Year 10
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Practice Essay Questions
- ‘Daisy is responsible for the destruction of Gatsby's dream.’ Do you agree?
- ‘Gatsby is destroyed because reality overwhelms his ideals.’ Discuss.
- ‘Gatsby cannot control his fate. His destiny is at the mercy of forces that are completely beyond his control.’ Do you agree?
- ‘The novel presents a world in which women are dominated by men.’ Discuss.
- ‘All the characters in the novel gain their sense of identity through the ownership of possessions.’ Do you agree?
- ‘Gatsby is the only innocent character in the novel. Everyone else seems intent on inflicting pain on others.’ Discuss.
- ‘The Great Gatsby demonstrates that relationships fail when they are based on illusions.’ Discuss.
- “They’re a rotten crowd—you’re worth the whole damn bunch,” Nick tells Gatsby. Do you agree?
- The world of The Great Gatsby is devoid of hope. Do you agree?
- ‘The Great Gatsby suggests that wealth leads to corruption.’ Do you agree?
- “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams – not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion.” Why was Gatsby’s dream unattainable?
- “He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never more romp again like the mind of God.” Is Daisy responsible for the destruction of Gatsby’s dream?
- ‘In the world of The Great Gatsby illusion is richer than reality.’ Do you agree?
- ‘The Great Gatsby depicts the essential loneliness of the human condition.’ Discuss.
- “Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.” Gatsby is destroyed because reality overwhelms his ideals. Discuss.
- ‘Gatsby’s refusal to see reality is the real tragedy of The Great Gatsby.’ Discuss.
- ‘In his hunger for the future, Gatsby loses the value of both the present and the past.’ Do you agree?
- Is Nick just a middle man? Or is Nick just a go-between?
- Gatsby paid too high a “price for living too long with a single dream.” Do you agree?