Gatsby Chapter III notes

Fiction is the lie that tells the truth

Displacement-Character out of place

Anachronism-Character out of time

Quotations- Can also mean Sarcasm or Irony.


What would it like to be at that party? Overwhelming, lots of booze, plenty of valuable things to break, but amazing, rubbing elbows with the wealthy elite.

Gatsby Quiz

1. A

2. D

3. C

4. D

5. A

6. A

7. C

8. D?

9. C

10. D

Gatsby Chapter II-Notes part I

Tom makes it known he has a mistress, and his wife has a baby

Tom's Drunk

Contiguous main street

Nick is in "fly over country"

Stranger on the Streets selling puppies on the street looks like John D. Rockefeller

Myrtle is the Mistress

Wilson, the husband, is unaware of the affair.

typical small apartment, even for a woman cheating with a millionaire

Cashier at Rite Aid, late 40s, tattooed blue eyebrows, reminds me of Myrtle's sister.

Neither Tom nor Myrtle can stand the Person they're married to.

Myrtle calls Tom a "Kyke"

Gatsby-Chapter II part I

In Chapter two we have been introduced to the bleak and dismal "Valley of Ashes." It's a depressing factor in the midst of the Industrial revolution. It is here that we are about to be introduced to Tom's mistress as more about The Great Gatsby unfolds...

Great Gatsby Remix I

   We're first introduced to the Narrator, Frank, who's earliest memories are of his father's advice: "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all people haven't had the advantages that you've had." As the chapter progresses, we learn more about our narrator. He's learning Bonds, and moves to the Less Fashionable New York neighborhood of West Egg, where he lives in a battered old shack, between million dollar mansions fit for a luxury hotel. This is where he learns of his reclusive neighbor, Mr. Gatsby, whom he seldom saw.

   We next are introduced to Frank's cousin, Daisy, and her Brutish husband, Tom, in the more fashionable East Egg. We are treated to a variety of descriptive writing(sunken Italian Gardens, a snub-nosed motor boat, etc.) as we learn about the wealth Daisy and Tom retain, and how unhappy Daisy is, how her Husband is racist, and how he has a "Woman in New York." As the Chapter draws to a close, we get to finally meet Mr. Gatsby; He's posing on his Balcony observing the Salt and Pepper night sky, wondering what belongs to him in the heavens.

Great Gatsby Notes II

Why does Tom act this way?


How did the Buchanan couple gain their wealth?


Divan- Couch/Sophisticated from a certain time


Why is Daisy unsatisfied?


'The Rise of the Coloured Empires'


Tom is racist


Silver Polisher-What is that? What does it have to do with the story?


Indirect Characterization


Tom's cheating on Daisy


 "It'll show you how I've gotten to feel abut things. Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the Ether with an utterly abandoned feeling and asked the nurse whether it was a boy or a girl. 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."


Single Green Light, minute and far away.

Great Gatsby Notes

"What little I've accomplished has been the most laborious and uphill of work"


Read for Pleasure


Share what we think and learn from each other


EPI Graph- Quote that gives us a clue at the beginning of the chapter to give the reader a clue of what the chapter or book is about


Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in the world haven't had the advantages that you've had."


West Egg Village-important


Midas, Morgan, Maecenas


West Egg, Land formation


Two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.