Gatsby 2

Question 1

What poem published in 1922 does the valley of ashes setting reflect?

Answer 1

T S Eliot’s The Wasteland

Question 2

Which mid western American president embodies TAD?

Answer 2

Lincoln

Question 3

Chapter 4 - hurried the phrase he….

Answer 3

…..was educated at Oxford

Question 4

C 4 - He looked at me sideways, and…..

Answer 4

……I knew why Jordan Baker had thought he was lying”

Question 5

what sort of narrative does Gatsby have?

Answer 5

pluralistic narrative - many different characters beliefs/ stories shape the narrative

Question 6

C 9 rid off my…..

Answer 6

…….provincial squeamishness forever - innocence to awareness

Question 7

C 9 huge incoherent……

Answer 7

…….failure of a house

Question 8

C 9 quote that demonstrates the innocence to awareness of Nick

Answer 8

“inessential house”

Question 9

C 9 “fresh, green breast of…..

Answer 9

……the new world” - America is female the dreamers are male - Fetterley

Question 10

Yanhong Fan on community

Answer 10

(on Jim Casy) “His messages considerably broaden man’s sense of spiritual community.”

Question 11

Blades on the Pioneer spirit

Answer 11

The novel picks apart the willful optimism of the pioneer and questions the limits of individualism

Question 12

Motley on feminism in Grapes

Answer 12

The Joads family shifts from a predominantly patriachal structure to a matriachal one

Question 13

What was brought in following the 18th Amendment to the USA constitution

Answer 13

Prohibition

Question 14

simultaneously fascinating

Answer 14

and repulsive

Question 15

T J Eckleberg

Answer 15

chipped paint and decay represent loss of focus on relationship with God (Age of Enlightment)

Deus Abscondi

Question 16

How/ why was the prohibition reversed?

Answer 16

1932 - 21st Amendment

lure of jobs that the liquore industry would create in the midst of Economic Depression

Question 17

Gatsby’s car is described as a

Answer 17

‘circus wagon’

Question 18

his count of enchanted objects

Answer 18

had diminished by one

Question 19

‘this fella’s a

Answer 19

regular Belasco’ - Gatsby is putting on an act/ imitating old money tradition

‘what thoroughness, what realism’

Question 20

foul dust

Answer 20

floated in the wake of his dreams

Question 21

Tom Buchanan

Answer 21

‘dominant race’ - white supremacist

‘supercilious’

‘broke her nose’

Question 22

Myrtle key quotes

Answer 22

dog is an ‘indeterminate breed’ - like Myrtle who is poor but attempts to convey wealth

‘cream’ ‘costume’

‘vitality’

Question 23

Jordan Baker

Answer 23

‘incurably dishonest’

‘balancing girl’

‘young cadet’

Question 24

Presymbolism

postsymbolism

Answer 24

writer harnesses readers intuition

creates imagery

Question 25

Americans, although willing to be serfs

Answer 25

have always been obsinate about peasentry

• despite social mobility in America, they still judge the poor

Question 26

Gatsby’s house had a ‘feudel

Answer 26

sillhoette - despite being wealthy, Gatsby remains in the shadow of old money

Question 27

Doctor T J Eckleberg’s eyes are ‘dimmed a little

Answer 27

by many paintless days’

Question 28

Nick on his family - ‘I was a guide

Answer 28

a path finder and original settler

Question 29

life if much more successfully

Answer 29

looked at from a single window after all - implicit criticism of Gatsby’s infatuation with Daisy

Question 30

George Wilson

Answer 30

‘faded’ voice

‘ghost’

‘blond, spiritless man, anaemic and faintly handsome’