Journal #20

In the last passage of the book Nick is telling how he can't even be around the Gatsby house on days when the parties were. He still can remember sitting at his house listening to the parties and going to them. The parties are over is kinda saying how Gatsby's life is over and how the summer is over and all the things happened in summer are over. All the things over the summer like him and Jordan and Tom and Myrtle and Gatsby and Daisy are all done. The Dutch sailors first saw the green light that they knew held so many things in store for them once they reach the island. When Gatsby looked at the green light it was like him seeing the possibilities that he could have with Daisy. Whenever Gatsby saw the light he was thinking of him and Daisy together and all the things they could experience together.

Journal # 19

Name: Journal 19 - Characterization in Chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby Write a description for each of the following characters based on his/her first appearance in Chapter 1. Your description should include: -the character’s physical appearance; -the character’s actions/words; -an adjective that best describes the character based on his/her initial appearance Nick Carraway Adjective ___average____ Nick Carraway is your average man who is just trying to get by. He is the one who everyone comes to and trusts with their problems or secrets. He usually keeps to himself and doesn’t really relay any personal information other than in the beginning. Nick is basically getting an inside look of Tom, Daisy’s, personal lives without having too much to do with it. Tom Buchanan Adjective ______egotistical______ Tom is all about himself and knows he is rich and awesome. He was a football star in a great college. He brought down all of his polo horses down the east coast to flaunt his wealth. Throughout the story he is shown as a man who just goes around with women and making himself look good. Daisy Buchanan Adjective _____fake____ Daisy seems fake when you first meet her with her sing songy voice and laughing at everything. She only wants a rich, powerful man to marry so she settled on Tom. Not as loud, but she flaunted her money also with the clothes she wore and the snobby attitude she had. Jordan Baker Adjective _____calm, cool, collected_____ Jordan seemed reserved and too herself. She didn’t really talk much and just stayed on the coach observing everyone else. She was athletic and a golf star, but was known to cheat in her games. She was small and skinny. Jay Gatsby Adjective ______sad/disturbed____ When we first met Gatsby, he was standing looking at the green light. He was tall and good looking. He stared at the green light but at the time Nick did not know why. Throughout the book, Gatsby tries and tries to get Daisy back but to no avail. In the end, he lost his life.

Journal #21

Journal 21 - Some Like It Hot and The Great Gatsby Comparison/Contrast Although Some Like It Hot is a comedy and The Great Gatsby is a tragedy, both works use popular culture to portray life in 1920s America. Focusing on the following elements (characterization, conflict, and theme), discuss how the two works are similar and different and what each is saying about American life. Joe and Gatsby are very similar. To win over Sugar who is ‘Daisy’, Joe pretends he has money and pretends to be who she wants. To know what she wants, Joe pretended to be Josephine and found out certain qualities that Sugar wanted in a guy like glasses and a millionaire. Both Gatsby and Joe pretended to be other people to please the girl they wanted. Jerry is Nick in the movie. He is the secondary supportive friend. At first they are competing for her, but after things play out he supports Joe in his endeavor to get Sugar. Osgood is similar to Tom. He is rich and goes around chasing women. They both played polo and went to Ivy League schools. Tom is the villain though in Gatsby while Osgood is just a harmless man. Spats is like Wolfsheim. Spats has a speakeasy similar to how Wolfsheim got his money. In Some Like It Hot, the good guys end up living and the bad guys die, but in Gatsby the good guy (Gatsby) is the one who died. Both stories center on love and marriage. There are secret romances in both. Another theme is deception. The characters are trying to hide something whether it’s an affair or a relationship. These two works are saying that the society was a lot about having fun and drinking in the speakeasies. They didn’t really think much of officials and the police. They just broke the rules.