Gatsby pg. 38-47

Vocabulary Learned:
Prodigality: profusely
Contemptuous: borderline hatred or anger; a judgmental look

• Mrs. McKee showed how horrible she was by vulgarly degrading someone she almost married
• shows that people like her, who easily bring down everyone else, aren't truly happy

Nick feels like such an outsider with the people in Myrtle's apartment

• everyone is mean and rude
• everyone tells him secrets, that they believe/were told were true, but they're all lies
• they're all fake and constantly change personalities
• Myrtle goes from being a woman married to a poor mechanic into a snobby, selfish, and think-shes-all-that mistress

-"People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searches for each other, found each other a few feet away." (page 41)

• he sentence above is a run-on but it wasn't corrected
• the writing wasn't corrected because Nick, the narrator, is disoriented due to the whiskey and the run-on sentence adds character

-Tom broke Myrtle's nose because she chanted Daisy's name

• she thought she was above Daisy and said she could say whatever she wants (thinking she was the woman of the house)
• Tom asserted himself and reminded Myrtle that she isn't above anyone (in a way he put her in her place, in a brutal way)