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Flashcards by Charlie Lee, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Setting showing sadness and depression amoungst a group of people | The Valley of Ashes "This is a valley of ashes,a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges |
| A symbol that proves Daisy's shallowness and materialism | The shirts "It makes me sad because I've never seen such beautiful shirts before" |
| The use of language here foreshadows the death of Myrtle by using word choice | Gatsby's car "It was rich in cream colour... swollen her and there in it's monstrous length" |
| Description of Tom that proves he knows he is in control | Tom's eyes "Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face" |
| Setting that symbolises new money | West Egg "I lived in West Egg... the less fashionable of the two" |
| A symbol that represents Daisy to Gatsby | The green light "A single green light minute and far away" |
| A part of Gatsby's house that shows that he is new to money | The Ivy "...spanking new under a thin beard of ivy" |
| The whole reason Gatsby changed who he was and why he gained all his money | Daisy "I didn't want you to think I was just some nobody" |
| Tom breaks through to the real Gatsby | A poor man "...let Mr Nobody from Nowhere make love to your life" |
| The house that symbolises established / old money | The Buchannans house "...a cheerful red and white Georgian colonial mansion overlooking the bay" |
| Who Gatsby was before he changed himself to be the man he is now | James Gatz - Jay Gatsby "Jay Gatsby...sprung from the platonic version of himself" |
| The thing that's clouded Gatsbys reality | The dream "The colossal vitality of his illusion" |
| The things people say about Gatsby that aren't true | The rumours "Someone told me he once killed a man" "He was an Oxford man" "He was a German spy during the war" |
| The quote you should put in every essay that sums up the theme of "Social hierarchy" | The lower class characters "The holocaust was complete" |
| A description of the Buchannans home | New money "glistening palaces" |
| The thing Gatsby is trying to do with Daisy | Repeat the past "Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can" |
| What happens to Gatsby's house after he takes the blame for Daisy killing Myrtle | Dust "there was an inexplicable amount of dust everywhere" |
| A technique Fitzgerald uses to foreshadow the tension in Manhattan | Pathetic Fallacy "it was almost the last, certainly the warmest of summer" |
| A symbol of hope in the Valley of Ashes | The Wilson's house "the only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick" |
| Another foreshadow into the tension in Manhattan | The carpet "Gatsby stood in the centre of the crimson carpet" |
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