tgg (1st group presentation) moral & social decay)
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AMERICAN NOVEL - ADVISOR LEC. M. ZAFER AYAR
KTU – Department of English Language and Literature
Ayça Çağla Aydın
Merve Kahriman Gül Nihan GürsoyGamze Köse Tuncay
Yaran
Moral & Social Decay
AUTHOR
PLOT
CHARACTE
RS
F.SCOTT FITZGERALD
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He was born Sept.24.1896 in St. Poul
Minnesota
His mother Marry McQuillen was from
Irish-catholic family that had made a
small fortune in Minnesota
His father Edward Fitzgerald lost his
job and moved to his wife town and
live there with his wife’s inheritance.
He attended St. Poul Academy
His first writing was published in the
school newspaper. When he was 15 he
was sent to a catholic school in New
Jersey.
He developed his artistic development
at Princeton University.
In 1917 he Joined the Army-stationed
in Montgomery Alabama where he met
Zelda Sayre .
Zelda Sayre refused to marry him until he could publish This Side of Paradise
Like Daisy in terms of the way that she refused Gatsby because of
his economic circumstances.
He wrote many books but most published and read book was
the Great Gatsby.
The Great Gatsby was the
symbol of America. Jazz
age and American Dream.
Later he became
alcoholic and his wife also had some mental disorders. He
died of a heart attack at 44.
Nick Carraway moves to New York , He rents a house in the West Egg. Nick’s next-door neighbor in West Egg is a mysterious
man named Jay Gatsby. Nick is unlike the other inhabitants of West Egg, he was educated man. He had social connections in East Egg. Nick drives out to East Egg one evening for dinner with his
cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom.Nick learns that Tom has a lover,
Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New
York City.
PLOT
Nick receives an invitation to one of Gatsby’s legendary parties. At there Nick meets Gatsby
himself, a surprisingly young man who affects an English accent, has a remarkable smile. Nick later learns more about his mysterious neighbor Gatsby.
Gatsby’s extravagant lifestyle and wild parties are simply an attempt to impress Daisy. Gatsby now wants Nick to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy, but he is afraid that Daisy will refuse to see him if she knows that he still
loves her.Nick invites Daisy to have tea at his house, without telling her that Gatsby will also be there. , Gatsby and Daisy reestablish their
connection.After a short time, Tom grows increasingly
suspicious of his wife’s relationship with Gatsby.
Nick, Jordan, and Tom drive through the valley of ashes, however, they discover that Gatsby’s car has struck and killed Myrtle, Tom’s lover. They rush back to Long Island, where Nick learns from
Gatsby that Daisy was driving the car when it struck Myrtle, but that Gatsby
intends to take the blame. George finds Gatsby in the pool dead. Nick makes a funeral for Gatsby, ends his relationship
with Jordan, and moves back to the Midwest to escape because he feels discust for the people surrounding
Gatsby’s life and for the emptiness and moral decay of life among the wealthy on the East Coast. Nick reflects that just as
Gatsby’s dream of Daisy was corrupted by money and dishonesty.
Tom Has social status
Rich
Likes domineering
Sophisticated
Unfaithful
Intelligent
Coarse
Unorthodoxy
Light hearted
Mocker and despiser
Tom: ‘It does her good to get away.’Nick: ‘Doesn’t her husband object?’Tom: ‘Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive.’So Tom Buchanan and his girl and I went up together to New York… (p. 29)
Nick Young man from
Minnesota
Graduated from Yale
Works in finance sector
Goes to New York for learning bond business
Has social connections and aristocratic lineage
Cousin of Daisy
Honest
Morally justified
Confidant
Clever
Permissive
Nick: ‘Does she want to see Gatsby?’Jordan: ‘She’s not to know about it. Gatsby doesn’t want her to know. You’re just supposed to invite her to tea.’ (p. 77-78)
Mrytle Wilson Married George Wilson
Lives in valley of ashes
Mistress of Tom Buchanan
Poor
Unhappy
Wants to continue a better life
Myrtle pulled her chair close to mine, and suddenly her warm breath poured over me the story of her first meeting with Tom.‘It was on the two little seats facing each other that are always the last ones left on the train. I was going up to New York to see my sister and spend the night. He had on a dress suit and patent leather shoes and I couldn’t keep my eyes off him but every time he looked at me I had to pretend to be looking at the advertisement over his head. When we came into the station he was next to me and his white shirt-front pressed against my arm—and so I told him I’d have to call a policeman, but he knew I lied. I was so excited that when I got into a taxi with him I didn’t hardly know I wasn’t getting into a subway train. All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever, you can’t live forever.’ ‘ (p.38)
Jay GatsbyProtagonist
Wealthy-youngFrom West EggGood-hearted
LoyalHopeful
DishonestSelf-invention
The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic
conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just
that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and
meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old
boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end. (Ch.6 –
106)
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Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no
matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. And then one fine
morning—So we beat on, boats against the current,
borne back ceaselessly into the past. (Ch.9 – 171)
“I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” I ventured. “You can’t repeat the past.”
“Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”
He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in
the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.
"I thought you inherited your money."
"I did, old sport," he said automatically, "but I lost most of it in the big panic –
the panic of the war."
I think he hardly knew what he was saying, for when I asked him what business
he was in he answered, "That's my affair," before he realized that it wasn't
the appropriate reply.
"Oh, I've been in several things," he corrected himself. "I was in the drug
business and then I was in the oil business. But I'm not in either one now.“
(Ch.6 – 106)
DaisyNick’s cousin
Tom’s wifeGatsby’s lover
Beautiful, charmingNot faithful
Sophisticated but careless
Fond of money, luxury
I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation. But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon,
and taken baggage with them."Left no address?"
"No.""Say when they'd be back?"
"No.""Any idea where they are? How I could
reach them?""I don't know. Can't say." (Ch.9 – 156)
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and
creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness,
or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. (Ch.9 – 170)
JordanBaker
Daisy’s friendThe woman whom Nick
lovesGolfer
New-womanSelf-centered
It made no difference to me. Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply – I was casually sorry, and then I forgot. It was
on that same house party that we had a curious conversation about driving a car. It started because she passed so close to some workmen that our fender flicked a button on
one man's coat. …
At her first big golf tournament there was a row that nearly reached the newspapers—a
suggestion that she had moved her ball from a bad lie in the semi-final round. The thing approached the proportions of a scandal—
then died away. A caddy retracted his statement and the only other witness
admitted that he might have been mistaken. The incident and the name had remained
together in my mind. (Ch.3 – 58)
GEORGE WILSONMRTYLE’S HUSBANDOWNER OF AUTO SHOPCATASTROPHIC END LIKE GATSBY
It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the
gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust
was complete. (Ch.8 – 154)
OWL EYES Strange Drunk Wearing glasses Guest of Gatsby in party
Owl Eyes: Do you know her? I met her somewhere last night. I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.’Nick: ‘Has it?’Owl Eyes: ‘A little bit, I think. I can’t tell yet. I’ve only been here an hour. Did I tell you about the books? They’re real. They’re——‘Nick: ‘You told us.’ (p. 47)
MEYER WOLFSHEIM Friend of Gatsby Wealthy Does illegal business Introduces himself as a gambler
Nick: ‘Now he’s dead,’ I said after a moment. ‘You were his closest friend, so I know you’ll want to come to his funeral this afternoon.’Wolfsheim: ‘I’d like to come.’Nick: ‘Well, come then.’The hair in his nostrils quivered slightly and as he shook his head his eyes filled with tears.Wolfsheim: ‘I can’t do it—I can’t get mixed up in it,’ he said.Nick: ‘There’s nothing to get mixed up in. It’s all over now.’Wolfsheim: ‘When a man gets killed I never like to get mixed up in it in any way. I keep out. When I was a young man it was different—if a friend of mine died, no matter how, I stuck with them to the end. You may think that’s sentimental but I mean it—to the bitter end.’I saw that for some reason of his own he was determined not to come, so I stood up. (p. 162-163)
‘What I called up about was a pair of shoes I left there. I
wonder if it’d be too much trouble to have the butler
send them on. You see they’re tennis shoes and I’m sort
of helpless without them. My address is care of B. F.——‘
I didn’t hear the rest of the name because I hung up the
receiver.
After that I felt a certain shame for Gatsby—one gentleman
to whom I telephoned implied that he had got what he
deserved. However, that was my fault, for he was one of
those who used to sneer most bitterly at Gatsby on the
courage of Gatsby’s liquor and I should have known
better than to call him. (Ch.9 – 160)
KLIPSPRINGER
Shallow freeloaderNot loyalSelfish
Works Cited
Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great
Gatsby. Penguin Books
www.planetebook.com
www.sparknotes.com