JOURNAL 4B What is your idea of success and how do you plan to achieve it?
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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