1. AMERICAN NOVEL - ADVISOR LEC. M. ZAFER
AYAR
Moral & Social
Decay
Ayça Çağla Aydın
Merve Kahriman
Gül Nihan Gürsoy
Gamze Köse
Tuncay Yaran
KTU – Department of English Language and Literature

2. AUTHOR
PLOT
CHARACTE
RS

3. F.SCOTT FITZGERALD
&

4.  He was born Sept.24.1896 in St. Poul
Minnesota
 His mother Marry McQuillen was from Irishcatholic family that had made a small fortune
in Minnesota
 His father Edward Fitzgerald lost his job and
moved to his wife town and live there with
his wife’s inheritance.
 He attended St. Poul Academy
 His first writing was published in the school
newspaper. When he was 15 he was sent to
a catholic school in New Jersey.
 He developed his artistic development at
Princeton University.

5. Zelda Sayre
refused to
marry him
until he could
publish This
Side of
Paradise
Like Daisy in terms of the way
that she refused Gatsby because of
his economic circumstances.

6. He wrote many
books but most
published and
read book was
the Great Gatsby.
The Great
Gatsby was the
symbol of
America. Jazz
age and
American Dream.

7. Later he became
alcoholic and his
wife also had
some mental
disorders. He died
of a heart attack at
44.

8. PLOT
Nick Carraway moves to New York , He rents a
house in the West Egg. Nick’s next-door
neighbor in West Egg is a mysterious man
named Jay Gatsby.
Nick is unlike the other inhabitants of West Egg,
he was educated man. He had social connections
in East Egg. Nick drives out to East Egg one
evening for dinner with his cousin, Daisy
Buchanan, and her husband, Tom.
Nick learns that Tom has a lover, Myrtle
Wilson, who lives in the valley of ashes, a
gray industrial dumping ground between
West Egg and New York City.

9. Nick receives an invitation to one of Gatsby’s legendary
parties. At there Nick meets Gatsby himself, a
surprisingly young man who affects an English
accent, has a remarkable smile. Nick later learns more
about his mysterious neighbor Gatsby.
Gatsby’s extravagant lifestyle and wild parties are
simply an attempt to impress Daisy. Gatsby now wants
Nick to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy,
but he is afraid that Daisy will refuse to see him if she
knows that he still loves her.
Nick invites Daisy to have tea at his house, without
telling her that Gatsby will also be there. , Gatsby and
Daisy reestablish their connection.
After a short time, Tom grows increasingly suspicious
of his wife’s relationship with Gatsby.

10. Nick, Jordan, and Tom drive through the valley
of ashes, however, they discover that Gatsby’s
car has struck and killed Myrtle, Tom’s lover.
They rush back to Long Island, where Nick
learns from Gatsby that Daisy was driving the
car when it struck Myrtle, but that Gatsby
intends to take the blame. George finds Gatsby
in the pool dead. Nick makes a funeral for
Gatsby, ends his relationship with Jordan, and
moves back to the Midwest to escape because
he feels discust for the people surrounding
Gatsby’s life and for the emptiness and moral
decay of life among the wealthy on the East
Coast. Nick reflects that just as Gatsby’s dream

11. 
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Tom
Has social status
Rich
Likes domineering
Sophisticated
Unfaithful
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Intelligent
Coarse
Unorthodoxy
Light hearted
Mocker and despiser
Tom: ‘It does her good to get away.’
Nick: ‘Doesn’t her husband object?’
Tom: ‘Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He’s so dumb
he doesn’t know he’s alive.’
So Tom Buchanan and his girl and I went up together to New York…
(p.
29)

12. Nick
 Young man from Minnesota
 Cousin of Daisy
 Graduated from Yale
 Honest
 Works in finance sector
 Morally justified
 Goes to New York for learning
bond business
 Confidant
 Has social connections and
aristocratic lineage
 Clever
 Permissive
Nick: ‘Does she want to see Gatsby?’
Jordan: ‘She’s not to know about it. Gatsby doesn’t want her to
know. You’re just supposed to invite her to tea.’
(p. 77-78)

13. Mrytle Wilson
 Married George Wilson
 Poor
 Lives in valley of ashes
 Unhappy
 Mistress of Tom Buchanan
 Wants to continue a better life
Myrtle pulled her chair close to mine, and suddenly her warm breath poured over me
the story of her first meeting with Tom.
‘It was on the two little seats facing each other that are always the last ones left on the
train. I was going up to New York to see my sister and spend the night. He had on a
dress suit and patent leather shoes and I couldn’t keep my eyes off him but every time
he looked at me I had to pretend to be looking at the advertisement over his head. When
we came into the station he was next to me and his white shirt-front pressed against my
arm—and so I told him I’d have to call a policeman, but he knew I lied. I was so excited
that when I got into a taxi with him I didn’t hardly know I wasn’t getting into a subway
train. All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever, you can’t
live forever.’ ‘

14. The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long
Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of
himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it
means anything, means just that—and he must be
about His Father’s business, the service of a vast,
vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented
just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year
old boy would be likely to invent, and to this
conception he was faithful to the end. (Ch.6 – 106)
*
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic
future that year by year recedes before us. It
eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow
we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne
back ceaselessly into the past. (Ch.9 – 171)
Jay Gatsby
Protagonist
Wealthy-young
From West Egg
Good-hearted
Loyal
Hopeful
Dishonest
Self-invention

15. ―I wouldn’t ask too much of her,‖ I ventured. ―You can’t repeat the past.‖
―Can’t repeat the past?‖ he cried incredulously. ―Why of course you can!‖
He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in
the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.
"I thought you inherited your money."
"I did, old sport," he said automatically, "but I lost most of it in the big panic – the
panic of the war."
I think he hardly knew what he was saying, for when I asked him what business he
was in he answered, "That's my affair," before he realized that it wasn't the
appropriate reply.
"Oh, I've been in several things," he corrected himself. "I was in the drug business and
then I was in the oil business. But I'm not in either one now.―
(Ch.6 – 106)

16. I called up Daisy half an hour after we
found him, called her instinctively and
without hesitation. But she and Tom had
gone away early that afternoon, and
taken baggage with them.
"Left no address?"
"No."
"Say when they'd be back?"
"No."
"Any idea where they are? How I could
reach them?"
"I don't know. Can't say." (Ch.9 – 156)
They were careless people, Tom and
Daisy—they smashed up things and
creatures and then retreated back into
their money or their vast carelessness, or
whatever it was that kept them together,
and let other people clean up the mess
they had made. (Ch.9 – 170)
Daisy
Nick’s cousin
Tom’s wife
Gatsby’s lover
Beautiful, charming
Not faithful
Sophisticated but careless
Fond of money, luxury

17. Jordan
Baker
Daisy’s friend
The woman whom Nick
loves
Golfer
New-woman
Self-centered
It made no difference to me. Dishonesty in a woman
is a thing you never blame deeply – I was
casually sorry, and then I forgot. It was on that
same house party that we had a curious
conversation about driving a car. It started
because she passed so close to some workmen
that our fender flicked a button on one man's
coat.
…
At her first big golf tournament there was a row that
nearly reached the newspapers—a suggestion
that she had moved her ball from a bad lie in the
semi-final round. The thing approached the
proportions of a scandal—then died away. A
caddy retracted his statement and the only other
witness admitted that he might have been
mistaken. The incident and the name had
remained together in my mind. (Ch.3 – 58)

18. GEORGE
WILSON
MRTYLE’S HUSBAND
OWNER OF AUTO
SHOP
CATASTROPHIC END
LIKE GATSBY
It was after we started
with Gatsby toward the
house that the
gardener saw Wilson’s
body a little way off in
the grass, and the
holocaust was
complete. (Ch.8 – 154)

19. OWL EYES

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
Strange
Drunk
Wearing glasses
Guest of Gatsby in party
Owl Eyes: Do you know her? I met her somewhere last night. I’ve been drunk
for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.’
Nick: ‘Has it?’
Owl Eyes: ‘A little bit, I think. I can’t tell yet. I’ve only been here an
hour. Did I tell you about the books? They’re real. They’re——‘
Nick: ‘You told us.’
(p. 47)

20. MEYER
WOLFSHEIM

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Friend of Gatsby
Wealthy
Does illegal business
Introduces himself as a gambler
Nick: ‘Now he’s dead,’ I said after a moment. ‘You were his closest friend, so I know you’ll
want to come to his funeral this afternoon.’
Wolfsheim: ‘I’d like to come.’
Nick: ‘Well, come then.’
The hair in his nostrils quivered slightly and as he shook his head his eyes filled with tears.
Wolfsheim: ‘I can’t do it—I can’t get mixed up in it,’ he said.
Nick: ‘There’s nothing to get mixed up in. It’s all over now.’
Wolfsheim: ‘When a man gets killed I never like to get mixed up in it in any way. I keep out.
When I was a young man it was different—if a friend of mine died, no matter how, I stuck
with them to the end. You may think that’s sentimental but I mean it—to the bitter end.’
I saw that for some reason of his own he was determined not to come, so I stood up.
(p. 162-163)

21. KLIPSPRINGE
R
Shallow freeloader
Not loyal
Selfish
‘What I called up about was a pair of shoes I left there. I wonder if it’d
be too much trouble to have the butler send them on. You see
they’re tennis shoes and I’m sort of helpless without them. My
address is care of B. F.——‘
I didn’t hear the rest of the name because I hung up the receiver.
After that I felt a certain shame for Gatsby—one gentleman to whom I
telephoned implied that he had got what he deserved. However, that
was my fault, for he was one of those who used to sneer most

22. Works Cited
Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great
Gatsby. Penguin Books
www.planetebook.com
www.sparknotes.com