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The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 Summary

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After a sleepless night, Nick goes to visit Gatsby at his mansion before dawn. Gatsby tells Nick that he waited at the Buchanan’s home until four o’clock and Tom had not bothered Daisy, nor did Daisy come outside to Gatsby. Nick advises Gatsby to leave the area for a while as he was certain Gatsby’s car would be traced. Gatsby refuses as he does not want to leave Daisy. Gatsby discusses with Nick his first meeting with Daisy. The two first met in Louisville in 1917. Gatsby admired her wealth, beauty and social standing. Daisy promised to wait for Gatsby when he needed to leave for the war, but obviously did not stick to her claim as she soon married Tom Buchanan. Gatsby’s gardener interrupts the two men to inform Gatsby that he is going to
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In chapter six of the great gatsby a lot of the motives, characteristics and other important attributes of the characters were revealed in the chapter. At the beginning of chapter six the reader and Nick learn that everything about Gatsby was a lie; even his name. We learn that he didn’t inherit any money, lived on a farm in North Dakota, and his real name is James Gatz. Gatsby’s motives were to become extremely rich and win the love of Daisy. He does this by lying to everyone to convince them that he is old money, putting him higher up the social ladder to get Daisy to notice him.

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When she arrives, Gatsby literally disappears and comes knocking at Nick’s door as if he wasn’t there. Later on in the book, Daisy and Gatsby profess their love for each other. He wants Daisy to leave Tom and come live with him, so he can cherish her forever and show her love she deserves. But, Daisy refuses to leave Tom because she loves him too, I mean who was there when Gatsby wasn’t, uh

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1. What do you find is the most crucial in the plot in Chapter 1? I found the most crucial part in the plot in chapter 1 is when Nick comments about himself and how he reserves judgment about other people. he mentions Gatsby and says that Gatsby represents everything he scorns but Gatsby's personality was gorgeous! At the end of chapter 1 when Nick arrives home and he sees the great handsome Gatsby with his arms reaching towards the dark water, nixies nothing except a distant greenlight marking the end of the dock.

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After Daisy and Gatsby came back, Daisy over the next few days started seeing Gatsby every afternoon. Tom, being the smart husband he is, knew that something was up when Daisy

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Throughout The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts Jay Gatsby, a farm boy turned businessman who wants to reclaim the past, especially his time with Daisy Buchanan. Daisy, a beautiful, wealthy, Southern-born socialite, becomes both a personal love and an aspiration of financial success for Gatsby. He purchases a house across from hers on the bay of Long Island and throws lavish parties to attract her. In a key moment in the novel, Gatsby has arranged an opportunity to reunite with Daisy over tea at the home of Nick Carraway, Daisy’s cousin and Gatsby’s neighbor. Nick describes Gatsby’s behavior at this tense encounter: “We’ve met before,” muttered Gatsby.

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When they were detached with each-other Nick noticed "For the half-hour, she'd been alone with Gatsby, she wasn't having a good time" (Fitzgerald 106). In effect Gatsby informs Nick about it with a sense of anxiety. He later voices his thoughts towards this "I feel far away from her" (Fitzgerald 109). Accordingly, he dotes on her to recognize his love for her, but she won't. When Gatsby successfully got Daisy, he acquired his striven love that gave him happiness, but consequently recognizing how Daisy feels towards him.

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Daisy and Nick had been invited over to Gatsby’s after their tea party. When they go into Gatsby’s room, he starts

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When Gatsby first moved in over at the east egg he started having wild parties in hopes of Daisy wondering into one of them. He also started trying to see her more after her and Tom came to one of the parties. When Daisy finally came to one of the parties she realized that she had married the wrong guy. “As I went over to say good-bye I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby's face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years(Fitzgerald pg.)!”

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1. The most crucial thing in the plot in chapter one is the moment during the dinner scene at the Buchanans where Mrs. Baker mentions that Tom has another woman beside Daisy. This is the most important scene because it feels heavy and Nick even describes it as if all subjects of conversation have faded and the room grew impenetrably silent. Some might say that the actual most important part of the plot is when Nick finally meets Gatsby by the end of the chapter, however, that is not the case because that moment doesn't add any information to the plot. Whereas, Tom's possible cheating says a lot about the fact that even divinely rich people might experience an essential lack as well as habitual boredom that propels them to do things that would

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In the novel, Gatsby asks Nick to invite Daisy over for tea, so he can see her again. This shows the initiative that Gatsby is taking to see the girl he loves again. Nick goes through with the plan and invites Daisy to tea. The novel says, “We haven’t met for many years

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He asks her to have Nick invite Daisy over for tea at his house one afternoon and he will go too and finally see her again after all his restless years. At this meeting between Nick, Daisy, and Gatsby, Nick describes that Gatsby “Literally glowed: without a word or gesture of exaltation a new

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The most crucial plot in this chapter is Nick’s background story and how he got to West Egg. This lets us know the character better and who he is involved with. We also learn that Nick is related to Daisy Buchanan, who is his cousin. She is married to a man named Tom who Nick is not that fond of.

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Gatsby met Daisy while serving in the army at Camp Taylor in Louisville. Daisy and Gatsby quickly fall in love and when Gatsby is deployed, she writes to him. Gatsby asks her to wait for him until after the war so they can get married, but Daisy gets impatient as life passes her by and marries Tom. Gatsby, stuck in Europe, can only watch as the life he imagined and dreamed of with Daisy is shattered before his eyes. Nevertheless, he refuses to lose hope.

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Such as asking Nick to invite his married, past lover over for tea so he can revive their past relationship, unbothered about the consequences that later on were presented in the novel. Rather, Nick chooses to focus on the negative aspects of Tom and Daisy's role in Gatsby's death, such as being ‘inconsiderate’ which twists the reader's understanding of their personalities into the way he negatively views

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