paper 2 quotes - Gatsby + reader

quotes and authorial choices

Her voice is full of money

great Gatsby - auditory metaphor - human identity collapsed into currency

My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor’s lawn...

Great Gatsby - class/status - Nick’s modesty beside Gatsby’s attitude and eagerness to show off shows the class divide in the West Egg

I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West - all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford

Great Gatsby - deception - Rehearsed monologue as he uses cliché to expose Gatsby’s fraudulence

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures then retreated back to their money

Great Gatsby - Characterisation, metaphor and motif of carelessness - their wealth is a physical, protective fortress. The choice of verbs, smashed, retreated highlights the destructive nature of Old Money people

I lived like a young rajah in all capitals of Europe - Paris, Venice, Rome

Great Gatsby - exotic imagery to highlight Gatsby’s detachment from reality

Her sense of self was worth more than the years in prison to her

The Reader - characterisation of pride - Micheal’s internal realisation is used to show the cost of deception

I assumed that grand people would live in such a grand building

The reader - Architectural imagery - social class and status

You don’t have to call an expert, I admit that I wrote the report

The Reader - Dialogue - this high stakes confession during the trial exposes the tragic deception of Hana’s illiteracy

She has run her finger along the backs of the books

The reader - identity/ deception -tactile subtext - tracks Hanna’s physical contact with books and presents as intellectuallity to Micheal but acts as a tragic structural mask for Hanna’s hidden illiteracy

She always had the apartment clean…the cleanliness was obsessive

The reader - her physical cleanliness is a symbol of her attempt to wipe away her lower class status and moral filth of her past actions as a guard.

He was a professor of philosophy, he treated the problem like a mathematical problem, completely detached from the human feeling

The reader - simile and metaphor representing the cold intellectual detachment of the German bourgeoise

I had gone to two of his parties, mounted in his hydroplane, and, at his urgent invitation, made frequent use of his beach

Great Gatsby - repetition of possessive pronoun (his parties, is hydroplanes) - emphasises gatsby’s overwhelming sense of ownership and wealth.