Evaluate the role of Nick Carraway as the narrator of this novel. What about Nick makes
him singularly appropriate for this particular story? How does Fitzgerald's choice of this narrator contribute to characterization and theme development within the story?
Evaluate the social critique advanced through the novel. What aspects of American society does the novel criticize and how? (Consider why Nick claims that Gatsby "turned out all right in the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby...")
Evaluate the presentation of dreams and illusions in the novel. Does Fitzgerald make a distinction between them? What statement does the author make about the human tendency to dream and the role of dreaming in the American ethos?
Evaluate the role of minor characters in the novel -- Myrtle Wilson, George Wilson, Meyer Wolfsheim, Owl Eyes, Jordan Baker. Why did Fitzgerald include them and in what ways are they important to the story?
Evaluate how this novel is about the concepts of emptiness and fulfillment in human experience. What does the novel seem to say are
the forces that create these concepts in a human life and how are these concepts related?
Evaluate Fitzgerald's use of a particular literary device within the novel. How does this device contribute to the meaning of the work as
a whole?
Evaluate the role of setting in this novel. In what ways are the settings of the novel instrumental to the larger thematic meanings?
