Period 4
HOY ES EL CINCO DE MAYO! (:
Today we got our multiple choice exam that we took yesterday back. Then there were series of different conversations for a long time and all i could hear was everyone getting mad at Sean for making the due date for the research paper tomorrow. So basically everyone hates [...]
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One of the difficulties we’ve been having with really reading The Great Gatsby I think, stems from the complicated narrative structure. Let’s see if we can unpack it:
Essentially we are working with a story within a story. A fictional memoir, in a way. Nick is telling a story about one season a [...]
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Well, as we move into chapter four we get a most definite shift in style, tone, and topic. Nick’s narrative voice changes and becomes more of a participant, less of a reporter. As Nick becomes more enmeshed into the narrative, it will become harder to distinguish his editorializing (but it’s there). And [...]
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Ok. Here’s the last one for you to comment on. If you’ve worked on the others, this one should be a little easier:
I looked around. Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands. Even Jordan’s party, the quartet from East Egg, were rent asunder by [...]
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After Jordan is called away to speak with Gatsby in private Nick wanders alone for a few minutes.
A clue for you here is the figure of speech called euphemism. Euphemism is when we substitute a pleasant or polite word for a harsher, but truer, reality. For example a “moron” might be described as “mentally [...]
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Ok. Here’s another passage. This one is about Gatsby himself:
He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and [...]
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Chapter 3 is the culmination of the first 1/3 of the novel (I see the novel split into three three chapter sections). And it is definitely fancy and flamboyant. But I’m going to turn the analysis over to you.
In Chapter 3 we finally meet the mysterious Gatsby whose name gives us our title. We [...]
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New York while physically small is amazingly monstrous in its human geography. Let’s first take a look at Manhattan Island.
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I’d like to conclude with a comment on the unity of chapter 2. The whole thing breaks up (including the narrative thread) when a drunken Tom decides that if Myrtle won’t obey, he’ll smash her nose in. It works pretty well. She definitely doesn’t petulantly chant “Daisy!” anymore. But it does kind of ruin the [...]
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Just in case you thought that terrorism was something new or that homegrown terrorists have never before been seen on our shores, well, I thought you might be interested in this. It’s a part of American history we don’t talk about much, but it was still something to consider being a resident of New [...]
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