After Reading 2

Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in 1925, and here we are reading
it so many years later. Why? What makes this book a "classic"?

After Reading 1

What is the point of The Great Gatsby? When we read books, we usually come away
from our reading experience a little richer, having given more thought to a particular
aspect of life. What do you think F. Scott Fitzgerald intended us to gain from reading his
novel?

Quotation 6

Explain the following ,
"They're a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch
put together." (Nick to Gatsby)

Quotation 5

Explain the following,
". . . and it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race,
so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. Wilson was so sick that he
looked guilty. . . ." (Nick after the accident)

Quotation 4

Explain the following,
"Her voice is full of money." (Gatsby to Nick about Daisy)

Quotation 3

Explain the following,
"So the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval of her eyes."
(Nick after Daisy had come to Gatsby's party)

Quotation 2

Explain the importance of the following,
"There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his
dreams
-- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone
beyond her, beyond everything." (Nick about Gatsby after he had met with Daisy)