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.
In this chapter, Nick also discovers Daisy and Gatsby’s love life. The second contrast that is notable between the two chapters is the development of Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker's relationship blossom. In chapter 3, they are just friends but in the other chapter, they become to develop a stronger feeling for one another. They both talked in a friendship tone throughout the party and made plans to meet up. Jordan said, “She yawned gracefully in my face: ‘Please come and see me …
In chapters 1-10 Petey becomes frustrated with the institution because everyone keeps leaving him. For example Joe, Esteban, and the mice all left him. How I know that those kinda things made petey mad was that on page 86 the narrator says “Joe’s departure devastated Petey and Calvin. That shows that when someone leaves Petey is sad. In chapters 1-10 you can conclude that when people Petey cares about leave he is sad.
She exposes the unknown facts about Gatsby and Nick’s cousin Daisy. He is in love with her and has been for a very long time. Daisy never saw Gatsby after the war, and eventually got involved with her present husband, Tom Buchanan. Daisy is drunk and is in tears on her wedding day. This whole time she was clutching onto a letter supposedly from Gatsby.
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 7, the scene in which Tom and Gatsby have a quarrel about Daisy’s love, pushes the plot into its climax. In the movie, however, there is an additional comment made by Tom that is not mentioned in the book - Gatsby is unlike everyone else in the room because he does not come from a rich family. “Nothing that [he] do, or say, or steal, or dream up can ever change that.” This comment makes Gatsby extremely angry - his face is red like fire, and he even breaks glasses on the table. When he can no longer bear Tom’s cynical saying, he pulls Tom’s collar and raises his fist to stop his despised words and shouts “shut up” for five times.
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.
Chapter three Question three Owl-eyes, one of the many party goers of Gatsby’s many parties. Sat in Gatsby’s personal library, enamoured with the books. Continually stating that the books are not just decoys. This is a surprising to the man, because he seems to have the idea that Gatsby is a bit of a fake in a sense; Gatsby has a facade that he puts up for others to see. Additionally, having real books rather than decoys can indicate ‘old’ money, because those with ‘new’ money tend to by flashy, eye catching products that are not actually meant for use but rather to show off the expensiveness.
Chapter 9 begins with a bunch of reporters and police officers coming to Gatsby’s house to try to get a statement from someone close to Gatsby because of his death. Nick waited for someone to do the funeral arrangements but no one chose to do it. So Nick had to step up and take charge because one else did. Later in the story Nick calls daisy to tell her what he witnessed and what events occurred. Nick was very surprised to see that Daisy and Tom left.
In “Chapter 20” of How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster examines the intertextuality of “Sonnet 73” from Shakespeare, “The Book of Ecclesiastes” from The Hebrew Bible, and Hotel du Lac from Anita Brookner, to explain that “for as long as anyone’s been writing anything, the seasons have stood for the same set of meanings” (Foster 186). People believe “that spring has to do with childhood and youth, summer with adulthood and romance and fulfillment and passion, autumn with decline and middle age and tiredness...,” and “winter with old age and resentment and death” (186). In the lyrical novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald applies the seasons of summer and fall to add rich, symbolic meaning to the events that unfold
1. I think the most crucial part of chapter 1 is the end where Nick sees gatsby outside his house. Here we learn a little about Gatsby. Gatsby gives an indication that he wants to alone so Nick does not engage him. Then Gatsby vanishes which masks Gatsby as mysterious, making readers want to proceed on.
The book, “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, explains the crucial story of Jay Gatsby through untitled chapters. The story remains in the chapters themselves. Although, there are many titles that can portray the overall theme in each chapter of the book. The title, ‘Unanswered Questions’, fits in with the plot and scene of chapter four by being the key to the answers of Nick Carraway and the readers.
In chapter 8, early the next morning Nick goes over to check up on Gatsby. He has been at Daisy's all night, watching to see if she was safe. He and Nick stay up talking about Gatsby's past. Gatsby is being very honest with Nick and tells him that Daisy was the first nice girl he had ever really met. He was in love with her and planned on marrying her but the war split them apart.
Baker's recommendation to accept other people's view points was a challenge to me (Baker 74). Pride can easily spring up in our relationships, and cause many problems, simply because we are unwilling to accept any perspective other than our own. Arrogance is perhaps most often manifested by this hidebound mindset. Baker reminds us that "your perspective isn't necessarily the only valid one" (75).
Let’s start out by saying Money cannot buy happiness. Gatsby died trying to get happiness. Gatsby once met a girl named Daisy. Daisy is Gatsby’s neighbor’s cousin. Gatsby met Daisy 5 years ago and they dated for a month or two, and then he got shipped off to WWI.
