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The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence,idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age 

Fitzgerald began planning the novel in 1923, desiring to produce, in his words, "something new—something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned."

Historical context

Set on Long Island of 1922, The Great Gatsby provides a critical social history of America during the Roaring Twenties within its narrative. That era, known for unprecedented economic prosperity, the evolution of jazz music, flapper culture, and bootlegging and other criminal activity, is plausibly depicted in Fitzgerald's novel.

Plot summary

The main events of the novel take place in the summer of 1922. Nick Carraway, a Yale graduate and World War I veteran from the Midwest – who serves as the novel's narrator – takes a job in New York as a bond salesman. He rents a small house on Long Island, in the (fictional) village of West Egg, next door to Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire who holds extravagant parties but does not participate in them. Nick drives around the bay to East Egg for dinner at the home of his cousin, Daisy Fay Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, a college acquaintance of Nick's. They introduce Nick to Jordan Baker, an attractive, cynical young golfer with whom Nick begins a romantic relationship. She reveals to Nick that Tom has a mistress, Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the "valley of ashes":

As the summer progresses, Nick eventually receives an invitation to one of Gatsby's parties. Through Jordan, Nick later learns that Gatsby knew Daisy from a romantic encounter in 1917 and is deeply in love with her. Gatsby and Daisy reestablish their connection.

When Nick, Jordan, and Tom drive through the valley of ashes^[11] on their way home, they discover that Gatsby's car has struck and killed Tom's mistress, Myrtle. Nick later learns from Gatsby that Daisy, not Gatsby himself, was driving the car at the time of the accident but Gatsby intends to take the blame anyway. Myrtle's husband, George, falsely concludes that the driver of the yellow car is the secret lover he recently began suspecting she has, and sets out on foot to locate its owner. After finding out the yellow car is Gatsby's, he arrives at Gatsby's mansion where he fatally shoots both Gatsby and then himself.

Major characters

• Nick Carraway – a Yale graduate originating from the Midwest, a World War I veteran, and, at the start of the plot, a newly arrived resident of West Egg, who is aged 29 (later 30). He also serves as the first-person narrator of the novel. He is Gatsby's next-door neighbor and a bond salesman. He is easy-going, occasionally sarcastic, and somewhat optimistic, although this latter quality fades as the novel progresses.

• Jay Gatsby (originally James "Jimmy" Gatz) – a young, mysterious millionaire with shady business connections (later revealed to be a bootlegger), originally from North Dakota. He is obsessed with Daisy Buchanan, a beautiful debutante, from Louisville, Kentucky whom he had met when he was a young military officerstationed at the Army's Camp Taylor in Louisville during World War I. Fitzgerald himself was actually based at Camp Taylor in Louisville when he was in the Army and makes various references to Louisville in the novel, including the Seelbach Hotel where the Buchanan party stayed while in town for Tom and Daisy's wedding. The character is based on the bootlegger and former World War I officer Max Gerlach, according to Some Sort of Epic Grandeur, Matthew J. Bruccoli's biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Gatsby is said to have briefly studied at Trinity College, Oxford in England after the end of World War I.^[12]

• Daisy Fay Buchanan – an attractive and effervescent, if shallow and self-absorbed, young Louisville, Kentucky debutante and socialite, identified as aflapper.^[13] She is Nick's second cousin, once removed; and the wife of Tom Buchanan. Daisy is believed to have been inspired by Fitzgerald's own youthful romances with Ginevra King. Daisy once had a romantic relationship with Gatsby, before she married Tom. Her choice between Gatsby and Tom is one of the central conflicts in the novel.

• Thomas "Tom" Buchanan – a millionaire who lives on East Egg, and Daisy's husband. Tom is an imposing man of muscular build with a "husky tenor" voice and arrogant demeanor. He is a former football star at Yale. Buchanan has parallels with William Mitchell, the Chicagoan who married Ginevra King. Buchanan and Mitchell were both Chicagoans with an interest in polo. Like Ginevra's father, whom Fitzgerald resented, Buchanan attended Yale and is a white supremacist.^[14]

• Jordan Baker – Daisy Buchanan's long-time friend with "autumn-leaf yellow" hair, a firm athletic body, and an aloof attitude. She is Nick Carraway's girlfriend for most of the novel and an amateur golfer with a slightly shady reputation and a penchant for untruthfulness. Fitzgerald told Maxwell Perkins that Jordan was based on the golfer Edith Cummings, a friend of Ginevra King.^[14] Her name is a play on the two then-popular automobile brands, the Jordan Motor Car Company and the Baker Motor Vehicle, alluding to Jordan's "fast" reputation and the freedom now presented to Americans, especially women, in the 1920s.^[15][16][17]

• George B. Wilson – a mechanic and owner of a garage. He is disliked by both his wife, Myrtle Wilson, and Tom Buchanan, who describes him as "so dumb he doesn't know he's alive." When he learns of the death of his wife, he shoots and kills Gatsby, wrongly believing he had been driving the car that killed Myrtle, and then kills himself.

• Myrtle Wilson – George's wife, and Tom Buchanan's mistress. Myrtle, who possesses a fierce vitality, is desperate to find refuge from her complacent marriage, but unfortunately this leads to her tragic ending. She is accidentally killed by Gatsby's car (driven by Daisy, though Gatsby insists he would take the blame for the accident).

• Meyer Wolfshiem^{[note 1]} – a Jewish friend and mentor of Gatsby's, described as a gambler who fixed the World Series. Wolfshiem appears only twice in the novel, the second time refusing to attend Gatsby's funeral. He is a clear allusion to Arnold Rothstein, a New York crime kingpin who was notoriously blamed for the Black Sox Scandal which tainted the 1919 World Series.^[20]

Внеклассное мероприятие

Внеклассное мероприятие было проведено в виде литературного кафе в стиле «Великий Гэтсби» по мотивам романа Ф. С. Фицджеральда «Великий Гэтсби».

(все разработки по теме, презентацию и т.д. см. в данном архиве)

Цели урока:

образовательные: -обеспечить в ходе урока усвоение, (повторение, закрепление) правил, понятий

-создать условия для отработки навыков и умений в чтении письме, говорении, восприятии речи на слух

-актуализировать знания о классической литературе стран изучаемого языка

-расширить общий и филологический кругозор учащихся

развивающие:

-создать условия для развития  коммуникативных навыков через разнообразные виды речевой деятельности (монологическая, диалогическая речь)

-создать условия для развития таких аналитических способностей учащихся, как умение анализировать, сопоставлять, сравнивать , обобщать познавательные объекты, делать выводы;

-создать условия для развития памяти, внимания, воображения;

-содействовать формированию  самостоятельной познавательной деятельности

-содействовать развитию умений осуществлять рефлексивную деятельность

воспитательные:

-способствовать развитию умения отстаивать свою точку зрения;

-способствовать развитию культуры взаимоотношений при работе в парах, группах, коллективе;

-содействовать формированию толерантности в отношении к культуре своего и других народов

-содействовать развитию эстетического вкуса, культуры речи;

-содействовать развитию интереса  к изучению иностранного языка;

-содействовать повышению уровня мотивации на уроках через средства обучения;

-содействовать воспитанию культуры общения, потребности в самовоспитании

Ход урока:

1. Организационный момент, сообщение темы урока, целей урока.

2. Учащиеся рассказывают об авторе книги – Ф.С. Фицджеральде.

3. Далее учащиеся рассказывают краткое содержание романа «Великий Гэтсби» с целью ознакомить всех присутствующих с этим произведением

4. Следующим этапом урока является просмотр отрывков из фильма «Великий Гэтсби» на английском языке, их обсуждение, ответы на вопросы по просмотренному материалу, подробный анализ увиденного и сравнение сюжетов из фильма с эпизодами из книги. Необходимо отметить, что на столах учащихся находятся распечатки с отрывками из книги (на английском языке). Таким образом, просмотрев эпизод из фильма, а затем, прочитав такой же сюжет из книги, студент(ка) может проанализировать полученный материал:

Вопросы к обсуждению: 1. Speak of Daisy’s married life. What kind of person is called “sophisticated”? Why did Nick Carraway feel the basic insincerity of what Daisy had said? Why do you think she had no intention “to rush out of the house, child in arms?”

2. Speak about Gatsby’s behaviour before he met Daisy, during their meeting.

3. Why was Gatsby depressed after the party? What did he want Daisy to do? Did he ask too much from her? Comment on the following: “Can’t repeat the past? Why, of course you can!”

4. Speak of the heroe’s behaviour in the scenes following Tom’s discovery that Daisy and Gatsby were in love with each other. Speak about Daisy’s behaviour when Jay asked her to tell Tom that she had never loved him. Comment on Gatsby’s words: “she never loved you, do you hear?” why didn’t the wealth of Croesus keep Gatsby safe?

5. Speak about Gatsby’s funeral.

5. После этого, студенты записывают новый лексический минимум по теме.

6. Следующим этапом урока является выполнение заданий различного типа по книге «Великий Гэтсби», среди которых присутствуют задание с выбором ответа, задание на развитие лексических навыков, задание на отработку практики перевода и задание на развитие коммуникативных навыков.

7. Завершающим этапом урока является разыгрывание диалога на английском языке из книги Ф.С. Фицджеральда «Великий Гэтсби».

8. Обобщение урока, сообщение домашнего задания.

Early Life

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Fitzgerald's mother, Mary McQuillan, was from an Irish-Catholic family.His father, Edward Fitzgerald, had opened a wicker furniture business in St. Paul, and, when it failed, he took a job as a salesman for Procter & Gamble that took his family back and forth between Buffalo and Syracuse in upstate New York during the first decade of Fitzgerald's life.

Fitzgerald was a bright, handsome and ambitious boy, the pride and joy of his parents and especially his mother. He attended the St. Paul Academy, and when he was 13, he saw his first piece of writing appear in print: a detective story published in the school newspaper. In 1911, when Fitzgerald was 15 years old, his parents sent him to the Newman School.

After graduating from the Newman School in 1913, Fitzgerald decided to stay in New Jersey to continue his artistic development at Princeton University. In 1917, he dropped out of school to join the U.S. Army.

In Alabama he met and fell in love with a beautiful 18-year-old girl named Zelda Sayre, the daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge. The war ended in November 1918, and he moved to New York City .

Final Years

After he completed The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald's life began to unravel. Always a heavy drinker, he progressed steadily into alcoholism and suffered prolonged bouts of writer's block. His wife, Zelda, also suffered from mental health issues, and the couple spent the late 1920s moving back and forth between Delaware and France. In 1930, she suffered another breakdown and was treated at the Sheppard Pratt Hospital in Towson, Maryland, and that same year was admitted to a mental health clinic in Switzerland. Two years later she was treated at the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

In 1934, after years of toil, Fitzgerald finally published his fourth novel, Tender is the Night.

After another two years lost to alcohol and depression, in 1937 Fitzgerald attempted to revive his career as a screenwriter and freelance storywriter in Hollywood, and he achieved modest financial success for his efforts. He began work on another novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, in 1939, and he had completed over half the manuscript when he died of a heart attack on December 21, 1940, at the age of 44, in Hollywood, California.

F. Scott Fitzgerald died believing himself a failure. None of his works received anything more than modest commercial or critical success during his lifetime. However, since his death, Fitzgerald has gained a reputation as one of the pre-eminent authors in the history of American literature.

Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key (1896 – 1940)

An outstanding American writer of the first half of the 20^th century. In his creative work the mood, desires and ambitions of the young Americans of the Jazz Age (the period in American History between World War I and the Great Depression of the 30^th) are so vividly depicted.

Gatsby, the embodiment of the ruined “American Dream”, has become a symbol of the “Lost Generation”.

1920 This Side of Paradise

1922 The Beautiful and Damned

1920 Flappers and Philosophers (stories)

1922 Tales of the Jazz Age (stories)

1925 The Great Gatsby

1926 All the sad Young Men (stories)

1934 Tender is the Night

since 1935 a playwright in Hollywood

1940 The Last Tycoon (unfinished)

(Указание страниц по изданию F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby. Москва, Высшая школа, 1984.)

Portion 1 – ch. 1-2

Portion 5 – ch. 8-9

Jay Gatsby

Nick Carraway

Tom Buchanan

Daisy Buchanan

Jordan Baker

Myrtle Wilson

Mr. Wolfshiem

Dan Cody

Portion 1

I. Learn the following words and word combinations (презентация)

II. Match the definition with the word. Pronounce these words correctly. Give their Russian equivalents. Reproduce the sentences these items were used in.

III. Put in the correct prepositions

1. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning ___ in my mind ever since. 2. I am still a little afraid ___ missing something… 3. Only Gatsby…was exempt ___ my reaction – Gatsby, who represented everything ___ which I have an unaffected scorn. 4. And I had the high intention ___ reading many other books besides. 5. …life is much more successfully looked ___ ___ a single window. 6. …even in college his freedom with money was a matter ___ reproach. 7. If she saw me ___ ___ the corner of her eyes she gave no hint ___ it. 8. Things went ___ bad ___ worse, until finally he had to give ___ his position. 9. You can’t stop going with an old friend ___ account of rumors, and ___ the other hand I had no intention ___ being rumored ___ marriage. 10. I think he’d tanked ___ a good deal ___ luncheon, and his determination to have my company bordered ___ violence. 11. The man peered doubtfully ___ the basket, plunged ___ his hand and drew one ___ …by the back ___ the neck. 12. Sitting ___ Tom’s lap Mrs. Wilson called ___ several people ___ the telephone… 13. The sister Catherine sat ___ ___ me ___ the couch.

IV. Translate the passages from the text into Russian (in writing)

1. (p.14) “In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgements… Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope”.

2. (p.15) “No – Gatsby turned out to be all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men”.

3. (p.23) “She was only extemporizing, but a stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words”.

4. (p.27) “Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart”.

5. (p.36) “I wanted to get out and walk eastward… and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life”.

Portion 5

I. Match the definition with the word.

II. Put in the correct prepositions

1. He was clutching ___ some last hope and I couldn’t bear to shake him free. 2. Jay Gatsby had broken ___ like glass ___ Tom’s hard malice; and the long secret extravaganza was played ___. 3. In various unrevealed capacities he had come ___ contact ___ such people… 4. He felt their presence all ___ the house, pervading the air ___ shades and echoes of still vibrant emotions. 5. He might have despised himself, for he had certainly taken her ___ false pretences. 6. As a matter ___ fact, he had no such facilities, – he had no comfortable family standing ___ him, and he was liable ___ the whim of an impersonal government to be blown anywhere about the world. 7. The decision must be made ___ some force ___ love, ___ money, ___ unquestionable practicality – that was close ___ hand. 8. He came from France … and made a miserable but irresistible journey to Louisville ___ the last ___ his army pay. 9. Until long after midnight a changing crowd lapped ___ ___ the front of the garage, while George Wilson rocked himself ___ and ___ on the couch inside. 10. Michaelis had seen this too, but it hadn’t occurred ___ him that there was any special significance ___ it. 11. I cannot come ___ now as I am tied ___ ___ some very important business and cannot get mixed ___ ___ this thing now. 12. He rose ___ ___ his position ___ the East. 13. I raised him up ___ ___ nothing, right ___ ___ the gutter. 14. Do you object ___ shaking hands ___ me? 15. He threw dust ___ your eyes, just like he did ___ Daisy’s, but he was a tough one.

III. Translate the passages from the text into Russian

1. (p.108) She vanished into her rich house, into her rich, full life, leaving Gatsby – nothing. He felt married to her, that was all.

2. (p.108) She had caught a cold, and it made her voice huskier and more charming than ever, and Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor.

3. (p.109) For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes.

4. (p.117) Someone with a positive manner, perhaps a detective, used the expression ‘madman’ as he bent over Wilson’s body that afternoon, and the adventitious authority of his voice set the key for the newspaper reports next morning.

5. (p.122) However, that was my fault, for he was one of those who sued to sneer most bitterly at Gatsby on the courage of Gatsby’s liquor, and I should have known better than to call him.

IV. Answer the following questions

1.When and where is the scene laid?

2.Who is the narrator in the novel?

3.What have you learnt about Nick Carraway’s age, vocation, background, mode of life, environment?

4.What community did the narrator begin his new life in?

5.Can you call Myrtle a beauty? Describe her.

6.What did Tom think of Myrtle? Did he love her?

7. Why did Daisy marry Tom Buchanan?

8. In what respect does the text compare the two characters Gatsby and Myrtle?

9.Why did nobody come to Gatsby’s funerals? What did the author of the novel want to show by this fact?

5

1)“oh, yes.” She looked at me absently. “Listen, Nick; let me tell you what I said when she was born. Would you like to hear?”

“Very much”.

“It will show you how I’ve gotten to feel about – things. Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. “all right”, I said, “I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

“you see I think everything’s terrible anyhow”, she went on in a convinced way. “Everybody thinks so – the most advanced people. And I know. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything.” Her eyes flashed around her in a defiant way, rather like Tom’s, and she laughed with thrilling scorn. “Sophisticated – God, I’m sophisticated!”

2) ‘I love it, but I don’t see how you live there all alone.’

‘I keep it always full of interesting people, night and day. People who do interesting things. Celebrated people…’

With enchanting murmurs Daisy admired this aspect or that of the feudal silhouette against the sky, admired the gardens, the sparkling odor of jonquils…

‘I’ve got a man in England who buys me clothes. He sends over a selection of things at the beginning of each season, spring and fall.’ He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray… ‘They’re such beautiful shirts,’ she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. ‘It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before….’

‘If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay,’ said Gatsby. ‘You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock….’

They had forgotten me, but Daisy glanced up and held out her hand; Gatsby didn’t know me now at all. I looked once more at them and they looked back at me, remotely, possessed by intense life. Then I went out of the room and down the marble steps into the rain, leaving them there together…

3)‘By the way, Mr. Gatsby, I understand you’re an Oxford man.’

‘Not exactly.’

‘Oh, yes, I understand you went to Oxford.’

‘Yes—I went there.’

A pause. Then Tom’s voice, incredulous and insulting: ‘You must have gone there about the time Biloxi went to New Haven.’

Another pause. A waiter knocked and came in with crushed mint and ice but the silence was unbroken by his ‘Thank you’ and the soft closing of the door. This tremendous detail was to be cleared up at last.

‘I told you I went there,’ said Gatsby.

‘I heard you, but I’d like to know when.’

‘It was in nineteen-nineteen, I only stayed five months… That’s why I can’t really call myself an Oxford man.’… ‘Wait a minute,’ snapped Tom, ‘I want to ask Mr. Gatsby one more question.’

‘Go on,’ Gatsby said politely.

‘What kind of a row are you trying to cause in my house anyhow?’

They were out in the open at last and Gatsby was content.

‘He isn’t causing a row.’ Daisy looked desperately from one to the other. ‘You’re causing a row. Please have a little

self control.’

‘Self control!’ repeated Tom incredulously. ‘I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife…

‘I want to know what Mr. Gatsby has to tell me.’

‘Your wife doesn’t love you,’ said Gatsby. ‘She’s never loved you. She loves me.’

‘You must be crazy!’ exclaimed Tom automatically.

Gatsby sprang to his feet, vivid with excitement.

‘She never loved you, do you hear?’ he cried. ‘She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved any one except me!’…

‘Oh, you want too much!’ she cried to Gatsby. ‘I love you now—isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.’

4) A little before three the Lutheran minister arrived from

Flushing and I began to look involuntarily out the windows

for other cars. So did Gatsby’s father. And as the time passed and the servants came in and stood waiting in the hall, his eyes began to blink anxiously and he spoke of the rain in a worried uncertain way. The minister glanced several times at his watch so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. But it wasn’t any use. Nobody came.

Цели урока : образовательные: - обеспечить в ходе урока усвоение, (повторение, закрепление) правил, понятий

-создать условия для отработки навыков и умений в чтении письме, говорении, восприятии речи на слух

-актуализировать знания о классической литературе стран изучаемого языка

-расширить общий и филологический кругозор учащихся

Развивающие:

-создать условия для развития  коммуникативных навыков через разнообразные виды речевой деятельности (монологическая, диалогическая речь)

-создать условия для развития таких аналитических способностей учащихся, как умение анализировать, сопоставлять, сравнивать , обобщать познавательные объекты, делать выводы;

-создать условия для развития памяти, внимания, воображения;

-содействовать формированию  самостоятельной познавательной деятельности

-содействовать развитию умений осуществлять рефлексивную деятельность

Воспитательные:

-способствовать развитию умения отстаивать свою точку зрения;

-способствовать развитию культуры взаимоотношений при работе в парах, группах, коллективе;

-содействовать формированию толерантности в отношении к культуре своего и других народов

-содействовать развитию эстетического вкуса, культуры речи;

-содействовать развитию интереса  к изучению иностранного языка;

-содействовать повышению уровня мотивации на уроках через средства обучения;

-содействовать воспитанию культуры общения, потребности в самовоспитании;

Plan

• F.S. Fitzgerald’s biography
• About the book “The Great Gatsby”
• The film « Great Gatsby » and comparison with the book
• The discussion of some fragments of the book
• Stylistic analysis of the the book
• Acting the scene from the book

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

1.Born: September 24, 1896, St. Paul, Minnesota

2.1913 – graduated from the Newman School

3.in 1917, he dropped out of school to join the U.S. Army

4.Zelda Sayre – the wife of F.S. Fitzgerald

5.Some of his most notable stories include "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "The Camel's Back" and "The Last of the Belles “.

6.in 1924, Fitzgerald moved to France, in Valescure, Fitzgerald wrote what would be credited as his greatest novel,  The Great Gatsby . Published in 1925

7.In 1934, after years of toil, Fitzgerald finally published his fourth novel,  Tender is the Night

8.he died of a heart attack on December 21, 1940, at the age of 44, in Hollywood, California.

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby  explores themes of decaden ce ,idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age 

Fitzgerald began planning the novel in 1923

The Great Gatsby  provides a critical social history of America during the Roaring Twenties

  Many of the events in Fitzgerald's early life are reflected throughout  The Great Gatsby .

Major characters

Jay Gatsby

Nick Carraway

Tom Buchanan

Daisy Buchanan

Jordan Baker

Myrtle Wilson

Mr. Wolfshiem

Dan Cody

Questions

• Speak of Daisy’s married life. What kind of person is called “sophisticated”? Why did Nick Carraway feel the basic insincerity of what Daisy had said? Why do you think she had no intention “to rush out of the house, child in arms?”

2. Speak about Gatsby’s behaviour before he met Daisy, during their meeting.

3. Why was Gatsby depressed after the party? What did he want Daisy to do? Did he ask too much from her? Comment on the following: “Can’t repeat the past? Why, of course you can!”

4. Speak of the heroe’s behaviour in the scenes following Tom’s discovery that Daisy and Gatsby were in love with each other. Speak about Daisy’s behaviour when Jay asked her to tell Tom that she had never loved him. Comment on Gatsby’s words: “she never loved you, do you hear?” why didn’t the wealth of Croesus keep Gatsby safe?

5. Speak about Gatsby’s funeral.

I. Learn the following words and word combinations

to turn smth over in one’s mind – обдумывать что - то

to mean (to smb) – значить , означать

tolerance – терпение, терпимость

gorgeous – яркий, пышный, великолепный

well - to - do – преуспевающий, состоятельный, зажиточный

bizarre – странный, причудливый, эксцентричный

a matter for reproach – повод для осуждения

to take smb’s breath away – захватить дух

for no particular reason – без определенной причины

to hate smb ’ s guts (Ам.) – смертельно кого-то ненавидеть

to approve of (smb/smth) – одобрять

to see smb/smth out of the corner of one’s eyes – заметить кого - то краешком глаза

to look searchingly at smb – смотреть на кого-то изучающе, испытующе

complacency – самодовольство

complacent – самодовольный

to be devoid of smth – быть лишенным чего-то

• contemptuous – презрительный, пренебрежительный, высокомерный
• to have no intention of doing smth – не иметь никакого намерения что-л делать
• not to be fit to lick smb’s shoe – быть недостойным кого - то
• a letter of introduction – рекомендательное письмо
• to divorce / to get a divorce – развестись

to marry smb / to get married to smb – жениться , выйти замуж

• to be below smb – быть ниже по положению; быть недостойным кого-л

Ι V. Answer the questions

1. When and where is the scene laid?

2. Who is the narrator in the novel?

3. What have you learnt about Nick Carraway’s age, vocation, background, mode of life, environment?

4. What community did the narrator begin his new life in?

5. Can you call Myrtle a beauty? Describe her.

6. What did Tom think of Myrtle? Did he love her?

7 . Why did Daisy marry Tom Buchanan?

8 . In what respect does the text compare the two characters Gatsby and Myrtle?

9 .Why did nobody come to Gatsby’s funerals? What did the author of the novel want to show by this fact?