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- - - - Substantive (they are themes of substance, they are significant over arching aspects of human experience explored in the text by readers)
  - - - Fitzgerald's perspective is the corruption of that dream, the exploitation of the rich
        
        The rich prevent the poor from achieving wealth and social mobility
        
        Saying that they are predatory
        
        Tom is the device for that, he is predatory, he is the foul dust that preyed on Gatsby, the whole idea of a rigid aristocracy
        
        The american rich only sees themselves as value and sells it out
  - - - Based on two ideas, "Have a go and get a fair go!"
  - - - The audience encounter Gatsby through Nick's eyes
        
        His perseptions
        
        His prejudices
        
        Both are the lens for the account of Gatsby
    - - He had the encounter with Jay, leaving him hoping for a moral and spiritual growth.
- - - - People with more wealth has more value ocmparred to people with less wealth
      - Elitism is premised on the idea that wealth reflects personal characteristics
        
        Wealthy = virtues like hard-working, highly intelligent, talented
        
        Poor = lazy, foolish and wasteful, lacking diligence in seeking self improvement.
        
        Elitism ignores structural inequalities = those barriers to social mobility built into the structures of society (access to education, social capital)
    - - Overt message, easily seen
  - - - Class Struggle
        
        Predatory behavior of the super wealthy
      - What really matters
        
        Morality and the erosion of genuine, honest relationships
    - - Leads us to a discussion about:
        
        Love
        
        Elitism
        
        Materialism
        
        Self-Creation
        
        Gender
  - - - Whole idea of respect in both films
- - - - Mutually felt, genuine encounter with the other
  - - - It is a mental projection
      - Do they really see eachother?
      - Is the love a form of narcissism?
- - - - Chapter 1
        
        The whole chapter is about him being judgemental
        
        "In consequence I’m in clined to reserve all
        judgments"
        
        The whole story is about judgement
        
        He is the keeper of secrets
        
        "When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever;"
        
        His experiences in the east has shown him moral chaos
        
        "Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn"
        
        Asks us to think about: Is the title ironic?
        
        Why is Gatsby Great? his ambitions? his fall?
        
        Is Gatsby Great??
        
        "Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, *was exempt from my reaction --- Gatsby
      - "I'm five years too old to lie to myself about honor." (p.137)
        
        Nick sees that many people refuse to see the truth about their behaviour
    - - Nick is a broken and disillusioned man, his narration is a loss of innocence story
      - The begining
        
        Made him in a sycriatic unit talking to a doctor
        
        Made his disenchantment to a mental illness