Essa to do by Monday - Help!

3)Why does Getsby love Daisy? How does he domonstrate his love for her? What is the meaning of the green light?

gatsby doesn't love daisy, he loves the idea of Daisy. Daisy reprisents Gatsby's dream, he dreams to have her because she is out of reach and he wants to live in the past (time theme). in the end daisy falls short of Gatsby's dream of her, just like the American dream its the chase that is important not the achievment, which in the end is never achievable.

the Green light symbolises the American dream again, the fact that Gatsby reaches out to it but cannot reach it reprisents the chase and not the achievment. The fact that the light is green, is symbolic of the colour of the dollor bill, and shows how the american dream was once life liberty and the persuit of happiness, but is now merily the persuit of money and materilism.

1)What`s the American dream? Does it mean the seam thing for different character in the book? Has Jay Gatsby attained what he believes the dream promises? The American dream is the wish to come further, to come higher. For Gatsby the dream is a long and happy existence with Daisy. For Daisy and Tom it is to live in extreme luxury. To Nick it seems, it's enough just to live and to take what is given to him.

2)Why does Daisy temporarily leave her husband for Gatsby? Why doesn`t she stay with Gatsby? I am sure she is very fond of Gatsby, but she also want's to get back at Tom for his affair with Myrtle. When it seems that Tom is going to change, she plays it safe and returns to him.

3)Why does Gatsby love Daisy? How does he domonstrate his love for her? What is the meaning of the green light? As someone else here said, he doesn't love Daisy, he lopves the idea of Daisy. He wants to love someone, and he simple picked Daisy for other, more superficial reasons than her personality.
I would say Throwing enourmous parties all the time with loads of nice food and liqour, live bands and entertainment in a great mansion to an enourmous cost just for her to maybe drop by is an extreme sing of virtue.

4)What does Nick think about Gatsby? How does his view of Gatsby change? He starts off with curiosity and admiration of GAtsby's mansion and his parties. They become friends, but there are some things that bothers him about Gatsby, like how he only cares about Daisy's reaction to Myrtles death, and not the death of a human at all.

5)A recurring motif is the driver. List the ocassions of reckless driving. What does bad driving symbolise? Bad driving symbolizes the carelessness and irresopnsibility of these wealthy citizens. They are used to not having to suffer consequences, they usually pay their way out of them.

6)What is the significance of Myrtle Wilson`s death? Why does Daisy let Getsby take the blame for her death? It puts a definite end to Tom's affair. (And the definite end to a spoiled, selfish *****) Daisy goes after the oportunities available to her, leaves gatsby with the blame, and goes bakc to her husband who no longer has an affair.

7)What is the symbolic of the billboard displaying Dr. T. J. Eckleburg`s eyes, overlooking the valley of ashes? I wouldn't necesarily say it symbolizes anything. Someone here said it symbolized god's watchging eyes, which I found interesting.

8)Why does only one of Gatsby`s former quests show up for his funeral? Because Gatsby doesn't have any real friends, except Nick and Wolfsheim, who has his own reasons not to come.

I have to write an essay for the following title: This book is about enduring love. What does it have to say about it with regard to Gatsby's dream.
I've written some of it - about how Gatsby's dream is never realised because it is too great, and then about him trying to force Daisy into his dream. Is there anything else? :confused: I can only bs my way through this for so long...

thanx

sazah09 :banana:

Hello sazah09,

there are many topics about the Great Gatsby in the specific forum area, maybe you can do a search of it, it's possible that this theme has come up before :)

Welcome, sazah09! :cool:

I'll try to give this some more thought by tomorrow if I'm able to be around the computer. For me, Daisy and Gatsby are not a love story. I'm wondering if your teacher wants to steer you along the lines of Daisy's and Gatsby's enduring love of material things, a place in society and personal consequence. These things seem to be the main motivation for both of them in everything they do. I guess, in a nutshell, the conflict with fitting Daisy into Gatsby's dream is that Daisy is already firmly planted in the part of the world that Gatsby fought so hard to be a part of. It's like it never matters how many houses or how much wealth he amasses, he's always one step behind Daisy. He never quite makes it in her eyes. It's late and I'm not sure how you could tie all that in to the essay question though...

It's just a half-thought on my part, and I wish I could write more but I want to give it some more thought...Maybe somebody here could dispute what I've said, or explain my words better?

If you could help me with any of these questions I will be extremley grateful, thanks in advance, Ben.

"Relationships can be defined in two ways, possbilities & mortalities. Chance plays no part"
i) Look again at Chapter 5. To what extent do agree that there is no such thing as chance in this chapter?
ii) How does Fitzgerald set the scene in this chapter?
iii) In the book, decay controls human destiny. What would you think about Fitzgerald's use of attrition in the novel as a whole?

i) What do you learn about Gatsby's attitude to money in Chapter 4?
ii) How does Fitzgerald tell the story in this chapter?
iii) "The Great Gatsby is a celebration of Ledonism" What do you think about this, reading the whole novel?

hi Benc,
I think this might be of use
http://www.planetpapers.com/Literatu...tsby/index.php
http://www.123helpme.com/search.asp?text=gatsby
www.essaysonline.net

Thanks alot Ranoo, been looking for help everywhere you've helped immensely :thumbs_up

Could you please help me answer these questions? Any help would be greatly appreciated :bday_2: ! :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

By the way, the Book is The Great Gatsby:

1. When did Tom Buchanan come to the East to live?
2. What private information about Tom does Jordan Baker reveal to Nick during the dinner party? (chapter II)
3. what is painted on a large signboard in the "valley of ashes"

Thank you very much for your time and answers!

1. Not sure. Not too long ago, but then again, long enough for Gatsby to have set up a house and reputation... a year or two, at least, I'd say. I just checked my copy of the book, and it doesn't really seem to specify.

2. That Tom has a mistress, Myrtle.

3. An optometrist. It's basically a large pair of glasses and the name TJ Eckleburg.

I need to know the significance of the following symbols:

Gatsby & Nick's Books
Wolfsheim's cufflinks
Gatsby's Car
Tom Buchanan's character
The faded timeline
Prejudice, Anti-Semitism
Weather
Seasons & Time
East & West Egg
Gatsby's career
Nick's career
Dan Cody

If you can help at all, please do!

:D Aloha!!

I have been assigned a project for school discussing biographical criticism for "The Great Gatsby". However, I am having great difficulty finding biographical critics for F. Scott Fitzgerald. If anyone has any information of biographical criticism on "The Great Gatsby" please reply!!

Thanks!! :thumbs_up

sorry, never read it but the dumby juniors at my school have to read that book... hahaha i do have one tid bit of info for you if you happen to like the Legend of Zelda happens be related to F. Scott Fitzgerald can you guess why?

I need help in my project on The Great Gatsby. I have to write a poem, one romantic and one realistic, i'm not very good with poems so can somebody please help me! An example for the poems can be one from Gatsby's point of view, which would be the romantic one, and the other by Daisy... or something like that. If anybody can help me write the poem, I would really apreciate it. Thanks

Both Gatsby and Fitzgerald came from poor families... they both wanted to be rich... Zelda was a lot like Daisy... All she wanted was money and she agreed to marry Fitzgerald after he succeeded as an author! And I think Zelda and Fitzgerald also had a daughter!