<p> Name______Hr___ The Great Gatsby Ch. 9 </p><p>1. Nick has been telling us Gatsby’s story as a part of his past. How many years ago (for Nick) did all this happen? (171)</p><p>2. What was the pasquinade (public writing mean to ridicule)? (171)</p><p>3. What were the circumstances that caused Nick to “have a feeling of defiance, of scornful solidarity between Gatsby and me against them all” (173)?</p><p>4. Who is Henry C. Gatz?</p><p>5. To whom is Mr. Gatz referring: “If he’d of lived he’d of been a great man. A man like James J. Hill. He’d of helped build up the country” (176)? Explain the irony of the assessment. (Hill was a famous Railroad tycoon who was very productive, successful. He was able to stay afloat during the depression making business choices that were smart for him and those tied to his industry.</p><p>6. Why does Klipspringer call?</p><p>7. What advice does Wolfsheim offer Nick? (180)</p><p>8. Of what is the photograph that makes Henry C. Gatz so proud?</p><p>9. What was on the inside cover of Hopalong Cassidy?</p><p>--Explain the allusion and the significance of what young Gatsby wrote.</p><p>10. Who was the only person to show up at the funeral other than Nick and Henry Gatz? What remark does he make about Gatsby that serves as an epitaph?</p><p>11. What do Nick’s recollections concerning West and East have to do with the story?</p><p>12. Describe what Nick is referring to: “After Gatsby’s death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes’ power of correction” (185). 13. Why does Nick seek out Jordan?</p><p>14. When Jordan accuses him of being dishonest with her, he tells her he is ‘“five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor’” (186). What does he mean?</p><p>15. Nick encounters Tom in late October. What does he learn when he hears Tom’s version of what happened the afternoon Gatsby was killed? (187)</p><p>16. Explain the significance of the following : They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed 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 . . .”</p><p>17. What is the relationship between the “fresh, green breast of the new world” that Dutch sailors saw and Gatsby’s green light?</p><p>18. Explain the significance of the following: “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 further. . . . And one fine morning— “So we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaselessly into the past” (189).</p>