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The Great Gatsby Essay Questions

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1) I feel that the most crucial part to chapter six is daisy coming to Gatsby’s party. This shows daisy Gatsby’s life. Daisy didn’t enjoy the party and soon Gatsby doesn’t either.
2) Gatsby changed his name from James Gatsby when he was 17. He changed it because he was becoming someone different. It all started when he met Dan Cody.
3) Daisy did not like the party. According to nick it offended her because it was an emotion .west egg appalls daisy. Nick states that “she saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.”
4) Gatsby wants too much out of daisy to soon. Nick stayed late after the party and they talked about daisy. Gatsby tells nick that he wants daisy to tell tom that she never loved him.
5) Nicks view of the
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He said that jimmy was bound to get ahead. He was happy because of all Gatsby had accomplished and said that he has a big future before him.
5) At the end of the book nick characterizes tom and daisy as careless people. Nick said “it was all very careless and confused.” he also said that “they smashed up things and creatures and retreated back into their money or their vast carelessmess or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
6) Nick says that Gatsby believed in the green light. He said that it was “the orgiastic future that year by year recedes us.” The green light symbolizes money and success.
FINAL- one big part of the jazz age in the great Gatsby is Gatsby’s parties. The decorations and his garden were described as “several hundred feet of canvas and colored light to make a Christmas tree out of Gatsby’s enormous garden.” The people who attend his parties dress very fancy with silver and gold colors. The orchestra is made up of a jazz orchestra with instruments such as saxophones and trombones. To me, the whole story had a jazzy feel with many aspects of the jazz age. It is incorporated throughout the
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