Monday, February 6, 2017

Ch1-3 notes

Ch 1
- characters: gatsby, daisy, tom
- middle western -> East
- Tip of Egg village, peak of rich
- main knows gatsby
- supercilious: behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others.
- effeminate - having or showing characteristics regarded as typical of a woman; unmanly
- 'best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool' 
 - cried when it was a girl - daisy
Ch2 
- Nick mid-west -> New York
         - suburbs -> between rich ppl
         - gays by next door neighbor
         - daisy distant relative, ' women are fools'
- tom, Daisy's husband 
- jordan baker -> daisy & tom's friend 
- tom w/ Mrs. Wilson -> Myrtle 
      - bought her a dog 
      - stay @ apartment 
      - M wants to play house 
      - Mr, Wilson wants something from Tom
   - Nick 3rd wheel
Ch3 
- displacement : wrong place, wrong time for character
- anachronism: out of time 
    - chronism: time
- use of quotations marks -> irony & humor 
- Gatsby -> doesn't want trouble w/ anybody 
- jay didn't recognize gatsby 
- why isn't gatsby there 
- the lonely crowd 
- jovial: friendly but rude
- more 'in' than others
- gatsby more formal than others
- vinous: drink on wine
- snobby ppl
- baker: incurable dishonest 
- 'few honest ppl to ever know'

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