"Yes." His eyes went over it, every arched door and square tower. "It took me just three years to earn the money that bought it."
90 Google "Oheka Castle." It is the actual home Gatsby's mansion is supposedly modeled on. Examine the visual images and discuss how seeing the actual image affects your understanding of this moment.
"The old Metropole," brooded Mr. Wolfsheim gloomily. "Filled with faces dead and gone. Filled with friends gone now forever. I can't forget so long as I live the night they shot Rosy Rosenthal there. It was six of us at the table, and Rosy had eat and drunk a lot all evening. When it was almost morning the waiter came up to him with a funny look and says somebody wants to speak to him outside. 'All right,' says Rosy, and begins to get up, and I pulled him down in his chair.
What is the purpose, significance and effect of this memory of Wolfsheim's? Read the original story (https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/100-years-after-a-murder-questions-about-a-police-officers-guilt/). What does knowing the whole story add to your understanding of Wolfsheim's function in the novel?
Sure I did. I was going to wear it tonight, but it was too big in the bust and had to be altered. It was gas blue with lavender beads. Two hundred and sixty-flve dollars.
Read the Wikipedia article on flappers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapper). What values or ideas should the body of the flapper bring to mind and how are they working here?
he Rise of the Colored Empires' by this man God-dard?"
Look up the book "The Rising Tide of Color" by Lothrop Stoddard (this is the book Fitzgerald is referring to). Provide a description and discuss the purpose, significance and effect of it being brought up here.
They are not perfect ovals-like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end-but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless :l more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size
do some web research to find out what actual part of Long Island "East Egg" and "West Egg" refer to. Why would Fitzgerald insist on portraying them as geographically similar and shaped like eggs when they are not? Additionally, look up the Egg of Columbus.
pianola,
Read up on the pianola: (http://ihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_pianohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_pianonsert-your-link-here.com)
What details in its history or about its nature might be important to bring to bear in our analysis of it in the novel?
Arcadia and Amaranta, who had already begun to get their second teeth and still went about all day clutching at thc Indians' cloaks, stubborn in their decision not to speak Spanish but the Guajiro language. "You shouldn't com-plain," Ursula told her husband. "Children inherit their parents' mad-ness
What is the possible significance of Arcadio and Amaranta's learning the Guajiro language first? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayuu_people)
"God damn it!" he shouted. "1\1acondo is surrounded by water on aU sides."
Here are two artists' rendering of Macondo (fictional) based on the actual geography of Colombia (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vzPU2EAvPxU/U9ZrWrd2NGI/AAAAAAAAAwc/ITAUVasXDcQ/s1600/Macondo+map.jpg) and (http://www.nodalcultura.am/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Mapa_Macondo.png). How does being able to visualize these last few pages affect your understanding of the this part of the text?