ninety-eight, from "I suppose he'd had the name ready" to "to this conception he was faithful to the end," is interesting on several levels: not only does it reveal much about Gatsby's personality and past, but it makes an interesting historical comparison to both ancient philosophy and the Bible. The fact that Gatsby is still living "faithfully" to the ideal of himself that he created at seventeen speaks volumes oof his mental state. To some extent, he is still trying to relive his earlier years through his desire for Daisy, and he has yet to abandon the persona whom he believes will win him this fantasy. This passage also makes reference both to Plato's conception of ideals and to the creation of man, one of the many sophisticated allusions throughout the book.
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Aleks Marceau
6/4/2014 10:31:08 am
The passage I am selecting is the paragraph on page 109 that begins with "He wanted nothing less..."
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Yumi Lee
6/4/2014 10:58:17 am
"He wanted nothing less of Daisy...he could find out what that thing was..." (118 in http://www.planetebook.com/ebooks/The-Great-Gatsby.pdf)
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Mia Coleman
6/5/2014 04:53:52 am
The multiple paragraphs on page 103, "My God, I believe the man's coming," said Tom. "Doesn't he know she doesn't want him?" All the way to "She has a big dinner party and he won't know a soul there." Tom is using the fact that Gatsby is essentially new to the social scene to keep him from being involved in things that he does. While Mrs. Sloane may not have meant to invite Gatsby, seeing as she was intoxicated, it appears that Gatsby cannot understand social queues. Perhaps he is so desperate to spend as much time with Daisy as possible that he is willing to possibly make a fool of himself at the party. I have had trouble figuring out whether Tom means well and genuinely wants Gatsby to remain aloof and not ruin his social status or if he genuinely wants to keep Gatsby away from Daisy, which would be quite ironic because he is having an affair.
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Haley Eagle
6/8/2014 03:47:26 pm
In the passage on page 110 "He talked a lot about the past...he could find out what that thing was..." says explicitly a theme that we have been witnessing in Gatsby's character for the entirety of the novel. Gatsby is trying to turn back time. For him, life stopped when he met Daisy and the world merely paused for the duration of the 5 years that separated them. Except for the important fact that Gatsby has climbed to elite status on the social and economical ladder, in his mind nothing between him and Daisy has changed and neither of them have moved on with their lives in ways that would prohibit them from getting together and building a future together (even though Daisy clearly has built another life). This passage says out loud what the book has been hinting at all along and serves to completely characterize Gatsby as a man blinded by love and in denial that time has made irrevocable changes to the plan he had mapped out in his head. It shows the desperation that fuels all of Gatsby's displays of fortune and reveals that neither Cody nor he himself is his true impetus to make money and become wealthy- but that everything he does, he does in efforts of turning back time.
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