Daily Log

Wednesday, May 26

Students wrote down CDs from Chapter 9 of Gatsby for three minutes.

We discussed Jay Gatsby as a self-made man, an exemplar of the American Dream, in the more mundane (non-Platonic) terms of Chapter 9, then discussed the novel's ultimate disgust with the reality behind that dream and Nick's final verdict on Tom, Daisy, and their class. We connected their "carelessness" with Jordan's careless driving and that entire motif which culminates in Myrtle's death.