Daniel and Zelda
The word “Breast”: Comfort and nourishment.
“Dutch sailors’ eyes—a fresh, green breast of the new world.” (Fitzgerald, Ch.9)
“…they saw that her left breast was swinging loose like a flap” (Fitzgerald, Ch.7)
Friday, March 30, 2007
The "Breast" - Zelda and Daniel
Daniel and Zelda
The word “Breast”: Comfort and nourishment.
“Dutch sailors’ eyes—a fresh, green breast of the new world.” (Fitzgerald, Ch.9)
“…they saw that her left breast was swinging loose like a flap” (Fitzgerald, Ch.7)
Gatsby's House - David & David
David G and David B.
1) The house is representative of Gatsby’s life. Like Gatsby, the house has many signals of rapidly gained wealth. When Gatsby dies, just as there was no one to attend his funeral, the house fell into disrepair and disuse.
2) “. . . a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden” Ch 9
“I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited -- they went there.” Ch 10
3)
1) The house is representative of Gatsby’s life. Like Gatsby, the house has many signals of rapidly gained wealth. When Gatsby dies, just as there was no one to attend his funeral, the house fell into disrepair and disuse.
2) “. . . a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden” Ch 9
“I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited -- they went there.” Ch 10
3)
Daisy Fay's Voice - David & Cody
David
Cody
English Blk 8
Sybolism: Daisy Fay’s Voice
1) Daisy Fay’s sounds like money.
2) Her voice is "a deathless song" (74,4). Her voice announces danger.
Even her voice “is full of money” (89,8). Her voice is rich and eloquent.
David R
Cody E.
Cody
English Blk 8
Sybolism: Daisy Fay’s Voice
1) Daisy Fay’s sounds like money.
2) Her voice is "a deathless song" (74,4). Her voice announces danger.
Even her voice “is full of money” (89,8). Her voice is rich and eloquent.
David R
Cody E.
East Egg vs. West Egg - Elisa & Joe
Elisa
Joe
Find the meanings for your symbol
The white part of the egg represents wealth and the yellow represents poverty. The East egg is more refined will the West egg is for people who don’t have any real standing. The water between the two islands represents the separation between Gatsby and Daisy.
2. Find two quotes from the text to match your symbol
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.
It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York - and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land. Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound.-- The Great Gatsby
Find a picture for your symbol
Daisy's Voice - Lynn and Edgar
Lynn, Edger
Daisy’s Fay Voice
“It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.” Pg. 9
“It was full of money- that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, that cymbal’s song of it… High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl…” Pg.120
Daisy’s voice is perceived by others as something filled with promise- a promise of riches and a life in luxury with a beautiful wife. As she was born to a rich family, to marry her would sort of be like marrying the “king’s daughter,” like the case of the Disney movie Aladdin where the person to marry princess Jasmine would become Sultan. As also in the case of the picture, she was held far above her suitors in a figurative “balcony” where they could not reach her.
“Disney Vacation Time” 3/22/07
http://images.google.co.in/imgres?imgurl=http://www.disney-vacation-time.com/img/jasmine/jasmine-4.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.disney-vacation-time.com/princess-jasmine/&h=490&w=356&sz=36&hl=en&start=8&tbnid=bMIHGj5-wYaXIM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=94&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddisney%2Bjasmine%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive
Daisy’s Fay Voice
“It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.” Pg. 9
“It was full of money- that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, that cymbal’s song of it… High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl…” Pg.120
Daisy’s voice is perceived by others as something filled with promise- a promise of riches and a life in luxury with a beautiful wife. As she was born to a rich family, to marry her would sort of be like marrying the “king’s daughter,” like the case of the Disney movie Aladdin where the person to marry princess Jasmine would become Sultan. As also in the case of the picture, she was held far above her suitors in a figurative “balcony” where they could not reach her.
“Disney Vacation Time” 3/22/07
http://images.google.co.in/imgres?imgurl=http://www.disney-vacation-time.com/img/jasmine/jasmine-4.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.disney-vacation-time.com/princess-jasmine/&h=490&w=356&sz=36&hl=en&start=8&tbnid=bMIHGj5-wYaXIM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=94&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddisney%2Bjasmine%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive
The "Breast" - Amanda and Melissa
Amanda , Melissa
The significance of “the breast” in The Great Gatsby it symbolized a new beginning. It compares Gatsby’s dream of Daisy to the explorer’s discovery of America, and the promise of a new continent. It is a chance for Gatsby to win Daisy back with more money, but ultimately money was what caused Gatsby’s downfall.
Ch-9
“I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes—a fresh, green breast of the new world.”
http://www.msu.edu/~millettf/gatsby.html
http://www.slashdoc.com/documents/34840
The Eyes of Dr. Eckleburg - Francisco & James D.
The Eyes Dr. Eckleburg
"God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me but you can't fool God!...God sees everything" (167).
“The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic- their retinas are one yard high.”(23).
The eyes of Dr. Eckleburg are perceived as the unblinking eyes of God to the natives of New York. If anyone does anything bad they see the eyes staring back at them as if to have the eyes of god looking over them.
"God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me but you can't fool God!...God sees everything" (167).
“The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic- their retinas are one yard high.”(23).
The eyes of Dr. Eckleburg are perceived as the unblinking eyes of God to the natives of New York. If anyone does anything bad they see the eyes staring back at them as if to have the eyes of god looking over them.
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