Vocabulary List. distortion, to throw dust in smb's eyes, to clean up the mess, (to sweep one's refuse away), squeamishness

distortion, to throw dust in smb's eyes, to clean up the mess, (to sweep one's refuse away), squeamishness, an obscene word

1. Choose the proper Russian equivalent and translate the sentences into Russian.

Squeamish( adj.) привередливый, разборчивый, брезгливый; очень чувствительный, легко ранимый, обидчивый, щепетильный, чопорный

You'll have to overcome your squeamishness if you want to become a nurse. She's really squeamish and can't stand the sight of blood. "The Silence of the Lambs" is an entertaining but violent movie and is not for the squeamish. A campaign to inform people about AIDS has been attacked by pressure groups made up of the morally squeamish.

Obscene (adj.) непристойный, неприличный, похабный, бесстыдный, непристойная брань- obscene language

In the raid police found several boxes of obscene videotapes. The play was banned because of the obscene language it contained. In a country where the average wage is less than $50 a month it's obscene that the President should earn $500 000 a year. He was taken away by the police, shouting and screaming obscenities.

Distortion (п.) искажение, искривление, извращение, передергивание, перекашивание

Distorted picture of smth; to distort facts. His face was distorted with/by pain. My original statement has been completely distorted by the media. Unexpected heavy losses this month have distorted the true picture of the company's financial situation. These accusations are outrageous distortions of the truth. Distortion of compact discs is reduced to an absolute minimum.

2. Paraphrase these sentences using the active vocabulary:

1. You are wrong on account of the girl's talent, perhaps, she managed to mislead you.

2. I wonder who is going to settle that sordid matter for you.

3. Recently you have become too sensitive as to what Mr. Grundy would say.

3. Translate into Russian, make up sentences of your own after the same pattern, don't change the words in
bold type:

1. Her aunt passed for a saint as she always threw dust in stranger's eyes.

2. You've made a poor job of your marriage and who is going to clean up the mess for you? Can you clear up the mess you make in the kitchen?

4. Complete the sentences using the active vocabulary:

1. Where was your squeamishness when...

2. He couldn't have paraded his knowledge! He is the last person to...

3. Look, somebody has been having a picnic here. Let us...

5. Recall the situations from the novel suggested by the sentences:

1....Catherine, who might have said anything, didn't say a word. (p. 117)

2. "Young Parke's in trouble. They picked him up when he handed the bonds over the counter. They got circular from New York giving 'em the numbers just five minutes before. What d'you know about that, hey? You can never tell in these hick towns—"(p.119-120)

3. "My address is care of B.F.—" (p. 122)

4....he was one of those who used to sneer most bitterly at Gatsby on the courage of Gatsby's liquor, and I should have known better than to call him. (p. 122)

5. "Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when He is alive and not after he is dead." (p. 123)

6...the bored...towns beyond Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which spared only the children and the very old... (p. 126)

7. "Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I?" (p. 127)

8. He stared at me without a word, and I knew I had guessed right about those missing hours, (p. 128)

9. "I told him the truth... He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn't told him who owned the car." (p. 128)

10. "That fellow had it coming to him. He threw dust into your eyes like he did in Daisy's..." (p. 128)

11.Then he went to the jewelry store... rid of my provincial squeamishness forever, (p.128)

12....I went over and looked at that huge incoherent failure of a house once more. On the white steps an obscene word, scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick, stood out clearly in the moonlight, and I erased it, drawing my shoe raspingly along the stone. (p. 129)

Discuss the following:

1. Why was Nick Carraway afraid that the whole tale would "shortly be served in racy pasquinade"? Speak on Catherine's behaviour at the inquest, comment on the way Nick describes it. Speak on Nick's efforts to round up Gatsby's friends and acquaintances to witness the funeral. What impression does Klipspringer's call produce on the reader? Why did Nick hang up the receiver? Comment on Nick's words: "I began to have a feeling of defiance, of scornful solidarity between Gatsby and me against them all." Speak about Nick's attempts to get people to come to Gatsby's funeral.

2. Describe Henry С. Gatz's appearance, his manner of speech and behaviour. Why was the photograph Mr. Gatz showed to Carraway "cracked in the corners and dirty"? Why did Nick feel uncomfortable speaking with him? What other facts from Gatsby's life do you learn from his father's words? Speak of Gatsby's youthful aspirations. How does G's schedule characterize him?

2. Say what you know of Gatsby's partnership with Wolfsheim. Why couldn't Wolfsheim come to the funeral?

3. Some critics consider the nameless man with owl-eyed glasses to be an incarnation of Dr. T. J.
Eckleburg. Express your opinion on it (see also Chapter III).What is the role of his appearance at the
cemetery? Comment on his "The poor son-of-a-bitch!" Speak on the weather on the day of Gatsby's
funeral. Comment on Carraway's homely memory of Christmas time (the very snow being humanized). Give your interpretation of N's dream. What does the El Greco scene suggest?

4. Gatsby's death. Who do you think was Gatsby's real murderer? What did Tom tell about his last meeting with Wilson? Comment on Nick's words: "There was nothing I could say, except the one unutterable fact that it wasn't true." Why "unutterable"? Why did Nick shake hands with Tom in the end?

5. Comment on F. Scott Fitzgerald's words: "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They are different."

6. What was the end of N's relations with Jordan? Do you find it natural? Comment on Jordan's words of driving a car and Nick's answer to them.

7. What were the new choices Carraway made in his life because of Gatsby's life and death (see also the preface)? Specify the moment in the novel when Nick gives up reserving judgements. Speak of all the episodes involved. Dwell on Nick's final judgement of the Buchanans.

8. The contrast between East and West as seen by Nick.

9. How does Carraway inform the reader of the events he has no firsthand knowledge of?

10. Point out elements of symbolization in chapter IX and discuss their meaning.

11. What does" the party was over mean"? Find quotations to prove your point.

12. Comment on Carraway's thoughts of the old island, "a fresh, green breast of the new world" once. What is the meaning of the green light? Speak about the emotional key of the closing paragraphs of the novel. Is its ending optimistic or pessimistic?

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