The Great Gatsby

By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Key Vocab.• Setting: New York,

1922• Mood: Innocent,

Euphoric, Foreboding, Dark

• Protagonist: Nick Carraway

• Main Characters: Jay Gatsby, Daisy and Tom Buchannan, Jordan Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson

Summary• The Narrator is a

writer named Nick Carraway, who has moved from the Midwest to New York in 1922.

• He becomes entangled in the affairs of others due to his non-judgmental character. They confide in him.

Summary• He moves into the small

guest house next to Jay Gatsby, a mysterious billionaire who gives extravagant parties every weekend, but isn’t really seen attending. Where is the money coming from? Why the elaborate parties?

• He visits his cousin, Daisy, and her husband. The next day her husband takes him for a day on the town. With his girlfriend.

• In the end, after everything has been done, Nick admits there is a limit to his tolerance and forgiveness. Some people do not deserve it.

Theme: Hope • Carraway, the main

character, chooses to hope that people are good, and have honorable intentions. He reserves judgment and holds out for the best.

• Gatsby hopes beyond time and reason to be with the woman he loves.

• Even after the situation has turned bleak and hopeless, Gatsby chooses to hope. He believes.

The GG PlaylistSong Title

1. Rhapsody in Blue2. Moonlight Sonata3. Sing Sing Sing4. So Close5. Let’s Get This Party

Started6. All My Loving7. Bad Reputation8. Love is Blindness9. Dirty Little Secret10.A Dream is a Wish Your

Heart Makes

Artist1. George Gershwin2. Beethoven 3. Benny Goodman4. Jon McLaughlin5. Pink6. The Beatles7. Joan Jett8. Jack White9. All-American Rejects10. Walt Disney Records

So Close by Jon McLaughlin

You're in my arms, and all the world is calm.The music playing on for only two.So close, together.And when I'm with youSo close, to feeling alive.

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So close to reachingThat famous happy end.Almost believingThis one's not pretend.And now you're beside me,And look how far we've come.So far we are. So close...

Oh how could I face the faceless daysIf I should lose you now?

We're so close to reachingthat famous happy end,And almost believing,this one's not pretend.Let's go on dreamingfor we know we are...so close, so closeand still so far...

A life goes by,Romantic dreams must die.So I bid my goodbyeAnd never knew.So close, was waiting,Waiting here with you.And now, forever, I knowAll that I wantedto hold you so close.

Dirty Little Secret by All-American Rejects

• Let me know that I've done wrongWhen I've known this all alongI go around a time or twoJust to waste my time with you

Tell me all that you've thrown awayFind out games you don't wanna playYou are the only one that needs to know

I'll keep you my dirty little secret(Dirty little secret)Don't tell anyone or you'll be just another regret(Just another regret, hope that you can keep it)My dirty little secret

Who has to knowWhen we live such fragile livesIt's the best way we surviveI go around a time or twoJust to waste my time with you

Tell me all that you've thrown awayFind out games you don't wanna playYou are the only one that needs to know

• I'll keep you my dirty little secret(Dirty little secret)Don't tell anyone or you'll be just another regret(Just another regret, hope that you can keep it)My dirty little secret

Who has to knowThe way she feels inside (inside)Those thoughts I can't deny (deny)These sleeping thoughts won't lie (won't lie)And all I've tried to hideIt's eating me apartTrace this life out