Vocabulary List

1. Explain the meaning of these phrases:

to clutch at some last hope, to cry for the moon; an unscrupulous politician; to throw over old friends; to belong to the same stratum; to make the most of one's victory; a novel pervaded with romantic mystery

2. Paraphrase these sentences using the active vocabulary:

1. It was wicked of you to publish these letters without the family's consent.

2. The writer died in Paris, deserted by his admirers and friends.

3. We used our time to the best advantage when we stayed in Moscow.

5. Look at the walls, they badly need a new coat of paint

6. The doctor set all his hopes on the patient's recovery.

7. Wherever they went, they met people belonging to the same class they belonged to, so what could they know of life?

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

1. The novel is pervaded with the atmosphere of mystery and romantic adventure.

2. The popular man's unscrupulous conduct was the talk of the town till it fell short of being news.

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

4. It's monstrous to throw over your best friend when he is ill.

5. What a beautiful coat of tan! You seem to have made the most of this resort.

6. Come back as soon as possible, the home is crying for you.

4. Complete the sentences using the active vocabulary:

1. Whatever strata people belong to...

2. It is unscrupulous to....

3. His father said that if he threw over that girl...

4. The morning was fresh, the air was pervaded... 5.1 want some change and novelty! My life...

6. When finally we caught sight of a taxi, we...

5. Recall the situations from the novel suggested by the sentences, paraphrase or explain:

1. He was clutching at some last hope and I couldn't bear to shake him free. (p. 107)

2. It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody —told it to me because "Jay Gatsby" had broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice, and the long secret extravaganza was played out. (p. 107)

3. She was the first "nice" girl he had ever known. In various unrevealed capacities he had come in contact with such people, but always with indiscernible barbed wire between, (p. 107)

4. So he made the most of his time. (p. 108)

5....he let her believe that he was a person from much the same stratum as herself...(p. 108)

6. He had intended, probably, to take what he could and go - but now he found that he had committed
himself to the following of a grail, (p.108)

7.I even hoped for a while that she'd throw me over... (p. 108)

Discuss the following:

1. Describe the history of Gatsby's love. Describe Daisy's world and the impression it produced on
Gatsby a penniless "nobody" in the army. Was it a case of love at first sight on both sides? Discuss the glamour of wealth as seen by young Gatsby. Compare Gatsby's attitude to it with Daisy's. Why did Daisy marry Tom Buchanan? Describe Gatsby's journey to Louisville. Comment on the following: "In the figure of Gatsby, he (Fitzgerald) had been able to objectivize and poetize his early feelings about the rich: that they were a race apart with a better seat in life's grandstand, that their existence was somehow more beautiful and intense than that of ordinary mortals. Barricaded behind their fortunes, they had seemed to him like royalty... One finds the same point of view in Yeats or Oscar Wilde. But also Fitzgerald sensed a corruption in the rich and mistrusted their might. "That was always my experience," he wrote nearly at the end of his life, — "a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton..." He told a friend that "the whole idea of Gatsby is the un­fairness of a poor young man not being able to marry a girl with money. This theme comes up again and again because I lived it." (From A. Turnbull. Scott Fitzgerald. NY, 1962, pp. 149-150).

2. Speak on Gatsby's feelings upon losing Daisy. Comment on the following: "... perhaps he no longer cared. If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream." How are his feelings revealed through his manner of speech?

3. Speak about Nick Carraway's attitude towards Gatsby as it is depicted in the chapter. Comment on the words addressed to Gatsby: "They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." Nick's state of mind on the same day. Find proof that Nick was sure of the coming disaster. Why did Nick break with Jordan?

4. Give a summary of what happened at Wilson's place after Myrtle's death. Speak on George Wilson's feelings and behaviour as described by Michaelis. Speak of the peculiar blending of sober-mindedness and madness in Wilson's ideas and behavior. Comment on Wilson's taking Dr. Eckleburg for God. What meaning does the author get into the phrase "and the holocaust was complete"?

5. Discuss the composition of the chapter. Into what parts does it fall? How do they follow in time? What sources does Nick reconstruct Gatsby's and Wilson's actions from?

Point out the author's digressions and comment on them. Speak on the role of the descriptive paragraphs of the chapter. What is the author's purpose in introducing them? What does "a sharp difference in the weather" suggest? How is the news of Gatsby's death broken?

6. Point out elements of symbolization in chapter VIII and discuss their meaning.

7. Find proof that Gatsby's dreamland was collapsing just when his death came.

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