What's some evidence of Jordan Baker in the Great Gatsby book being boyish?
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What does the narrator mean in this quote from the Great Gatsby?
Such a great story. Poor Gatsby, despite some questionable business practices, his love was pure. Everything he did, every move he made, all was for the love of Daisy. To love her and to win her. Gatsby turned out all right. Despite everything. He had a true heart. His love was real. He went to extraordinary lengths to win her hand. In trying to woo her, he was forced to associate with people who were very much unlike him. Passionless, users,and though they thought of themselves as the best and the brightest, Gatsby was bored and found them to say the least, unpleasant. In the end, Gatsby himself realized (to some degree) that all of this was for naught. Daisy was herself more like the people she associated, then like him. She would always choose another over him.She would never be capable of anything resembling the degree of love that he lived for.
Can someone provide evidence(quotes) that the Great Gatsby expresses themes of idealism?
Someone could. I suppose I could, but, hey, I see no purpose in doing your homework for you, so I won't. I can give you some good advice though: Start reading it and do your homework questions, because if you're counting on someone on here to do it for you, you'll fail.
What’s a good quote from the novel “The Great Gatsby” that shows that Daisy doesn’t care about Gatsby?
“They are beautiful shirts. I have never seen such beautiful shirts before”Daisy utters these words while after all this time she is finally united with Gatsby and she has the time to talk about shirts?Gatsby left her because he thought he was not enough. Daisy is very materialistic. She cares more about the shirts than Gatsby. This is the very reason Gatsby had to go and he had to come back with an enormous wealth.I say if she cared about Gatsby at all she wouldn’t be talking about shirts.
I don't understand this quote, from "The Great Gatsby"?
Like any good to great quote it is quite ambigous. It works well becuase it allowes the reader to infer the meaning. The general themes of the book though point to the protaganist's thoughts about his place and the place of other characters as far as achieving sucess. The pursued are busy and the pursuing are tired. A rich man is busy trying to keep others from getting his wealth. The unrich are pursueing(money) and tired. You can replace money with love and talk about the love story in the book as well. The beauty of the phrase is that it may be applied in many other ways, just my interpretation.
What evidence is there that Gatsby still lacks the background to attract a person from Daisy’s social class, despite his wealth in The Great Gatsby?
Essentially: “Money can't buy class”Basically, around the turn of the century there was a rising class of millionaires, called by some the nouveau riche, basically people who had recently made lots of money but had no taste or “old society” social graces. Gatsby, with his ostentatious parties and new money is characterized as a member of that set. The old money families of major American cities, though New York City in particular, did not want their pretty, well-bred daughters marrying these men. They wanted their daughters to either marry within their old money circle or marry a member of a European aristocracy. (For a fascinating look on that there's a great Smithsonian documentary on the topic, I'll link it if I can remember the name). So essentially, even though Gatsby has money, Daisy is still out of his league due to a type of social caste system.(Edit: the documentary is called Million Dollar American Princesses[1] and is narrated by Elizabeth McGovern)Footnotes[1] Million Dollar American Princesses
In The Great Gatsby, what makes Gatsby great?
Jay Gatsby is so great, so compelling because he's one of the 20th century's best tragic figures. I don't know about you, but I'm a sucker for those.When we meet Gatsby, we see his luxurious, ostentatious veneer: the grand mansion, lavish parties and faux Britishness. Nothing we see is real. Every bit of his persona is ill-gotten and fabricated.Despite Gatsby profligate lifestyle, he wins us (and Nick) over with his overweening optimism and passion. It's so purely American and innocent that we have to smile."Can't repeat the past?" [Gatsby] cried incredulously, "Why of course you can."- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (p. 116)All his pretenses aside, Jay Gatsby is a nervous boy in love. It is only when Daisy returns to his arms when his dreams come true. In a strange way, Gatsby isn't evil or greedy, he's just like the rest of us: yearning for love and his perfect lover.Gatsby's love for Daisy is the only pure and authentic thing about him. And what a thing it is! Gatsby goes all in for his love. He risks everything for her.Fraudster Gatsby may be, but he was still far more real and authentic than everyone else in the bunch (Nick excepted). It was Tom's and Daisy's lies and misdeeds thad led to Gatsby's demise, not his own. It was Daisy who drove the car and Tom who had the affair. Gatsby was an relative innocent.It is the ultimate irony that Gatsby--a criminal, a living facade--was the most real person in that degenerate affair. That terrible irony is what makes Gatsby a great tragic figure. His authentic love led to his death, a love that proved to be illusory.At the end, just like Nick, we all mourn Gatsby, real name or not.
What are some textual evidence proving Gatsby to be a tragic hero?
One can make the argument that Gatsby sacrifices himself for Daisy (when he tells Nick that he will take the fall for her driving the car). I often have my students write an essay on this point and the consensus is usually that Gatsby is a tragic hero for this and that he is willingly sacrificing himself, even if George, the man who kills him, isn't privy to this information. You can use one of the quotes from the end of chapter 1 which asserts that it was what was in Gatsby's dreams that plagued him: "it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams." This makes him seem like a dreamer with a grandiose idea of what love, perfection and happiness are; he just goes about attempting to get them in the terrible ways which ultimately lead to his destruction. If he garners your sympathy somehow, then he is a tragic hero. If he has a tragic flaw then he is a tragic hero. His major downfalls: his impulsiveness, his reckless dreaming and wishing for the past, his desire to go back to the past, and finally doing too much for people who never gave anything back to him.
Quotes describing Gatsby's house?
The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard—it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. (Chapter I) We went up-stairs, through period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk and vivid with new flowers, through dressing-rooms and poolrooms, and bathrooms with sunken baths—intruding into one chamber where a dishevelled man in pajamas was doing liver exercises on the floor. (Chapter V) His bedroom was the simplest room of all—except where the dresser was garnished with a toilet set of pure dull gold. (Chapter V) His house had never seemed so enormous to me as it did that night when we hunted through the great rooms for cigarettes. We pushed aside curtains that were like pavilions, and felt over innumerable feet of dark wall for electric light switches—once I tumbled with a sort of splash upon the keys of a ghostly piano. There was an inexplicable amount of dust everywhere, and the rooms were musty, as though they hadn’t been aired for many days. (Chapter VIII) A rope stretched across the main gate and a policeman by it kept out the curious, but little boys soon discovered that they could enter through my yard, and there were always a few of them clustered open-mouthed about the pool. (Chapter IX) Gatsby’s house was still empty when I left—the grass on his lawn had grown as long as mine. One of the taxi drivers in the village never took a fare past the entrance gate without stopping for a minute and pointing inside; perhaps it was he who drove Daisy and Gatsby over to East Egg the night of the accident, and perhaps he had made a story about it all his own. (Chapter IX)