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Int The Great Gatsby

By Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

Characters

Jay Gatsby: he’s the

 Jordan Baker: Daisy’s old

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embodiment of the American friend. She knows the secrets

dream. Gatsby’s reputation of the Buchanans .

precedes him: Gatsby himself

doesn’t appear in a speaking Myrtle Wilson: Tom’s lover.

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role until Chapter 3. She wants to live a better life,

Nick Carraway: the narrator.

 in richness . She want to

He becomes friend with Jay elope with Tom.

Gatsby.

Daisy Buchanan: the woman,

 whom Gatsby loves. She is George Wilson: Myrtle’s

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vulnerable and a coward. husband. He’s a poor , and

ignorant person, easily

Tom Buchanan: the villain of

 influenciable. At the end of

the story. He’s Daisy’s the novel, he will kill Gatsby

husband . His jealousy and

hate for Gatsby will lead him to to take revenge on Myrtle,

consider JG guilty. influenced by Tom.

Una vita smodata

Plot

• Nick Carraway moves to NYC,

finds a job in bond business and

rents a house in the West Egg

district of Long Island,

• His neighbour in West Egg is Jay

Gatsby.

• One evening, Nick is invited for

dinner by her cousin, Daisy

Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, • During the summer, Nick

who has a lover, Myrtle Wilson, receives an invitation for one

who is married with a poor Gatsby’s party.

mechanical and lives in the West • Gatsby is interested in Daisy:

Egg. all the parties are just a way to

impress her.

• Nick decides to invite both

Gatsby and Daisy at his house

for a tea.

• Gatsby is nervous about every

single detail could go wrong (

video), but soon after, they re-

establish their connection.

• Tom is deeply outraged by the

thought of his wife’s unfaithfulness.

• He invites everyone for lunch and

forces them to go to NYC.

• Nick with Jordan and Tom in

Gatsby’s yellow car, whereas Gatsby

with Daisy, they stop at Wilson’s

garage and learn that Wilson has

discovered his wife’s infidelity and

plans to move. • Myrtle had fought with his

• In city, Tom and Gatsby have a husband and throws herself out on

fight, in which part of Gatsby’s past is the street.

revealed. The yellow car hits her.

• Daisy is shocked by this revelation • When Nick, Jordan and Tom drive

and, panicking, rides away with him. back, they discover the accident

and learn it was a yellow car.

• Gatsby tells to Nick Daisy was

driving.

• Tom tells Myrtle’s husband,

George, that Gatsby was the driver

of the car.

• George decides to kill him and

suicides.

“Il Grande Gatsby” vs “Il

Piacere”

Corrispondenze con il romanzo esteta:

• vita mondana, piena di eccessi

• storia d’amore “non più corrisposta” (lei è sposata,

e non è pronta a lasciare il marito)

• similitudini vita dello scrittore-vita del protagonista

• lunga descrizione dell’ambiente e preponderanza

rispetto ai protagonisti (aspetto materiale della vita)

• unione passato-presente (racconto avvenimenti,

trascorso delle due coppie)

• triste epilogo delle vicende

Paragone Il Piacere.doc

Contesto storico

America Europa

Aspetti positivi:

Aspetti negativi:

Aspetti positivi -innovazione Aspetti negativi:

- crisi agricola

-benessere -gravi

tecnologica problemi

- eccessivo sviluppo

-investimenti in borsa - produzione di massa di inflazione

SOVRAPPRODUZIONE

-crescita economia -deficit

- a basso prezzo del bilancio

indebolimento

finanziaria -

domanda crescita nei paesi pubblico

-tecnica di produzione - speculazione -riconversione

capitalistici delle

in serie (taylorismo) finanziaria - ampliamento dei fabbriche

- radio, cinema, auto - proibizionismo consumi