Exam: 23/05/2011 at 8:30AM.

How does Gatsby's relationship with Meyer Wolfshiem contribute to our understanding of Gatsby's character?

F.Scott Fitzgerald

Please post your findings on our author. Don't forget to add a link to an article you have found interesting.

An Awkward Social Gathering in Ch.2

What did we find really interesting about the party in New York? Have any new symbols been introduced? To what effect? And what more have we learnt about our characters / narrator?

'The Wasteland' T.S.Eliot: http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html

The links that Cecilia, Maya, Hannah, Maeve and more of you made between this poem and the description the valley of ashes are fantastic. Maya took it to another level by suggesting that these wastelands could be a metaphrical representation of the relationships at work in the novel/poem and therefore in this era.

The Symbolism of Colour

Tom and Daisy Buchanan: 'a luxurious but frivolous and trivialising way of life'