Matthew Patten Period: 7 Modernism in the Great Gatsby (GG) and Slaughterhouse V (SH) Insanity GG o Nearly everyone except

t Nick is insane He knows and understands what is going on Insanity=Extreme foolishness or irrationality o Daisy Doesnt seem like she understands much Just understands dollar signs Foolish Stupid o Party guests Always drinking and getting drunk Many have negative information attached to them Snell=There for three days before he went to the penitentiary, so drunk that Mrs. Ulysses Swetts automobile ran over his right hand. Even have foolish names Edgar Beaver Maurice A. Flink o Flink=a group of 12 or more cows o FAT Etty Blackbucks o Defend their territory o Use posture and threatening gestures to assert dominance Names reflect wildlife and other things o When in the form of a human would look weird Hammerheads Flink Beluga Only people who sounded relatively normal came from West Egg o Gatsby and friends Friends are party guests Criminals like Meyer Wolfsheim Irresponsible Crazy and insane for throwing the game Gatsby Could not let Daisy go Built up this wealth and reputation for her She had husband

Matthew Patten Period: 7 SH o Billy Pilgrim Tralfamadore A planet far from earth where the inhabitants live in the fourth dimension so you cant see them and you are trapped in a cage with porn star Montana Wildhack, who has sex with Billy who is 40 or so years older and is not very attractive, and they can see the past, present and future but dont try to change any of them. Then you gain that ability but try once to change what will happen and then give up Very believable o Valencia Obsessed with Billy Only person who would get near her Her drive to the hospital o Gatsby Represses bad memories Never really talks about his past o His money, his early life But doesnt get rid of them Still in his unconscious mind o Gatsby and Daisy Still in past Cant live without her (disorder) so needs to get her back Tries so hard to reach the green light but just cant attain it Current keeps pushing him back Killed during the day when the green light was gone o Billy Pilgrim Time traveling Told to only live in the good memories by the Tralfamadorians But keeps returning the bombing and the war Much of the other times he traveled to were also what we would consider fearful times in his life such as the plane crash and his death Brings fears and conflicts into his conscious Kind of insane

Psychoanalysis GG

SH

Matthew Patten Period: 7 Sexuality GG o Tom Athlete Rich Masculine Defeats Gatsby o Uncovers the rest of his half truths Alcohol Oxford Shifty friends Dominant Controls Daisy Controls Murtle

o Gatsby Rich Decorated war hero Masculine Defeats Tom a few times o Parties with Tom being the Polo player o Almost taking Daisy Gangster Bootlegging Shifty friends Contacts G o Daisy Stay at home Arm candy Loves money Loves money more than love Relatively not too smart and foolish Beautiful o Murtle Mistress Good looking Tom uses her for sex o Couples Nick and Jordan Daisy and Gatsby Daisy and Tom Tom and Murtle SH o Billy Pilgrim Develops masculine body

Matthew Patten Period: 7 Smart Tough To those who arent from Tralfamadore and who have never been there Distant o Montana Wildhack Beautiful Sex Not too smart Caring o Couples Billy and Montana Billy and Valencia Perversions GG o The American Dream To become wealthy and happy Both of these are perverted o Wealth Changes people in this case for the worse Daisy was a loving and devoted person o Now is an idiot who only cares about $ Wealth caused Gatsby to lose the love of his life and made him obsessed with getting her back because it was the only way of getting her back Made people insane and jerkish Wealth=corruption Lives are actually depressing o Happiness None happy Gatsby loses Daisy Tom loses Murtle Wilson loses Murtle and then kills himself Gatsby dies Tom and Daisy leave

Matthew Patten Period: 7 Nick loses Jordan and a good friend Nick leaves

o The title, The Great Gatsby Thinks he is this great man who will come out on top and get the girl Not like that o Tells half truths and dies SH o Time Usually just moment by moment Tralfamadore=past, present and future o Death Usually the end Nope, just a bad moment o Free Will Doesnt exist o Gatsby Withdraws into his search for Daisy and his attempts to take her back All he does Withdraws back to the past too because that was when everything was good and he was happy o Tom and Daisy and Nick all withdraw back to the mid west Tom and Daisy to keep Daisy out of the hands of Gatsby Nick because he cant handle life in the city o Daisy withdraws back to Tom The real Gatsby is exposed and she sees who Gatsby really is and sees that Tom is stronger than Gatsby SH

Withdrawal GG

o Billy and Tralfamadore His happy place Where Montana and his new son are, where he is adored o Happy memories Where the Tralfamadorians live so they dont have to live in bad times Where Billy wants to withdraw to Pain and Suffering GG o Loss Love Gatsby loses Daisy

Matthew Patten Period: 7 Death Nick loses Jordan Tom loses Murtle Wilson loses Murtle Murtle, Gatsby and Wilson

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o Life Nick having to live through constant drama Hard and couldnt take it in the end o Embarrassment Tom at the party being called the polo player Exposure Gatsby had to suffer through the truth coming out about him o Guilt Daisy killing Murtle Gatsby for not being the man Daisy could have, not being good enough Gatsby for not putting on a good enough party for Daisy o Bombing of Dresden o Death Lots of people sad Billys daughter when her mother dies and her father almost dies needs to be pumped full of drugs to keep her from breaking down Lots of people die Valencia, optometrists, Weary, scouts o So it goes But Billy is not really effected by this o Guilt Billy during the war Breaks down about the horse Everyone dies except him Doesnt affect him as much later in life o No one believing Billy Must have been hard for him to spread the word o Kilgore Trout No one buys his books Poor No friends Mean Hard life o Gatsby

Identity

GG

Matthew Patten Period: 7 SH Real name is James Gatz Created new identity to create a new life New he was going to be special and could be successful Trying to find who he really is

o Pilgrim Who is he really? An old man in the future or a young man in the past? In a war or on a stage? Is he both?

Alienation Gatsby o Alone in his home o Separated from the world o No real friends until Dan Cody and Nick o Alone for most of his life Poor family Basically self employed Daisy and Tom o Go back to the mid west No address No one knows where they went Wilson o Loner really Wife with Tom No family (as far as I know) o In the Valley of the Ashes Ghost town Post war o Mostly only interacts with people when pumping gas o Heroes are either driven away or killed as well as disappointed Gatsby Protagonist of the book Rich, decorated war hero Liked by all Loses Daisy Dies Nick Good guy Helps people out Loses Jordan Leaves

Anti heroism GG

Matthew Patten Period: 7 o Antagonists win Tom gets Daisy People take advantage of Gatsby and get what they want Party people get parties, free alcohol, live music Almost no one at his funeral Protagonists nearly forgotten SH o Heroes, those who care and the strong are all killed Scouts, Derby, Valencia o The antagonists, those who dont care, the ignorant and the jerks live Weary, Billy, the British soldiers, the Nazi soldiers in the slaughterhouse o Setting 1920s Peace and prosperity o Decorated war hero, Gatsby Not many people know Doesnt tell anyone Killed Person who doesnt fight in the war gets what he wants o War tears love apart When Gatsby left for war, his love was destroyed and his lover left o Americans held foreigners and radicals responsible for war and it lead to a rise in the KKK Tom reads racists books and sounds like a part of the KKK o Valley of Ashes Signifies what it looks like after a war o Shows the horrors of war The bombing of Dresden The Russian concentration camps The train The slaughterhouse Tears apart the US o Billy does not want his son to be a part of killing people But becomes a Green Beret o Full of sickos o Bad moments Should not live in bad moments Tralfamadorians

Anti war GG

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Matthew Patten Period: 7 Should not have war Destruction and Devastation GG o Valley of Ashes Covered with soot and full of poverty and suffering Coal mines Gas pumpers Run down o Love Gatsby is devastated after Daisy leaves Wilson is devastated after Murtle dies o Gatsbys early life Poverty Farmers devastated by drought SH o Dresden Town is obliterated Mass destruction People are devastated over the loss of family and friends Billy devastated over horses o Billys daughter Devastated over loss of mother and near loss of father o Valencia Devastated after near loss of Billy o Concentration camps Russians Very lean and pale Devastation Trains like that too End of the World GG o Takes place in the 1920s A few years later the great depression hit and it feels like the end of the world o The powerful (wealthy) are idiotic and foolish o WWI Could have been the end of the world The entire world was in war o Gatsby loses Daisy Such a hard loss that it must have felt like the end of the world for him SH o Tralfamadorians destroy the universe Testing out new fuel and is fails catastrophically

Matthew Patten Period: 7 World is in the universe so the world ends as well o WWII Like WWI, the world could have been destroyed especially with the new technology such as the atomic bomb o Cold War Some scenes take place during the Cold War where one wrong move would have thrown the world into nuclear war and destroyed it o Billy though the Earth would destroy the universe World in universe thus end of the world Mans Inhumanity to Man GG o Valley of Ashes Signifies post war towns Poverty and suffering runs rampant No one does anything to help these people here o Daisy Gatsby loves her so much, more than Tom does But Tom is stronger and has more money Seems kind of inhuman o Love is fake Suffering caused by other people in love o People use another person Party people use Gatsby Tom uses Daisy and Murtle Seems as though Jordan uses Nick o Lack of care SH o Dresden People are only numbers Lose 130,000 o Concentration camps o Train Soldiers are treated like cattle o Killing in war Straight up o Treatment of the POW Russians Americans Death in War and Peace GG o Gatsby has been in war Made friends and companions but they died o Losses in peace Murtle

Matthew Patten Period: 7 Gatsby More similar to war because it was like Wilson declared war on Gatsby in his head o Love dies in war and peace o Good dies in peace and war Good fails in Nick and Gatsby Soldiers died in war and many considered good o War Good dies and not so good survives Scouts and Derby Billy and Weary Innocents die Dresden citizens Witnessing the killings and the horror

SH

God is dead

o Peace Accidents Optometrists and Valencia Natural Spot GG o o o o o Wealth rules Corruption rules Suffering rules Wilson thinks Dr. Eckelburg is God Parties Care more about their own enjoyment than God

SH

Hostile Universe GG

o Everything was predestined and planned No free will Time was already set Tralfamadorian philosophy o Loss of moral values o Attitudes Blamed radicals and foreigners KKK o War WWII Vietnam o Destruction of universe o Billy is surrounded by death

SH

Matthew Patten Period: 7 Nihilism o Family materialistic GG o True loves leaves Gatsby only cared about Daisy and when she left life would have been meaningless Wilson kills himself o American Dream false Wealth doesnt bring happiness o Tralfamadorian philosophy No free will o War Life surrounded by war an suffering o Billys life on earth o No mention of God o Gatsby Criminal activities to become rich Parties Huge house Lots of stuff o Daisy and Murtle All they want is stuff o Tom Possessions like Gatsby o Live in close proximity to lots of material goods o Billy is wealthy Married Valencia for money and connections o Cage on Tralfamadore Lots of furniture Movie=clothes o Looting o Dresden produced lots of material goods o Psychological war between Tom and Gatsby Trying to make the other look bad o Killings Daisy killed Murtle Wilson shot Gatsby Wilson shot Wilson o Gatsby fighting for Daisy Past Daisy

SH

Materialism GG

SH

Violence

GG

Matthew Patten Period: 7 I mind and real life o WWI WWII Vietnam Robert became a Green Beret Plane crash Optometrists died o Car crash Valencia dies o Time travel Psychological o Acceptance of death and inhumanity of humans Psychological o o o o GG o Daisy rebels against Tom with Gatsby o Tom cheats with Murtle Rebels Wilson o o o o Existentialism GG Billy rebels against society, war and family Family rebels against him Billy rebels against God Derby rebels against Campbell

SH

Rebellion

SH

o No existentialism Tralfamadorians says that no free will Earth only place with it Lack of Communication in Relationships GG o Gatsby and Daisy Dont communicate since Gatsby left His public image Shadiness o Tom and Daisy Dont talk much o Daisy and daughter o Murtle and Wilson little communication SH o Billy with everyone o Billy talking about Tralfamadore

SH

o Daisy choosing Tom o Nick is the only free person with logic Everyone else controlled by wealth

Matthew Patten Period: 7 Male/Female Conflicts GG o Tom and Murtle o Daisy and Tom o Gatsby and Daisy o Murtle and Wilson SH o Billy and Barbara Wants Billy to stop writing Role Models GG o Nick Sensible Gatsby looks to him for help His only friend o Gatsby role model as soldier o Meyer Wolfsheim Role model for criminals SH o Edgar Derby Experienced Only adult Good soldier o Billy Pilgrim When people accept Tralfamadore he spreads philosophy Expert Complex Family Relationships GG o Daisy and Tom Cheat on each other Daughter Relationship like a rollercoaster SH o Billy and his families Tralfamadorian family with Montana and his family on Earth Travels back and forth between them On Earth, has a frustrated daughter, a military son and a dead wife Married her for the heck of it and because he sees their life as satisfactory Adores Billy Robert is military son Lack of interest from family

Matthew Patten Period: 7 o Does not approve but doesnt show it o Hard to be with him On Tralfamadore Montana and Billy (baby)

Womens Power GG

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o Daisy Has money and could have power but is blinded by her own stupidity Beautiful Controlled by Tom But leverage with past scandals o Jordan Has power Independent Athlete Beautiful Good liar o Can appear as someone shes not o Murtle Power over Wilson Wilson adores her Cheats on him Some power over Tom Could expose their relationship But didnt think about exposing it o Barbara Exerts power over Billy by trying to control him o Wilson killing Gatsby o Tom criticizing Gatsby Money and Bootlegging

Victimization GG

o Derby shot for looting Everyone else was looting before though o Weary punishing Billy Beating him up o Barbara criticizing her father for writing about Tralfamadore o How the Germans and the British viewed the Americans Freedom vs. Restraint GG o Murtle

SH

Matthew Patten Period: 7 Wilson locks her in the house after he finds out that she is cheating on him Restrains her Daisy going home with Gatsby Gives her some freedom after he knows she wont run away with Gatsby Jordan Doesnt have any restraints No commitments o Doesnt keep any Naturally free Gatsby restrains himself to only thinking about Daisy In Gatsbys mind, he gives Daisy no freedoms and restricts her to only him Nick Doesnt have much of anything to keep him restrained No wealth or true loves

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Love GG

o Billy, Montana and the Tralfamadorians really have no freedom They know whats going to happen and cannot do anything to change them No freedom of choice/free will o Billy trapped in the memories of war o Soldier has to follow commands and is restrained o POWs have little to no freedom o Valencia Devoted herself to Billy o Daisy and Gatsby before he left for the war Gatsby still loves her after the war Expected her to love him but she didnt o Wilson loves Murtle o Daisy loves material objects o Nick loves Gatsby like a brother Hes worth more than a million Buchannans o Valencia loves Billy Billy kind of loves Valencia o Billy loves his dog Spot o Montana loves a Billy and Billy loves Montana o Billy loves his children

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