Great Gatsby HELP

My thoughts are that you're not going to be able to put together a sufficiently long paper about Gatsby's profession ... which is "bootlegging" by the way. (If you recall, around the Gatsby era, alcohol was banned) I suppose he also delves into some kind of illegal bond replication, kind of like false checks now-a-days I think.

But! That's not the point of all this, the point is that Gatsby went to SUCH great lengths in order to summon enough wealth to call upon Daisy again, who previously turned him down because he was poor, and because she was a selfish (insert word Tom uses to opposite dog gender when Myrtle purchases 'boy' dog) and also because she is incredibly shallow.

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Originally Posted by sam10289

for writing class i have to write a paper on gatsby life? what all jobs did he have

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well. u probably need to know more about gatsby's personal life and relationships etc but JOBS-wise:
firstly gatsby was a clam-digger/salmon fisher, then he met Dan Cody and became his kinda personal assisstant. It was this relationship that inspired him to strive for his own personal wealth and left him with the illusion he had created of "Jay Gatsby". Meeting Daisy later gave him a purpose for ascertaining this wealth; she became a goal for him. He managed to become rich by being a "bootlegger" (the illicit selling of alcohol during the Prohibition Era) with Meyer Wolfshiem, who you meet in chapter 4.

But as i said, by "Gatsby's life" you probly have to look at his distant past as well, like how he rejected his parents, and his relationship with Daisy.

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Originally Posted by commasplice

Hello there.

I have an essay to write about The Great Gatsby. Although I don't have a thesis statement yet (since I have to make a consultation with my teacher first before I can finalize that), it would be wonderful if you could share some of your ideas on this:

Cars symbolize the main points and foreshadows the plot of the novel, The Great Gatsby.

I already have some points that I will use for my essay which I won't divulge so that the thread won't focus on MY ideas. What I would truly appreciate is if you could give me your own insights on this. It would really help me a lot if I get other people's perspective on the topic. Feel free to negate me if you want. I'm open to criticism. =)

Much thanks!

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hmm an interesting question. well i do think cars are a key theme in the novel...Fitzgerald often personifies them to reflect the situation or their driver...such as i think the cars are creaking and groaning and crawling in the Valley of Ashes or something...in contrast to Gatsby's car which is portrayed as a "brisk yellow bug".
The "car" theme is a motif used as a prolepsis- a foreshadowing of death. theres a point after a party where the back wheel comes off a car, and the inebriated driver continues to attempt to drive it! Also, Nick and Jordan have two conversations about "bad drivers".
If im not mistaken, the Ford car was invented around 1910? so therefore the car represents modernity, technology and innovation...all things that the rich elite can afford yet routinely abuse, as at this point driving tests were not standard.
As an interesting and possibly irrelevant point, the most emancipated female of the novel, Jordan Baker has a name which is a hybrid of two car manufacturers- The Baker Company and Edward S Jordan. so maybe the car represents a modern independance and mobility that the women use to become more independant and routinely infuriate Tom, who complains of them being able to "run around the country", and that the men, such as Tom use to conduct their affairs, as they can easily travel from place ot place on a whim.

sory if its not much help, but thats my opinion on the role of the "car" motif in the novel. :)

why is daisy enthralled by the shirts.

my personal opinion is that the words "ive never seen such beautiful shirts" are totally irrelevant... the point is that Gatsby is discarding the shirts as a display that Daisy means more to him then all these possessions he has built up...as he built them up for her. These wonderfully expensive imported shirts he has, he's just tossing them aside and saying "This was all for you, but now you're here, they mean nothing to me". For the most part of the chapter he has been showing her around his house, room by room, and Daisy crying is the climax to this...she realises that its all for her.

how sweet.

how did this book suck...it was Fitzgerald's masterpiece. Fine, you can dislike a book, but you've got to give reasons for it.
I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought the characters of Tom and Daisy wonderfully despicable, and the self-analytical character of Nick, so desparately consumed with his own perception of morality a joy to criticise and attack.
I hated the characters, hated the setting, hated the attitudes.
So therefore: loved the book. I think thats the point...its an account of the rich elitist society...and leaves us with an eerily correct prolepsis (shown in the depression of 1929) : the disgustingly rich will crash and burn.
so. whats not to love?

the incident with the shirts is actually very simple to understand it has nothing to do with the actual shirts it could have very well been shoes or even dishes. Daisy was actually over come by MATIRAL possesions it had nothing to do with gatsby at all it just shows how shallow and concited a person daisy actualy is

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Originally Posted by litlearner

Is Daisy like Dr. TJ in this respect? All eyes and no brain? HA!

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When I read the book, Daisy came across as an intelligent girl who was so concerned with what other people thought that she allowed herself to be suppressed by society. In the twenties was the emergence of the bold, brainy woman (i.e. Jordan) who wasn't afraid to speak her mind. Until then, society told women that they were to be seen and not heard. I think Daisy's brainlessness was due to her belief that this was the way to have the best life. In the third chapter, Daisy says she hopes her daughter grows up to be a 'little fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.'

It was social conditioning, not the lack of a brain that caused her to appear stupid.

I loved it all!! There was so much wit and hidden humour in there... and the randomness of some of Daisy's lines!
"you dream on you absolute little dream"
"such beautiful shirts!"
need I continue?

Can someone please write me a Gatsby Eulogy before Monday!!??

800-1000 words please :)

Cheer Bro :D

If you start writing one and share it here, I am sure, some members will be willing to discuss it with you, djmyerhmgirl.

Welcome to the Forum! :)

I know there is another thread just like this one on the forum, but I thought it would be easier to create another one because advice could be misinterpreted when directed to two people.

Alright.. I am required to write a Eulogy on a character by a character of the Great Gatsby. It is required to be at least 800-1000 words, and must display a strong understanding of the text.

I am doing Daisy Fay Buchanan from Nick Carraway's perspective. I have been having problems with finding events in the book to include in this Eulogy, mainly for the fact that most events in the book including Daisy have not been positive. I need to find some more themes/events to write about in a positive light.
Here is what I have written so far:

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A congregation such as this, on such an occasion, is worthy of such an admirable person. This woman had the power to change the lives of all who encountered her. This woman had the aura of charm, wealth, sophistication, grace and aristocracy. It is my duty, for which I am honoured to do so, to present and pay tribute to the life of Daisy Fay Buchanan. If I may introduce myself, my name is Nick Carraway, and although I am but a second-cousin to this amazing woman, we shared a limited but special relationship.

It pains us all to realize that her presence is not with us, but with those who came before us. We will forever retain this gathering in our heads and in our hearts as a standing-ovation to her, an everlasting grace not unlike that she bestowed upon us when she were with us. This grace was not limited to her beauty externally, but her internal beauty. The beauty that we felt in hearing her speak, seeing her dance, or feeling her warm embrace; though physically gone, will always live on in our memories, as she would liked it to. She had this kind of voice that the ear followed up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. It was her inner beauty, as much as her splendor and charisma that captivated us so.

Her socialite standing in high-society was due, in large part, to her wealth inherited by her aristocratic family. This quality, however, was overshadowed by her charm and exquisiteness, as she became popular with young soldiers before the Great War. She had the ability to show an instantaneous affection towards those she met, albeit temporary, was still something of remembrance by many of us. One of those young soldiers, of whom I had the honour to fight in the Great War beside, was a man by the name of Jay Gatz ..

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I am going to cover this stage in her life first, with Gatsby being her lover etc and then Tom Buchanan becoming her husband. After that, I don't have any more themes/events to cover in this assignment. I am pressed for time on this one and all advice and whatnot will be highly appreciated.

EDIT: I have done a bit more on this assignment today.

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A congregation such as this is, on such an occasion, is worthy of such an admirable person. This woman had the power to change the lives of all who encountered her. This woman had the aura of charm, wealth, sophistication, grace and aristocracy. It is my duty, for which I am honoured to do so, to present and pay tribute to the life of Daisy Fay Buchanan. If I may introduce myself, my name is Nick Carraway, and although I am but a second-cousin to this amazing woman, we shared a limited but special relationship. The event of her passing has given us, no doubt, a much stronger spiritual relationship with her now than when she were here among us in person.

It pains us all to realize that her company is not with us, but with those who came before us. However, this is not to say that her presence cannot be felt. We will forever retain this gathering in our memory – in our heads and in our hearts - as a standing-ovation to her, an everlasting grace not unlike that she bestowed upon us when she were with us. This grace was not limited to her beauty externally, but her internal beauty. The beauty that we felt in hearing her speak, seeing her dance, or feeling her affectionate nature, though physically gone, will always live on in our memories, as she would liked it to. Her internal beauty resembled much of the flower of her name; for she was the essence of a trapped woman inside, oppressed and coordinated the way society had wanted her. And also, her external beauty was that of white, delicate petals; pure, sweet and visually appealing.

The way she dressed was tantamount with her name, Daisy; for she wore such delicate articles and wore them with a sense of confidence that you would want to believe. Her actions, though admittedly sometimes careless, were directed with a definitive poise and elegance, and with a warm, comforting smile that was highly infectious .She had this kind of voice that the ear followed up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. It was her inner beauty, as much as her splendor and charisma that captivated us so.

Her standing in high-society was due, in large part, to her wealth inherited by her aristocratic family. This quality, however, was overshadowed by her charm and exquisiteness, as she became popular with young soldiers before the Great War. She had the ability to show an instantaneous affection towards those she met, albeit temporary, was still something of remembrance by many of us. One of those young soldiers, of whom I had the honour to fight in the Great War beside, was a man by the name of Jay Gatz, or Gatsby as he and others had preferred to say.

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lol excuse my friend who wrote this under my name...

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Originally Posted by Automagic

the point is that Gatsby went to SUCH great lengths in order to summon enough wealth to call upon Daisy again, who previously turned him down because he was poor, and because she was a selfish and also because she is incredibly shallow.

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I know you probably know this already but Gatsby didn't try to get rich after he met Daisy, he's always wanted to be rich. Daisy didn't know of his poor family heritage because he was going away to war and he told her all lies about himself. The fact is that she was incorporated into his dream only after he met her and they fell in love. She was just too tired of waiting for him to return from war, hence why she married Tom.

What the hell is Gonnegtion
Wolfshiem mentions it several times to Nick
Its not in the dictionary as far as i can see
Maybe its mispronounced like Oggsford

'Gonnegtion': Wolfsheim speaks often about a business 'gonnegtion' or 'connection' although Nick declines his offer.

Connection.

I think most of you have read the Great Gatsby, and I'm now working on the narrative techniques of the novel. I have a problem, whethe in Chapter VIII, the love story between Jay and Daisy told by Jay can be counted as free indirect discourse. The following is part of the novel,

"she was the first 'nice girl he had ever known. In various unrevealed capacities he had come in contact with such people...." till ""the letter reached Gatsby while he was still at Oxford."

I think it is somewhat a narrative by Nick, but that's also told to Nick by Gatsby. Hope to get help from anyone interested in this.

I don't have a copy of Gatsby in front of me, but can give you the rundown on the differences between different types of discourse.

1. Direct discourse is straight-forward dialogue in quotation marks. The character is speaking: "I don't know why, goddam-it, but I think I love you!"

2. Indirect discourse is the narrator or a character telling the reader about something another character said. It is not in quotation marks and is mere reportage: Jim said that he loved her although he didn't know why.

3. Free indirect discourse is mid-way between direct and indirect discourse. The narrator or character is still telling us about something another character said, but the account takes on the naunces of the original character's speech. This is not in quotation marks either: Jim said that he didn't know why, but goddam-it, he loved her.

Here's an example of free indirect discourse taken from 'A Very Short Story' by Ernest Hemingway:

"He went to America on a boat from Genoa. Luz went back to Pordonone to open a hospital. It was lonely and rainy there and there was a battalion of arditi quartered in the town. Living in the muddy, rainy town in the winter, the major of the battalion made love to Luz, and she had never known Italians before, and finally wrote to the States that theirs had been only a boy-and-girl affair. She was sorry, and she knew he would probably not be able to undrstand, but might some day forgive her, and be grateful to her, and she expected, absolutely unexpectedly, to be married in the spring. She loved him as always, but she realized now it was only a boy and girl-love. She hoped he would have a great career, and believed in him absolutely. She knew it was for the best."
(Hemingway. E, 1939, 'A Very Short Story' in The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1977), Grafton).

The parts which are underlined are examples of free indirect discourse. Hemingway is a very subtle writer, but you should be able to make out the naunces of the character's speech which are being quoted by the narrator.

I hope this helps.

Zippy.

a very nice, though a bit unrealistic, piece of work. contrasted honour and frailty, loyality and greedy, dreams and materialism.

At the beginning of the book, Nick says that Gatsby represents "everything for which i hold unaffected scorn". Why is this? i read through it twice and both times Nick seems to come across as more or less on Gatsby's side; He never seems to be very disparaging about Gatsby (apart from near the end he says that "i never really approved of him" or something like that).

Im struggling a little to get to grips with the relationship between them...

To me it seems Gatsby had everything: money, women, etc. He was popular, charming, had the love of Nick's cousin (Daisy), who was beautiful and unattainable. Everything Nick didn't have. It wasn't until the end that Nick realized how empty Gatsby really was. Up until that point, I think he envied all of the things Gasby seemed to have at such a young age, whereas Nick had nearly nothing. I think he always liked him, but we was jealous in many ways. When all was said and done, though, Gatsby died alone. No friends, and his father was the only family member who showed up at the funeral. At that point, I think he realized that Gatsby was all smoke and mirrors. Had it all on the outside, but on the inside he was empty. I think in the end, he was filled with pity for him.

Poor Gatsby. :bawling:

I felt really sorry for him at the end, but why was he so lonely? i didnt really get that either - he seemed like a decent bloke and wasnt really hiding anything severe (at the beginning i thought that maybe he's murdered someone), so why was it that only his father and the bloke with the owl-eyes turned up for his funeral? In 5 years, since he last saw Daisy he made no friends?

I think it was that he had a lot of aquaintances, but no real friends. He never bonded with anyone, never was able to make lasting connections/friendships. He was nice enough, sure... and people were more than willing to show up for a free party or free food. When the money ran out and the parties stopped, nobody paid him any attention anymore. Nick was the only one who he let get close to him, and really only because he wanted to get to Daisy...though I think in the end he really DID grow fond of Nick as a person. I think there are a lot of people like Gatsby out there.

Gatsby was the afinity of "Eastern Money". Gatsby started poor and earned his money (questionably) but he was driven by the thought that money would give him happiness. This is almost opposite of Nick's beleives coming from Mid-West Old Money". If you remember in the end Nick moves back to the Mid-West, showing the evident distingtion between the East Coast and Mid-West, Gatsby was the east and everything Nick did not want to be appart of.

I am fascinated by these two passages:

"[T]he phone rang, and Gatsby took up the receiver
'Yes ... Well, I can't talk now, old sport ... I said a small town ... He must know what a small town is ... Well, he's no use to us if Detroit is his idea of a small town...'
He rang off." pp 100-1 Pengiun ed.

"When the phone rang that afternoon and Long Distance said Chicago was calling I thought this would be Daisy at last. But the connection came through as a man's voice, very thin and far away.
'This is Slagle speaking....'
'Yes?' The name was unfamiliar.
'Hell of a note, isn't it? Get my wire?'
'There haven't been any wires.'
'Young Parke's in trouble,' he said rapidly. 'They picked him up when he handed the bonds over the counter. They got a circular from New York giving 'em the numbers just five minutes before. What d'you know about that, hey? You never can tell in these hick towns -'
'Hello!' I interrupted breathlessly. 'Look here - this isn't Mr Gatsby. Mr Gatsby's dead.'
There was a long silence on the other end of the wire, followed by an exclaimation ... then a quick squawk as the connexion was broken." p 173 Penguin ed.

SO what kind of scam was Gatsby running? Was Wolfshiem involved? etc.
Seems to me there's a story in there.

Wofshiem's mispronouncations serve to emphasise his 'Jewishness'. See comments on anti-semitism in another thread

I am writing the thesis on Nick Carraway in the Great Gatsby.What about your opinions? I need help: the more, the better!!

I have tried to put down a few points from my research paper. Hope it will be any help to you.

The novel’s narrator, Nick is a young man from Minnesota who, after being educated at Yale and fighting in World War I, goes to New York City to learn the bond business. Honest, tolerant, and inclined to reserve judgment, Nick often serves as a confidant for those with troubling secrets. After moving to West Egg, a fictional area of Long Island that is home to the newly rich, Nick quickly befriends his next-door neighbor, the mysterious Jay Gatsby. As Daisy Buchanan’s cousin, he facilitates the rekindling of the romance between her and Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is told entirely through Nick’s eyes; his thoughts and perceptions shape and color the story.

If Gatsby represents one part of Fitzgerald’s personality, the flashy celebrity who pursued and glorified wealth in order to impress the woman he loved, then Nick represents another part: the quiet, reflective Midwesterner adrift in the lurid East. A young man (he turns thirty during the course of the novel) from Minnesota, Nick travels to New York in 1922 to learn the bond business. He lives in the West Egg district of Long Island, next door to Gatsby. Nick is also Daisy’s cousin, which enables him to observe and assist the resurgent love affair between Daisy and Gatsby. As a result of his relationship to these two characters, Nick is the perfect choice to narrate the novel, which functions as a personal memoir of his experiences with Gatsby in the summer of 1922.
Nick is also well suited to narrating The Great Gatsby because of his temperament. As he tells the reader in Chapter I, he is tolerant, open-minded, quiet, and a good listener, and, as a result, others tend to talk to him and tell him their secrets. Gatsby, in particular, comes to trust him and treat him as a confidant. Nick generally assumes a secondary role throughout the novel, preferring to describe and comment on events rather than dominate the action. Often, however, he functions as Fitzgerald’s voice, as in his extended meditation on time and the American dream at the end of Chapter IX.
Insofar as Nick plays a role inside the narrative, he evidences a strongly mixed reaction to life on the East Coast, one that creates a powerful internal conflict that he does not resolve until the end of the book. On the one hand, Nick is attracted to the fast-paced, fun-driven lifestyle of New York. On the other hand, he finds that lifestyle grotesque and damaging. This inner conflict is symbolized throughout the book by Nick’s romantic affair with Jordan Baker. He is attracted to her vivacity and her sophistication just as he is repelled by her dishonesty and her lack of consideration for other people.
Nick states that there is a “quality of distortion” to life in New York, and this lifestyle makes him lose his equilibrium, especially early in the novel, as when he gets drunk at Gatsby’s party in Chapter II. After witnessing the unraveling of Gatsby’s dream and presiding over the appalling spectacle of Gatsby’s funeral, Nick realizes that the fast life of revelry on the East Coast is a cover for the terrifying moral emptiness that the valley of ashes symbolizes. Having gained the maturity that this insight demonstrates, he returns to Minnesota in search of a quieter life structured by more traditional moral values.

The character of Nick Carraway functions prominently in this novel. He is a transplanted Mid-westerner who buys a house in West Egg and sells bonds on Wall Street in New York City. Young and attractive, Nick becomes friends with Jordan Baker at a dinner party, where he is reunited with his cousin, Daisy. Nick, who claims to be the only honest person he knows, succumbs to the lavish recklessness of his neighbors and the knowledge of the secret moral entanglements that comprise their essentially hollow lives.

Nick Carraway is the narrator of the entire novel, the protagonist of his own plot, and the moral judge of the events that surround him. He is a practical and conservative young man who turns thirty during the course of the story. Raised in a small town in the Midwest, he believes his hometown to be stifling and decides to move to the East Coast to learn the bond business. He hopes to find a sense of identity and freedom in New York. He rents a small bungalow out from the city on a fashionable island known as West Egg. His next door neighbor is Jay Gatsby, and his distant cousin, Daisy Buchanan, lives across the bay with her husband, Tom, on the more fashionable and wealthy island of East Egg. Nick plays an important role in the main plot of the novel, for he is responsible for reuniting Gatsby and Daisy.

During the course of the novel, the naïve and innocent Nick becomes totally disillusioned with the lifestyle of the wealthy on the East Coast. For most of the book, he is disgusted by Gatsby, with his wild parties, ostentatious dress and manners, and his shady business dealings. He is horrified when he meets Meyer Wolfsheim, a racketeer and business associates of Gatsby, who wears human molars as cuff links and who fixed the World Series. He feels shame for Jordan Baker for her incurable lying and cheating, both on and off the golf course. He is shocked that Tom has a mistress to whom he wants to introduce Nick and horrified that he hits her in the face, breaking her nose. His greatest disillusionment, however, comes with Daisy. He sees her shallowness and carelessness and knows that she is trifling with Gatsby. More shocking is the fact that she hits and kills Myrtle while driving Gatsby's car and does not even bother to stop; she then willingly lets Gatsby take the blame for the accident. When Gatsby is killed, he is appalled that Daisy does not even bother to telephone or send flowers to the funeral. It is not surprising that in the end he judges Gatsby to be worth more than the whole bunch of the Buchanans and their wealthy friends.
Nick Carraway does indeed find his identity on the East Coast. At first he is hesitant to take a stand or to judge those with whom he comes into contact; however, as the novel progresses, he begins to find everything about New York disgusting. He realizes that he has no desire to marry the likes of Jordan Baker, or live the careless, purposeless lifestyle of the Buchanan's, or be associated with immoral characters like Meyer Wolfsheim. As a result, on his thirtieth birthday, Nick realizes that his place in the world is in the Midwest, a symbol of morality and conservatism. In an orderly fashion, he fulfills his personal responsibilities in the East, including an explanation to Jordan of his feelings for her. He then returns to live in his small hometown and marry his old girlfriend, who has faithfully waited for him. As a result, Nick's plot ends as a comedy, for he has found himself and his place in life; he has also matured enough to make wise, moral judgements.

Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby opens with Nick Carraway, the novel's narrator, introducing himself as a man who tends to listen and observe without passing judgment. Carraway immediately proceeds to preface the story he recounts over the course of the novel by passing judgment on his former companions. Mysteriously hinting at themes which will pervade the plot of his tale Carraway reflects, "When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby...was exempt from my reaction -- Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn" (6). Thus, providing plenty of room for speculation as to what provoked such a critical response, Nick begins his story.

After serving in World War I, Nick moves east from his Midwest roots to learn the bond business, settling on the island of West Egg, New York, "one of the strangest communities in North America" (9). Nick reveals, however, that his story really begins on a June evening in 1922, when he drives over to East Egg (the more fashionable and wealthy of the twin islands) to have dinner with "two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all" (11). Nick meets with an old college associate, Tom Buchanan, and his wife, Daisy, as well as Jordan Baker, an unexpected guest. For more detailed information about these characters, please see the Character Profiles section.

When the light-hearted conversation includes a brief reference to a man named Gatsby -- his next-door neighbor -- Nick's curiosity is evident. Tension mounts during dinner, however, when Tom leaves to answer a phone call, and Jordan reveals to Nick that it is Tom's mistress calling. Later, perhaps searching for sympathy in response to Tom's phone call during dinner, Daisy cynically tells Nick that she believes "everything's terrible" (21). Though riveted by Daisy's voice while she speaks, Carraway finds her insincere, and leaves the Buchanan house feeling "confused and disgusted" (24).

Upon arriving home Nick sees a silhouette emerge from the mansion next door, and assumes it is Gatsby. When Gatsby suddenly stretches his arms toward the water, Nick turns to see what he reaches for, but "distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock" (26). When Nick looks back towards the silhouette, Gatsby has vanished.

Moderators sorry for the multiple posts.

I'm finishing up a Dialectical journal, and one particular question i'm having problems with is to discuss Fitzgerald's use of satire in this book. Nothing in particular stands out to me. Anyone have any suggestions

Just curious what people think, but I see a lot of similarities. Obviously Gatsby has the ill-gotten wealth similar to the mob money of the Sopranos, and they are both well-made/written, both take place on the east coast, but the other connection is that both give us average, non-wealthy, un-connected observers a chance to take a peak behind the scenes into the lives of the ultra-wealthy and confirm what we all knew deep down: that it's not all it's cracked up to be. What looks like "the life" on the outside is riddled with problems. There's an emptiness behind the facade, they have problems with intimate relationships just like the average person does, despite the appearance of having many friends (big parties, "the family") they are all just as likely to be buried alone (or shot by their own team which happens often on Sopranos).

I think there's a similar theme to both works.

Well, I loved it. Although it didn't last long enough, my book had 171 pages, it felt like about 50.

the word "gonnegtion" is spelt the way that these men would say it and the actual spelling of the word is connection however it is spelt the way the would say it such as "oggsford"

Was Myrtle angry with her life:flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: or was she sad:bawling: :bawling:!!!!

i agree however you must see beyond that and belive the characters situation besides its pretty cool when myrtle was flattened

no myrtle was not angry or sad with her life as she had no real reason to be as she had a good life, good man and acsess to lots of Toms wealth. There are no real signs for her to be angry or sad

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No she was just sad because did not love myrtle. Tom just wanted Myrtle when he was bored with Daisy. xxx

definitly agree that the book was rubbish! it had basically no action and no big explosions etc! It was dull and the language just droned on about describing everything!

I agree with that Watson, the use of this style of language is attempting to express how Wolfshiem is a rough character who should not be trusted. This contrasts with the character of Gatsby, who appears very well spoken and therefore the reader trusts him. Oh Yeh