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The Great Gatsby Response Essay

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Allysa Burton Teuscher English 11 4/4/17 The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a story told by a man named Nick Carraway. He was once Gatsby’s neighbor. The story is told sometime after 1922. The story started when Nicked moved to West Egg, Long Island from the Midwest. He moved because he was seeking his fortune as a bond salesman. After shortly arriving in West Egg Nick travels to the more fashionable East Egg where is went to visit his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom. While he is visiting his cousin he meets Jordan Baker who is a professional golfer. Nick had a more modest and grounded lifestyle compared to Jordan Baker and The Buchanan’s luxurious lifestyle. As Nick returns home that night, for the first time he notices his neighbor Gatsby. He is …show more content…

Nick learned that Gatsby appears to be in love with Nick’s cousin Daisy Buchanan. Daisy and Gatsby met earlier on but at the time Gatsby was in the army and could not support Daisy. Gatsby had a goal of winning Daisy back throughout the years of making his fortunes. Gatsby bought a house across the bay from Daisy house and held the most amazing parties hoping she would notice. Gatsby wants to meet with Daisy face-to-face once again. Gatsby has thought of an idea to have Nick invite Daisy over to his house and Gatsby coincidently shows up at Nick’s house while Daisy is there. On the day of Daisy’s arrival Gatsby has bought endless flowers to place all over Nick’s property, every details has to be perfected by Gatsby. At first when Gatsby sees Daisy for the first time in forever they both grew nervous but over time they become comfortable with each other. After a while the three wander over to Gatsby’s, where he shows the wonderful house to Daisy. Days went on, Daisy and Tom attended one of Gatsby’s parties. While at this party Tom chases after many women while Gatsby takes Daisy away to Nick’s yard for privacy. Nick keeps watch while the

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First, Daisy and Nick join Gatsby at Gatsby’s house next door where her and Gatsby get some time to recollect themselves, “He hadn 't once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real. Once he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs,” (pg.112). First, in this part of the book is when Gatsby’s attitude throughout the rest of the story completely changes; therefore, the whole world seems to disappear causing him to fall for Daisy. Then, he doesn’t even compensate the rest of his house and how glorious it is due to Daisy taking over his whole entire attention span; this almost caused him to fall down his own stairs.

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Gatsby wants everything to be perfect for his and Daisy’s reunion; he gets Nick’s lawn cut, buys her a great deal of flowers, and makes sure that every room is spotless. Daisy soon realizes that she could receive anything from Gatsby, but she still had to worry about Tom. Only in love for the money, Daisy begins to push Tom away to attain her goal. At one of Gatsby’s parties, she gives Tom permission to go have fun with other women: ‘“And if you want to take down any addresses here’s my little gold pencil’” (105). Daisy still loves Tom, but he is LIABILITY for her plan

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Gatsby began talking about how he had met Daisy, and how when he first kissed her he knew he had wanted to be with this girl forever…”He knew when he had kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.” Tom realises he is beginning to slip away from both of the women in his life. He is losing both of them. Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, Jordan, and Nick all go to Tom and Daisy’s house where Daisy was supposed to confess her feelings for Gatsby. But instead they then take a ride to a Plaza hotel where things become very violent and Daisy says she loves Gatsby

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He is nervous to see Daisy and panics because when things don’t go exactly according to plan even down to the minute of her arrival. This tea marks a point where Gatsby finally sees the real Daisy again as opposed to the one he has imagined. Gatsby denies the juxtaposition of these two Daisies but Nick feels that it is inevitable that at some point Daisy will “tumble short of his dreams”, unable to live up to the “colossal vitality of his illusion” (95). He has built up his illusion of Daisy to an impossible standard, “adding to it all the time” and falling in love with the idea of Daisy

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We immediately learn that Nick is related to Daisy Buchanan who is currently married to Tom. Nick was invited to tag along with Tom to meet his mistress, Myrtle whose husband runs a garage. Tom and Nick go

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The night of Gatsby’s party ”Tom was evidently perturbed at Daisy’s running around alone,” or so he thought she was alone.(Fitzgerald) This shows that Daisy was hiding the fact that she was with Gatsby. While at Nick’s for tea with Gatsby, Daisy says she is “awfully glad to see him,” even though she has been married the past five years.(Fitzgerald) This shows that all this time while being married she has Daisy has kept on loving Gatsby. On the way to the Plaza Hotel Daisy decided to split up,“You take Nick and Jordan.

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Gatsby, Nick, and Daisy are touring Gatsby’s house and when they get to his room Gatsby shows Daisy all of his

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Daisy soon leaves Tom’s side and joins Gastsby’s, and together they would dance, then they sat and chatted with each other on Nick’s steps. When Daisy leaves for the night and Garsby realizes that she did not have a good time at the party, exaggerated to Nick that “she used to be able to understand '' (Fitzgerald 85). Later in the conversation, he tells Nick in determination that he was going to fix everything with Daisy the way it was before (Fitzgerald 85). Gatsby is uneasy and panicked at the fact that Daisy did not enjoy the party. He is frustrated that he cannot figure out Daisy and that their relationship is not the same as it used to be.

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Gatsby finishes off by requesting something from Nick. This favor is later revealed through Jordan to be for Nick to ask Daisy to come over to tea where Gatsby will come by and hopefully reunite with her once

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Gatsby feels strange about it all because the real reason he has all these fancy parties is so that Daisy would come, and now that she is there she doesn’t even like it and Tom is there and he is not meant to be. Within the next few days Nick is able to get Daisy and Gatsby to meet again. Gatsby is incredibly nervous and when the meeting time comes, both Daisy and Gatsby are uncomfortable and

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When Gatsby met Nick he was finally able to reach Daisy. Gatsby had asked Nick to invite Daisy to tea and allow himself to join their event. Gatsby prepared the whole arrangement, from food to decorations. When Daisy arrived Gatsby was overwhelmed and embarrassed by their meeting. But soon the two became close once more chit chatting the world away.

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