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The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 Summary

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This chapter begins with Nick explaining that he couldn't sleep last night and when he woke up he heard the sound of a taxi pulling into Gatsby’s driveway. He got up and prepared himself to go over to his mansion to see him. He went to his house and saw that the front door was still open. Gatsby explained that nothing has happened. Nick then tells Gatsby that he should go away for a little while because they might trace his car. Gatsby then told Nick that he couldn’t leave because he wanted to stay close to Daisy. Gatsby then goes on to explain when he first had met Daisy and how he tried to get her to notice him. Gatsby explained that he loved Daisy for her youth, wealth and her popularity. He explained that Daisy was the first girl that he …show more content…

Gatsby knew that she was extraordinary and someone that he wanted to be with forever and have a strong bond with. He explains how she promised to wait for him until he got back from the war. Before Gatsby had returned Daisy had married Tom because he was at her parents standards for her. Tom also had the approval of her parents to marry her. Gatsby adds that he feels that Daisy never really loved Tom. One of Gatsby's former gardeners told Gatsby that he was going to drain the pool tomorrow because the weather had changed and he didn’t want the leaves clogging up the pool drains. Gatsby told him to wait one more day because he hadn’t used the pool yet and wanted to use it once. Nick had to leave for work and as he left he told Gatsby that he would call him later and then Gatsby said that he was going to call Daisy. As he walks away he shouts that Gatsby is worth more than the Buchanans and all of their friends put together because they are a “rotten crowd”. Nick wasn’t focused on his work and got a call from Jordan. She asked if he wanted to get together with her later on and he said

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We find out that when Gatsby was at war, Daisy married Tom. She was supposed to wait for Gatsby wait for him to get back, but she didn’t. 4. Wilson is furious that his wife is dead. 5.

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Nick and Gatsby are outside the Buchanan’s’ house. Nick looks through a window and sees Daisy and Tom having a conversation at the kitchen table with a plate of cold fried chicken and two bottles of ale between them. "They weren’t happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale—and yet they weren’t unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together." Nick is wondering what they could be talking about.

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Suddenly the doorbell cuts through the silence so, “[Nick] went out and opened it. Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into [Nick’s] eyes” (86). Gatsby stalks past Nick into the next room, where he immediately stops dead in his tracks, entirely taken back at the sight of Daisy. Once Gatsby returns to his senses, the

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“ I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn’t believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared. If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.” Nick is showing that Gatsby is waiting for a call, from daisy or someone who found out he killed Myrtle. Frankly Gatsby didn’t really care, nor was worried about getting caught for what he did.

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(9.152-153) nick says talking about Gatsby. He is exposing how Gatsby is different than him in a way, nick thinks different from him about life and how you can only go forward and not backwards. Gatsby Believes that you can always go back and fix or relive things while nick thinks otherwise.” He stayed there a week, walking the streets where their footsteps had clicked together through the November night and revisiting the out-of-the-way places to which they had driven in her white car. (8.28)” this was nick talking about how Gatsby acted after daisy left him.

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The Great Gatsby is one of those books where you must pay close attention to every detail or you may miss something that will later play into the meaning of the book as a whole. One of the many important scenes that does this is in Chapter 3 when Nick goes to his first ever Gatsby party, despite living right next to him, from start to ending chapter 3 reveals a lot about what is to happen in the future. First, going to one of Gatsby’s parties was a big deal in its self but as Nick finds out on page 41 was one of the very few people were invited to the party even though he doesn’t exactly know who Gatsby is. The fact that Nick was invited to this party contributes to the book because it shows how Gatsby has an interest in Nick. Later in Chapter

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Gatsby, continuing to rely on appearance to attract people, early the day of the meeting, sends “a man in a raincoat dragging a lawn-mower… over to cut [Nick’s] grass (89). This visual ruse of wealth and beauty also continues in Nicks house, which is filled with a “greenhouse” of flowers that Gatsby sent over (89). Gatsby even goes as far as to have “twelve lemon cakes” ready for the three of them to enjoy during tea (89). The garish amount of adornment in Nick’s house shows Gatsby’s excitement and content on making his and Daisy’s reunion perfect, although it also appears to be Gatsby’s attempt to distract Daisy from the dishonorable action of cheating on her husband, that he is trying to get her to participate

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Nick believes that Gatsby should welcome all of his guests, so when he does not even see Gatsby he has pessimistic thoughts about Gatsby’s character. At this point Nick has begun to

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“I thought- why look here” Gatsby seems to be distracted by his own thoughts as he can’t hold a conversation topic for longer than a second. He is trying to distract himself from thinking about his meeting with Daisy. Gatsby uses Nick’s finances as an anchor to weigh down his thoughts and to find something that he is more comfortable talking about. Daisy, too, lets her emotions get the better of her, upon seeing Gatsby, Daisy becomes overwhelmed and begins to cry. “Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.

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In the first three chapter of The Great Gatsby you see how mysterious Jay Gatsby is. You don't even really get to see him until the third chapter. You however do get brief descriptions of Gatsby from Nick. Nick first introduces Gatsby as a young man standing on a dock looking at a green light off in the distance.

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The gardener tells Gatsby, “I’m going to drain the pool today, Mr. Gatsby. Leaves’ll start falling pretty soon, and then there’s always trouble with the pipes” (Fitzgerald 94). Gatsby then tells him to not drain the pool because he has yet to use it this summer. The next day around 2 o’clock in the afternoon, Gatsby relaxes in the pool one time before it closes for the winter. While he enjoys his time in the pool, “the chauffeur—he was one of Wolfsheim’s protégés—heard the shots” (Fitzgerald 99).

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When Nick finally arrives home, he sees Gatsby for the first time, standing on the lawn with his arms mysteriously reaching out toward the dark

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Chapter 1 The narrator, Nick, starts off the novel by telling the reader his father gave him the advice not to judge others. This narrator has had advantages in his life so it would not be fair to expect the same from others. Nick explains this by saying “a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth (Fitzgerald 2). Nick mentions Gatsby who is someone that he feels he should scorn, but doesn’t.

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Soon Gatsby and nick became friends that would meet everyday and talk. At one point Gatsby and daisy sneak off without anyone noticing. Soon daisy and the Gatsby fall for each other but her husband tom kind of figured out what was going on between them. After spending a night with that Gatsby they all return home to see that their home has been flipped upside down by gang members looking for cigarettes and money, daisy and tom get worried that maybe they weren't just looking for that so they leave on a “vacation”. Later on the gatsbys brother was killed and his father was trying to figure out where to bury him and Gatsby said up east because that was where they had the best memories.at the funeral there were only a few people who attended.

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Throughout the book Gatsby had been trying to reach a goal. This goal being to see his past lover, Daisy. Gatsby had met Daisy five years prior to his meeting with Nick. Gatsby had to go and join the war leaving Daisy behind and her to marry Tom. Gatsby knew about the events going on in Daisy 's life and he strove so many limits just to try to reach her.

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