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Faulkner Relaxing after his AP Lang & Comp Exam
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why does Fitzgerald choose to partially explain the significance of the green light on the last page, rather than allowing the reader to make their own assumptions?
ReplyDelete"Gatsby believed in the green lght, the orgastic future that year b year recedes before us. I eluded us then, nut that's no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.." (Fitzgerald 180).
-to go along with that question, Why does Fitzgerald wait to hint at the significance until the final paragraphs of the novel?
Wait, this is the only blog post tonight?
ReplyDeleteYep. Remember, I said you were all working so dilligently and without grade grubbing so I wanted to cut you a break and help lighten your homework load. (Now I am beginning to question if you ARE all so dilligent... or at least if you're dilligently listening in class!)
ReplyDeleteI thought that we'd have an additional blog post to this one.
ReplyDeleteAnd my question is the same as Brooke's; I'm not too clear on what this "green light" was.
Let me start off by saying that I hated the ending...I thought it was both wordy, and just all around unecessary. But, since throughout this entire book every single word, phrase, and comma means something, i guess that will be my question. What is the point of that final sentance of the book? If the past is so repressive and saddening for Nick, why would he feel the need to carry it with him? "...borne back ceaselessly into the past"
ReplyDeleteThe word "borne" does mean to carry or bear right?
What is the significance of having the man that we met in the library of Gatsby's home at one of his parties reappear at the cemetery where they are burying Gatsby...and specifically not at his house?
ReplyDeleteI agree...not my favorite ending. Like Brooke i'm also confused to why Fitzgerald chose to, attempt to, explain the green light, along with explain many other instances in the book (ex. they all came to the East from the West, couldn't adapt)?
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to Daisy?
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry if I was supposed to figure this out in a more concrete and assured way since the other day when we speculated about this in class.
ReplyDelete"Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something- an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever." -118
What's within Nick that was "uncommunicable"?
If Gatsby's entire purpose was to ingratiate himself with those around him (via parties and dress repairs and such) how is that virtually no one comes to his funeral?
ReplyDeleteWould this situation have not occured had the truth (of the car scene) come out?
What does Jordan mean on page 186 when she says "You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person. I though it was your secret pride."
ReplyDeleteWhats the significance of Dan Cody and how does he affect Gastby? Also, do we ever figure out what Gatsby does for a living? When the man from Chicago calls Nick I couldnt figure it out...
ReplyDeleteAlso I agree 100% with Taylors posts I have the same questions!
I too, agree with Taylor's questions...
ReplyDeleteWow, when we talk about this tomorrow, remind me to bring up the cover when we talk about Taylor's first question.
ReplyDelete"For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was incommunicable forever"
ReplyDeleteWhat had Nick almost remembered?
Also, I'm still unclear as to how and why Nick narrates as though he knows Gatsby's perspective. Is there a second narrator, or is Nick inferring what Gatsby might think?
I agree, this was a very odd ending.
ReplyDeleteI have the same question as George-- Where was Daisy?! And why was she too much of a coward to show her face at Gatsby's funeral?
I also agree with Nicole, Kara and Taylor's questions as well...still confused about those ideas.
lsadkfjasadf. I loved this ending.
ReplyDeleteWhy does on page 184 Nick finally connect himself to the very people he has been trying to prove that he is different from throughout the entirety of the book?
"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"
I too wonder about the green light's symbolism. Also I am curious as to the deeper significance of ghosts in the novel.
ReplyDeleteoh the ghosts? they are there just to show that they aren't there, because you can't see a ghost, therefore its text evidence isn't found in the novel...or something like that. Right Lord Byron?
ReplyDeleteHigh five, Mackno. Did you guys play in the rain?
ReplyDeleteOk, so on tap for tomorrow: green light, ending, Dan Cody, bad drivers, no attendees at the funeral, the incommunicable question/thing almost remembered, Daisy's role at the end and ghosts. I think we can do that in one class period. As long as I don't get distracted.
hahahah Ms. Parrish!
ReplyDeleteyes we did play in the SNOW. it was a legit BLIZZARD on their field. and that is the reason why i am not in school right now, im sick from the freezing, wet, weather. we tied 1-1. we had so many shots on goal though, and it was a pretty good game, not nearly as intense as the past two years since, half of our fans didn't come :( but thats okay there is always next year :)