Miguel's Ideas

When it cones to bad behaviour, we should all try to avoid it in the future. The Brave New World is just like the old one, but we have to rewrite it ourselves. The most serious defect in the story is this; the Savage is offered only two alternatives, as insane life in Utopia, or the life of a primitive in an Indian Village, a life more human in some respects, but others hardly less queer and abnormal. When the book was written, humans were given a free will to choose between insanity, or lunacy. Savage chose insanity, which in the end caused him to commit suicide. Huxley feels like the choices are too limiting, and tbat sanity should be an option " a society composed of freely co-operating i dividuals devoted to the pursuit of sanity".

Chapter One: Question 1) How does Nick know the characters Tom and Daisy? Question 2) How are we first introduced to Gatsby when Nick first see him? Chapter Two: Question 1) What exactly is the "Valley of Ashes"? and what does it mean? Question 2) Why has Tom not left Daisy and married Myrtle yet? Chapter Three: Question 1) What rumors are made about Gatsby and who made the rumor up? Question 2) What is Nick's cardinal virtue? Chapter Four: Question 1) What are a few things Gatsby tell Nick about himself? Question 2) What did Daisy do during her wedding day and why?

In chapter 3, Nick is telling us how his neighbor Gatsby throws a party every week at his house and how he always prepares for it. Nick finally received an invitation to one of Gatsby's parties. This makes Nick very impressed because he was one of the few people that was invited to the party. Some people don't even get invited to the party, and Nick notices that people just show up because they all assume there's a party going on. Nick gets to the party, and tries to find Gatsby. No one seemed to know Gatsby himself, but they are Guests of the house. (1) Nick unexpectedly runs into Jordan and they chat. They talk about Gatsby and how there are so many rumors about him, one being how he killed a man.Nick then runs into a man and has a chat with him. After a good time, Nick realizes, the person he is talking to is actually Gatsby. Nick was embarrassed at first, but Gatsby let it slide. Gatsby invited Nick to go up to his hydroplane in the morning. (2) Nick is then left alone,...

Manhattan to Long Island- No mans land aka Valley of ashes: ashed take the forms of chimney and houses, the men who move grimly and through the air. The eyes are a symbol, the symbol wants to see everything. The valley of ashes is where a lot of things happen. Characters are trying to be someone they really arent. Tom was drinking, and doesnt get any friendlier. He forced Nick to go meet his mistress and so Nick is forced to go. TOm is taking Wilsons wife without him even knowing. TOM BREAKS MYRTLES NOSE

Half way between West Egg and New York City is a plain gray valley that is used to dump New York's ashes.There are men that live there and work to shovel the ashes. Doctor T. J Eckleburg is overhead, watching everything that happens in the valley of ashes. A commuter train goes from West Egg and New York passes through the valley of ashes. One day, Tom and Nick were on their way the the city. Tom forced Nick to get out at a stop and Tom lead Nick to George Wilson's garage.

So, there are a good amount of sexist/gender quotes in The Great Gatsby. One example of a character that is sexist is actually in the journal topic. When the mom was hoping for her daughter to be a fool of a girl when she grows up. She hopes this because she thinks the foolish, beautiful females get more attention. I believe this is a sexist thing to say, especially to your daughter. Another example is "The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon" (p.8/2) So Tom is pretty much making fun of the women I also found another example which is Nick talking to himself, " I enjoyed looking at her. She was a slender, small breasted girl, with an erect carriage, which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet." (p.11) Nick is giving his view on womans physical appearance here.

Reflection: I felt really awkward towards this section. The people that are there talking such as Daisy, Tom, Miss Baker and Nick. The first reason i felt weird was because Daisy had a 3 year old daughter with her while she was drinking. Now, this isnt the bad thing, what got me confused was when she was talking to Nick, and it wasnt until the end when she introduced her 3 year old daughter. This makes me feel like she is a careless person, because that's her own child that she almost forgot about. I also had got sketched out when we were introduced to the butler by Daisy. Daisy had told Nick that the butler was not always just a butler, no, he actually was a silver polisher, until it began to take an affect on his nose. Now i found this weird, because i just wondered \why would we need to know that.