The Great Gatsby Novel Outline

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American Dream is an ideal lifestyle where people would have a family, large amount of wealth, and a big home.

D. “ His family were enormously wealthy.” “ They spent a year in France for no reason.”

E. Tom and Daisy have a lot of money and do not worry about anything because of it.

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C. Lies and deceits is related to corruption and moral decay.

D. “We’re getting off… I want you to meet my girl.”

E. Tom is taking Nick into the city to see his mistress Myrtle.

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C.Memory of the past, Gatsby tries to recreate the past where him and Daisy can be together.

D. “ You can’t repeat the past.”

E. Nick is trying to convince Gatsby that no matter what he does he cannot repeat the past.

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C. Dissatisfaction, Daisy isn’t satisfied with her marriage with Tom so she is seeking out for Gatsby, and Tom isn’t satisfied with his marriage so he is seeking out to Myrtle.

D. “ Your wife doesn’t love you.”

E. Gatsby confronts Tom at the hotel telling him Daisy never loved him, and she is leaving Tom for Gatsby.

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Ⅴ Tone

The tone statement is that Fitzgerald makes the lives of the characters glamorous but the glamorous feeling is actually corroded with death, lust, greed, and dishonesty.

Ex.) In the book Daisy cried because Gatsby was what she wanted him to be, rich, “Girls don’t marry poor boys.” The shirts represent materialism which is the only thing Daisy is looking for, so this falls under the category of greed and lust.

Ⅵ Other

I think the author’s purpose was to give the reader a sense of foreshadowing and reality of how he saw how the 1920’s lifestyle would only continue. He theorized that we would never attain the American Dream. He used wealth to show greed and moral decay through Tom and Daisy. He used Nick who moved back to the west due to what he experienced in the city to show the readers that the lifestyle Nick saw was the wrong idea of the American Dream.

Ⅶ Time Period/ Era

The Booming 1920’s, Long Island, West and East Egg.

Ⅷ Universal Relevance

In today’s world corruption concerning wealth and how it is acquired occured just as much as it did in the 1920’s. Sins including murder, other crimes, and affairs are still occurring today, but in a more advanced way and massive scale.

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