The Great Gatsby Journal Assignment
Chapter One:
SAT Vocabulary:
1. Levity noun; humor or frivolity, especially the treatment of a serious matter with humor or in a manner lacking due respect.
Sentence from the Novel:
Most of the confidences were unsought… or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign…
Original Sentence:
The levity by which he treated the subject seemed disposed with a misplaced gaiety that emulated some sort of defense, or lack thereof.
2. Supercilious adjective; behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others. Sentence from the Novel:
Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.
Original Sentence:
Doomed by the burden of his condition, Felip loathed those who talked to him in a frivolous manner with the stain of supercilious thought on the tip of their tongue.
3. Fractious adjective ; (typically of children) irritable and quarrelsome.
Sentence from the Novel:
His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed. Original Sentence:
Their father was possessed with a fractiousness , making him frightfully incapable of raising his children.
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Quotation:
● Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ‘all right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
● Daisy, even in her name, is sought after like a decoration. She is a flower that is fun to look at and great to put on display. She is almost inhuman. In her many years of being enslaved by the apathy of her own society, she has desensitized herself to the feelings of others and completely lacks any ability to empathize. That’s why she
SAT Vocabulary:
1. Levity noun; humor or frivolity, especially the treatment of a serious matter with humor or in a manner lacking due respect.
Sentence from the Novel:
Most of the confidences were unsought… or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign…
Original Sentence:
The levity by which he treated the subject seemed disposed with a misplaced gaiety that emulated some sort of defense, or lack thereof.
2. Supercilious adjective; behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others. Sentence from the Novel:
Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.
Original Sentence:
Doomed by the burden of his condition, Felip loathed those who talked to him in a frivolous manner with the stain of supercilious thought on the tip of their tongue.
3. Fractious adjective ; (typically of children) irritable and quarrelsome.
Sentence from the Novel:
His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed. Original Sentence:
Their father was possessed with a fractiousness , making him frightfully incapable of raising his children.
.
Quotation:
● Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ‘all right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
● Daisy, even in her name, is sought after like a decoration. She is a flower that is fun to look at and great to put on display. She is almost inhuman. In her many years of being enslaved by the apathy of her own society, she has desensitized herself to the feelings of others and completely lacks any ability to empathize. That’s why she