Today we started off by reading 4 examples of tragic scenarios and discussing which was the most tragic. My group had agreed that a 30 year old doctor getting into a car crash and losing control of his extremities was the most tragic. The class then had a discussion about the scenarios and we discussed how if you add context to each example one can become more tragic than you had originally thought. Next we went over how looking through a romantic and modernist lens can change the way you view a story. We displayed this by going over the end of Rip Van Winkle and the Tell Tale Heart. A romantic lens will always have absolutes at the end of each story whereas a modernist story will have a confusing or a complicated ending. After we took notes on that we discussed possible perfect endings for Gatsby. There was a big list of things we came up with but that was through a romantic lens. When we went through the list with a modernist lens we had to eliminate most of the things we wrote down because there would be outcomes that are not positive. Due tomorrow is Chapter 7 and to analyze where Fitzgerald releases tension in the chapter.
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