The Best High School Book Report on The
Great Gatsby
(public domain)
Any book report on The Great Gatsby or its sequel, Tendonitis,
must answer these key questions:
1) When Jay Gatsby
says Daisy’s voice sounds like money, is that a compliment?
John Steinbeck gives
the best answer: “We can’t prove the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg symbolize
God.”
2) Did Gatsby make
his fortune by bootlegging during Prohibition?
Hemingway, as he
rowed, chanted: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
3a) When Gatsby demands
that Daisy say she never loved her husband Tom, what does she answer?
George Orwell replied:
When Scarlet O’Hara said “Fiddle-dee-dee,” she was not referring to the Scarlet
A on her chest, but to The Red Badge of Courage.
3b) When Daisy
strikes Myrtle with Gatsby’s car, is she trying to kill her, or just preserving
her own life by not bothering to swerve enough?
Gilgamesh retorts: “Why
does Nick Carraway have a bigger part than Jay Gatsby? Why does Faulkner think
his mother is a fish?”
4) Why were the
soccer leagues underwater in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?
Jane Eyre insists, “The
harpooner was varsity, not JV.”
There we have it.
The definitive high school book report on The Great Gatsby.
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