1. Why do you think that the setting of the book was so heavy with symbolism? Fitzgerald could have chosen any aspect of the story to be symbolic of the events that were happening, but he chose the places in which they occurred to do so. Why?
2. Analyze how Fitzgerald feels about dreams, are they futile and worthy of abandonment? Or are they Something to live for, a goal that the universe necessitates we work for?
3. Why do you think that Fitzgerald chose to have Tom "win" at the end of the book? Why was it that Gatsby had to die for his point to be proven?
4. How effective in propelling the plot was the use of parallelism in Chapter 7, where the truth comes out?
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