Worksheet due at the end of the period.
The Great Gatsby Chapter I
~Explain in detail using at least 4 sentences each. What are the quotes referring to? What does it say about the specific characters? How are they relevant to the time period?
- “As for Tom the fact that he ‘had some woman in New York’ was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book. Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart” (25).
- “She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ‘All right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool’” (21).
- “’You see I think everything’s terrible anyhow,’ she went on in a convinced way. ‘Everybody thinks so—the most advanced people. And I know. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.’” Her eyes flashed around her in a defiant way, rather like Tom’s and she laughed with thrilling scorn” (21-22).
~Research the “Roaring 20’s” and write 10 facts that symbolize this time period.