Chapter THREE Ravage

Vocabulary
Prodigality
Explain 3 notable things which happen in this chapter: Gaudy
1) Malevolence
Tantalizing
Poignant
2) Innuendo
Vehemently
3) Vacuous
Echolalia

Ain’t no party like A GATSBY PARTY

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Any 4 phrases from the text which describe a READ THIS EXTRACT FROM CHAPTER 3, & THEN FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE RIGHT. NSTRUCTIONS
party at Gatsby’s: (NOTE: cannot be from the extract on the right!) The lights grow brighter as the earth
1. Identify an example of
lurches away from the sun, and personification.

now the orchestra is playing yellow 2. Circle all words to do

with sound.
cocktail music, and the opera of
3. Underline any
voices pitches a key higher. Laughter word with positive
connotations.
is compared to the behavior of those at: is easier minute by minute, spilled
Behavior at the party

a zoo an amusement park with prodigality, tipped out at a

4. Highlight any words to
do with movement.
a library a jazz concert cheerful word. The groups change
5. Explain, how can music
This shows us that the party is... be “yellow”?
more swiftly, swell with new arrivals,

and that the guests are... dissolve and form in the same breath;
already there are wanderers,
confident girls who weave here and
monotonous
describes a party at

6. Put a star next to

Explain your choice:
Which word best

understated there among the stouter and more any words usually
Gatsby’s?

associated with liquid.

austere stable, become for a sharp, joyous
excessive moment the center of a group, and
7. Why all the imagery
economical and description here?
then, excited with triumph, glide on
Compare this party to the one Tom hosted in
Chapter 2. In what way is it different or similar? through the sea-change of faces
and voices and color under the
constantly changing light.

8. Use any 3 phrases from above to write a HAIKU to describe the party:

5 syllables
7 syllables
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 It is already deep into the third chapter when the reader, along with Nick, is finally
introduced to the title character; why might Fitzgerald have decided to have us wait
so long to meet him?
3
List the Why might “Owl Eyes” expect the books in the library to be
RUMORS which surround Gatsby: fake? What does it tell us about people’s opinion of Gatsby?
Gatsby
Which of the following best describes Nick’s meeting with Gatsby: If Gatsby were an
animal, he would be a:
triumphant
Explain your choice:

exciting
meeting

anticlimactic

BECAUSE:
paradoxical
tedious
Does Gatsby actively participate in his own party? Embed a quotation in your answer to back up your point.

Re-read and examine Nick’s description of Gatsby: Identify something you find interesting about this description:

“ He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was

one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in
it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced—or
seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then Identify something you find confusing about this description:
concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.
It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood,
believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured
you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, Identify something you want to find out more about:
you hoped to convey. Precisely at that point it vanished—and I was
looking at an elegant young rough-neck, a year or two over thirty,
whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd.

“I am one of
the few
Do you believe that Nick is honest?
Who does Nick believe is dishonest?
Yes No Maybe

honest
people
What evidence is there that Nick might be biased in his representation of Gatsby?
(*Hint: Maybe look back at Chapter one)

I
that have
ever known. “
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