Thursday, November 15, 2012

The Great Gatsby

Read the following statements/questions.  Respond to one using text evidence to support your thinking.  Reply to at least one of your friends.

Scene analysis:  select a key scene and interpret its significance in the text's larger meaning.  What does that scene allow Fitzgerald to express - or what attitudes or intentions are expressed unintentionally by it?

OR

The American Dream.  What does Fitzgerald criticize?  What does he value?  

OR

Discuss Nick's unreliability as a narrator.  What doesn't Nick see?