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you have to be the most uneduacted, uncoothed person i have ever met in my entre life. i can't belive that you would add your idiotic oppinions to a literary masterpiece. you are worthless and when you are sitting in some exostential quandering pondering your meanignless existence just remember: I told you so.
First off, You must have been asleep in English class. Example:<br><br>I were force to read it for english class, and i hated it.<br>--Shouldn't it be was<br> thank God i'll never have to read a crapy book like that again. <br>--Crappy<br>It was by far one of my least favorite book i ever read. <br>--Book should be books<br>If i had to give this book a rating i'll give 1 out of a possible 10.<br>--Mixture of past and future tenses<br><br>But nice try "Grammer Good"<br><br>And it is also nice of you to give us a reason to agree with you. I have no problems with people disliking literature, however don't just complain about without giving us any justification for your opinion.
PLEASE answer any of these questions if u know them, thanx
Some are multi choice, some are short answer, and some are true and false.
1. Gatsby's car is a:
2. For a time, Nick's girlfriend:
a. Catherine
b. Myrtle
c. Lucille
d. Daisy
e. Jordan
3. Name Myrtle's sister:
4. Of whom is Tom talking when he remarks, "He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive"?
5. Daisy had second thoughts about marrying Tom.
True or False?
6. Wolfshiem attends Gatsby's funeral.
True or False?
7. Who is Fond of calling people "old sport"?
8. Gatsby's father produces an old ragged copy of:
a. "Hopalong Cassidy"
b. "Great Expectations"
c. "Riders of the Purple Sage"
d. "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
e. "David Copperfield"
9. College that Tom and Nick attended:
10. The Buchanans' house is in East Egg.
True or False?
11. Which one of the following was NOT one of the "GENERAL RESOLVES" written by young Gatsby:
a. "No more smoking or chewing"
b. "Read one improving book or magazine per week"
c. "Be better to parents"
d. "Make first million by age twenty-one"
e. "Bath every other day"
12. Gatsby did attend this famous university, for a time:
13. Gatsby's real home state:
14. According to Nick, Gatsby believed in the ___________ light.
a. yellow
b. orange
c. green
d. blue
e. gold
15. Which one of the following is NOT a rumor mentioned about Gatsby.
a. That he was a German spy during the war.
b. That he grew up in Germany.
c. That he killed a man.
d. That he is President Harding's illegitimate son.
16. Whom does Nick meet for the first time "in a well-fanned Forsty-second Street cellar"?
17. Gatsby is driving the car that runs down Myrtle Wilson.
True or False?
18. Meyer Wolfshiem recounts the murder of Rosy _______.
19. The camp near Daisy's house where Gatsby was stationed: Camp ___________.
a. Logan
b. Bennett
c. Davis
d. Taylor
e. Robertson
20. The young Greek who runs the coffee joint:
21. Gatsby gives Nick a medal supposedly given to him by the country of:
a. Romania
b. Croatia
c. Bulgaria
d. Montenegro
e. Bosnia
22. Who actually fires the shots that kill Gatsby?
23. Has racist views, has been reading racist book "The Rise of the Coloured Empires":
24. Name Dan Cody's yacht:
25. He's the man who fixed the world series back in 19__."
a. 20
b. 21
c. 19
d. 22
e. 18
26. The main action of the novel takes place in 1929. True or False?
27. The "boarder" in Gatsby's house:
28. In chapter VII, the major characters are gathered together in New York's famous _____________ Hotel.
29. The Buchanans' house used to belong to _______________ the oil man.
a. Morgan
b. Demaine
c. Wesson
d. Parker
e. Rockefeller
30. The looming billboard features the _________ of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg.
a. eyes
b. nose
c. money
d. ears
e. smile
31. Jordan's last name:
32. Meyer Wolfshiem's cufflinks are notable for:
a. rubies
b. human teeth
c. glass eyes
d. silver beads
e. nuggets of gold
33. Made his fortune in Nevada and on the Yukon:
a. Tom
b. Nick
c. Wilson
d. Gatsby
e. Cody
34. Daisy never has a child.
True or False?
35. The job that Gatsby had at St. Olaf's college:
36. According to Gatsby, Daisy's voice is full of ...
a. faith
b. wisdom
c. money
d. deception
e. carelessness
37. Nick's last name:
38. Present at Gatsby's funeral:
a. Wilson
b. Owl Eyes
c. Tom
d. Jordan
e. Daisy
39. Late in the novel, whom does Nick meet walking along Fifth Avenue?
40. Name one of the sports Tom is famous for:
41. Tom Buchanan's hometown:
42. Owl Eyes turns out to be Gatsby's brother.
True or False?
43. Gatsby's real name is James ___________.
44. After the tragic events of the main story, Nick moves back to the Mid-West.
True or False?
45. Gatsby's house is in West Egg.
True or False?
46. The composer of the "Jazz History of the World":
a. Daisy Fay
b. Owl Eyes
c. Dr. T.J. Eckleburg
d. Vladimir Tostoff
e. Jay Gatsby
47. Which of the following characters is NOT alive by the end of the novel?
a. Daisy
b. Myrtle
c. Tom
d. Wofshiem
e. Nick
48. Jordan Baker is a champion in this sport:
a. golf
b. tennis
c. show jumping
d. motor racing
e. swimming
49. Where is Gatsby when he is shot?
a. In his library.
b. In his fancy car.
c. In Daisy's arms.
d. In a pool hall.
e. In his swimming pool.
50. Mr. McKee's first name:
a. Charlie
b. Tom
c. Meyer
d. George
e. Chester
Hi there, dmcadidas15! Welcome to the forum!
I did a search for "the Great Gatsby" on Google and found these terrific sites:
sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby/
gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/gatsby/
novelguide.com/thegreatgatsby/
metopera.org/synopses/gatsby.html
Not only do they have summaries, synopses, and character analyses, but many of them feature quizzes with many of the same questions that are on your quiz! (don't worry, they give you the answers!)
I hope that I have helped! Good luck!
Dear dmcadidas15,
Don't waste your time doing all that annoying research. Here are the answers to almost all your questions:
1. A 1968 Ford Fairlane
2. A. (She also his second cousin once removed, but that relationship is so distant, it's cool that they are lovers too.)
3. Technically a trick question. Myrtle Wilson has a STEP sister named Catherine.
4. He's speaking of Meyer Wolfsheim.
5. True. She gets a letter from Gatsby that makes her have second thoughts.
6. True. He believes in loyalty as he demonstrates when he speaks of his old gang buddy who was gunned down.
7. Jordan Baker (She is herself an athlete and so the "sport" tickles her fancy.)
8. B. This is Fitzgerald's not-so-subtle internal reference to Gatsby's own hopes.
9. St Olaf's
10. Don't remember
11. E. Gatsby bathes every day.
12. Yale
13. North Dakota
14. E. (This is why an alternative title to the book was "Gold-Hatted Gatsby")
15. C. (Gatsby has convinced the world he is a legit businessman from a family of blue bloods)
16. George Wilson
17. False - Jordan Baker is driving the "death car"
18. Rosenberg
19. Don't know
20. Zamfir
21. "Little Montenegro!"
22. Myrtle Wilson
23. Meyer Wolfsheim
24. The Pinafore
25. Don't know
26. True. (Fiztgerald's great irony is that all this wealth is just about to go down the drain in the stock market crash)
27. Nick Carraway for the period in the book when he is homeless and Gatsby helps him out. Just before offers him a "gonnegtion"
28. Marriott
29. E.
30. B. (This sets the reader up for the mention of Meyer Wolfshiem's nose later in the novel.)
31. Baker
32. B.
33. A.
34. False. She introduces Gatsby to her child, Elizabeth Barrett Browning Buchanan
35. TRICK QUESTION ALERT! Nick and Tom went to St. Olaf's NOT Gatsby!
36. E. (Nick says later on that both she and Tom were both "careless people")
37. Cassidy (A reference to Hopalong Cassidy, the great hero of the West)
38. E.
39. Myrtle Wilson after she has recovered from her brush with death
40. Polo (He brings a "whole string of polo ponies" from Chicago for his wedding)
41. See above
42. False
43. Gatsse
44. False. He narrates the story from the Mid-West, but he states that he will ultimately return East to accept Wolfsheim's "gonnegtion"
45. False. NICK'S house is in West Egg
46. D.
47. C. (Remember that George Wilson kills him for the affair with Myrtle)
48. B.
49. In his library among his beloved books. The irony is of course that he's surrounded by all the "genuine" books at this moment - his moment of truth when he must choose between the great loves of his life: Daisy or Jordan.
50. Don't know
Good luck, dude. I'm sure you'll do just fine.
Jeepers what a beastly thread
Good God :rolleyes: ..well you deserve an award for this :)
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Originally Posted by trismegistus
I think the Buchanan's house is in the South Egg.
gah! dont do his homework for him. He'll probably get an A+ because of your answers. Unless they are all wrong. Then it would be a sneaky plan forcing him to check himself.
Oh it was a labor of love, trust me. I hope he reports back to tell us the results.Quote:
Originally Posted by subterranean
I think this one was my favorite . . . the use of quotation marks to create a false sense of legitimacy is hilarious.Quote:
Originally Posted by trismegistus
I only hope he writes on his test that Dan Cody's boat is named the "Pinafore" That will have made it all worth it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Basil
Professional authors seldom (if ever) use such stylized modes of writing by accident. The reason that Fitzgerald "speeds far too much time <i>seting</i> [sic.] up circumstances and events" is because Gatsby's story is being filtered through a third-person narrator, namely Nick. The events cannot simply be given straight to the reader because the most important aspect of Gatsby's character is the way he is perceived by others, and the lengths he goes to in order to create that perception. Without the narrative distance provided by Nick, all the reader gets is a plain representation of events, which leaves the reader at the same disadvantage as the "bright young things" of the book: too absorbed in the small details to be able to see the pattern of the whole.<br><br>Incidentally, your criticism that the book contains too few events berges on the ridiculous. I cannot help but wonder how you would fare with Ishiguro's <i>A Pale View of Hills</i>, which contains neither plot nor significant events but is nevertheless an amazing and soul-searing book.
This book realy sucks. I were force to read it for english class, and i hated it. thank God i'll never have to read a crapy book like that again. It was by far one of my least favorite book i ever read. I didn't enjoy it at all. I will not advise any one to read this book. If i had to give this book a rating i'll give 1 out of a possible 10.
The idea behind The Great Gastby is certainly a respectable one: A man with a dream, a man determined enough to reach against the current of time to bring that dream to the present. The interplay of events, such as Wilson's attack, Gatsby's reaching for the green light, and Tom and Daisy's interplay with Gatsby himself, were all well thought out. Had this idea been the subject of another writer, I would have enjoyed this book.<br>However, I did not enjoy this book. Why? Simply because F. Scott Fitzgerald is a terrible writer (comparitively). He spends far too much time seting up circumstances and events instead of actually telling about them. When actions and events actually happen, they are well developed (almost rediculously well developed), but the actual number of events contained in this read could have been contained in a short story without having detracted from the story itself. Prehaps I'm just impatient, but I believe Fitzgerald ruined his book by rambling on and on about events that we would have gained alot more from by simply seeing them.<br>
I had to read The (Not-so)Great Gatsby for my English class, and I have to say it is one of the worst books I have ever read. All of my friends agree. It is boring and has no point to it! The book looses me on several spots, especially when he is talking about the journalist and James Gatz. Book was the worst waste of time! Who cares about Myrtle or Daisy or Jordan or Tom or Nick OR EVEN GATSBY! To hell with Wilson and everyone!<br><br>Sorry, but this is the most boring book, I have ever read. I will never read it again. It wasn't worth having the school make me waste $12 on a book that is only 189 pages, and a sucky one at that!<br><br>This book gets a -10 of a scale from 1-10<br><br>
I just got finished reading The Great Gatsby for a school assignment, and there is one thing that i just can't figure out. Why is Daisy so enthralled with Gatsby's shirts that day he shows her his estate? I understand that it shows his wealth and position but that still leaves out the fact that she was so delighted over shirts when her excitement was less so over the granduer of the house itself...Maybe there was some indication of what the symbolism of the shirt was in the book and it just slipped over my head? If someone could clarify this, I would be really thankful. ^.^
It does not say this but perhaps Daisy's fascination with the shirts is superficial. Perhaps she is saying in a woman kind of way that she likes him. Saying he has lovely shirts naturally implies that he looks lovely in them.
Ur totally right. and schools r crap for makeing us read books that r extreamly boring.but it's also u choice to read it... half of my grade 12 class didn't read they just relied on the teachers notes and the book and we all got good grades. but u do have to admit that even thought the book and moive r deadly boring the story line is intestesting.
I also disliked this book when I read it in school, but it may have also been due to the fact that I had a horrible teacher who analyzed it all to death, not only because of the book itself. I'm still not crazy over it, but I did enjoy the movie version with Robert Redford.
Hey Im doing the great gatsby for school aswell n we have the same question. The answer is that Daisy cries so stormily because when gatsby is displaying his beautiful shirts, "it makes her sad because i've never seen such beautiful shirts before" (p.89)
This basically confirms that Gatsby is a very wealthy man, and she never expected him to be. It shows that if she had had a life with him, she would have gotten such beautiful items just like the shirts.
Hope that helped i registered just to reply to you lol cya
Well I think it was because she said, 'I've never seen.' As though she had never experienced. I though the shirts represented everything that she though she may have never had because she had married Tom the man she half loved and not Gatsby the man she trully loved. As in 'OMG what have I been missing all my life,' kind of thing
Yuh-hu you said it! Every time you walk into english it's like, 'prepare for the snore-a-thon' I don't see why intellectual, symbolic books, have to be as dull as dishwater. I think the aim of this book was to find out who had the energy to stay awake and listen, it wasn't testing knowledge, but boredom thresholds. lol ok over the top, but at least it has the fuel in it to write loads for exams and stuff.
Shirts, I wondered about this myself. Maybe it has to do with Tom's class. He is upper class, old school, very snobby and taken with himself. He is conservative and his fashion sense would reflect that--maybe tweeds, white shirts--nothing--trendy[/I]--that's for sure. He is also cheap!--remember his conversation with Mr. Wilson? Daisy may be somewhat taken with the Jazz age; Flappers, dancing and all of those exciting things that marked the "Roaring Twenties." A beautiful shirt may be symbolic of the times and represent a release from possessive, old stoggy Tom and his "superior" class. Merely an educated guess, what do you think?
I thought the scene with the shirts is an indication of 'shallow' nature of Daisy (maybe of her class as well). She is more interested in clothes one wears than the person who actually wears them. What are clothes/shirts but mere shells? However, Daisy, very superficially, gets carried away with them, not what/who Gatsby is. For her to be able to be interested in Gatsby, he needs to wear all those expensive clothes.
Daisy is more interested in appearences--the outside--a shirt--than what is inside--a person, like his heart--very superficial--I agree. Hey, isn't that the name of a song? Is Daisy like Dr. TJ in this respect? All eyes and no brain? HA!
Actually, I have some, not much but some sympathy for Daisy. She is not happy. Who knows what might have happened if Gatsby had lived?
I loved it
When assigned a book, try reading it as if you want to. Maybe you can fool yourself into enjoying it. Most times it works for me.
I had to read this book for a class as well. I didn't read it until the school year ended and I was stuck in summer boredom. I was surprised how much I enjoyed it. It's now one of my favorites.
You certainly can't enjoy a book if you don't try.
I always find it fascinating that so many people neglect to get the point of The Great Gatsby. Whether you enjoyed reading it or not, it does have a point.
The Great Gatsby is a story that is still told every day on TV, in movies, in raps songs...Have you ever seen Scarface with Al Pacino? Very similar plot from a different point of view. Both of them are cautionary tales of class struggle and the dangers of debauchery and excess.
"You certainly can't enjoy a book if you don't try."Quote:
Originally Posted by fatblueserpent
Oh, so true :)
I kind of liked the book. But the fact the you're forced to read it before a specific date does take away a lot of the fun for me. It makes it into a stretch you hav to get across more than a journey into imagination.
Hiya. I'm also reading it at college, and this is my take on the shirts scene. I don't think that the shirts have anything to do with her crying - or not directly. I think that after seeing Gatsby again, and glimpsing the life she could have had, Daisy starts to cry. She does not want the men to know why, so she sobs into the shirts...
I know what I mean, but, looking over what I have just written, it sounds really stupid. Sorry.
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!
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 foreshadow 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!
1. From what I remember, the cars reflect the peronalities of their owners.
2. The car symbolizes the modern industrial world, similar to the rail train in Anna Karinina.
3. The car reflects the brute force recklessness of Tom & Daisy.
You should be able to take it from here.
The cars reflect the personalities of their owners?
That has something to do with Gatsby's Rolls Royce doesn't it? How about when it comes to relationships? Because one of the examples I'm using is Daisy's white car.
When Jordan was describing to Nick how she met and remembers Gatsby, she said something like "only then did I make the connection that he was the officer who used to ride with Daisy in her white car" (not exact quote, btw). And considering that white is the lack of color, does it not symbolize the empty relationshonship of Daisy and Gatsby (in the sense that there was all the fuss in their fling and yet nothing good happened to them in the end)?
As for recklessness, that is also one of my main points. Klipspringer, Daisy and Jordan were reckless drivers - this showed the carelessness of the old rich and their inability to take responsibility for their actions.
PS. This is helping me very much. Much Much Thanks again :D
PPS. oh wow, I haven't thought of the industrialization. Thank you Virgil :)
Other points and New ideas are welcomed!
There is a whole system to the colors and what they stand for in the novel. Unfortuantely I can't remember off the top of my head. I'm sure you can research that. It's common knowledge for the work.
for writing class i have to write a paper on gatsby life? what all jobs did he have
Did you read the novel? There's a section where the narrator fills in the life of Gatsby, somewhere towrds the last part of the novel.
I vaguely recall he was involved in rum running/speak easies or a similar illegal activity that paid very well.Quote:
Originally Posted by sam10289