Anastasia Zientek
Mrs. Mugge
American Literature
21 Feb. 2023
The Great Gatsby Chapters 4-6 Assignment
Discussion/journal prompt questions:
1. How are Gatsby and Tom alike? How are they different? Why did Daisy choose Tom over Gatsby?
2. Analyze the following quote from Chapter 6: “For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing” (Fitzgerald, 92). Who is Gatsby’s fairy? What makes Gatsby’s dreams unattainable?
There are five similarities between T.S. Elliot’s poem The Hollow Men and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. First, the poem begins with the lines, “We are the hollow men. We are the stuffed
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Leaning together. Headpiece filled with straw…are quiet and meaningless.” As a hollow woman, Daisy has no depth and cries over frivolous things such as lovely shirts. Mrs. Buchanan does not serve a purpose. As an inadequate mother, an unfaithful wife, and a comely lady who spends her wealth and enjoys the luxuries of the upper class, Daisy lives to satisfy her own desires, regardless of the repercussions. Second, the poem parallels the description of the Valley of Ashes as a “desolate area of land” (35), just as the hollow men live in “the dead land” (line 39). Third, in lines 22-23, “There, the eyes are sunlight on a broken column.” Just as a broken column symbolizes decay, Doctor T.J. Eckleburg’s eyes look down on the Valley of Ashes, which symbolizes God looking down on the moral decline of the 1920s. Fourth, in lines 27-28, the poem illustrates a dream “more distant and