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Mind Map by Matt Knowles, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Matt Knowles
over 11 years ago
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Chapter 1
- Introduction to Geography & Houses
- The Egg's
- Word: Represents new life
- West (Great Neck)
- Gatsby & Nick
- "the consoling proximity of millionaires"
- Gatsby & Nick
- East (Manhasset Neck)
- The Buchanans
- "white palaces"
- The Buchanans
- Word: Represents new life
- The Egg's
- Introdution to Characters
- Gatsby
- Nick describes Gatsby as
having an "extraordinary gift for
hope"
- "he stretched out his arms
toward the dark water..."
- "he stretched out his arms
toward the dark water..."
- Optimisitic
- Nick describes Gatsby as
having an "extraordinary gift for
hope"
- Daisy
- Delicate White Flower?
- Women in white
- Innocence & Purity?
- Sinister resonance:
Perceived superiority of
white Race (Tom)
- Innocence & Purity?
- Delicate White Flower?
- Tom
- During dinner, Tom
bursts out "violently",
"civilisation's going to
pieces"
- Forceful
- Violent Nature
- Manipulative
- Highlights Cultural Context
- Pessimistic
- Forceful
- During dinner, Tom
bursts out "violently",
"civilisation's going to
pieces"
- Jordan Baker
- Represents the new
independent women of
1920's
- Demanded vote
- Demanded vote
- Represents the new
independent women of
1920's
- Gatsby
- Nick Carraway's Narration
- Daisy & Jordan
- Nick notes 'the absence of all
desire' in the conversation
between Jordan and Daisy
- Have all they need, yet
their lives lack purpose
- Do not
express / communicate
anything
- Have all they need, yet
their lives lack purpose
- Their eyes are said to
appear "impersonal", no
more expressive then
their conversation.
- Instead of looking to the
future, Daisy focuses upon
her injured finger.
- Passive Figure?
- Things happen to her and she is content
to be shaped by events and other people
- Things happen to her and she is content
to be shaped by events and other people
- She looks at the
bruised finger "with an
awed expression"
- adjective "awed" = inappropriate
for trivial injury
- adjective "awed" = inappropriate
for trivial injury
- Small injury foreshadows a far more
disturbing incident in the next chapter,
where Tom deliberately breaks the nose
of his mistress, Myrtle Wilson
- Passive Figure?
- Instead of looking to the
future, Daisy focuses upon
her injured finger.
- Nick notes 'the absence of all
desire' in the conversation
between Jordan and Daisy
- Daisy & Jordan
- Racial Issues
- Sets the scene: Cultural
context of race relations in
1920's America
- Tom on Race
- "Its up to us, who are the
dominant race, to watch out
or these other races will
have control of things."
- "The Rise of the
Coloured Empires by
this man Goddard"
- The Rising Tide of Color
against White World
Supremacy by Lothrop
Stoddard (Pub. 1920)
- The Rising Tide of Color
against White World
Supremacy by Lothrop
Stoddard (Pub. 1920)
- "Its up to us, who are the
dominant race, to watch out
or these other races will
have control of things."
- Sets the scene: Cultural
context of race relations in
1920's America
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