Zusammenfassung der Ressource
setting notes
- Gatsby's Parties
- 1920's
- glitz and glamour
- "conduct themselves according to the rules
of behaviour associated with amusement
parks"
- "crazy Sundays"
- "many-coloured, many keyed commotion"
- "blue gardens"
- "champagne and starts"
- Darkside- Decadence of
the Upper class
- theme points
- materialistic
- superficial
- concerned only about
themselves and
money
- "white palaces"
- "glitter"
- "excitement"
- "gold"
- "yellow cocktail music"
- "having fights"
- "roaring drunk"
- out of control
- violent confusion
- "repair the ravages of the
night before"
- "five crates of oranges and
lemons from a fruitier in New
York"
- exotic = extravgance
- "careless people"
- Characters enhancement
- revealed through setting
- provide better enhancement
- The Buchannan's
- house
- "red"
- "like new money from the mint"
- "white"
- "white supremacy"
- Tom believes "dominant race"
- "fashionable"
- "refined
- East Egg
- "old money"
- more social status
- "Georgian COlonial Mansion"
- Gatsby
- "Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island"
- "James Gatz of North Dakota"
- House
- "Factual imitation of some
Hotel de Villle in Normandy"
- "spanking new"
- money & personna
- "dirty money"
- new money
- Nick Carraway
- Blessed
- "Fundamental decencies"
- having Gatsby
next door
- "son of God"
- West Egg
- better values
- where as Buchanan's
"smash up things and
creatures"
- separation on moral scale
- Moral Degradation - theme
- Valley of Ashes
- "dumping ground"
- symbol
- upper class destruction
- "clean up their mess"
- result materials, decadence, moral abiguity
- sterile, soulless society
- "grotesque gardens"
- twisted metaphors =
growing problem
- "farms"
- view = bleak
- Eyes...
- eyes of god
- portray justice - theme
- show judgement
on social decay
of America
- "fading eyes"
- distorted vision
- no one being able to
show who they are
- no one has clear judgement
- emphasizes split in social class