The Great Great questions in the chapter 3 and
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chapter3
1.What is it and how does it hint to it?
the disintegration of the American dream in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess.2.
2. What is Nick’s cardinal virtue? What is ironic about this?
The narrator, Nick, writes: "Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known." Nick's statement here is important to the novel as a whole, because Nick keeps emphasizing how honest, nonjudgmental, and objective he is, when as a narrator he is unreliable, and is judgmental and subjective.
chapter 4
1.List the details that Gatsby tells Nick about Gatsby’s life.
He talked about family,school ,his hometown his army life.
2.
Can you find any parts of his story that make you suspicious?“After that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe — Paris, Venice, Rome — collecting jewels, chiefly rubies, hunting big game, painting a little, things for myself only, and trying to forget something very sad that had happened to me long ago.”
3.he talks about his family his school, and army life.
4. He seems to have experienced illegal things .
5.
What does Jordan Baker reveal about Gatsby?
Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.
6.Explain what happened with their relationship after Gatsby and Daisy met.
Daisy fell love with lieutenant jay gatsby
1.What is it and how does it hint to it?
the disintegration of the American dream in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess.2.
2. What is Nick’s cardinal virtue? What is ironic about this?
The narrator, Nick, writes: "Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known." Nick's statement here is important to the novel as a whole, because Nick keeps emphasizing how honest, nonjudgmental, and objective he is, when as a narrator he is unreliable, and is judgmental and subjective.
chapter 4
1.List the details that Gatsby tells Nick about Gatsby’s life.
He talked about family,school ,his hometown his army life.
2.
Can you find any parts of his story that make you suspicious?“After that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe — Paris, Venice, Rome — collecting jewels, chiefly rubies, hunting big game, painting a little, things for myself only, and trying to forget something very sad that had happened to me long ago.”
3.he talks about his family his school, and army life.
4. He seems to have experienced illegal things .
5.
What does Jordan Baker reveal about Gatsby?
Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.
6.Explain what happened with their relationship after Gatsby and Daisy met.
Daisy fell love with lieutenant jay gatsby