Today, we started off class with Rivers pointing to the new, massive good fortune/bad fortune chart on the other white board. We discussed what we went over yesterday, which was Gatsby's childhood and the bad fortune he had in the beginning of his life. We then broke up into our groups for a brief couple minutes to talk about the status change he had in his life. Then, Rivers brought the class back together so we could go over what we talked about. The first status change that was brought up was Gatsby going to St. Olaf college and being a janitor, which would be a step up in status from his life before. The quote in the book for this is, "An instinct toward his future glory had led him, some months before, to the small Lutheran college of St. Olaf in southern Minnesota. He stayed there two weeks, dismayed at its ferocious indifference to the drums of his destiny, to destiny itself, and despising the janitor's work with which he was to pay his way through." We discussed this quote and the idea of romanticism and transcendentalism was brought up about this quote, because of how Gatsby did what he wanted. Then, the next status change brought up was Gatsby clam digging, hunting salmon, having bad dreams, and living for survival. This change brought his status down, but then he met Dan Cody, who gave Gatsby a new job with better money. Dan Cody brought Gatsby's status up quite a bit from where he was at before. Rivers asked the class a question, “Is Gatsby’s status change the shape of the American Dream?” The class discussed this, and Big Kev said that since he made his money doing bad things that it did not embody the American Dream. Rivers fired back with saying that the core of the American Dream was built on people doing ‘bad’ things to create a mass amount of wealth.
My picture won't post to this blog so I'll leave the link here for anyone who wants to see the hottest man in the world: cha boy Dan Cody
https://www.google.com/search?q=great+gatsby&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS663US663&hl=en-US&prmd=ivbn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiTwaKkqYnRAhUM9YMKHa8JBPgQ_AUIBygB&biw=375&bih=591#hl=en-US&tbm=isch&q=dan+cody+the+great+gatsby&imgrc=RPuoaEAOemfX-M%3A
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