The Great Gatsby, complete mindmap
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?- Created by: Acacia Sheppard
- Created on: 05-06-13 11:04
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- The Great Gatsby
- Context (AO4)
- Published in 1926
- Prohibition (Eighteenth Amendment 1919)
- Organised crime flourished
- Bootlegging
- Organised crime flourished
- Prohibition (Eighteenth Amendment 1919)
- Written about the time during which it was published
- The author: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
- Very successful- published at 23!
- Married Zelda Sayre, love of his life, schizophrenic
- Overindulgence, drinking problem- made money off short stories later in life
- Died in Hollywood in 1940
- Quit Princeton to enlist in the army in 1917 (end of WWI)
- Decline of The American Dream in the 20s
- Hard work = money = success = happiness
- Set during the summer of 1922 near Long Island (West/East Egg)
- Published in 1926
- Characters
- Nick Carroway
- Our narrator (1st person narrative). Aware of his role
- Quiet, reflective nature, introspective
- Tolerant, an empty reciprocal for others to fill with confidences
- The opening of the novel discusses Nick's character
- An outsider, misfit
- Fought in the war
- Jay Gatsby
- Representative of the American Dream
- Excessively wealthy due to his involvement in organised crime
- Obsessive; every thing he's ever acheived has been in persuit of Daisy
- Tragic hero?
- War hero
- 'An extraordinary gift for hope' p8
- 'Mr. Nobody from Nowhere' p123
- 'I seemed to bear an enchanted life' p64
- Daisy Buchannon
- Selfish and shallow, but enchanting
- 'a voice full of money'
- Fickle
- Tom Buchannon
- Bigoted racist
- 'With a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner' p12
- Arrogant, hypocritical
- 'Tom's got some woman in New York' p20
- Jordan Baker
- Represents the changing times
- pro golfer
- bored and sardonic
- Myrtle Wilson
- 'Tom's got some woman in New York' p20
- Nick Carroway
- Structure, form and language (AO2)
- 1st person narrative
- Subjective
- Language- you can talk about anything, just find a quote.
- Names are interesting
- Daisy is pure, white
- James Gatz changes to Jay Gatsby
- Jordan - unisex
- Myrtle is a tree/ bush; compare to the daintiness of Daisy
- Names are interesting
- Fitzgerald was known as a 'chronicler of the Jazz age'
- 1st person narrative
- Influence of time/ culture (AO3/4)
- Not received well when first published
- Became better known later
- It seems acceptable for Tom to have a mistress in the novel- is it now?
- Fitzgerald's mocking of Tom's racism is uncanny- WWII follows
- Do we read the novel differently, knowing that the decadence cannot last? The wall street crash
- Not received well when first published
- Context (AO4)
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