The Great Gatsby, annotated
A close-reading workspace for Fitzgerald's 1925 novel. Load the text, mark passages, track every motif across all nine chapters, map the characters against each other, and search a curated quotation bank built for essay evidence. Everything runs in your browser and your notes stay on your device.
Read and annotate
Load the novel, then select any sentence to mark it, tag it to a motif, and attach your own note. Marked passages collect in My notes and export as a study sheet you can paste straight into an essay plan.
Chapter map
Every chapter broken into its movements, with the structural job each one does, the motifs that surface, and the question the chapter is built to make you ask. Open a chapter to see its beats.
Theme and motif tracker
Fifteen recurring images and ideas, each mapped chapter by chapter so you can see where a pattern starts, where it peaks, and where it goes quiet. A filled dot means the motif carries weight in that chapter, a solid dot means the chapter is its centre of gravity.
| Motif | What it does | Chapters 1 to 9 |
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Character map
Nine figures, each with the desire that drives them, the illusion they hold, the cost they pay, and who they are positioned against. Use the contrast pairs when an essay question asks you to compare.
Contrast pairs worth an essay
| Pair | What the contrast exposes | Best chapters |
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Quotation bank
Passages worth building an argument on, each with its chapter locator, the motifs it serves, and a note on what it can actually prove. Search by keyword, filter by chapter or motif, then send anything useful to My notes.
Essay angles
Twelve arguable positions, each with the counter-reading you have to handle and the evidence trail that supports it. An angle that no reasonable person could dispute is not an argument, so every one of these has an opposing case attached.
My notes
Everything you marked while reading and everything you saved from the quotation bank, gathered in one sheet. Notes live in your browser only. Export before clearing your browsing data.
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