Directions:
(Remember, this is creative writing.)
1. Read the following passage from The Great Gatsby (151 or read below).
2. Rewrite this passage in today's terms. You wouldn't have orchestras at one of your parties (I don't think). So make it fit your generation.
3. Make it as amazing of a passage as Fitzgerald did here.
4. Your character should be your age. They should mimic the behavior/lifestyle (rich) as shown below.
5. Be school appropriate and have fun with it. FEEL FREE TO COVER MORE OF THE TEXT THAN IS GIVEN BELOW.
Bonus points will be awarded based on the degree to which you mimic Fitzgerald's writing while presenting a character who is your age/lifestyle.
For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes. All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the BEALE STREET BLUES. while a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers shuffled the shining dust. At the gray tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low, sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor.
Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men, and drowsing asleep at dawn with the beads and chiffon of an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed. And all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand.
DUE 10/26
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