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American Literature No.2 - Coggle Diagram
American Literature No.2
Finance and Money
Ambition: He created the sort of Jay Gatsby that any seventeen year old was likely to create, and to that concept he remained faithful to the end
he can become an expert, an then have his own store!
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only achieved through corruption: Meyer Wolfsheim... No he's a gambler. Hes the man that fixed the world series back in 1919
3 dollars a day. I'm sick of digging for food - and not finding any. I got a wife and kid. We gotta eat.
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Financial exploitation: 'I got no obligtion to you at all. and as for you bothering me about it at lunch time!'
'Salesmen. neat, deadly, tiny eyes searching for weakness'. Sock it to em! start with a Buick and they will buy a ford.'
Social conditions.
Old vs New Money: most of these newly rich folk are just big bootleggers.
Daisy was appalled by the raw vigour that chafed under the old euphenisms.
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Transcendental
What is idolised. Daisy 'buoyed up upon an anchored balooon' 'her voice was full of money' vs the land and Jim Casey saying 'there was me and there was the land and we wasn't seperate no more. We was one thing and that thing was holy'. Prigozy - Gatsby's sense of the romantic possibility that resides in teh unattainable women, represents teh possibilities of an eternal life.
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Alworth argues the book invotes us to inhabit the unreality aof reality - the space of illusion and dreamlike reverie'
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He could climb to it if he climbed alone. Once there he could suck on the pap of life, the milk of wonder.
only the dead dream lived on, floating away as he tried to touch what was no longer tangible
Gender
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a degree of male reliability. They are used for money in Gatsby whereas they are used for sentimental and emotional reliability in The Grapes of Wrath.
'Daisy wanted her life shaped immediately by some force - whether that be love, money or unquestionable practicality'
women and children knew deep within themselves that no mistfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole'
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Men dominate women to a certain extent in Gatsby, whereas the patriarchy is subverted to a much greater extent in the Grapes of Wrath.
appearance of women. ''carried her flesh sensuously' vs Ma Joad who was 'heavy, not fat, but thick with childbearing and work'
'the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool'
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Motley - patriarchal to matriarchal. Hendrich 'steinbecks unwavering beleif in women to absorb tragedy.
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Land.
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Land as a place of opportunity,
'anything can happen once we have crossed this bridge, anything at all'
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Modernity
Industry as exciting 'there was a certain satisfaction that machines, men and women working gave to the restless eye'
Industry as exciting but also incredibly damaging 'men of understanding and knowledge and skill, who experiment with seeds endlessly developing the techniques for greater crops'
'raping methodically'
Modernity of moving to the city. does so purely for financial and capitalist ambition whereas the Joads have to move because of the power of nature and the dust bowl. 'men stood at their fences and looked at the ruined corn, drying fast now, only a little green showing through the film of dust.
'the roads were crowded with men ravenous for work, murderous for work'.
'anything can happen once we have crossed this bridge, anything at all'
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