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 Chapter 6, Fitzgerald reveals mysteries surrounding Gatsby and the readers learn about Gatsby’s past. But one of the greatest conundrums is the reason behind Fitzgerald revealing Gatsby’s past at this point in the novel, despite Nick claiming that he only learned about Gatby’s past much later. Chapter 6 allows Fitzgerald to permeate suspense and pique curiosity from the reader and at the same time, stain the immaculate image of Gatsby. The chapter finds itself embroiled in suspicion as accusations about Gatsby fly around. When rumors about Gatsby end as the summer draws to an end, an opening for Nick to tell the story about Gatsby is well, opened.
Chapter 4 describes Nick’s first personal encounter with Gatsby. One after noon, Gatsby decided to take Nick to lunch in the city. On the way, Gatsby explained his life story to Nick claiming to have come from a wealthy family in the Midwest, to have attended Oxford, and to have earned medals of honor in WWI. During lunch Nick meets a man named Mr.Wolfsheim, one of Gatsby’s business partners who was rumored to have fixed the World Series in 1919. In addition, Gatsby asks Nick to speak to Jordan regarding an urgent matter.
In this part of Chapter 4, the readers finds themselves at lunch with a new friends of Gatsby’s, Meyer Wolfsheim, and Tom for a transient moment. Nick and Gatsby reach New York “well-fanned Forty-second Street cellar...” for lunch when they are meet by Meyer Wolfsheim. Meyer Wolfsheim was already engaged in an conversation with Gatsby when he “earnestly” shook Nick's hand. The three continue onto the restaurant for lunch.
This time, Gatsby is driving Nick to a restaurant to meet up with an older man named Meyer Wolfshiem. Meyer has a jacket with human molars as buttons and fixed The 1919 gambling World Series. Gatsby seems close to Meyer, suggesting that Gatsby may get his money in the same shady way that Meyer does, whatever it may be. Whether its through bootlegging or some underground business, it all seems untrustworthy. Coming home, Nick meets up with Jordan.
In Chapters 1 and 2 Nick states “Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, … represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.” 2. In chapters 7 and 8, Tom learns about the affair between Daisy and Gatsby. Nick points out the irony of losing both women in his
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.
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.
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 the Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald there is a development of emotion and symbols than can be found through the reading at the end of the each chapter. Within the last sentences of each chapter there is a symbol or message that can be found. Some of the messages can represent what is coming or as happened. In the first chapter we can find the words “darkness” (21) and final word of the book “past” (180). Some simple word are used to express some themes like facial expressions, honesty and balance.
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
The Great Gatsby is narrated by the character Nick who becomes entangled in the lives of Gatsby Tom, Daisy, Jordan, Myrtle, and George. Gatsby tries everything to become a “respectable man” for Daisy who is of a higher class than Jay Gatz. He tries to attain this status of wealth for Daisy, but it so happens that he does through this by cheating. He turns to Meyer Wolfshiem, a known bootlegger, to achieve his wealth. Gatsby will achieve his goal in order to impress Daisy even if it means he has to betray his morals and values.
This leads to increased tensions between characters and drama, which in turn leads to the confrontation between Gatsby and Tom in the room in the city. Gatsby’s past also affects the novel because he does not know who he can trust. This is exhibited when Gatsby brought Nick to meet his friend Wolfsheim. When Wolfsheim brought up a business deal to Nick Gatsby quickly stepped in to make sure nothing was leaked to
“When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn” (Fitzgerald 4). Nick goes west for a while, but comes back east to sell bond. He rents a small gardener’s house in between Gatsby and another godly rich East Egg. After meeting, Gatsby whisked Nick away to Gatsby’s grand parties, gantlet outings to the city, but all for the chance, for Gatsby to meet Daisy, Nick’s cousin.
