Summary Of Chapter 5 Of The Great Gatsby

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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. And his affair with Daisy is starting to consume his life. And as it grows, the more Tom wants to meet Gatsby and the more he suspects something. Tom got so furious that he tells Daisy to “start on home...in Gatsby’s car”(135). Tom is the typical “bad guy” but at the same time he is so complex in his ideas. He wants his perfect little world where he has two girls in his control, but in an instant he, himself,