Dan Cody

Dan Cody is essentially the man who made James Gatz become Jay Gatsby. After dropping out of college, Gatsby returned to Lake Superior, where he had grown up. While lounging on the beach one day, he met Dan Cody and his yacht.

Description of Cody hints of criminal activity, so Cody may have inspired Gatsby's bootleg business as well. This may have also been because although Cody left Gatsby $25,000 when he died, Gatsby never got any of it. Thus, with no resources and only a new name, Gatsby turned to crime to make his fortune for Daisy.Dan Cody was an enormously wealthy old man, a millionaire many times over, who had earned his fortune mining silver.

Dan Cody is largely responsible for who Jay Gatsby ended up becoming. If it wasnt for Dan Cody Jay would have stood a poor man only longing for Daisy. With Dan Cody's help Jay turned into a wealthy man and got Daisy back for a period of time.

http://www.enotes.com/great-gatsby/q-and-a/chapter-6-great-gatsby-87159

East Egg vs West Egg

East Egg and West Egg are peninsulas located on Long Island. In actuallity they are not really called by these names, Fitzgerald thought they look like eggs so he fictitiously called them so. West Egg is now known as the Great Neck and East Egg is commonly known as Manhasset Neck. The two towns are located on the eastern side of Long Island.

Long Island as a whole is divided into East and West Long Island, but in the book the action is divided between East and West Egg. East Egg is where people with "old money" live. West Egg is where people with "new money" live. People of the West Egg are average middle class people that have somehow found money and use it to get anything they want. Where as the people of the East Egg are aristocrats and spend money wisely or save it. The East Egg people resent the West Egg people for this reason.

Look at Gatsbyas an example for East Egg. He earns his money through bootlegging. He then spends it on elaborate parties, buying gifts for people, and trying to impress Daisy. Where as the Buchanan's in the West Egg spend little money. Yes their home elgant and expensive but that is what they spend their money, their home, as a possed to cars and parties.

http://gerber319.blogspot.com/2008/04/great-gatsby.html

The Women of Gatsby

Daisy-Daisy is Nick's cousin, Tom's wife, and she is also the women Gatsby is in love with. Daisy is a very selfish person. All she cares about is herself and her status in society. She also is a golddigger because she married Tom because he came from a wealthy family. She is having an affair with Jay Gatsby because he loves her and she loves the attention. She was supposed to wait for him but she broke her promise to marry Tom.

Jordan Baker-"She is a longtime friend of Daisy. Jordan is a professional golfer who cheated in order to win her first tournament. She is extremly cynical, with a masculine, icy demeanor that Nick in itially finds compelling. They become briefly involved, but Jordan rejects him because he is as corrupt and decadent as she is."

Myrtle Wilson- She is the wife of George Wilson who owns a gas station.She does not love her husband whatsoever. She is very unsatisfied with her life because she was no wealth and therefore no status in society. She has been having a longtime affair with Tom, Daisys husband, and is very jealous of Daisy. After a fight she has with her husband she runs out into the street and gets hit by a car and dies.

http://www.gradesaver.com/the-greatgatsby/studyguide/characterlist/

Green light

"Gatsby's green light: Located at the end of the Buchanans' dock, this green light represents Gatsby's ultimate aspiration: to win Daisy's love. Nick's first vision of Gatsby is of his neighbor's trembling arms stretched out toward the green light (26). Later, after Daisy and Gatsby's successful reunion, a mist conceals the green light, visibly affecting Gatsby. Nick observes, "Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever....Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one" (98). This image suggests Gatsby realizes he must face the reality of Daisy, rather than the ideal he created for her."

http://www.novelguide.com/thegreatgatsby/metaphoranalysis.html

The green light is, in a sense, hope. Hope for all dreams to come true. Hope that we may have true love. In Gatsby's case, hope, for him, is that Daisy still love him. After longing for her for some many years and finally being so close to her but not being able to actually have her that green light is a symbol of his longing lasting love her Daisy. Based on what was just stated above you could say that the green light is a sybol of true love as well.

The green light is located at the end of Daisy's dock. Gatsby reaching out to it and not being able to reach it is like him being able to see his dream but not being able to fulfill it. When he looks at it, it is like he is looking the future where he see's him and Daisy together. In his vision of the future he happy and in love with Daisy, that is his Amercian Dream. In that sense the green light can also symbolize the American Dream. The thing everyone wants out life but sadly some never get.

Old Money vs. New Money

Old money and new money has nothing to do with the year the currency was created in. It has absolutely nothing to do with age. What it does refer to is how the person inherited the wealth. Old money refers to a person who obtained there wealth because the money was passed down from generation to generation with in a family. New money is when a person obtains there wealth recently by themselves through entrepreneurship or any other means.

An example of old money in the Great Gatsby is Tom and Daisy. Tom is wealthy because he inherited his money from his family, and Daisy is wealthy through her marriage. Without inheritance and marriage Tom and Daisy wouldn't have any money which is why they have old money.

An example of new money in the Great Gatsby is Jay Gatsby. He is an example because he got wealthy on his own. He did not inherit any money what so ever. He became rich on his own through bootlegging.

"Nick Carraway - The novel's narrator hails from the Midwest, attended Yale, and fought in World War I. He moves to New York to learn the bond business and soon befriends his next door neighbor Jay Gatsby. He helps reignite a romance between his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and Gatsby. Nick narrates the entire story and remains torn between the flashy lifestyle of New York and the honest living of the Midwest.
Jay Gatsby - The novel's title character lives a life of mystery. His desperate longing to relive the past by rekindling his romance with Daisy Buchanan borders on pathetic. He buys a mansion across the water from her home and stares at a green light from her dock every night. Speculation abounds regarding the origin of his riches. It's apparent, his wealth is ill-gotten.

Tom Buchanan -He is immensely wealthy and might put you in his will. He symbolizes greed and the corrupting force of possessing large sums of money without actually earning it. He's also an adulturer because he has an affair with Daisy's sister Myrtle."

http://www.brighthub.com/education/homework-tips/articles/40046.aspx

Selfish People

Some people in the world are selfish. Selfish poeple are inconsiderate of others, they are only interested in how things affect them, and they don't think or consider the consequences their actions have on others. I would say that Tom and Myrtle are examples of selfish people. They are both cheating on their spouses with each other and thinking about how each of their spouses feels. They are selfish because they aren't considering what they are doing to the people they married. No matter where we go there are selfish people there, whether its becasue they are cheating on someone or because they are hoging all the food at the dinner table we will never escape them.

Mafia and Gangsters

The mafia has been around for many many years in major cities of the United States. In the 1920's mafias became more known because of Prohibition. They became involvd in the botlegging. Botlegging is making, selling, or producing something illegal, in the 1920's that something illegal was liquor. Gangsters were often associated with the mafia. The book The Great Gatsby Wolfsheim is a gangster. Wolfsheim is the one who fixed the 1919 World Series. He also has teeth for cufflings. The mafia and gangsters are still around today.

The Roaring 1920s http://www.iccsd.k12.ia.us/Schools/West/Library/WQR&J/Era/1920s.htm (May 18, 2010)

F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. New York: Simon and Schuster Inc. 1995.

"During Prohibition, the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal. Prohibition was supposed to lower crime and corruption, reduce social problems, lower taxes needed to support prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America. Instead, Alcohol became more dangerous to consume; organized crime blossomed; courts and prisons systems became overloaded; and endemic corruption of police and public officials occurred"

http://www.1920-30.com/prohibition/

"The Flappers' image consisted of drastic - to some, shocking - changes in women's clothing and hair. Nearly every article of clothing was trimmed down and lightened in order to make movement easier. The new, energetic dances of the Jazz Age, required women to be able to move freely, something the "ironsides" didn't allow. Replacing the pantaloons and corsets were underwear called "step-ins." The outer clothing of flappers is even still extremely identifiable. This look, called "garconne" ("little boy"), was instigated by Coco Chanel. To look more like a boy, women tightly wound their chest with strips of cloth in order to flatten it. The waists of flapper clothes were dropped to the hipline and they wore stockings. Authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald used the term to the U.S., half reflecting and half creating the image and style of the flapper. Fitzgerald described the ideal flapper as "lovely, expensive, and about nineteen." In the book the Great Gatsby as well as the movie all the girls are dressed and act like flappers.

Rosenberg, Jennifer. "twentieth century history" Flappers in the Roaring Twenties. 14 May 2010 (c) 2010 http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/flappers.htm

Jealousy

Jealousy is a mental uneasiness from suspicion or fear of rivalry. In The Great Gatsby the parties that Myrtle and Tom had showed the jealousy between the lower and upper class. The poeple that attended their parties were of lower class trying to act of upper class. Within the different social circles of The Great Gatsby, you can see hints of jealousy through the way that most of the people within the groups talk about the others. Jealousy happens in real life too though, for example the picture of the three little kids above. One girl is jealous of the other bcause she has the boys attention and that one doesn't. Though when I see this happen it's normally with teenage girls. Jealousy has always been apart of society and always will be, it's just the way we are.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald is the amazing writer behind this text. His full name is Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. He was born on September 24, 1896 in Saint Paul Minnesota. For college he went to Princeton, he was class of 1917, where he neglected his studies to work on his literary apprenticeship. He was put on academic probation and was unlikely to graduate so he joined the army in 1917. Fitzgerald was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry. In June of 1918 he was asigned to Camp Sheridan near Montgumry Alabama. There is were met Zelda Sayer and they fellin love. He was discharged from the army in 1919. Over the years he wrote book like This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned. He published in The Saturday Evening Post and wrote a play called The Vegetable. In the Spring of 1924 he went to France where he wrote The Great Gatsby. He came back to America and rented houses. He went to Hollywood and got screen credit for adapting Three Comrades. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald died on December 21, 1940.



http://www.fscottfitzgeraldsociety.org/biography/index.html

1920's

The 1920s was a fun time in American history and was even coined the name the roaring 20s. Many events happened in the era of the 1920s. Such as silent movies were dominant in American social lives but Americans were introduced to movies with sound.

In politics the American Presidents that were elected were Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921),Warren G. Harding (1921-1923), Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929), Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)

In the 1920s sports "National Football League formed; baseball's Negro National League formed; Babe Ruth sold to New York Yankees and hits 54 home runs, signalling the arrival of the lively ball era in baseball; Cleveland Indians' shortstop Ray Chapman is killed by a Carl Mays pitch"

anonymous. "The Roaring Twenties." The Historical snapshot of life in the 1920s. (c)2005: 30. 10 May 2010 <http://www.1920-30.com/>

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