By Reich Studios We skipped the light fandango Turned cartwheels cross the floor I was feeling kinda seasick But the crowd called out for more The room was humming harder As the ceiling flew away ID: 566871
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The New Soundtrack
By Reich StudiosSlide2
We skipped the light fandangoTurned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling
kinda seasickBut the crowd called out for moreThe room was humming harderAs the ceiling flew awayWhen we called out for another drinkThe waiter brought a trayAnd so it was that laterAs the miller told his taleThat her face, at first just ghostly,Turned a whiter shade of paleShe said, 'There is no reasonAnd the truth is plain to see.'But I wandered through my playing cardsAnd would not let her beOne of sixteen vestal virginsWho were leaving for the coastAnd although my eyes were openThey might have just as well've been closedAnd so it was that laterAs the miller told his taleThat her face, at first just ghostly,Turned a whiter shade of paleAnd so it was that later
Chapter 1“Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procal Herum
This is reminiscent of when Nick walks into the Buchanan house and sees Daisy and Jordan in the living room with the “frosted wedding cake of a ceiling” and the “rippling and fluttering” of their dresses as if they “had just blown back in after a short flight around the house.”They are always drinking and being waited on.White represents expensive elegance and privilege. Jordan, who is often associated with white or wearing white, is the epitome of white privilege because she seems to often lounge around in fancy clothes, gossip, and lie.Nick likes Jordan at first and tries to be open-minded. He doesn’t realize until later that Jordan is one of the careless, dishonest people like Tom and Daisy.Slide3
City girls just seem to find out earlyHow to open doors with just a smile
A rich old man
And she won't have to worryShe'll dress up all in lace and go in styleLate at night a big old house gets lonelyI guess every form of refuge has its priceAnd it breaks her heart to think her love is onlyGiven to a man with hands as cold as iceSo she tells him she must go out for the eveningTo comfort an old friend who's feelin' downBut he knows where she's goin' as she's leavin'She is headed for the cheatin' side of townYou can't hide your lyin' eyesAnd your smile is a thin disguiseI thought by now you'd realizeThere ain't no way to hide your lyin eyesOn the other side of town a boy is waitingWith fiery eyes and dreams no one could steal
Chapter 2“Lyin’ Eyes” by The Eagles
We find out Myrtle and Tom are cheating in this chapter.This could all be about the conflict between cheating Myrtle and her heartbroken husband George. Daisy is upset too, but this is not the focus in this chapter. Myrtle goes to Tom’s honey shack on the other side of town.They cannot hide from the symbolic eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg. The eyes on the billboard seem to stare down at their debauchery and pass judgment. George Wilson is looking at the billboard when he explains that he told Myrtle, “God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me but you can’t fool God!” Her eyes are lying and she can’t hide it any longer.Slide4
Chapter 3
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Watch out, you might get what you're afterCool babies,
strange but not a stranger
I'm an ordinary guyBurning down the houseHold tightWait 'til the party's overHold tightWe're in for nasty weatherThere has got to be a wayBurning down the houseHere's your ticket pack your bagsTime for jumpin' overboardThe transportation is hereClose enough but not too far,Maybe you know where you areFightin' fire with fireAll wet, hey, you might need a raincoatShakedown, dreams walking in broad daylightThree hundred sixty five degreesBurning down the houseIt was once upon a place,Sometimes I listen to myselfGonna come in first place
People on their way to work,Baby, what did you expect?Gonna burst into flameBurning down the houseMy house's out of the ordinaryThat's rightDon't want to hurt nobodySome things sure can sweep me off my feetBurning down the house
Chapter 3“Burning Down the House” by The Talking Heads
His real name is James
Gatz
, and he was ordinary in his mind, or poor, so he wanted to get wealthy to win over Daisy
. Daisy knows him so he is not a stranger, but he certainly is strange.
Gatsby bought the mansion to be close to Daisy and to impress her.
Lights are always burning brightly at Gatsby’s house before he stopped the parties. This is part of his dream, to attract the attention of Daisy and win her back.Slide6
Chapter 4
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How is this song related to character, conflict, symbol, or theme?Slide7
Chapter 4
In this chapter, conflict and suspense are developed and so is Gatsby. We find out he has gangster connections; he is affiliated with known gangster, Meyer
Wolfshiem (Arnold Rothstein), the man who fixed the World Series in 1919. This song is the theme song to “The Sopranos,” a series about the mafia.Slide8
Chapter 5
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Just a small town girlLivin' in a lonely world
She took the midnight train
goin' anywhereJust a city boyBorn and raised in south DetroitHe took the midnight train goin' anywhereA singer in a smoky roomA smell of wine and cheap perfumeFor a smile they can share the nightIt goes on and on, and on, and onStrangers waitingUp and down the boulevardTheir shadows searching in the nightStreetlights, peopleLivin' just to find emotionHidin' somewhere in the nightWorking hard to get my fillEverybody wants a thrillPayin' anything to roll the diceJust one more timeSome will win, some will loseSome were born to sing the bluesOh, the movie never endsIt goes on and on, and on, and onStrangers waitingUp and down the boulevardTheir shadows… Full lyrics on Google PlayChapter 5
“Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey
This song has a similar theme as one found in The Great Gatsby. We all have dreams; some of us will live those dreams and some of us will not. Gatsby’s dream is so over the top, it couldn’t possibly come true. Daisy could never live up to his dream.Slide10
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Chapter 7
“A Hurtin’ on the Bottle” by Margo Price
Tom puts a “hurtin’ on the bottle” so he can be “too blind to see” the love between his wife Daisy and Gatsby.The whiskey bottle symbolizes their recklessness. Daisy doesn’t care if she hurts Tom because she has been hurt too many times before by Tom. Tom also doesn’t care who gets hurt, as long as he can have what he thinks he is entitled to. His carelessness and selfishness ultimately contribute to Myrtle’s death.“The bottle of whiskey--a second one--was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.' Tom rang for the janitor and sent him for some celebrated sandwiches, which were a complete supper in themselves. I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park through the soft twilight but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair. Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life
.”to make you stupid, Old Sport!Slide11
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How is this song related to character, conflict, symbol, or theme?Slide12
Chapter
9 –”Dream On” by Aerosmith
Steven tyler made a connection between dreams and the past as Nick does. “dream on”, “The past is gone! . . .We learn from fools and from sages,” but we all need to “Dream on.” Nick believes this because he learned from a fool, Gatsby. He admired Gatsby for being a dreamer and not giving up hope, “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 one fine morning---,” (189) what? Our dreams will be realized? We have to try. It’s part of the human condition, “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (189). We learn from our past, the past is part of who we are, and we cannot escape the past.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZfZ8uWaOFIEvery time when I look in the mirrorAll these lines on my face getting clearerThe past is goneIt went by, like dusk to dawnIsn't that the wayEverybody's got the dues in life to payI know nobody knowsWhere it comes and where it goesI know it's everybody sinYou got to lose to know how to win
Half my lifeIs books, written pagesLive and learn from fools andFrom sagesYou know it's true, ohAll these feelings come back to youSing with me, sing for the years
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tearsSing with me, just for todayMaybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you awayYeah, sing with me, sing for the yearSing for the laughter, sing for the tearSing with me, just for todayMaybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you awayDream onDream onDream on… Full lyrics on Google Play