Today in class students handed in their Critical Analysis Essay. We then read Chapter 9 of Great Gatsby. After finishing the book, we began watching the film.
Chapter 9 Summary:
- Rumors fly about Gatsby and his death
- Only a few attend Gatsby’s funeral: Nick, Owl Eyes, a few servants, and Gatsby’s father
- Tom and Daisy move away
- Jordan and Nick break up
- Tom is the one who told Wilson that Gatsby owned the car-thus revenging Myrtle’s death
- Nick describes Tom and Daisy as “careless” people whose money is their safety net
- Nick thinks back about Gatsby’s American Dream
-Though we try to press forward to the future, we are always drawn back to the past
Chapter 9 Analysis - Marxism:
- Explore how the “large” dominates the “small”
- Tom tells Wilson that Gatsby owns the car (used Wilson like a pawn to revenge Myrtle’s death)
- The quest for the “American Dream”
- Tom and Daisy move away without consequence
- No matter how hard we try, the past always weighs us down
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