1.)The American Dream: The American Dream is illustrated through Gatsby’s past of traveling around and being introduced to the world of luxury and wealth. Also Gatsby’s party filled with people dressed up and drinking enjoying luxury.

2.)Character Development: Nick finally reveals Gatsby’s true past. Gatsby is nothing that he said he was. He came from a poor background and got his money from a man he used to work for. This also gives a greaty insight to Gatsby’s current personality issues. It brings light to all those times he quickly changed the subject about his past. The book also reveals a deeper look into Gatsby’s psycological prison. ”

He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.” Gatsby has dreamed of having Daisy for so long that instead of loving her he fell in love with the dream. And now that Gatsby is getting her, he doesn’t have that dream anymore.

3.) Color:…

1.)American Dream: Examples of the American dream are not significant in this chapter. Daisy and Gatsby finally meet again after many years and the love between Gatsby and Daisy (and Daisy and Tom for that matter) may be considered somewhat the American Dream.

2.)Character Development: Once again another side of Gatsby is revealed. Before the audience sees Gatsby as confident (borderline cocky in my opinion) but now the audience sees a flustered Gatsby that is panicing throughout the entire chapter. ”

““Oh, God!” in a miserable way.

“What’s the matter?”

“This is a terrible mistake,” he said, shaking his head from side to side, “a terrible, terrible mistake.”

“You’re just embarrassed, that’s all,” and luckily I added: “Daisy’s embarrassed too.”

“She’s embarrassed?” he repeated incredulously.

“Just as much as you are.”“

Don’t talk so loud.””

He also seems borderline stalkerish and creepy in some of the things he says to Daisy. For example, ”

“We haven’t met for many years,” said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be.

“Five years next November.””

3.) Color: Lavender, and once again gold and green are significant in this chapter. “except where the dresser was garnished with a toilet set of pure dull gold.” “We went up-stairs, through period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk ” “with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender ” You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.”

1.) American Dream: THe description of Gatsby’s car is kind of the American Dream. Also Gastby’s stories about himself illustrate the American Dream. Going off to war to fight for his country and taveling other countries and appreciating the arts.

2.) Character Development: IN this chapter we see a different side of Gatsby. He insists on showing proof of his background from being in war. He claims he is from the mid west and when Nick asks him what part he says San Fransisco. San Fransisco is not in the mid west so we can see that Gatsby is lying just to make himself look better. He also is afraid to tell Nick straight up that he wants to meet with Daisy. He has to say it through Jordan like a second grader. This new attitude changes the audience’s impression of him being wealthy and smooth to kind of childish.

3.) The color green is significant in this chapter along with Creme. Gatsbys car has a green interior and a creme exterior. This symbolizes new money and old money and kind of symbolizes who Gatsby is on in the inside.

1.) American Dream: Just Gatsby’s life in general is a significant example of the American Dream. He is a huge house, big parties, he is well known. ” People were not invited—they went there. They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island, and somehow they ended up at Gatsby’s door” He is very wealthy and it seems like he has traveled to many other places in the country. “Almost at the moment when Mr. Gatsby identified himself, a butler hurried toward him with the information that Chicago was calling him on the wire.” “Then the butler, behind his shoulder: “Philadelphia wants you on the ‘phone, sir.””

2.) Character Development: Finally Fitzgerald reveals more about Gatsby. At first it kind of feels like Gatsby is lonely and sad because of the end of chapter one when he is sitting on the dock by himself. Now it shows a different side of Gatsby. One where he is well known and liked by many people. It also shows that he is a kind man in the way that he invites Nick and is so kind to him. “Don’t mention it,” he enjoined me eagerly. “Don’t give it another thought, old sport. And don’t forget we’re going up in the hydroplane to-morrow morning, at nine o’clock.”

3.) Color: The color yellow is significant in this chapter. For example, The two girls in the yellow dresses and the orchestra playing “yellow cocktail music

Evidence of the American was very scarce in this chapter. The whole idea of the little part at Myrtle’s apartment hinted at the American Dream in that there was a group of people getting together to drink and talk, but other than that there wasn’t much significant evidence of the American Dream being displayed in this chapter

The character of Tom definatley had a different side to him no shown in Chapter one. First, he and Myrtle do their thing while getting after getting very drunk. Next Tom breaks Myrtles nose and doesn’t really even give a second thought to it. He is very casual about it. It is also revealed that he doesn’t like to mix his secret fantasy life with his reality.

The color gray is significant in this chapter. “Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray”

1.) The life of Nick’s friend Tom is a good example of the American Dream. He has a beautiful wife, played football, has a big house and money.

2.) Nick seems to be really innocent and he starts to get exposed to the outside world. It seems like he has never encountered things like unloyal marriage. It seems like he longs for acceptance from other people.

3.) White was a color used significantly. I think it represents purity in Nick’s life and beauty.

1.) This offers credibility because of his experience. Its one thing to cite a source and go and study something but he has something better than second hand knowlege.

2.) He compares common knowledge of war and football to lead the audience to the realization that football and war are alot alike. He uses exemplification in paragraph six in showing that the lingo of football and war are alot alike.

3.) He establishes a shift by bringing in another aspect of the game. That fun and games is one thing and then when the pads go on and the ref takes the field its a whole different game. He starts talking about how when things are institutionalized by adult organizations the fun is over he swithces from a more playful tone to a serious one.

4.) It adds to his credibility and it shows that football is a lot like big business you do what you ahve to do to get the job done even if it means suffering and pain for the worker/player.

5.) He counters this claim in paragraph 16 What oraginized football did for me was make me suppress my natural urges and re express them in an alienating vicous form.

6.) Soccer and basketball have the same kinds of lingo. Pretty much any contact sports and even some noncontact such as baseball.

7.) No it isn’t necessary for the audience to knowabout football, It does help but it doesn’t make a huge difference for the example he uses. I think his audience is men or people who have played football because they can relate to what he is writing.

1.) Gould talk about the theory of the intellegence of a women directly varying with the size of their brains. He says that even though scientists make these assumptions that they aren’t always correct and they are just theories.

Questions on Rhetoric and Style

3.) He talks about the scientists data that womens brains were smaller and therefore they weren’t as smart. He argues that the size of a brain depends on height and age and women on average used in his test were a half a foot taller and older than the men used in the test. He uses this to make his argument stronger by counteragruing the scientific findings.

6.) The point of paragraphs 9-12 is to bring the audience to the realizations of how stupid Broca’s tests and data were. He counterargies his findings and proves that brain size doesn’t affect intellegence.

7.)  He develops this paragraph so elaborately to bring Broca’s credibility into question. It pulls the audience in and pushes them to believe what he says rather than what Broca claims.

9.) He argues against the scientific research in saying that although their studies may have been hard to come up with that they are irrelevant this brings his argument full circle and he makes his point.

10.) Gould also uses logos in his argument in paragraph nine, he explains how Broca’s claims are incorrect. He appeals to pathos in saying that these studies are irrelevant and there are amazing women out there. When he intertwines both of these appeals it creates a very strong ethos and an argument overall.

11.) It stregnthens in by switching point of view. So the audience keeps up with him and knows when he is talking about another source and when he is talking for himself.