Gatsby­Ch.6­7­2013­NotesForWeebly.notebook
James Gatz
October 30, 2013
Jay Gatsby
Dan Cody
Goal/Motivation:
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Gatsby­Ch.6­7­2013­NotesForWeebly.notebook
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But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the wash­stand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor. Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace. For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing.
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Repeating the Past:
Nick: He wanted nothing less of Daisy that that she should go to Tom and say: "I never loved you." After she had obliterated three years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken. One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house – just as if it were five years ago…
Nick: "You can't repeat the past."
Gatsby: "Can't repeat the past?...Why of course you can!...I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before...She'll see." (116­117)
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Gatsby­Ch.6­7­2013­NotesForWeebly.notebook
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Gatsby’s flashback:
…Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalk really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees – he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.
His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of a God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that ha d been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete” (117).
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Gatsby­Ch.6­7­2013­NotesForWeebly.notebook
Ch. 5 & 6
October 30, 2013
Role of Class & Materialism
Sloane & Tom Visit Gatsby
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Gatsby's Next Party
Gatsby's Flashback:
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Nick: He wanted nothing less of Daisy that that she should go to Tom and say: "I never loved you."
Nick: "You can't repeat the past."
Gatsby: "Can't repeat the past?...Why of course you can!...I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before...She'll see." (116­117)
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Gatsby­Ch.6­7­2013­NotesForWeebly.notebook
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Trimalchio:
Gatsby's Changes:
Tom Puts 2 & 2 Together:
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Tom & George ­ Their Discoveries & Reactions
The Car Switch Up:
The Eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg ­ "Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg kept their vigil but I perceived, after a moment, that other eyes were regarding us with peculiar intensity..."
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Tom vs. Gatsby (in hotel room)
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