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The Great Gatsby

BOOK of COLORS

Red: Passion, Love, Blood, Danger, Energy, Boldness Brown: Ruggedness, Earthiness, Comfort, Dirtiness White: Purity, Freshness, Innocence, Cleanliness, Blankness Black: Mystery, Formality, Death, Elegance, Evilness Gray: Misery, Gloominess, Uncleanliness, Indecisiveness Green: Growth, Nature, Money , Envy Blue: Strength, Stability, Serenity , Hopefulness Pink: Softness , Compassion, Beauty Purple: Royalty ,Power, Luxury , Magic, Creativity Orange: Happiness, Enthusiasm ,Vibrancy, Friendliness Yellow: Warmth, Cheerfulness, Caution , Optimism, Alertness, Riches, Glamor

Nick Carraway

Close Reading Quotes from the Narrator

After reading ch. 8, decide what "foul dust" preyed on Gatsby.

Chapter 1: I'm inclined to reserve all How do

A judgements... reserving judgments is a

matter of infinite hope.

these things correlate?

When I arrived back from the East, I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral atten-tion forever... Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to his book, was exempt from my reaction? Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn... No? Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it

is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

A

How does this paragraph contradict the first paragraph?

How does the author create an extended metaphor here, and what is its deeper meaning?

Chapter 2: Yet high over the city our line

of yellow windows must have contributed

their share of human secrecy to the casual

watcher in the darkening streets, and I

was him too, looking up and wondering. I

was within and without, simultaneously

enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible

variety of life.

A What does it

Why did the author use two antonyms in this explanation?

mean to be "within and with-out?"

A A

A

As you read, color in Nick's picture according to the colors associated with him in the text. Label each color with a snippet from the text and the page number.

1

Chapter 7: I was thirty. Before me stretched

tnheewpdoerctaendeto. uTshimrteyn?acthinegprrooamdisoefA a

of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair...So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

How does repetition unify this paragraph?

2

Daisy Buchanan

Voice

F. Scott Fitzgerald puts a great deal of emphasis on Daisy's voice. Use this space keep track of Daisy's voice.

Passages used to describe A Key Quote from Daisy

Daisy's voice

(Doesn't have to be directly

with the voice description)

Chapter 1

Chapter 1 " `I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool? that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool' " (Fitzgerald 21).

Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Chapter 7

Chapter 7

" `Her voice is full of money'

...That was it....It was full of

money? that was the inex-

haustible charm that rose

and fell in it, the jingle of it,

the cymbals' song of it" (Fitz-

As you read, color in Daisy's picture according to the colors gerald 127).

associated with her in the text. Label each color with a snippet

from the text and the page number.

3

4

Tom Buchanan

Weigh the Evidence

Directions: Throughout the novel, add evidence on both sides of the beam to see who wins out in the end.

Daisy

Myrtle

Who does Tom love more? Final thoughts summary using evidence from the text:

As you read, color in Tom's picture according to the colors

associated with him in the text. Label each color with a snippet

from the text and the page number.

5

6

Myrtle Wilson

Climbing the Social Ladder

Social class mobility is a prominent theme in The Great Gatsby. In the 1920s at a time when bootlegging and the stock market were booming, the dreams of a rags to riches life seemed more attainable than ever before. This concept of climbing the social ladder is revealed through the character of Myrtle Wilson.

As you read, color in Myrtle's picture according to the colors associated with her in the text. Label each color with a snippet from the text and the page number. 7

List Myrtle's steps to rise above her class. Include evidence to show that she already associates herself with a higher class.

8

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