Robbie Gennat 1/5

Today in class we began continuing the talk about tragedy. We discussed how tragic downfalls are rapid and caused by character’s flaws. We made the distinction between romantic and modern tragic events. Romantic tragic downfalls were caused by a character's flaw. The modern downfall is also caused by a character’s flaws however the flaws are caused by systems. The discussion progressed into Chapter 7 talks. Mr. Rivers put a classic good fortune/bad fortune graph on the board and asked us to rank every character at the beginning of the chapter. We talked within our groups and then all contributed to the class board. Gatsby had the highest status, followed by Tom, then Daisy. The only characters with bad fortune are George and Myrtle. After graphing their locations, we repeated for the same characters but this time at the end of the chapter. Nick and Jordan were unaffected throughout the chapter. The biggest falls of fortune were on George, who went insane, Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom. Once complete, the class separated into 3 groups. Each group was focused on a different setting of Chapter 7 and talked about the events that happened there. We will start class tomorrow in those groups to continue talking.