Tuesday, July 7, 2015

The Great Gatsby Chapters 1 - 5

Due July 17 by 11:59 pm

**If you did not comment on the "name" blog, and still plan to be a part of this class, please provide your name on the "name" blog AND complete these questions by the due date.

At the end of Chapter 5, Caraway muses, “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams – not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion” (Fitzgerald 95). 

·         At this point in the novel, Fitzgerald could replace Daisy’s name with a few characters or ideas to show how Gatsby’s life is an illusion.  Choose one other aspect of Gatsby’s life that does not live up to his extraordinary expectations and analyze how this revelation gives the reader a glimpse of the reality occurring in the novel.

Nick Caraway is a peripheral narrator; that is, he tells the story while on the outside of looking in.  He reserves his judgments of people and claims to be “one of the few honest people that [he] have ever known” (Fitzgerald 59). 

·         Explain how Nick’s narration is either beneficial or detrimental to the reader’s understanding of what is “really” happening in West Egg.


To answer this blog, write a complete paragraph for each bullet.  For the second bullet, if you refer to the given piece of text evidence, you must include a second piece of text evidence that supports your point.  In other words, the given text evidence does not count for the evidence you are required to submit in your answer.


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