Scaffolded Reading Model for THE GREAT GATSBY

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Book: THE GREAT GATSBY

Pages: 98-112

Summary:

1.     James Gatz becomes Jay Gatsby. He meets and befriends Dan Cody, an older and very successful businessman who mentors Jay Gatsby.  Ella Kaye cheats Gatsby out of a 25,000 dollar inheritance from Dan Cody. 

2.     Gatsby meets Tom Buchanan for the first time when he and the Sloanes ride over to Gatsby’s mansion. The Sloanes are disdainful of Gatsby but Gatsby doesn’t see it. He thinks that the Sloanes really mean their dinner invitation to him, but they don’t. They think he is beneath them.

3.     Tom and Daisy go to Gatsby’s home for a party. Tom flirts with other women. Daisy is only happy talking and being with Gatsby. At the end of the party, Gatsby, unhappy, tells Nick that Daisy doesn’t understand that he wants her to tell Tom she never loved him.

Critical Thinking and Response:

1.     Why does Tom look down on Gatsby when he doesn’t know him? Tom is a very supercilious man who looks down on everybody! 

      

      He and the  Sloanes are very snobby and they think that people who work for a living and who are not born from a very long line of rich people are not their equals.

2.     Why does Ella Kaye steal $25,000 of Gatsby’s inheritance money when she already got millions from Cody?

     

       It's simple - she's greedy. 

 

3.     Why is Dan Cody so important to Gatsby and to Ella Kaye? 

He mentors Gatsby, teaching him the ropes, opening business, professional and social doors for him. Cody was important to Ella Kay because they had been lovers. It was implied that she had killed him for his money and had inherited many millions from his estate.