-Choose a passage (1-2 paragraphs) from The Great Gatsby (Chapters 1-3) to analyze
-ANALYZE the life out of the passage!!
To help you with your analysis, you can use
- the CLUE worksheet if it helps you OR
-the Commentary Writing Page
(both are on the website, under General Resources)
-Write a 2-3 paragraph response for the passage, explaining the main idea (or theme) that is being conveyed, and backing it up with HOW that idea is conveyed through the language in the passage (literary devices, diction, syntax, structure, dialogue, tone - whatever you think is the most important)
* Please make it clear which extract you have chosen - either copy and paste it into your submission, or provide the page numbers and the lines with which the passage begins and ends.
* Be sure to link your examples to the main idea you’re promoting – “every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a Fruiterer in New York” (Fitzgerald 39) can be explained to show the decadent lifestyles of the rich people in the 1920s, for example, but not really as corruption of the American Dream