Gatsby

Themes: (you need to raise the bar on these)

• I do not want what I already Have
• East vs West 
• The rich are Different...
• Can’t live in the Past?…Of course you can.
• American dream? It’s a lie.
• What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon?  And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

Motifs:

•  Car Crashes
•  The green light
•  Light
•  The Valley of Ashes and the 'Eyes' 
•  Alcohol  
• Weather 

Important Characters:

• Nick- a reliable/unreliable narrative voice, judgmental
• Daisy- unreliable in almost every way
• Jordan- reliably self-centered
• George Wilson- Reliable in every way; dull, dull, dull
• Tom- Reliably, predictably, a self-centered bully
• Meyer Wolfsheim- utterly reliable (he knows a guy)
• Gatsby- Who am I?