PPT-Great Gatsby Chapter Summaries Chapter 1 Summary Nick Caraway. He not only narrates the

Great Gatsby Chapter Summaries Chapter 1 Summary Nick Caraway He not only narrates the story but casts himself as the books author In the summer of 1922 arrives in New York Lives in West Egg next to Gatsby. Biographical information. What information is given in the novel . about. . Nick Carraway?. A bondsman. From the mid-west. Daisy’s cousin (second, once-removed). Probably Daisy’s mother was a cousin of one of Nick’s parents. . Preface and Chapter 1. The Great Gatsby . “ Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her.; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry ‘ Lover, gold- hatted, high bouncing lover I must have you.’ ” . & Techniques. Please add . GREEN TEXT . to the . Lit Term section of your binder. Point of View. Perspective from which a story is told. Answers, “Who is narrating the story?”. Is NOT a character’s opinion. The Green Light. Symbolizes both the unattainable dream of Gatsby’s past and the future at the same time. . “Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever…It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one” – Nick . Brandon McClung, Ian Edmiston, Luke Lish, Cole Haynes. Symbols. An important symbol in this chapter is Gatsby’s wealth and material possessions. They symbolize the American Dream of the 1920’s and everyone wanted to be like Gatsby. . The Green Light and the Color Green. The green light at the end of . Daisy’s. dock is the symbol of . Gatsby’s. hopes and dreams. It represents everything that haunts and beckons Gatsby: the physical and emotional distance between him and Daisy, the gap between the past and the present, the promises of the future, and the powerful lure of that other green stuff he craves—money. In fact, the color green pops up everywhere in . Historical background, author information, themes, and motifs to look for. "I look out at it and I think it is the most beautiful history in the world. . . . It is the history of all aspiration not just the American dream but the human . F. SCOTT FITZGERALD. F . rancis. Scott Key Fitzgerald was born.  on September 24, 1896, and named after his ancestor Francis Scott . Key. Fitzgerald . was raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. Though an intelligent child, he did poorly in school and was sent to a New Jersey boarding school in 1911. Despite being a mediocre student there, he managed to enroll at Princeton in 1913. Academic troubles and apathy plagued him throughout his time at college, and he never graduated, instead enlisting in the army in 1917, as World War I neared its end.. JUNIORS. Swbat. analyze Gatsby’s transition from confident to vulnerable. DO NOW HAND-IN: Why do you think Gatsby is vulnerable? Try and include a partial quote from his conversation with Nick as textual evidence.. Jay Gatsby. Protagonist. M. ysterious. , fantastically wealthy young . man. . Every Saturday, his garish Gothic mansion in . West . Egg serves as the site of extravagant . parties . Given name - James . Honors English 11. Ms. . Cimino. Warm-Up. What does it mean to be “. great. ”?. Crash Course Literature. Was . Gatsby Great?. Important Quotations: Chapter 7. “’Her . voice is full of money," he said suddenly.. -Old Lifestyle- . -For love- . -American Dreams-. Casting. By: Stacia Kulakowski. Daisy Buchanan. Michelle Williams . as . Daisy Buchanan. . . The appearance is similar to Carey Mulligan. . “Despite her beauty and charm..” So, she would have to be beautiful. . Anthony Martin . Name. : Nick . Carraway. Age: . 30. Education: . Yale Alumni; served in Army . Occupation. : Bond Salesman . Current . Residency: . Beaten . down house in the West Egg. Hobbies: . Reading, Jordan Baker. The great gatsby Chapter Notes Chapter 1 Notes – Point of View and Narrator Point of View – The way the authors allows the reader to “see” and “hear” what is going on First person – The story is told from the perspective of a single narrator