Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Gatsby Question #2- 200 words- Make sure to include the page # of the example
The setting in The Great Gatsby is important to the development of several themes. Explain the role of one of the settings and its connection to a theme. Find an example or description of the setting in the book and incorporate it into your answer.
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The setting in the story when achol was banned and Gatsby made his rich living off of bootlegging. Which explains why he lives in a mansion and has the best of life, with imported shirts, vehicles, and vigorus parties. The time when Daisey gets a tour of Gatsby house. She sees his numerous and beatiful shirts, and starts to ball saying she never seen such beautiful clothing. She in my mind is a gold digger. She is rich so she would have the best of the best.
ReplyDeleteIn the Great Gatsby on page 123 Daisy, Jordan, and Nick are in a room in Daisy ‘s house. Daisy has to sit down because it is hot. This helps to explain the setting. The temperature throughout the whole chapter in the book is hot. “Make us a cold drink” (122) and “But it’s so hot” (125) make this an obvious fact in the story. The temperature also can explain the arguments that went on in this chapter when Tom finds out that Daisy has been cheating on him. The arguments are heated which goes with the heat. This all ties into a theme of heat in the Great Gatsby. Hot temperatures can lead to heated arguments would be the theme in this chapter. “It’s so hot” (132) and “open another window” (133) are also examples of this theme in the Great Gatsby. The heat also can account for Daisy hitting Myrtle and Myrtle trying to escape from the house and her husband in the story.
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Adultery is a reoccurring theme throughout Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” Many of the main characters commit this act several times though the story. One of the first times in the story is when Tom takes Nick with him to a party where Myrtle, Tom’s secret woman in New York, comes to “visit” telling her husband that she is visiting her sister, where she is really there to see Tom. This begins at page 31. The next time this happens is when Daisy goes to Nick’s to have tea. She doesn’t know that she is about to see Gatsby again and truly believes she is there for tea. Gatsby enters Nick’s house and things between Daisy and him are strained to such a degree that it seems awkward. Eventually things become settled between the two. They go over to Gatsby’s house where after a while Nick goes home and Daisy and Gatsby have their affair. This starts in chapter five on page 86. In “The Great Gatsby” adultry effects the characters to such a degree that the main married couple, Tom and Daisy, are perminantly separated from their other lovers when they are killed.
ReplyDeleteThe setting in the story when achol was banned and Gatsby made his rich living off of bootlegging. Which explains why he lives in a mansion and has the best of life, with imported shirts, vehicles, and vigorus parties. The time when Daisey gets a tour of Gatsby house. She sees his numerous and beatiful shirts, and starts to ball saying she never seen such beautiful clothing. She in my mind is a gold digger. She is rich so she would have the best of the best. The next setting is when gatsby went off to war to fight world war one. He was gone for quite a while. While he was gone she got lonesome and decided to find her somebody to keep her company. She found Tom and began to like him. Before gatsby got back from war Tom and Daisey got engaged. He returned and was distruaght. He tried to win her back but failed. He then decied to become rich and impress daisey. Still she turned him down. She had feeling and memories for gatsby, but she still loved Tom. The theme of heart broken, lost and distraught all make sense here. I think they are all werid!
ReplyDeleteThe setting is Long Island, New York in the 1920s, a period in which prohibition was in effect. This outlawed the manufacture, consumption and sales of alcholic beverages. This setting explains how Gatsby’s earned his ill-gotten wealth by bootlegging these products. Another interesting fact though is that throughout the novel that drinks are served and drank frequently without any worry of the law (page 17, page 65 numerous page numbers).This hints that the wealthy are not affected by the rule, making us wonder what else they are exempt from (just like Meyer Wolfshiem staging the World Series in 1919 and nobody batting an eyelash page 211). The 1920s were a time when no one was really concerned about spirituality or politics but rather with how they are perceived socially. This is why Tom presenting his mistress to Nick so openly is an issue and even though Gatsby is never proved to be doing illegal things, everyone suspects it but they go to his lavish parties anyway.
ReplyDeleteAlso the setting of the West Egg and East Egg tell a lot. Gatsby is rich but he lives on the poor West Egg instead of where everybody else who is very wealthy lives in East Egg, symbolizing how Gatsby never quite made the transition from lower class to upper class no matter how hard he strived.
One of the settings in the “Great Gatsby” is when achol was banned. During this time Gatsby made his rich living off of bootlegging. This really explains how he got so rich so fast. Also why he lives in a mansion and has the best of things like imported shirts, vehicles, and extrodinary parties. Also the exspensive clothes he shows daisy when she weeps over him. Making her look like that all she ever wanted was to have nice and exspensive things. Coming off as a gold digger. As you go on in the beginning you soon realize that Tom has a secret lover, by the name of Myrtle. You can tell when she calls during dinner and he rushes to answer the phone. Also when Daisy seems a little distressed with the fact that she is calling at such a time. Also when he refers to seeing her a “visit” you know they are more than just friends or business workers because he does not ask to bring Daisy along. You notice this around page 31.
ReplyDeleteThe setting in “The Great Gatsby” is West Egg District in Long Island, New York, a wealthy but unfashionable area populated by the richer. (#9) “I lived at West Egg, the –well less fashionable of the two” Which is important because Nick moves in this area with out having any social status with the residents.This is where Gatsby lived in his masion it is located at the top a cliff. Daisy and Tom lived in East Egg the more fancy one of the two. I think this setups up some gaps in between the two different social classess. While Nick who lives in West Egg goes many times to East Egg to parties. Which I think breaks that barrier of the societies. He gets Gatsby to finally go over there and get him to talk to Daisy.
ReplyDeleteIn the first chapter of “The Great Gatsby” you see a large theme of hyprocrisy. In the first and second pages of the book Nick explains himself to be nonjudgemental and that he is more moral than most people. Now, what doesn’t make sense is that to consider yourself to be more moral than other people, you are saying some people aren’t. Also, in the first chapter you see Daisy and Tom come across as a healthy couple, but on page 19 it is revealed that Tom is having an affair. Daisy seems so offended that she called at dinner, throwing a fit. Later in the book Daisy has an affair with Gatsby. In the beginning, she seems so bothered by Tom having an affair, so why would she have on? Towards the end Daisy seems to love Gatsby, but when he is killed she flees. Everyone in the book has a moment of hypocrisy.
ReplyDeleteThis setting of a rich New York suburb just calls for greed and morally disconnected people by the standards of the 20th century. Their lack of moral discipline leads to a series of problems. They’re not in the slightest loyal to their spouse and this becomes evident in the latter pages of the first chapter. Page 20 to be specific. These people seem truly nomadic when talking about morals. They’re undecided as to what is right or wrong. Tom himself is having an affair but gets angry when Daisy starts seeing Gatsby. Their marriages are merely aesthetic. They want this view of a perfect, stable relationship but in reality, they only want out of said relationship. They also seem very attached to material things and less concerned about people. This also leads to the assumption that they are shallow people. That would not be an incorrect notion, as proven throughout the book. The setting being New York City, it is generally associated by those who are unfamiliar, as a rough, rude place where there is little compassion from anyone. Not all people in this story are as immoral as others. But those characters are few and far between and have their own social issues.
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