Great Gatsby is all about appearing happy on the

outside. Compare it to Facebook and social media in

general.
- Scott Fitzgerald gives stamps of time, syntax of time. Nick will develop a
relationship with Jordan over the novel.
- Multiple settings per chapter.
- The green light represented Daisy. We later know that the real reason
behind Gatsby moving to West Egg and throwing these lavish and
extravagant parties was to have Daisy come to one of them. The green
light represented a past love that had been lost, and after many
years Gatsby had found that love again
- Anyone that was somebody went to these parties, list of people that
existed and that didn’t.
- Hyperbole (the west being on the ragged edge of the universe).
- Have a brief quote to trace each setting.
- Jordan is a product of the time (masculine) and Daisy is a product of her
own self.
- Gatsby really wants Daisy, hence this is an example of objectification; if
he gets her he will be happy.
- Theme of wealth is not always good; although the American dream leads
to the acquisition of wealth, what comes after is not always good.
- Gatsby bootlegged during Prohibition!! Which is something that was
taking place at the time.
Night 1 – Chapter 1
Setting: Think micro and go to macro. From Nick’s house to West and East Egg. Nick came
back from the East (Europe) last autumn and moved from the Midwest to West Egg, a town in
Long Island, New York, which is shaped like an egg, like East Egg, where he goes to visit his
cousin Daisy and her husband, Tom. It is set after WW1. Specific year?
Themes: Wealth and social expectation, green light at the end of the chapter. Nick is alone.
Rumors and reputation.
Characters: Nick is from at least a moral class family who values moral justice as seen in the
opening quote. Nick graduated from new Haven, home of Yale University. Nick moves to the
East to become a bonds salesman. Nick settles in West Egg, rather than East Egg, living in a
small rental house adjacent to Gatsby's mansion, paying $80 per month, rather than the $3000 to
$4000 per month for which the houses around him rent. This detail immediately encourages
readers to see the difference between the "haves" and the "have nots." Although both Eggs have
beautiful mansions, East Egg is home to "old money," people whose families have had great
wealth for generations. West Egg, although also home to the rich, was home to "new money,"
people whose wealth was recently earned, as well as to working class people such as Nick. The
Buchanans live a luxurious life. Tom is dressed in riding clothes and has a large and impressive
figure. Daisy, Nick’s cousin, and Tom Buchanan are married and live in East Egg. He stands
boldly, with "a rather hard mouth," "a supercilious manner," "two shining arrogant eyes," and
speaks with "a touch of paternal contempt." Clearly, Tom is not a gentle and sensitive man.
Rather, he is harsh and powerful, caring little for social equality and protocol. He has rank and
privilege and that's the way he wants to keep it. The first words out of his mouth — "I've got a
nice place here" — bring home his inbred superiority as well. Daisy has a friend named Jordan
Baker. Tom is super racist and classicist. Daisy is gentle and leans in when she talks which
makes you lean over, as Nick says. And she is charming and gentle. Daisy is a mother, even
though we don’t see or hear the child.
Allusions: West and East Eggs comes to mind the stereotypical boundaries in the USA, where
west is where the working class lives, and east is where the rich people live. Gatsby's house is
modeled on the Hotel de Ville (French for city hall) in Normandy, France, and was built by a
brewer who offered to pay the neighbors to live in thatched cottages, like peasants. Ritcher scale.
The Great War. He talks about his great Uncle and the 1851 War, Civil War. Midas, Morgan,
Maecenas - This quote contains several allusions: The name Midas is an allusion to the Greek
god Midas, who turned everything he touched to gold, and “Morgan and Maecenas”
are allusions to the financier J. P. Morgan and the wealthy Roman patron Maecenas. When Tom
and others refer to books to read. The Green light at the end of the novel is an allusion to
Gatsby’s hopes and dreams, Daisy’s house, and his gesture is a symbol of love.
Rhetorical devices: Simile. Symbolism in the white dresses the girls are wearing to show
purification, rather than intelligence. And yet, Daisy says she purposefully acts like a fool.
Personification, fragmentation, hyperbole, metaphor, imagery, parenthetical aside, irony,
contradictions, symbolism, diction, and slang dialect. Anonymous character. “I was about to see
good old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.”  This is an example of juxtaposition. You don’t
get narrator’s name until page ten to build reliability on the narrator, but our narrator is not
reliable at any point in this novel. Elements of foreshadowing.

Night 2 – Chapter 2
Setting: Valley of Ashes, the area between the rich suburb of West Egg and Manhattan. This is
the gray and dirty part of the borough of Queens that you drive through to get from Long Island
to NYC. Mr. Wilson’s Shop. Myrtle/Tom’s city apartment.
Themes: Elements of domestic violence. Wealth, Myrtle wants more than she will ever have.
Characters: Catherine Wilson, Nick, Tom, Mr. and Mrs. McKee (downstairs neighbors to Tom
Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson), Myrtle Wilson (Tom’s mistress who lives in a garage with her
husband). George Wilson (Myrtle Wilson’s husband).
Allusions: J.D. Rockefeller, Town Tattle, Simon called Peter, Kaiser Wilhelm, Montauk Point,
The Tribune. Dr. T.J. Eckleburg’s eyes symbolize eyes of God.
Rhetorical devices: racial slurs, heavy fragmentation because the narrator and the others get
really drunk. We are tanked up = turned up. Personification = the great guard’s crawl. George is
characterized as a feeble man, and she walks by hum as if he was a ghost. Catherine is a foil to
myrtle, and tom is a foil to Mr. McKee (foil). False characterization of Daisy being catholic.
Foreshadowing as Myrtle says that you cannot live forever. Ellipsis as the reader gets drunk.
Fragmentation after Tom hits Myrtle: “people disappeared…”
- Alliteration, symbol, slang, simile, personification, imagery, foil, parenthetical aside,
ellipsis(blackouts), fragmentation, and foreshadowing.
Night 3 – Chapter 3
Setting: Gatsby's mansion on a summer evening of the 1920s.
Themes: Wealth.
Characters: Nick, Gatsby, Jordan Baker (a dilemma in the past that deemed her a liar at her first
big golf tournament she moved the ball in the semi-final round),
Allusions:
Rhetorical devices: time stamps (syntax), personification (page 39), a lot of imagery, situational
irony (he had an affair and yet considers himself to be one of the few honest people he knows).

Night 4 – Chapter 4
Setting: teagarden at the Plaza Hotel (where Jordan and Nick are in the afternoon), well-fanned
Forty-second street cellar, Astoria? Gatsby tells about his past at Oxford, all the capitals of
Europe, Argonne Forest, Montenegro, Nick and Gatsby’s house.
One morning Gatsby goes to Nick's house and tells him they are having lunch
together in New York. Nick agrees and the two drive into the city in Gatsby's car.
During the drive, Gatsby gives Nick an overview of his background.
Themes: Deception (Gatsby is not what everyone makes him out to be, he offers Nick some
shady business).
Characters: Mr. Wolfsheim, Roxy, Jordan, Gatsby, Tom, and Nick, all of the people that Nick
says are at Gatsby’s house.
Allusions: The Old Metropole, the war? Montenegro
Rhetorical devices: juxtaposition, flashback, list

Night 5 – Chapter 5
Setting: Nick and Gatsby’s house.
Themes: Wealth, forbidden love.
Characters: Nick, Gatsby, Daisy, Mr. Klipspringer (is doing exercises and then takes a nap and
plays the piano for Gatsby and Daisy).
Allusions: World’s Fair, The Journal, Castle Reckrent
Rhetorical devices: imagery, …

Night 6 – Chapter 6
Setting: Jay Gatz is taken under the wing of Cody who is killed by a woman in his yacht, who
gets his will as well as Jay Gatz. Jay Gatz changes his name to Jay Gatsby at 17 years old.
Themes: Fame, Infatuation, transformation
Characters: James Gatz, Gatsby, Nick, Daisy, Tom,
Allusions:
Rhetorical devices: simile, flashback, imagery, symbolism is seen as Gatz changes his name
which symbolizes from going from a normal kid to wanting to be rich and civilized), interruption
of story.
Night 7 – Chapter 7
Setting: In the oppressive New York City heat, the group decides to take a suite at the
Plaza Hotel. Tom initiates his planned confrontation with Gatsby by mocking his habit of
calling people “old sport.” He accuses Gatsby of lying about having attended Oxford.
Gas station where “Gatsby,” Daisy, ran over Myrtle.
Themes:
Characters:
Allusions:
Rhetorical devices:

Night 8 – Chapter 8
Setting:
Themes:
Characters:
Allusions:
Rhetorical devices:

Night 9 – Chapter 9
Setting:
Themes:
Characters:
Allusions:
Rhetorical devices:

Night 10 – Chapter 10
Setting:
Themes:
Characters:
Allusions:
Rhetorical devices:

Sections:
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Author –
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American short-story writer and novelist known for depicting
the jazz age in the 1920s. He was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota.
At age 13, Fitzgerald published his first story in the school newspaper at the St. Paul
Academy. While attending Princeton, he wrote musicals and also published pieces in
the Princeton Tiger Magazine. However, due to his devotion to writing in college, his
academics suffered. 
          He had to leave after three years at the university, so he joined the army.
Fitzgerald met his wife, Zelda Syre, in 1917, where he was stationed in Alabama.
Fitzgerald was discharged from the army in 1919 and moved to New York City. A year
later, he published his first novel The Site of Paradise. This book became a best seller
and made him remarkably wealthy. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda eventually got married
in 1920 and had their only child, Frances Scott Fitzgerald, in 1921. He wrote his
greatest work The Great Gatsby after in 1925. Throughout his life, Fitzgerald wrote a
total of one hundred seventy-eight stories and published four novels. After reaching
success, F. Scott Fitzgerald became an alcoholic and struggled with depression. He
died from a heart attack on December 21, 1940. 
Overview –
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby portrayed American Society during the
Roaring Twenties. The book was narrated from the point of view of Nick Carraway, who
came from an eminent Midwestern family but moved to New York to enter the bond
business after he attended Yale. He lived twenty miles from the city in West Egg, home
to the new rich people and those who vulgarly flaunted their wealth. Nick was neighbors
with Jay Gatsby, who journeyed from rags to riches through dishonesty and shady
businesses, and now hosted sumptuous parties at his enormous mansion. Upon his
arrival, Nick visited his cousin and her husband, Daisy, and Tom Buchanan, across the
courtesy bay from where he lived, East Egg, where the more lavish population resided.
Tom, a brutal bully, and Daisy, a pale-looking dreamer, were very different people. At
the Buchanan's, Nick also met Jordan Baker, a beautiful and yet cynical golf
professional. Treachery and lies played a big role as the story unraveled: Tom
Buchanan was cheating on Daisy with a mechanic's wife, Myrtle Wilson; Daisy met
Gatsby, and they began a liaison; Nick and Jordan, meanwhile, protected these affairs
by lying. Gatsby also tricked everyone into thinking that his rich upbringing was not
corrupt. These great aspirations Gatsby once had were gone as Daisy stayed with Tom
and Gatsby ended up murdered, with only Nick and his father at his funeral.
Publication Info –
The Great Gatsby was originally published on April 10, 1925, by Charles Scribner's
Sons. F. Scott Fitzgerald considered titles like Trimalchio and Under the Red, White,
and Blue because he was not satisfied with The Great Gatsby, under which it was
eventually published. The dust jacket's illustration was designed by Francis
Cugat, which depicted the eyes of a woman hanging over the carnival lights of Coney
Island. This painting is now one of the best-known examples of jacket art in American
literature. The book's initial price was $2.00, or $26.18 adjusted for inflation. Nowadays,
the original dust jacket for the first edition of The Great Gatsby costs between $100,000
and $150,000.          
         However, upon the novel's publication, it was not a critical or commercial success.
The novel was rediscovered a few years after Fitzgerald's death in 1940 and soon
became a standard text of the high school curriculum. The Great Gatsby is still one of
Scribner's bestsellers, and there have been several film adaptations for it. Today,
twenty-five million copies of the book were sold worldwide, and it has been translated
into forty-two different languages. 
Themes –
Several movies have been directed, there are Gatsby
themed parties, and it is a window into how capitalist
and corrupt the American dream truly is.

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Chapter Setting
Chapter 1 Nick Carraway reflects on past experiences of
his life. He graduated from Yale and served in
the army as he was stationed in Europe.
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9