3. Discussion

1. Answer the following questions:

1. What was the story of Gatsby and Daisy’s love?

2. What impression did Daisy’s world produce on Gatsby?

3. Why did Daisy marry Tom Buchanan?

4. What was Nick’s attitude to the story?

5. Why did Nick break with Jordan?

6. What were Nick’s last words to Gatsby?

7. What were Wilson’s suspicions?

8. What meaning does the author get into the phrase “and the holocaust was complete”?

9. What sources does Nick reconstruct Gatsby’s and Wilson’s actions from?

10. What happened in the end of Chapter VIII?

2. Speak about Nick Carraway’s words addresswd to Gatsby: “They’re a rotten crowd. You’re worth the whole damn bunch together.”

3. Speak on Gatsby’s feelings upon losing Daisy. Comment on the following: “... perhaps he no longer cared. If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.”

4. Speak on peculiar blend of soberness of mind and madness in Wilson’s ideas and behaviour.

5. Make a list of chief events in the chapter.

6. Retell the chapter.

Chapter IX (pp 163-181)

1. Vocabulary

Vocabulary List

to stretch	to be completely knocked down and out
to reduce	to rise up to one’s position
to postpone	to draw a sight-seeing crowd
to dismay	to sneer at smth
Indignant	to force one’s way
to vanish	to raise smb up out of nothing
Hearse	to the bitter end
to justify	to be unadaptable to smth
to recede	to let alone
to get mixed up in smth	to sweep one’s refuse away
to bring to light	a wrong guest
to show a surprising amount of character	to throw dust into smb’s eyes
to be deranged a surmise	one’s share of suffering
chance visitors	an obscene word
to be tied up in some business	at the end of the world
capacity for wonder	to stand out clearly

1. Study words and word-combinations from the Vocabulary List. Reproduce the situations in which they are used.

2. Explain the meaning of these words and word combinations; find derivatives with the same root-morpheme as the word in bold type:

squeamishness, to throw dust into smb’s eyes, to cry for smth, to clean up the mess

3. Explain the meaning of these phrases:

to cry over the moon, a squeamish mother, to clean up one’s work; it’s clearing up

4. Find in the text of the chapter English equivalents to the following word-combinations:

невменяемость от горя; меня подобные вещи совершенно выбивают из колеи; скорбного вида старичок; дешевое долгополое пальто с поясом; к его горю стало примешиваться чувство благоговейной гордости; я его вытащил из грязи, из ничтожества; ни гроша в кармане; небо было обложено тучами; накрапывающий дождь; похожий на филина человек в очках; неприятное, тягостное дело

5. Give Russian equivalents to the following words and word-combinations:

a token of forgotten violence; a feeling of defiance; to be on the point of collapse; an embroided coverlet; a reverent voice; lingeringly; one of my most vivid memories; all wet to the skin; to force one’s way upstairs; to break off defiantly; a material car; the orgastic future

2. EXERCISES

1. Translate in writing from English into Russian the following passage on page 176:

from “ That’s my Middle West…” to “ …Eastern life.”

2. Translate into Russian:

1. Her aunt passed for a saint as she always threw dust in stranger’s eyes.

2. His father’s squeamishness in questions of honour was the boy’s secret pride.

3. Come back as soon as possible, the home is crying for you.

4. You’ve made a poor job of your marriage and who is going to clean up the mess for you?

3. Translate from Russian into English:

1. Широкие просторы раскинулись насколько мог видеть глаз.

2. Стержнем его экономической программы является сокращение расходов.

3. Я очень сомневаюсь, разумна ли такая спешка.

4. Я требую, чтобы рассмотрение дела было отложено.

5. Эта новость привела его в полное смятение.

6. Он совершенно справедливо возмущен этим предложением.

7. Товары пропали, и страховой компании придется выплачивать компенсацию.

8. Всегда ли цель оправдывает средства?

9. Относить их неудачу за счет недостатка средств – просто нечестно.

10. Вода спала, паводок пошел на убыль.

11. Лучше всего было оставить их в покое, чтобы они спокойно обдумали свое положение.

12. Утверждается, что честность, не считая того, что это самое правильное, еще и самое мудрое качество.