Once recited by the great Nick Carraway, “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired” (79). Chapter 5 of the book The Great Gatsby, reflects upon the experience that Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan have together with the unfortuante Nick Carraway being trapped in the same room together. Carraway can be thought of as almost being a buffer in some instances. Everything becomes awkward at some point and that is what that buffer is for. Gatsby is the person that wants to be with Daisy again.
Chapters 1-5: Thomas has begun his new life. Once he was out of the box, he was introduced to all the Gladers. Alby, the first person to arrive in the glade introduced Thomas to Chuck, who was to help him around the Glade that night. Thomas was the grennie to the Glade, and had already made a lot of friends and one enemy, Gally. Chapters 6-10: Newt woke Thomas up, to show Thomas what lies in the maze.
When Upton Sinclair wrote the Jungle, a book about the terrible environment of the meat-packing factories in Chicago, he hoped to motivate reform in immigrant working conditions and promote socialism. Instead, what shocked readers the most was the sordid surroundings in which their future meals were prepared. Sinclair 's audience saw these conditions as a threat to themselves, and that energized reform in the meat-packing industry. What scared audiences the most was how real this threat was to their lives. As can be witnessed in the results of Sinclair 's crusade, the most effective propaganda is that which rouses the visceral survival instinct.
In chapters four through six of The Great Gatsby, the reader is introduced to the real Gatsby who was incredibly poor in his early life. At the beginning of chapter six, Nick explains to the reader Gatsby’s real upbringing. Nick explains, “James Gatz — that was really, or at least legally, his name… His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people — his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself” (Fitzgerald 62-63).
In Chapter 5, Fitzgerald utilizes the weather to reinforce the mood. The rain outside mirrors the storms within, as Gatsby and Daisy meet again. Nick opens the front door and sees Gatsby “pale as death,” “standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into [Nick’s] eyes” (86). The encounter between Gatsby and Daisy is awkward and silent with little remarks. Gatsby and Daisy have a tough time making conversation.
In chapter two of How To Read like Professor, Foster explains to readers that act of communion can be any time people decide to eat or drink together. He continues on to explain some concepts such as that eating is so uninteresting that there has to be some reason authors write about it, that acts of communion only happen with people you're comfortable with, and that there maybe an underlying emotion or message hidden in these meals. All of these ideas can be found in chapter 7 of The Great Gatsby where Tom Buchanan invites everyone over for lunch; things escalate while sipping wine and waiting for the food. Eating brunch with you best friend might sound fun, but Foster brings up the point that it is infact fairly boring to write an eating scene. This causes readers to assume
The story starts off with the reader learning about how Nick’s lifestyle has been shaped. We learn that his father has taught him to not judge other people. His moral standards are different from other people so his father thinks he would misunderstand them. We learn about his moral values when he goes with Tom to attend a social gathering. Nick has only gotten drunk other than one time prior to this party.
In the passage on page sixty-one in chapter five of The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway is walking in New York City beginning to get used to the atmosphere of the city. Nick shows almost conflicting emotions in the passage, being excited by the busyness but almost relaxed by it as well. This provides a realistic approach to societies’ feelings toward their surroundings. Fitzgerald, by using unique choices of diction, imagery, and details, explores the complex and varying emotional responses that Nick has toward New York City.
In Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, the author tells an intriguing tale about the hollowness of the upper class, thwarted love between a man and a woman and the rapid decline of the American dream. Although all of the chapter’s work hand in hand to explore these themes, three of the nine chapters hold the most significant turning points in the novel. One of them which includes chapter three. In this chapter, Nick attends Gatsby’s party.
Gatsby took note of Nick moving in and had wanted to meet him and introduce himself, “I had been actually invited... a surprisingly formal note from his employer: the honor would be entirely Gatsby's, it said, if I would attend his "little party. "(Fitzgerald 22). Nick Gladly accepted the invite to the party and would attend later that night with the thought of what reason would Gatsby want him there for? Some people might say that Gatsby just wants to get to know Nick as he had just arrived in the neighborhood, however he wants something from Nick that will reveal itself later throughout the novel. Nick arrived at the party with his invitation, out of curiosity he looked around for Gatsby, yet he couldn’t find him.
In the book The Great Gatsby, Chapter 3, it states “Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruitier in New York—every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulp less halves” I mean I don’t really think this count but I would say that this is pretty wasteful I don’t think this would count though. Also I don’t believe that Fitzgerald portray himself in Tocqueville’s portray. I can’t really find any evidence in chapter 3 or 4. But I would say that in chapter 1 Miss.
Chapter seven In the Great Gatsby is blazing hot! Throughout, the chapter various characters state that it is far too “Hot!” (Fitzgerald 121). Although, hot is being used to describe the excruciatingly hot weather the author might be using the term hot to symbolize the tension and drama that is packed full in this chapter.
After chapter 5 of The Great Gatsby, everything goes downhill. Gatsby changes almost every aspect of his life to accommodate Daisy. Gatsby thinks that Daisy “‘didn’t like it’”(109) and “‘didn’t have a good time”’(109). So, Gatsby stops the parties and “his career as Trimalchio was over”’(103). His illusions are starting to come to an end.
The passage I chose to analyze occurred in chapter three of The Great Gatsby. Gatsby decided to host one of his huge, extravagant parties in which Nick, the narrator, was invited. He had been intrigued by the thought of Gatsby and the fact that no one had seemed to have met him at this gathering. Nick was told several different speculating rumors about Gatsby, one even regarding how he had killed a man. The buildup around meeting Gatsby was immense until finally, towards the end of the chapter, Nick meets Gatsby.
The years before the Great Depression were a time of great prosperity and innovation. In “ The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, he illustrates an extensive view of the complex American Dream. He utilizes characters in his book to also highlight themes of facades, materialism,superficialism, and emptiness to show the true disillusionment of the 1920’s. Additionally, just as authors use themes to portray timeless emotions and experiences, music often has a way of reinforcing these ideas in an easily digestible way. The theme that is portrayed in Chapter 3 of “The Great Gatsby” is one of superficialism which is represented by the guests at Gatsby’s lavish parties by the way they interact with each other.
