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Chapter Nine: Love & Historical Context

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Chapter Nine - Love, Historical Context and Historicism

For specification A, you are specifically interested in the implication of texts in history and how the ideology of love is presented in this text. Here are some ideas relevant to that reading:

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Speculation over Gatsby's death

  • Speculation over Gatsby’s death seems to show that no-one much really loved or cared for him.
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Daisy's treatment of Gatsby

  • Gatsby was willing to give anything for the love of Daisy but at the end, he finds himself alone. Daisy is not even physically close any more.
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Ceasing of female voices

  • Temporarily, female voices seem to cease in the book. Consider this in the light of Feminist Literary criticism.
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Lack of love for Gatsby

  • The lack of love afforded to Gatsby is seen in associates such as Klipspringer, Owl Eyes and Wolfsheim.
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Success of new money

  • New money is, therefore, more likely to succeed and thrive in the West. So class transformation may happen there.

Chapter Nine - Love, Historical Context and Historicism

For specification A, you are specifically interested in the implication of texts in history and how the ideology of love is presented in this text. Here are some ideas relevant to that reading:

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Broken relationship

  • The idea of broken relationships and corruption seems to have infested the relationship Nick has with Jordan.
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Carelessness of Daisy and Tom

  • There is a notion that Daisy and Tom are careless about love, and it is this carelessness that prompted the mess that they left behind.
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Symbolism of Gatsby

  • Nick offers the reader a symbol of America in the form of Gatsby, but also too, perhaps a symbol of pure love.
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Loveless Nick

  • Nick is left at the end of the book without love himself. He hopes that he will find this again in the ‘West’, but perhaps there is an undercurrent that because he was witness to events here, he will never be able to find it.
  • He will have become too cynical about the human condition and love.
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Pammy - hope for the future

  • The hope for love in the future remains with Pammy who may be able to rise above the corruption and ‘old money’ of her parents.

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1Specification Overview

1.1Specification Overview

1.1.1Specification A

2Context

2.1Context

2.1.1F. Scott Fitzgerald

2.1.21920s America

2.1.3Tragedy

2.2Criticism & Approaches

2.2.1Early & Modern Criticism

2.2.2Psychoanalytic Approach

2.2.3End of Topic Test - Context

3Plot Summary

3.1Chapter One

3.1.1Chapter One

3.1.2Analysis of Chapter One

3.1.3Chapter One: Love & Historical Context

3.1.4End of Topic Test - Chapter One

3.2Chapter Two

3.2.1Chapter Two

3.2.2Chapter Two: Love & Historical Context

3.2.3End of Topic Test - Chapter Two

3.3Chapter Three

3.3.1Chapter Three

3.3.2Analysis of Chapter Three

3.3.3Chapter Three: Love & Historical Context

3.3.4End of Topic Test - Chapter Three

3.4Chapter Four

3.4.1Chapter Four

3.4.2Chapter Four: Love & Historical Context

3.4.3End of Topic Test - Chapter Four

3.5Chapter Five

3.5.1Chapter Five

3.5.2Chapter Five: Love & Historical Context

3.6Chapter Six

3.6.1Chapter Six

3.6.2Chapter Six: Love & Historical Context

3.6.3End of Topic Test - Chapters Five & Six

3.7Chapter Seven

3.7.1Chapter Seven

3.7.2Analysis of Chapter Seven

3.7.3Chapter Seven: Love & Historical Context

3.7.4End of Topic Test - Chapter Seven

3.8Chapter Eight

3.8.1Chapter Eight

3.8.2Chapter Eight: Love & Historical Context

3.9Chapter Nine

3.9.1Chapter Nine

3.9.2Chapter Nine: Love & Historical Context

3.9.3End of Topic Test - Chapters Eight & Nine

4Character Profiles

4.1Nick Carraway

4.1.1Nick Carraway

4.1.2Nick Carraway 2

4.1.3End of Topic Test - Nick

4.2Jay Gatsby

4.2.1Jay Gatsby

4.2.2Jay Gatsby 2

4.2.3End of Topic Test - Gatsby

4.3Daisy Buchanan

4.3.1Daisy Buchanan

4.3.2Daisy Buchanan 2

4.4Tom Buchanan

4.4.1Tom Buchanan

4.4.2Tom Buchanan 2

4.4.3End of Topic Test - Daisy & Tom

4.5Minor Characters

4.5.1Minor Characters

4.5.2End of Topic Test - Minor Characters

5Key Ideas

5.1Key Ideas

5.1.1Love

5.1.2Class

5.1.3Idealism

5.1.4Patriarchy & Presentation of Women

5.1.5End of Topic Test - Key Ideas

6Writing Techniques

6.1Structure, Genre & Narrative Voice

6.1.1Structure & Narrative Voice

6.1.2Genre

6.2Form & Language

6.2.1Form & Language

6.2.2Symbolism

6.2.3End of Topic Test - Writing Techniques

7Love Through the Ages - Thematic Analysis

7.1Love Through the Ages

7.1.1The Examination

7.1.2Love Through the Ages Reading

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Chapter Nine

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