Lisa Valtierra
11/14/2013 08:18:29 am
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future
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Meranda Knowles
11/14/2013 09:30:42 am
I actually reflected on the same quote, but I think you brought up several thoughts that I didn't even think about. Great job!
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Crystal
11/14/2013 10:10:43 am
Really nice analysis, Lisa! I agree with the whole "Green light being hop" point. The green light at the end of Daisy's dock on the other side of the bay really sounds like hope form :)
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Sophia C.
11/14/2013 10:35:21 am
Fantastic analysis! You really talk about a lot of important parts in the book and as Meranda said, some of the symbolism you talked about hadn't even crossed my mind.
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Brianna Barboza
11/14/2013 11:47:43 am
Very excellent analysis you put here. I would have to agree on the "green light" theory you have. A very symbolic book indeed.
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Sophia K
11/14/2013 10:11:20 pm
What a great reflection love it and love your quote.
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Tess Herzog
11/14/2013 09:23:53 am
“‘What I called up about was a pair of shoes I left there. I wonder if it’d be too much trouble to have the butler send them on. You see, they’re tennis shoes, and I’m sort of helpless without them. My address is care of B.F. --’ I didn’t hear the rest of the name, because I hung up the receiver.”
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Meranda Knowles
11/14/2013 09:29:06 am
I totally agree with you that this was completely terrible! They just experienced a death and he wanted his shoes?? I think you brought up a really good point and had a great reflection!
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Lisa Valtierra
11/14/2013 10:09:50 am
I completely agree with everything you say. Especially the part about people not coming to his funeral.
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Salina
11/14/2013 10:49:54 am
I love the emotion you put into this, I agree with all of it!
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Carly
11/14/2013 11:31:54 am
I fully agree. It is rare the book that legitimately gets me angry, but this one really hit the nail on the head, especially this final chapter.
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Gage Gamboa
11/14/2013 11:35:09 am
Nice post, Tess! Great comment on how the quote truly represents how people thought of and treated Gatsby.
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Brianna Barboza
11/14/2013 11:53:20 am
I agree with the other comments stated above. It's a tragedy when one's ill true character is revealed. These opportunists were only after being seen at a big party, getting free food, having something to brag about - they only thought for themselves. It's such a shame that these kinds of people exist in the world even today. It truly is upsetting, knowing the amount of selfishness one could have.
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Malia M.
11/14/2013 02:53:51 pm
I love your quote! I agree, I can't believe he called for his sneakers at such a time.
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Meranda Knowles
11/14/2013 09:26:50 am
"It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning —--
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Crystal
11/14/2013 10:09:16 am
I love, love, love how you analyzed the last few lines of the book. I agree with you on the point that the ending had more to it than just a concluding phrase to the book. I believe the author is trying to get a message across, as well. :)
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Sophia C.
11/14/2013 10:38:33 am
I completely agree that endings are crazy hard to figure out and then write. As a fellow writer, I also love looking at the ends of books, not only to see how they do it, but also because the last bit always seems to be one of the most interesting quotes throughout the book. Great job!
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Meilani
11/14/2013 12:25:24 pm
Great post, I love how you connected this to your future ambitions and your analysis. I agree that you always have to keep going. What message did you get from the ending?
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Y(a)sabella Dawson
11/14/2013 03:19:47 pm
I think that you analyzed the end of the book in a very cool and interesting way, because you related it to something that you can use in the future. I also sometimes look at how books end, because there are so many different ways to finish off a story, and I think that the most important part of all when it comes to ending a story is to NOT let it end up like Gregor the Overlander. But I think that you provide many interesting points here.
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Jessica Pollock
11/14/2013 05:41:45 pm
I like how you related it to yourself and your own writing career. I also agree that endings that don't leave you completely hanging but make you wonder are the best.
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Lance S.
11/14/2013 09:40:47 am
“God sees everything”
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Karen
11/14/2013 11:20:56 am
Good quote! I agree that what happened to Gatsby was tragic. I disagree in the sense that when wilson said that, I felt happy. Except when he went into detail and thought that God wanted that fate for Gatsby. I guess it's just how people take it.
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Anthony Williams
11/14/2013 09:47:57 am
"“Now he’s dead,” I said after a moment. “You were his closest friend, so I know you’ll want to come to his funeral this afternoon.”"
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Karen
11/14/2013 10:37:36 am
Good job. Would've been nice to hear more thoughts, and elaborate more next time:)
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Salina
11/14/2013 10:47:54 am
I agree with Karen, you have some great things so say and it would have been nice to hear more.
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Rachel Deaton
11/14/2013 11:54:09 am
I had the same reaction as you Anthony. What did you think Gatsby could have done if he lived?
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Crystal Delgado
11/14/2013 10:07:06 am
"I tried to think about Gatsby then for a moment, but he was already too far away, and I could only remember, without resentment, that Daisy hadn’t sent a message or a flower."
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Salina
11/14/2013 10:46:49 am
"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us." page 180 Chapter 9
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Meilani
11/14/2013 12:28:06 pm
Great thoughts, I completely agree on all your points. It was really sad to see Gatsby die the way he did and how everything he wanted never came together!
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Sophia C.
11/14/2013 10:47:58 am
"I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation. But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them.
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Jessica Boensch
11/14/2013 01:32:33 pm
I think this is a really great analysis using the HOHAM supposition as well as your think/feel/wonder. Kudos!
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Justin Walker
11/14/2013 02:31:41 pm
Excellent analysis! The selfishness of Daisy combined with Jay's desperation was a mixture that was doomed to fail. Superb points raised throughout.
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Malia M.
11/14/2013 02:56:01 pm
Great post! I was so upset at Daisy for just abandoning Nick when Gatsby died. She really does show her flawed character at the end of this book.
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Karen Barragan
11/14/2013 11:17:20 am
“I’ll get somebody for you, Gatsby. Don’t worry. Just trust me and I’ll get somebody for you ——”
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Gage Gamboa
11/14/2013 11:32:36 am
Great post, Karen! Excellent observations on how all of the material items Gatsby had acquired in life ended up being meaningless.
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Trevin Kraus
11/14/2013 01:07:16 pm
I really like how you compared it to similarities in modern times. I think that Gatsby never really had any friends. He just threw these elaborate parties in hopes that Daisy might wander in one day. Those people that came to the parties were just that, people. They had little to no connection to Gatsby and were there just to have fun.
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Jordan Garcia
11/14/2013 01:32:45 pm
I agree! You can definitely can see the lack of care that these people show when nobody shows up to the funeral. It makes wonder, how many of the people at Jays party's actually knew him?
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Sabrina
11/14/2013 11:22:45 am
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back, ceaselessly into the past" - Chapter 9, final sentence...
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Rachel Deaton
11/14/2013 11:52:50 am
Outstanding post Sabrina. My exact thoughts on everything!
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Rilind
11/14/2013 11:21:07 pm
Poor gatsby-I agree on so many levels haha
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Gage Gamboa
11/14/2013 11:28:07 am
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” Page 180, Chapter 9.
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Trevin Kraus
11/14/2013 01:02:19 pm
You make some very great points, don't get caught in the past. I think this is something that many people to change about in their lives.
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Carly
11/14/2013 11:30:08 am
"I tried to think about Gatsby then for a moment, but he was already too far away, and I could only remember, without resentment, that Daisy hadn’t sent a message or a flower."
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Halee Robinson
11/14/2013 11:59:28 am
Yeah, I was definitely wondering about what happened to Daisy, Tom, even Myrtles husbands (whose name escapes me). So many of the characters stories were kind of left unfinished. It actually frustrated me a bit, as I was curious as to how Daisy would respond to Gatsbys death.
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Brianna Barboza
11/14/2013 11:46:17 am
"There was one thing to be done before I left, an awkward, unpleasant thing that perhaps had better have been let alone. But I wanted to leave things in order and not just trust that obliging and indifferent sea to sweep my refuse away. I saw Jordan Baker and talked over and around what had happened to us together, and what had happened afterward to me, and she lay perfectly still, listening, in a big chair." - Chapter 9
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Halee Robinson
11/14/2013 12:05:58 pm
Its really interesting that you pulled that from this quote, and your response actually made me realize something. Nick is the narrator of the story. The novel follows his life, and yet, it seems like Gatsby is the main character. And maybe, like you said, we aren't seeing Nicks full character because he is telling Gatsbys tale, and not his own.
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Rachel Deaton
11/14/2013 11:51:32 am
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." Chapter 9
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Halee Robinson
11/14/2013 11:53:29 am
"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."
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Jessica
11/14/2013 01:44:23 pm
This is a really relevant and sad quote. I think part of the reason it's so sad is because it's so relevant. I think it's great when you can pull a quote like this that is so short and still get so much context from it! AWESOME
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Hayes Sherr
11/14/2013 02:15:06 pm
Great analysis! I agree with everything you said. Most people regret being who they were when someone was alive because they could have been a bad friend towards them or didn't help them with what was needed.
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Katie
11/14/2013 12:09:39 pm
"I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life."
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Meilani
11/14/2013 12:22:39 pm
"I was responsible, because no one else was interested - interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end."
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Hayes Sherr
11/14/2013 02:10:49 pm
I totally agree with you, people don't appreciate each other while living, but when they die people start to think back and wish they were a better person.
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Hnak Sherr
11/14/2013 03:12:20 pm
I like your statement on this, it reminds me of what I wrote. I think its true what you said, we should all care for people, even if they make us mad. No one knows what people can be going through.
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Abby Thompson
11/14/2013 12:55:12 pm
“‘What I called up about was a pair of shoes I left there. I wonder if it’d be too much trouble to have the butler send them on. You see, they’re tennis shoes, and I’m sort of helpless without them. My address is care of B.F. --’ I didn’t hear the rest of the name, because I hung up the receiver.”
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Paris Gramann
11/14/2013 02:43:44 pm
Abby, I totally agree with you. It is sad to think that he did so much for all of these people and put so much effort into creating these extravagant events, making sure everyone was happy -- but he never got anything back from them. It makes me wonder if the reason for this is because he seldom made any real connections with his guests -- or anyone in general. Anyways.. I think it is depressing too. :(
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Ysabella Dawson
11/14/2013 03:23:31 pm
I agree with what you are saying here. When I was reading this I wanted to throw a brick or something at the guy on the phone, because Gatsby let him live in his house and eat his food and everything, and all the guy said in return was "Can I have my shoes back?". That ungrateful rodent. But I think that you provided a very interesting perspective that I think many people may also share.
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Trevin Kraus
11/14/2013 01:00:02 pm
Quote:We shook hands and I started away. Just before I reached the hedge I remembered something and turned around.
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Andrew Ledezma
11/14/2013 01:58:46 pm
I love the quote and I liked your analysis on this ironic scene. I like how you described the scene as a "rough day" and really embodies what was happening! Great work!
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Ryan M
11/14/2013 01:04:46 pm
“‘What I called up about was a pair of shoes I left there. I wonder if it’d be too much trouble to have the butler send them on. You see, they’re tennis shoes, and I’m sort of helpless without them. My address is care of B.F. -’ I didn't hear the rest of the name, because I hung up the receiver.”
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Alex Demos
11/14/2013 01:09:28 pm
“When a man gets killed I never like to get mixed up in it in any way. I keep out. When I was a young man it was different — if a friend of mine died, no matter how, I stuck with them to the end. You may think that’s sentimental, but I mean it — to the bitter end.”
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Jordan Garcia
11/14/2013 01:27:15 pm
" The touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly,tracing,like the leg of transit, a thin red circle in the water. It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson's body a little way off in the grass,and the holocaust was complete.
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Rachel Maristela
11/14/2013 03:04:36 pm
I really like how you analyzed this quote. I agree with your point that Gatsby should of just moved on from Daisy when she already has a man and a child. I wonder what would of happened if he listened and just moved on?
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Jackson Walker
11/14/2013 01:44:35 pm
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . ."
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Trey Lewis
11/14/2013 01:48:06 pm
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . ." pg. 179
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Andrew Ledezma
11/14/2013 01:56:22 pm
I love the quote that you chose and I liked your analysis of one of the book's major themes! Awesome job!
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Andrew Ledezma
11/14/2013 01:55:13 pm
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Jessica Boensch
11/14/2013 02:06:42 pm
Standing behind him, Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, which had just emerged, pale and enormous, from the dissolving night.
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Vivian Mason
11/14/2013 02:35:23 pm
What if they say he is stupid to mask there own feelings of discomfort around something he is the only one daring enough to say aloud? This quote and response bring up some interesting questions! I like you approach to it. :)
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Hayes Sherr
11/14/2013 02:07:05 pm
"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."
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Vivian Mason
11/14/2013 02:31:51 pm
I like the real life connections you make here, you bring up a good life rule. Next time, try expanding more and make connections to the book and the characters in it.
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John E
11/14/2013 02:18:41 pm
"and I said ‘God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!’” Chapter 8
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Vivian Mason
11/14/2013 02:29:27 pm
“When a man gets killed I never like to get mixed up in it in any way. I keep out. When I was a young man it was different — if a friend of mine died, no matter how, I stuck with them to the end. You may think that’s sentimental, but I mean it — to the bitter end.”
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Paris Gramann
11/14/2013 02:37:37 pm
Vivian, I like how you looked at Woldsheim's thoughts in a good light. This was a different perspective than I had. I thought that, yes, maybe Woldsheim should not attend these types of public affairs in that he needs to keep a low profile. However, I think that caring is continuing to do the things you do for other people because it has nothing to do with yourself. Caring is a selfless act that is a life's worth of a beautiful burden that we should all make sure to cary on our backs at all times.
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Justin Walker
11/14/2013 02:29:55 pm
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . .
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Paris Gramann
11/14/2013 02:32:24 pm
“You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn’t I?..." ch. 9
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Hank Sherr
11/14/2013 03:07:23 pm
I like how you added questions at the end. I agree with you because we all might be similar driver, but still have differences. So what is perfect?
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Jessica Pollock
11/14/2013 05:39:34 pm
I like how you connected this to love. The way you explained it is really helpful and easy to understand.
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Adrian Schnepp
11/14/2013 02:49:31 pm
"A little before three the Lutheran minister arrived from Flushing, and I began to look involuntarily out the windows for other cars. So did Gatsby’s father. And as the time passed and the servants came in and stood waiting in the hall, his eyes began to blink anxiously, and he spoke of the rain in a worried, uncertain way. The minister glanced several times at his watch, so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. But it wasn’t any use. Nobody came."
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Malia M
11/14/2013 02:53:00 pm
Owl-eyes spoke to me by the gate.
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Rachel Maristela
11/14/2013 02:58:28 pm
I agree with you Malia! I mean after all the numerous parties Gatsby held with many guests and only 1 person from the parties shows up to his funeral? It doesn't make sense? I feel like all the guests just took advantage of him maybe...I don't know? Anyways, good analysis!
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Cole Sargent
11/14/2013 03:39:31 pm
I also wondered who this Owl-eyes man was, and although I remembered him from the library scene in the book, he seemed out of place in the funeral. Maybe I'm missing some symbolism here.
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Rachel Maristela
11/14/2013 02:53:45 pm
"It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther..."
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Hank Sherr
11/14/2013 03:03:45 pm
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,” he suggested. “After that my own rule is to let everything alone.”
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Ysabella Dawson
11/14/2013 03:14:34 pm
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...”
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Cole Sargent
11/14/2013 03:38:18 pm
Great analysis! I felt bad for Nick as well, because he watched all these people around him die, though I feel like he'll take the story of Gatsby with him the rest of his life (of course, it's a fictional book, but I can't help but imagine that it actually happened).
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Cole Sargent
11/14/2013 03:32:09 pm
“I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes—a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder,” (Fitzgerald 192).
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Alura Polese
11/14/2013 03:55:28 pm
"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."
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Grady Gumner
11/15/2013 03:25:11 pm
This quote is indeed very tragic. If you don't appreciate an important friendship, you may someday regret it. Definitely a sad but telling quote.
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Jessica Pollock
11/14/2013 05:37:40 pm
"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."
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Sophia K
11/14/2013 10:17:52 pm
" God see's everything"
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Grady Gumner
11/15/2013 03:29:05 pm
I find your analysis rather interesting, but I can't quite connect with it myself. Personally, I don't believe that there is a higher power looking down on everything that happens. In the instance of murdering someone, as you point out, I think you would just have to live with yourself knowing what you've done. I don't think, however, that there is a God who sees everything.
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Julz Valencia
11/14/2013 10:31:07 pm
"I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation. But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them."
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Chelsea
11/14/2013 11:31:39 pm
"The funeral's tomorrow," I said. "Three o'clock, here at the house. I wish you'd tell anybody who'd be interested."
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rebecca g
11/14/2013 11:55:51 pm
"“Now he’s dead,” I said after a moment. “You were his closest friend, so I know you’ll want to come to his funeral this afternoon.”"
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Hannah O'Connell
11/15/2013 12:08:00 am
"His house had never seemed so enormous to me as it did that night when we hunted through the great rooms for cigarettes"
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Rilind
11/15/2013 12:15:31 am
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back, ceaselessly into the past"
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Rilind
11/15/2013 12:16:35 am
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back, ceaselessly into the past"
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Preston Royal
11/15/2013 02:28:02 am
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic 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 then one fine morning--
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Erik Salazar
11/15/2013 03:25:34 am
“I can’t describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a while that she’d throw me over, but she didn’t, because she was in love with me too.
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Grady Gumner
11/15/2013 03:12:48 pm
Quote: 'Perhaps you know that lady,' Gatsby indicated a gorgeous, scarcely human orchid of a woman who sat in state under a white-plum tree. Tom and Daisy stared, with that peculiarly unreal feeling that accompanies the recognition of a hitherto ghostly celebrity of the movies. 'She's lovely,' said Daisy." (Fitzgerald 104-105)
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Chris dang
11/17/2013 11:28:41 am
"When a man gets killed I never like to get mixed up in it in any way. I keep out."
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John L.
11/17/2013 03:18:21 pm
“God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!’”
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Casper Norrman Rasmussen
11/18/2013 09:29:45 am
“There is no confusion like the confusion of a single mind”
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Alexus Seymour
12/3/2013 08:10:09 am
“God sees everything”
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Sarah Hardin
12/5/2013 10:22:28 am
"God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!”
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Quentin Jackson
1/14/2014 11:09:20 am
tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out
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