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I - Characters

Nick (West Egg, Studied at Yale with Daisy and Tom)

narrator

easily influence

superficial

unreliable

motivated by interests

accessible

judgmental

highly educated

bourgeois

Gatsby (West Egg, Know daisy from before the war)

central / focus of the plot

superficial / shallow

madly in love with Daisy

represent the american dream => represent the best of the american dream (a foreigner being totally accepted and wealthy) BUT represent the worst (someone capable of anything to achieve the american dream)

want to be a symbol of success

unreliable

manipulative + motivated by interests => relation with Nick

mysterious

attractive

sociable / socialite

dark/obscure personality

paradoxical => socialite but he is hiding enormous secrets and a dark personality

Inheritance => origins = poor

self-made man

naïf and self-assured

generous + sincere (≠ daisy) => qualities that the American society doesn’t consider => critics of this meritocracy because Gatsby as merits (war + construction of his richness)

Truly alone (the end = no one is coming to his burial) / abandoned (≠ generous)

American dream => ephemeral

Never satisfied => faire un commerce illégal alors que finalement son héritage lui suffit largement pour vivre

Nostalgic, sentimental => characteristics that doesn’t fit with the American society

Daisy (East Egg, Married with Tom, know Nick)

motivated by social status

undecided

kind

seen as pure (white) (≠ finally the only character that represent the purity is corrupted)

selfish

object of inaccessible desire (Gatsby doesn’t accept that)

pragmatic (last sentence of the novel) (she is in the present and her story with Gatsby is over)

Tom

proud

materialistic

generous

doesn’t see Daisy as his wife but as a social object

brutal

unfaithful (Myrtle)

unscrupulous

immature

Jordan

represents corruption

represents competition (objectif de monter dans la société)

Wolfshiem

represents corruption

represents the « dark side » of Gatsby

represents the fragility of Gatsby’s wealth

Myrtle / George

working class

represents the people for whom the American dream hasn’t work

entertainment of the upper class => collateral dommages

Tom and Myrtle show the importance of social status and how every character are motivated by interests (Tom even if he seems to prefer Myrtle, will never stop his relation with Daisy)

Symbols and Motif

Parties

social meeting

extravagance of the rich

upper class = narcissisme and hypocrisy => came to the party to show themselves

everyone at Gatsby parties ≠ no one at Gatsby’s funerals

entertainment

Green Light

Gatsby’s dream of being once again with Daisy

impossible to reach => foreshadows

represent the distance between the reality and the dream

Lighthouse => for the strayed boat (Gatsby)

Green = hope

Green = money => question Gatsby’s interest for Daisy

Green Light // the sun = Icarus. Want the achieve the American dream so bad that he destroys himself

represent the lost past which Gatsby looks with nostalgia BUT also the future which he dreams of being wealthy and happy with Daisy

hope of the future + nostalgia of the past (for Gatsby) => contrasting idea

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic 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.” => Gatsby is programmed for the failure

Valley of Ashes

obliged to see this zone

the rich can’t isolated themselves from the poverty

dark side of the American Dream

show that the American dream requires selfishness to succeed => use people of the Valley of Ashes to get to the West Egg

Rich

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