If you were Nick would you invite Daisy

If you were Nick would you invite Daisy to your house for tea so she could meet Gatsby? • If your answer is yes how do you feel about promoting adultery? • If your answer is no why are you depriving both Daisy and Gatsby of happiness?

What’s with all the names? • The vulgarity of the names Gatsby lists such as S. W. Belcher, the Smirks, Miss Hagg combined with the briefly noted activities of those named, gives a portrait of Jazz Age society • The timetable is in effect July 5, 1922 –July 4 th is of course the great American holiday, and so these are the people who appeared the day after the Declaration of American independence. They represent what has become of American idealism in a corrupt age

The Landscape • On their trip into New York, Nick and Gatsby drive over a symbolic landscape – 1 st pass through the desolation of the valley of ashes (representing reality and the sense of corruption is heightened by the encounter with the policeman)

How did Gatsby get rich anyways? • Nick receives a hint in the form of the gambler Meyer Wolfsheim of how Gatsby really amassed his wealth • Suggests that Gatsby’s wealth may be based on corruption

The Mission of the Woman • Gatsby believes he can win his woman with wealth, that he can attain the ideal she stands for through material affluence