Setting and Mood

U4L6B - Setting and Mood

Setting and Mood

The Plaza Hotel circa 1920 Inside the hotel from The Great Gatsby movie

Part I: Quote review.

Gatsby and Tom finally address Gatsby and Daisy’s affair while at The Plaza

Hotel. Review the following quotes from the scene below.

“The room was large and stifling, and, though it was already four o’clock, opening the

windows admitted only a gust of hot shrubbery from the Park” (Fitzgerald 126).

“The music had died down as the ceremony began and now a long cheer floated in at the

window, followed by intermittent cries of ‘Yea-ea-ea!’- and finally a burst of jazz as the

dancing began” (Fitzgerald 128).

“‘He isn’t causing a row, Daisy looked desperately from one to the other. ‘You’re causing

a row. Please have a little self-control’” (Fitzgerald 129).

“‘Self-control!’ repeated Tom incredulously. ‘I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and

let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that’s the idea you can

count me out…”(Fitzgerald 130).

“‘Your wife doesn’t love you,’ said Gatsby” (Fitzgerald 130).

“‘Once in a while I go off on a spree and makes a fool of myself, but I always come back,

and in my heart I love her all the time’” (Fitzgerald 130).

U4L6B - Setting and Mood

“From the ballroom beneath, muffled and suffocating chords were drifting up on hot

waves of air” (Fitzgerald 132).

“‘Oh, you want too much!’ she cried to Gatsby. ‘I love you now-isn’t that enough? I can’t

help what’s past’’ (Fitzgerald 132).

“But with every word she was drawing further into herself, so he gave that up, and only

the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no

longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the

room ” (Fitzgerald 134).

Part II: Putting it all Together

Response:​ Create a CER response paragraph discussing ​how the setting contributes to the mood of the scene in The Plaza Hotel room.​ 7 sentence response required. Use the quotes above to answer the prompt. Use the following format

to help you formulate your response.

Claim - answer the prompt (this should be arguable)

Evidence - first piece of evidence to support your claim

Response - So what? Why is this so important to the scene or story

Evidence - transition to next piece of evidence to support your claim

Response - So what? Why is this so important to the scene or story?

Conclusion - What effect does this have on the reader.

Requirements:

7 sentences

1 complex sentence highlighted ​yellow. 1 ellipse used in an embedded quote highlighted ​blue.