Great Gatsby Active Reading Notes

CHAPTER 1:
- What does communicative mean?
- Was it bad to be a politician?
-What does parceled mean?
-What did the author mean when he used the description creative temperament?
- what is the definition of phenomenon
-Nick lived in West egg.
-Daisy was Nick second cousin.
-Tom was the best football player at New Haven.
 -East egg is more wealthy.
-West egg is more middle class.
-What does conveyed mean?
- Why was Mrs. Baker so quite when Nick entered Tom and Daisy's house?
- I don't understand what Daisy means by the longest day in the year.
- What is Nordies.
CHAPTER 2:
- What does impenetrable mean?
-Did Tom really have a mistress?
- Why does Tom have a mistress when he is married?
-Why is he seeing a married women?
-Tom's mistress name is Myrtle Wilson.
- What does Haughtily mean?
- An example of post modernist art is "the large photograph of a hen sitting on a rock. But if you from a distance it turns into a bonnet."
- What doe haughter mean?
- Catherine is Myrtle's Wilson's sister.
- Myrtle never loved her husband.
-Why didn't anybody do anything when Tom hit Myrtle?
CHAPTER 3:
- What is an omnibus?
-What does prodigality mean?
-Nick was one of the few guest who had actually been invited to Gatsby's parties.
-What does homogeneity mean?
- Gatsby was in war out the same time Nick was.
- At the end of the night everyone was arguing.
-Nick had a little affair with a girl in Jersey.
- Nick realizes Jordan Baker is dishonest.
CHAPTER 4:
-Why did the author started listening to all those names.
-What does punctilious mean?
-Why did Gatsby feel he had to explain himself to Nick?
-Gatsby carries two things in his pocket.
-A medal from Montenegro.
-A photograph of half of a dozen men in blazers.
-Why did Gatsby feel embarrassed when he was introduced to Tom and then just disappeared?
CHAPTER 5:
- Why did Mr. Gatsby think it was a mistake meeting Daisy?
CHAPTER 6:
-I was surprised that Tom was at Gatsby's house.
-Why did Tom and the others ditch him?
CHAPTER 7:
- Gatsby hired new people so they wouldn't gossip about Daisy coming over in the afternoons.
-Also shocked that Daisy would kiss Gatsby at her house with Tom (her husband) there.
-Was Tom mad that he found out that Myrtle was moving?
-Why did Gatsby flat out tell Tom about everything between him and Daisy.
-How did Nick forget his own birthday?
-Michaelis was Mr. and Mrs. Wilson's neighbor.
-Myrtle and her husband got into a fight ad she stormed off but then got hit by a car.
-It was a yellow car.(Gatsby's car)
- Daisy Killed Myrtle.
CHAPTER 8:
- Mr. Wilson shot Gatsby.
-Nick called a lot of people to see if they would attend Mr. Gatsby's funeral.
-Daisy and Tom moved away.
- They all said no its funny how they cant go to his funeral but they could attend his parties every night.