The Great Gatsby Chapter 7 Online

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Ourcitation format in this guide is (chapter.paragraph). We're using this system since there are many editions of Gatsby, so using page numbers would only work for students with our copy of the book.

To find a quotation we cite via chapter and paragraph in your book, you can either eyeball it (Paragraph 1-50: beginning of chapter; 50-100: middle of chapter; 100-on: end of chapter), or use the search function if you're using an online or eReader version of the text.

Everything is about excess and a sense of overkill. Each weekend, guests are ferried back and forth to Manhattan by Rolls-Royce, crates of oranges and lemons are juiced, an army of caterers sets up tents and lighting, food is piled high, the bar is overwhelmingly stocked, and there is a huge band playing. It's an even bigger deal than it sounds because all this is happening during the Prohibition, when alcohol was supposedly unavailable.

The first night Nick goes to Gatsby's for a party, he's one of a very few actually invited guests. Everyone else just crashes. At the party, Nick is ill at ease. He knows no one. There's a surprising number of English people at the party, who seem desperate to get their hands on American money.

No one knows where Gatsby himself is. Nick hangs out near the bar until he sees Jordan Baker. Nick and Jordan chat with other party people. A young woman tells them that at another one of these parties, when she ripped her dress by accident, Gatsby sent her a very expensive replacement. They gossip about what this odd behavior means. One rumor has it that Gatsby killed someone, another that he was a German spy.

Nick and Jordan sit down at a table with a man who recognizes Nick from the army. After talking about the places in France where they were stationed during the war, the man reveals that he is Gatsby. Gatsby flashes the world's greatest and most seductive (not sexually, just extremely appealingly) smile at Nick and leaves to take a phone call from Chicago.

Nick demands more information about Gatsby from Jordan, who said that Gatsby calls himself an Oxford man (meaning, he went to the University of Oxford). Jordan says that she doesn't believe this, and Nick lumps the info in with all the other rumors he's heard (that Gatsby had killed a man, that he was Kaiser Wilhelm's nephew, that he was a German spy, etc.).

When Jordan is suddenly and mysteriously asked to speak to Gatsby alone, Nick watches a drunk guest weep and then pass out. He notices fights breaking out between other couples. Even the group of people from East Egg are no longer on their best behavior.

Outside, the man with the owl-eyed spectacles from the library has crashed his car. An even drunker man emerges from the driver's seat of the wreck and is comically but also horrifyingly confused about what has happened.

In the middle of the summer, Nick reconnects with Jordan Baker and they start dating. He almost falls in love with her and discovers that under her veneer of boredom, Jordan is an incorrigible liar. She gets away with it because in the rigid upper-class code of behavior, calling a woman out as a liar would be improper. Nick suddenly remembers the story he had read about her golfing career: Jordan was accused of cheating by moving her ball to a better lie, but the witnesses later recanted and nothing was proven.

When Nick complains that Jordan is a terrible driver, she answers that she relies on the other people on the road to be careful instead of her. Nick wants to take their relationship further, but reigns himself in because he hasn't fully broken off the non-engagement back home that Tom and Daisy had asked him about earlier.

The offhanded misogyny of this remark that Nick makes about Jordan is telling in a novel where women are generally treated as objects at worst or lesser beings at best. Even our narrator, ostensibly a tolerant and nonjudgmental observer, here reveals a core of patriarchal assumptions that run deep.

While in Christian tradition there is the concept of cardinal virtues, honesty is not one of them. So here, since the phrase "cardinal sin" is the more familiar concept, there is a small joke that Nick's honesty is actually a negative quality, a burden.

Nick is telling us about his scrupulous honesty a second after he's revealed that he's been writing love letters to a girl back home every week despite wanting to end their relationship, and despite dating a girl at his office, and then dating Jordan in the meantime. So honesty to Nick doesn't really mean what it might to most people.

Society and Class. At the same time, we get a sense of the West Egg/East Egg divide as Jordan Baker's East Egg friends stick together and do not mix with the rest of the guests, regarding them as vulgar and beneath them.

The owl-spectacles man and his even drunker companion crash a car that they have no idea how to drive. This alarming combination of driving and alcohol is here played for laughs, but is also an important bit of foreshadowing. The foreshadowing is laid on even thicker when Jordan says that as a careless driver, she relies on other people to watch out for her, and Nick points out the danger of two careless people meeting on the road.

Present-day Nick interrupts his story to let us know that the things that he is describing as significant now didn't appear so at the time. This both shows how much his fascination with Gatsby has grown over time, and makes the novel's heavy use of foreshadowing all the more significant.

Think about how Gatsby's parties have been portrayed in the movie adaptations of this novel, since these are the scenes that have become iconic in the way Gatsby has seeped into the larger culture.

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When I taught American Literature, I always had good intentions of studying The Harlem Renaissance after teaching The Great Gatsby. However, I rarely (ok never) had enough time left to do it justice, especially with all the end of year disruptions. Then, like a yellow car flying through the Valley of Ashes, it hit me: unlike Gatsby and Daisy, The Great Gatsby lesson and Harlem Renaissance make the perfect pair. ?

To set the tone for your Great Gatsby unit plan, consider incorporating The Great Gatsby introduction activities that celebrate the Jazz Age as a whole. To set the stage to engage, you may consider decorating for your Gatsby unit BEFORE starting the novel. Here are some ideas.

For example, in my Great Gatsby introduction stations, one of the tasks is to look at the original cover of The Great Gatsby and predict what the novel might be about based on color symbolism. Beyond this, students also look at other Art Deco style book covers from The Harlem Renaissance to get a feel for the artistic style of the time.

Before updating my Great Gatsby teaching unit, I did a color symbolism study of The Great Gatsby. While the old unit certainly lacked diverse voices, I still stand by these fun activities for teaching The Great Gatsby through a color symbolism lens. So, when I updated my Great Gatsby teaching guide, I kept the color tracking elements and put them into a handy booklet that students can fill out and color while listening to The Great Gatsby audiobook.

Beyond a literary analysis of The Great Gatsby, students dig deep into The Jazz Age by comparing Harlem Renaissance poetry to The Great Gatsby passages. Here are some specific activities for teaching The Great Gatsby.

Teaching The Great Gatsby chapter 1 is important to get right because it sets the stage for the rest of the novel. However, Fitzgerald makes it difficult on us English teachers because the first part of chapter 1 in The Great Gatsby is laborious and boring. I said it.

Another added benefit to cutting out part of chapter 1 is that you can add diverse text sets. A fun activity for The Great Gatsby chapter 1 is to have students look at a modern Gatsby retelling by Nghi Vo. Vo uses a lyrical magical realism technique to tell the story through the narrative voice of Jordan Baker. This provides an interesting opportunity to look at the diction and style of both authors.

Using their Art and Analysis book, have students read the first part of chapter 2 individually and visualize what the Valley of Ashes looks like by focusing on color and description. This image of grays with the contrast of blue eyes will become clear later on as they better understand the color symbolism meaning in the book. If you want more art pairing ideas for The Great Gatsby, check out this post: 5 Unique Pairing Activities for The Great Gatsby

Chapter 7 Day 2: Consider hooking students by putting caution tape on the door as students walk in and playing a NYC ambiance with sirens in the background. Hand students the Police Report Activity as they walk in and have them read the account of the accident while filling out the witness report.

In addition to another poignant pairing for this chapter, have students focus on the flower symbolism in The Great Gatsby with a fun activity. Hook students by having real, faux, or printed flowers on group tables when they walk in. Without looking up any information, have students brainstorm what they think the symbolism might be for the flowers. There are plenty of articles online about flower symbolism that you can use afterwards to see which students got close to the meanings.

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