Prompts for Thinking about Gatsby

If you don't know what to blog about this week, here are five ideas (sorry they're a bit late):

1. Novelist Jonathan Franzen said of The Great Gatsby: "In 50,000 words, [Fitzgerald] tells the central fable of America...and yet you feel like you are eating whipped cream." What might he have meant by this statement?
   
   
2. Imagine that you are directing a film adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Whom would you cast in each role (Nick; Gatsby; Daisy; Jordan; Tom; Myrtle; Wilson; others?), and why?
   
   
3. Rewrite The Great Gatsby as a limerick. Then explain your limerick.
   
   
4. Rewrite The Great Gatsby as a haiku. Then explain your haiku.
   
   
5. Consider how the novel would be different if it were written from the perspective of a character other than Nick--Daisy, for example.