JOURNAL 4B

What is your idea of success and how do you

plan to achieve it?

The Great Gatsby

By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Old American Dream

Ben Franklin's Formula for Success:

RESOLUTION + FRUGALITY + INDUSTRY = SUCCESS   (desire)       (careful spending)   (hard work) • Puritan influence (morality)• 13 Virtues (includes chastity, temperance, humility)• Smart spending• No leisure time

Decline of the American Dream

New American Dream:       

RESOLUTION + ACTION = SUCCESS

Guiding Questions:

• Is the American Dream lost?• What makes Jay Gatsby "great" according to Nick

Carraway? • What is the green light at the end of Daisy's dock?

o What does it represent to Gatsby? o What does it represent to Fitzgerald?

• What roll does geography play in the story?o East Egg vs. West Eggo Valley of the Asheso New York Cityo Eastern Seaboard vs. American West

The Great Gatsby (1925)POV: Nick Carraway (1st person narrator)

TONE: Ambivalent -- approves and disapproves of Gatsby

o Is Nick a reliable narrator? SETTING: Summer of 1922, Long Island, NY