The Great Gatsby

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The Great Gatsby

• The Transformation from Gatz to Gatsby

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Synopsis Video

• http//www.sparknotes.com/sparknotes/video/gatsby

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Group Discussion

• In your table groups discuss everything you know
  about Jay Gatsby.
• You will be sharing your discussion with the
  class.

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Directions

• We will read pages 98-101 carefully, starting
  with the paragraph that begins, James Gatz
  that was really, or at least legally, his name.
• Identify the major events, places, and people
  that make up the life history of James Gatz. List
  these.
• For each event or period, create a picture,
  symbol or object that identifies or symbolizes
  that particular incident. Include the years and
  months if possible.
• Create a timeline or diagram that illustrates
  this sequence of events. You can complete a rough
  draft in class. A final, clear, and colourful
  draft will be due in the following classes.

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Order of Events

• - Works on a farm with his family in North Dakota
• - Dreams of a wealthy life and having expensive
  things
• - Works as fisherman on Lake Superior
• - Attends St. Olafs College paying tuition by
  working as a janitor, later drops out
• - Returns to working as a fisherman on Lake
  Superior
• Meets Dan Cody, begins sailing and working with
  him. Cody acts as a mentor for Gatsby while he
  continues planning how he can become rich
• Dan Cody dies, Gatsby is left an inheritance of
  25,000 but never receives it because Codys
  ex-wife takes it all
• Gatsby is penniless again and at this time
  enlists in the army
• Meets Daisy in Louisville while training at Camp
  Taylor
• Goes overseas to fight in the War
• Returns to America, meets Meyer Wolfsheim,
  begins living in New York and working in the
  bootlegging business

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A Helpful Website

• http//www.nhcs.k12.in.us/staff/bbigham/The20Grea
  t20Gatsby/Timeline.pdf

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Directions

• Read pages 116-117 in pairs, silently or orally
  and then discuss and write your answers to the
  questions below.
• What is your first reaction to this scene? What
  prompts this reaction?
• What are Nicks and Gatsbys opinions about time
  and repeating the past?
• Which side of this issue do you most agree with?
  Why?
• What do their attitudes about the past suggest
  about their current relationships?
• At this point in the novel, how would you
  characterize the following relationships? (How do
  these people feel about each other? Are the
  attachments strong or weak?
• What does the future of the relationship look
  like to you? Explain.)
• (a) Gatsby and Daisy, (b) Daisy and Tom,
• (c) Tom and Myrtle, (d) Nick and Jordan