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Chapter 8–9
The world owes (someone) a living
Not backward in coming forward
To tend to rub people up the wrong way
All mouth and no trousers
To eat someone for breakfast
The life and the soul of the party
The salt of the Earth
A force of nature
Task 11. Match the idioms from the list to the explanation.
1. Someone who is always confident enough to give their opinion
2. Lazy people
3. Person who frequently manages to cause offence or annoyance
4. Shy people
5. An extrovert and energetic person
6.
Someone who boasts a lot about what they are going to do but never
actually does
7. A frightening and aggressive person
8. Someone who is always lively and cheerful
9. A very good and honest person
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Which idiom/idioms can illustrate some scenes in the chapter and which ones
could be said by the characters?
Task 12. Make three questions using the idioms and ask your
groupmates.
Grammar. Cleft Sentences: It
Task 13. Study the information below.
Meaning
Sentences introduce by ‘It’, like ‘It is’ or ‘It was’, are often used to emphasize
a specific subject or object. The introductory clause is then followed by a relative
pronoun.
Examples.
It was he who opened the window. It is the art fair that makes him feel
really happy.
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Task 14. Rewrite the sentences using cleft sentences in such a way that
the underlined information is emphasized.
1. I love coffee with sugar – It __________________________________
2. Eva spent the whole year in France. It ______________________________
3. Chris lost weight by playing tennis for two hours every day. It _______
________________________
4. Our apartment is being renovated. It__________________________
_________
5. Alice has to ask for permission to attend the conference. It _________
__________________________________
6. The way he told the story surprised us. It_______________________
_______________________________
Task 15. Find more examples in the chapter.
Task 16. Make three questions using the grammar and active vocabulary
to ask your groupmates.
General discussion of the novel
Questions to general Discussion
1. What’s your general impression after reading the whole book?
How does Fitzgerald use geographical setting to show the contrast
2.
between social classes in the novel?
3. What role does Nick Carraway’s narration play in the story?
4. Who is your favourite character? Why?
5. Discuss female characters and their significance in The Great Gatsby
Describe the concept of that society? Do you think it is the same
6.
now?
7. Who is the real hero in The Great Gatsby?
8. Why is the book so popular?
What do you think of the end of the story? Do you agree with the author?
9.
10. Can you make up a different end?
Topics for written essays
1.
What is the most essential symbol in the novel? What does it represent?
2. Why, do you think, the title, The Great Gatsby, is appropriate?
3. Does the novel represent the American dream?
4. What does the Valley of Ashes symbolize in the novel?
5. Does Gatsby’s money bring him real happiness?
6. Compare Myrtle and Daisy.
7. What does the Valley of Ashes symbolize in The Great Gatsby?
8. What do colors symbolize in the novel?
What does Jay Gatsby really live for in the novel: the present or the past?
9.
10.
What role do the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg play in The Great
Gatsby?
11. How does Nick’s character change over the course of the novel?
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12. Compare Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan
13.
Create an alternative ending for The Great Gatsby. Justify your choice.
Optional task
Film
The Great Gatsby
1. Pre-watching task:
Imagine the characters’ appearance and clothes, describe the main places
and houses of the story what they look like.
2. Watch the film and answer the questions:
1) Match the parts or scenes of the film with the chapters of the book.
Are they the same or different. Would you add or cut any scenes or
episodes?
2) Do you like the acting of the main characters and the description of
places in the film. Did they meet your expectations?
3) Does the author’s idea of that society correspond the image of ours
nowadays? Is it the same? Has it changed dramatically?
After watching the film read and analyze the key features of the following
3.
reviews.
9/10
“The Great Gatsby” Review
Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby”, is fairly accurate to the classic
novel and keeps most of its themes intact. However, Luhrmann’s own flair
adds a new dimension to the story. Visually this film is incredibly stunning.
From grand sets to the detailed period dresses, this film is a treat for the eyes.
Never once does it not take your breath away from its impressive scenery.
Many people might be worried about the updated music, but there is nothing
to fear. Jay-Z’s track works incredibly well with the film and complements
the era in which it is set.
The direction in this film is impeccable. The cinematography is marvelous
and really lets the viewer absorb the sheer artistry that has gone into making
this film. Luhrmann keeps a high level of energy throughout the film and the
party sequences are choreographed and edited in a way that it makes you feel
envious of not being a part of it. Editing in the film is seamless and really keeps
the viewer engaged. A common criticism the film receives is that it is more style
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than substance, however, I must disagree. This modern interpretation doesn’t
forget its themes and morals from the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald tale.
Performances are phenomenal by the entire cast. Carey Mulligan’s Daisy
is every bit as careless as one would expect, but she also manages to show some
complexity in her role. Tobey Maguire is a great avatar for us to take on as we
enter this film. He is very much the viewer as he sees everything happening,
but is ultimately helpless to change anything. The true standouts in the film
are Joel Edgerton and Leonardo DiCaprio. Edgerton as Tom Buchanan brings
a lot of personality to his character that I thought was absent in the book.
He’s a bit more tender and more vulnerable, especially when he finds out his
wife’s secret. The true award recognition worthy performance comes from
DiCaprio’s Gatsby. He hones on being a respectable, but idealistically insane
man. His performance is not only compelling, but also charming and quite
hopeful. He truly deserves some recognition.
Overall, “The Great Gatsby” is a fantastically entertaining and enthralling
film. It is horribly underrated as it is filled with awards worthy visuals, sets,
costumes, direction, and performances. It is a great time at the movies for
anyone that enjoys the classic novel or who haven’t even heard of it. Not only
is this film dramatically satisfying, but also quite humorous and a spectacle
like no other. I give it 4.5/5, a great adaptation of one of the greatest novels
ever written.
9/10
Nothing exceeds like excess
THE GREAT GATSBY There is no movie I have been more prepared to
dislike than this one. How dare some Aussie come over here and tell us about the
meaning of one of the great works of American literature. Especially this Aussie,
Baz Luhrmann, who is known to overload, over-hype and overcook his theatrical
product into a glittery miasma of small meaning and little consequence. (i.e.
Moulin Rouge)
But I was wrong.
Jay Gatsby has achieved success in a fashion beyond most imaginations,
excepting his own. In true Horatio Alger tradition he has worked hard to
improve himself, but when his past creeps up on him and threatens his well
crafted self image, he suavely and effortlessly changes it, his past, and he
inhabits the change until it becomes the reality. He is the self made American
man in every way. He is the American success myth both personified and
perverted.
Unlike Alger’s heroes, he has not followed the straight and narrow. He has
acquired his fabulous wealth through bootlegging and stock swindles.
This belief, that he can change his past, to correct it as it were, has
given him a veneer of respectability that has put him in good stead with his
underworld connections. But it is not for them that Gatsby has made this
remarkable metamorphosis. No, he did everything, and I mean everything,
for the love of a woman.
Daisy was Gatsby’s great love, but he lost her, and now in one final herculean
effort he is going to correct his past this one last time. He is going to win her
back and make things as they should have been.
Leo DeCaprio is the only actor of this generation that could play Gatsby,
just as Robert Redford could only play Gatsby the previous generation.
Redford’s Gatsby seemed reticent and insecure about his past; regretful
that he must live a lie in order to accomplish his goal. DeCaprio’s Gatsby
is forceful, decisive; he is a determined man of significant accomplishment
and great ability. He has a plan and he is going to execute it and as far as he
is concerned, for all the right reasons. For myself, it is DeCaprio’s best and
most powerful performance.
This decision (both DeCaprio’s and Luhrmann’s) to take Gatsby down
from some ethereal literary icon into a flesh and blood human being gives the
movie an intensity that the 1974 version and most of the literary criticism of the
book that I have ever read, never perceived. This is not a shining white knight
rescuing a damsel in distress; this is a bare knuckles brawl for the hand of Daisy,
and she is going to have to choose.
Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton) is Gatsby’s antagonist. He and Daisy
were married when Daisy could no longer wait for Gatsby to prove himself
worthy of her. Tom is as rich, maybe even richer than Gatsby, but his money
is old, he is an aristocrat with a deep sense of entitlement. He has status and
wealth because he’s supposed to have status and wealth, and he’s not about to
give up all that, and certainly not his wife, to this new money usurper Gatsby,
without a fight.
Bruce Dern played Tom as a kind of loopy (Dern’s specialty) racial
conspiracy nut, but Edgerton gives Tom a much harder edge. When Tom
espouses his vile racial philosophies one might think that someday he might
actually do something about it.
Daisy (Carey Mulligan) is a tough role. For all the time that Gatsby spends
trying to prove he is good enough for Daisy, the audience, for the book or the
film, is led down the path that she is not good enough for him. Mia Farrow
played Daisy as an airhead and a dingbat, but Mulligan gives Daisy a bit more
spine, and fashions a character that has a pretty good idea where her selfinterests lay.
Luhrmann and co-writer Craig Pearse stay pretty close to the text with a
few additions and devices, most notably, to those of us who read the book,
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know that it is Nick Caraway (Tobey Maguire) who tells the story, and is a
firsthand witness to all the events, but we never knew from where he tells the
story. Luhrmann tells us it is from a sanitarium where Nick is drying out from
excessive alcoholism.
As for Luhrmann’s reputation for excess: Well, he certainly visualizes
Gatsby’s parties as excess, but they are supposed to be excessive, excessive
materialism is part of the point of the story. There are times when Luhrmann
can’t resist himself and feels the compulsion to punctuate matters with some
visual flourish, but I did not find it too distracting. His decision to go 3D
however, I think was wise. The characters seem to come out of the screen and
get next to you. You get to know them personally, and after all this is a very
personal story.
I think this story has survived the test of time so well because it is basically
a love story. Whatever the viewers or readers opinion of the characters are,
Gatsby and Daisy do love each other, but Fitzgerald was not interested in boy
meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl and they all live happily ever after. Where
Fitzgerald reached his own aspiration of creating high art is in wondering if
living happily ever after is even possible in an age of class consciousness, even
class warfare, that is driven by a compulsive materialism in a world changing so
fast that we can’t even formulate the question before we have to come up with
an answer. Luhrmann stays true to these themes and displays an avid curiosity
about them himself.
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СОДЕРЖАНИЕ
Предисловие .................................................................................. 3
Introduction .................................................................................... 4
Chapters 1–2 ................................................................................... 6
Chapter 3 ...................................................................................... 13
Chapter 4 ...................................................................................... 20
Chapter 5 ...................................................................................... 28
Chapter 6 ...................................................................................... 34
Chapter 7 ...................................................................................... 41
Chapter 8–9 .................................................................................. 48
General discussion of the novel ...................................................... 53
References ..................................................................................... 58
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Занятия по роману
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«ВЕЛИКИЙ ГЭТСБИ» THE GREAT GATSBY
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