Bell Ringer:

Write a story that starts, “They told me seeing a turtle on your graduation day would bring good luck,” and ends with, “Now I’m doing 10-20 in federal

prison. Stupid rabbit.”

Quiz (end of chapter 4 & chapter 5)

Chapter 4 QuestionsWhat parts of the rumors surrounding Gatsby, or of his own story, do you believe? What parts do you find suspect?

What details about Wolfsheim imply that he’s most likely not a “gonnection” Nick would be interested in?

How is Gatsby’s relationship with Daisy foreshadowed during lunch?

What do we learn in Jordan’s flashback?

Jordan mentions a string of pearls. What might these symbolize?

Why does Gatsby want to meet Daisy at Nick’s house?

“They moved with a fast crowd, all of them young and rich and wild, but she came out with an absolutely perfect reputation. Perhaps because she doesn’t drink. It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don’t see or care. Perhaps Daisy never went in for amour at all—and yet there’s something in that voice of hers. . . .”

Chapter 4 Quotes

“Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor.”

“Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan, I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs, and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. Her wan, scornful mouth smiled, and so I drew her up again closer, this time to my face.”

Chapter 4 Quotes

What time related words and symbols did you notice throughout the chapter?

How is the weather significant throughout this chapter?

What do you think of Gatsby’s mannerisms as he meets Daisy at Nick’s?

Why does Daisy get so upset over the shirts?

Does Daisy seem to live up to Gatsby’s expectations?

Without giving anything away (don’t tell things you know from watching the movie) do you see anything so far that could possibly foreshadow the end?

Chapter 5 Questions

“I realize now that under different circumstances that conversation might have been one of the crises of my life. But, because the offer was obviously and tactlessly for a service to be rendered, I had no choice except to cut him off there.”

“A damp streak of hair lay like a dash of blue paint across her cheek…”

“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”

“Daisy went up-stairs to wash her face—too late I thought with humiliation of my towels—while Gatsby and I waited on the lawn.”

Chapter 5 Quotes

“He had passed visibly through two states and was entering upon a third. After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence. He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.”“Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. 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.”“I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed — that voice was a deathless song.”

Chapter 5 Quotes

The Great Gatsby Jack Clayton (1974)

Chp. 4 (39:11-46:49)

Chp. 5 (46:49-1:09:24)

“There were the same people, or at least the same sort of people, the same profusion of champagne, the same many-colored, many-keyed commotion, but I felt an unpleasantness in the air, a pervading harshness that hadn’t been there before. Or perhaps I had merely grown used to it, grown to accept West Egg as a world complete in itself, with its own standards and its own great figures, second to nothing because it had no consciousness of being so, and now I was looking at it again, through Daisy’s eyes. It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”

Chapter 6

“Go ahead,” answered Daisy genially, “and if you want to take down any addresses here’s my little gold pencil.” . . . she looked around after a moment and told me the girl was “common but pretty,” and I knew that except for the half-hour she’d been alone with Gatsby she wasn’t having a good time.

Chapter 6

"I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past."

"Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"

He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

"I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before," he said, nodding determinedly. "She'll see."

Chapter 6

After reading all of chapter 6, you will recreate your assigned scene with a one page (minimum) script of your own that you will then perform for the class. Be sure to include both dialogue and instructions for the character’s actions, facial expressions, etc.

Some of these scenes will require more creative liberties than others. However, you may choose to make changes or elaborate as you see fit in any of the scenes.

Chapter 6 - Reader’s Theater

(2) Gatsby & Reporter - Opening scene of the chapter*(3) Gatsby, Dan Cody, & Ella Kaye - Flashback to Gatsby’s youth*(3) Nick, Jordan, & Senile Aunt - Nick tries to “ingratiate” himself with Jordan’s

senile aunt*(5) Nick, Gatsby, Tom, Sloane, & “Pretty woman in a brown riding habit” - Riding

party of 3 stop for a drink at Gatsby’s(4) Nick, Gatsby, Tom, & Daisy - Gatsby introducing Tom & Daisy to his party

guests(2) Gatsby & Daisy - Dance & ½ hour on the steps at Nick’s house*(5) Nick, Miss Baedeker, “Massive and lethargic woman,” “Another friend”, & Doc

Civet - Suppertime(3) Nick, Tom, & Daisy - Waiting on the steps to leave(2) Nick & Gatsby - Last conversation of the evening* Means you will have to rely almost entirely on your own creativity!!

Chapter 6 - Reader’s Theater