- The document discusses the setting and characters of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby, including the main characters of Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, and Tom Buchanan. - The setting is in the 1920s on Long Island, New York in areas called West Egg, East Egg, and the Valley of Ashes between the two. - The document analyzes how the setting and wealth influence the behaviors and relationships of the characters.

1. BILKENT UNIVERSITY
SERRA KOZ

2. SUMMARY
• Director: Baz Luhrmann
• The Star Actors/ Actress: Leonardo
DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton,Tobey
Maguire
• Made in 2013
• Language: English

3. Summary
• Decade (1920s)
• Nick Carraway/ Narrator
– Yale University, fighting at WW1

4. Jay Gatsby
Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan

5. SETTING
West Egg, Unlike the conservative, aristochratic
East Egg Valley of Ashes Long Island
Time
Summer 1992

6. JAY GATSBY
• Wealthy young man. Nobody know how became rich
• Lavish parties he throws every Saturday.
• Criminal activities, social position
• Power to transform his dreams into reality → THE GREAT GATSBY

7. The affects of setting/situation on the
characters' behavior?
Money, POWER
Trust but has lots of CONFLICTS

8. Think beyond the frame

9. FATE
• Myrtle Wilson Death.
• She thinks she can escape from her husband
• Yellow car, guess it is Tom’s car
• Who drives car? Gatsby or not?

10. MENTAL ACCOUNTING
Daisy → Tom vs Gatsby
George Wilson → Revenge, Threaten
Myrtle Wilson → Escape
Gatsby → Take the blame. Is he the guilty?

11. AUTHORITY
• The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg (Valley of
Ashes)

12. • God who judges American Society
• Moral wasteland
• «The essential meaninglessness of the world
and the arbitrariness of the mental process»

13. References
• www.sparknotes.com