Chapter 9: pages 163-180

2. Chapter nine starts with Nick describing how the rest of the day went after he heard the shots. The police were everywhere and they were standing over Wilson’s body. Michaelis talked about how George has suspicions about his wife. Myrtle’s sister, Catherine, doesn’t say anything about the affair but swears that her sister had never seen Gatsby and that she was completely happy with her husband. Nick tries to call Tom and Daisy but he was told that they were no longer there, that they had left early that afternoon and did not leave an address. Nick wanted to get someone for Gatsby, someone to be with him. He calls Wolfsheim but it was too late in the afternoon and nobody was picking up. Nick sends a butler with a letter to Wolfsheim asking him to come and be with Gatsby. He replies that he is sorry for what happened with Gatsby but that he can’t be seen being involved with this kind of thing. Henry C. Gatz comes to Gatsby’s and tells Nick that he is James’ father and asked Nick to take him to his son. Klipspringer calls and Nick hopes that he is coming to the funeral but all he wanted was to ask Nick to find a pair of shoes he left at Gatsby’s and return them to him. Henry Gatz talks to Nick about Gatsby and how proud of his son he was and that he thought his son was destined to be a great man. No one showed up for Gatsby’s funeral and it makes Nick really mad. Nick decides he wants to go back home. Jordan calls and tells him she is engaged but he doesn’t believe that. Nick runs into Tom and wont shake his hand because he hates Tom and he even tells Tom that. He then asks what Tom told Wilson that night to make him come and kill Gatsby. Tom says he told him the truth that Gatsby was the one who killed Myrtle. Tom says that he has had his share of suffering that when he went to the apartment he got for him and myrtle and saw the dog biscuits he started crying like a baby. Nick says that he could never forgive Tom or like him but that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. The book ends with Nick looking at Gatsby’s empty house and passing by.

3.  a.  Nick Carraway

 

     b.  I wanted to get somebody for him. I wanted to go into the room where he lay and reassure him: “I’ll get somebody for you, Gatsby. Don’t worry. Just trust me and I’ll get somebody for you-“ (Fitzgerald 164)

     c. Nick’s best quality it suppose to be that he doesn’t judge people and that he tells the truth. But at the end of chapter eight we find out that he does life because in chapter one he says that Gatsby ends up just fine it then end but that is not true because Gatsby dies. Also one of his great qualities is that he stays by Gatsby’s side through all of this. He is pretty much rooting for him and Daisy to get together. And when Gatsby dies, Nick goes out of his way to get someone to be there for Gatsby, he tries so hard. He stays with Gatsby and goes to his funeral and gets so upset when people say they aren’t going to Gatsby’s funeral. Nick is truly a great friend.

     d.  Nick’s main purpose in this book is to be the story teller. He tells us what is going on and other then that one lie, he never lies to us, that we can tell. He also is what brings Daisy and Gatsby together after all those years. It was at his house that Daisy and Gatsby met for the first time in five years.

4.  The minister glanced several times, so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. But it wasn’t any use. Nobody came.

     I thought this was extremely important because Gatsby was built up to be this magnificent person that everyone wanted to be friends with and he was. He threw parties every weekend and thousands of people came to his parties and rode in his cars and Kilpspringer even lived in his house, all these people just took and took from him but none of them could be bothered to go to his funeral. Even though Nick didn’t put the funeral in the papers, owl eyes found out and was the only one who came. If he knew then lots of other people knew too. No one went to his funeral, this guy who always had people around him but none of them went. Wolfsheim was suppose to be his closest friend but he didn’t show. Jordan and Gatsby became close when he found out that she knew Daisy. Daisy didn’t come, she was supposed to love this man but she didn’t come to his funeral. The only person Gatsby truly had at the end was Nick.

Chapter 8: pages 147-162

2.  In chapter eight Nick tells Gatsby that because of the accident he should leave town for a little while but Gatsby will not leave until he knows what Daisy is going to do about him and Tom. Gatsby then goes on to tell Nick a story about him and Daisy, that Gatsby lied to her in a way by making her feel like he had money and was like her and could take care of her. He tells of how he went off to war and how Daisy and Tom met and fell in love, even though he does not believe she ever really loved Tom, and got married. By the time Gatsby got back from the war Daisy and Tom were on their honeymoon. Jordan called Nick saying that even though she feels he was rude to her that night after the accident she still wants to see him. But the spark has died, he says he wants to see her too but they are just silent after that and do not say anything until finally one of them hung up. Nick then tells us more about what happened the night Myrtle died and what happened in the garage afterwards. George Wilson was devastated telling people that he knew how to find out who killed his wife. Mentioning the time she came home with a broken nose, people were trying to distract him by talking to him but he wouldn’t calm down. George then goes to Gatsby’s house and we hear shots. The chapter ends with George shooting Gatsby and then killing himself.

3.  a. Jay Gatsby aka James Gatz

     b. “I can’t describe to you how surprised I was to find out that I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a while that she’d throw me over, but she didn’t, because she was in love with me too. She thought knew a lot because I knew different things from her…Well, there I was, ‘way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute and all of a sudden I didn’t care. What was the use of doing greater things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?” (Fitzgerald 150)

     c. Gatsby’s best quality is described in a quote from chapter one. “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away…-it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.” (Fitzgerald 2) Gatsby is basically a hopeful, hopeless romantic. Everything that he does in life is for hope and love.

     d.  Gatsby’s ultimate role in this novel is as basically the centerpiece for the story. The story is about him and everything that he has done to obtain his goal, which is Daisy. Everything he has done in life since he met Daisy, was to woe her and make her his. He is so in love with Daisy that he gets a huge house and throws these extravagant parties and buys fancy cloths all to impress a girl he hasn’t seen in five years and who is married with a child.

4.  But he didn’t despise himself and it didn’t turn out as he has imagined. He had intended, probably, to take what he could and go-but now he found that he has committed himself to the following of a grail. He knew that Daisy was extraordinary, but he didn’t realize just how extraordinary a “nice” girl could be. She vanished into her rich house, into her rich, full life, leaving Gatsby-nothing. He felt married to her, that was all. (Fitzgerald 149)

            I found this quote to be important because it illustrated even more how much Daisy means to Gatsby. That she is everything to him and that like a grail, having he would make him “powerful”. Also, having “nice” in quotations, gives us more insight on Daisy, he doesn’t really think she is a nice girl and we know from the book that Daisy is not a nice girl. He goes to war and she doesn’t care she goes out with many guys and then marries Tom for his money. She has everything she wanted leaving Gatsby with nothing.

  

Chapter 7: pages 113-145

2. In chapter seven Nick decides to go to Gatsby's house because he had not heard from him in a while. But they butler says he has been turning away guests for a while and that Daisy has been coming over a lot and he lets her in. Nick notices that Gatsby has hired all new staff and not allowing them out so they cannot be bribed by people for information on him. Gatsby later calls Nick to invite him to Daisy's house and then Daisy calls with the same request. At Daisy's house, when Tom leaves the room, she walks up to Gatsby and kisses him full on the lips and tells him that she loves him in front of Jordan and Nick. We see Daisy's daughter and not really told her name but the nanny calls her Pammy. Tom saw Daisy tell Gatsby she loves him and is so shocked and he gets mad and keeps standing between her and Gatsby. Tom blows up at Gatsby and Daisy says he needs to calm down but Tom yells that he cannot calm down while some man makes love to his wife. Gatsby says that Daisy never loved Tom and Daisy even says she didn't and Tom does not believe her. He says that he has always loved Daisy even though he has strayed a few times he has always come back to Daisy. Daisy then says she did love Tom and one point but now she loves Gatsby and is going to leave Tom. Then Tom starts yelling about Gatsby being fake and that his drug store line was all false and that he is in something so big that Walter's is to afriad to say. Gatsby begs and pleads with Daisy saying it is not true. Then we learn that it is Nick's 30th birthday. Then from Michaelis point of view we find out that Mr. Wilson has locked his wife in her room and that they were moving the next day. She screams and yells and runs out of the garage and is hit by a car and dies. Tom cries about Myrtle's death, that the guy did not even stop, calling him a coward. Gatsby tells Nick that Daisy killed Myrtle but that he will tell the police that he was driving.

3.    a. Tom Buchanan

       b. She [Daisy] had told him [Gatsby] that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. He was astounded. His mouth opened a little, and he looked at Gatsby, and then back at Daist as if he just recognized her as someone he knew a long time ago. (Fitzgerald 119)

       c. Tom's best quality is his money, his ability to provide for Daisy and his mistress Myrtle. He does not really care about them and he is a huge hypocrite. He gets mad at Daisy for cheating when he has cheated on her with thousands of women.

       d. Tom's role in this book is Daisy's husband, Myrtle's boyfriend, and Gatsby's competition. His purpose is to make Daisy so unhappy that she has to flirt with everyone to get attention and why she is so willing to leave him for Gatsby.

4. "Was Daisy driving?" "Yes," he said after a moment, "but of course I'll say I was." (Fitzgerald 143)

    I found this quote to be significant because it shows how much Gatsby loves Daisy and the fact that he will do anything for her, even go to jail. Throughout the book we have seen some prety big things that Gatsby has done just to get Daisy. Buying the big house, importing silk shirts, spending money on random people just to show how much money he has, and having parties every weekend, he does this all for Daisy and now he is willing to go to jail. Daisy was driving the car. Daisy hit and killed Myrtle Wilson. But that does not matter to Gatsby, he will take the blame because he loves Daisy so much and he does not want anything bad to happen to her or for her to be unhappy.

Chapter 6: pages 97-111

2. Chapter six starts off with a young ambitious reporter going to Gatsby’s house to ask him if he has anything to day and Gatsby is confused and has no idea what the guy is talking about. We then learn about a guy names James Gatz whose life really started when he met a rich man by the name of Dan Cody and told him that his name was not James Gatz, but Jay Gatsby. James met Cody when his yacht was anchored off the coast of a beach that James was walking on. They met and Cody decides to take James in. He buys him fancy cloths and takes him all over the world, and when Cody dies he leaves all his money to James but James never gets any of it. Nick goes to Gatsby’s house to find that he is not alone but that Tom Buchanan is having a drink at Gatsby’s house and you can tell that Gatsby was very uneasy and nervous having Tom in his house. This chapter ends with a story about Gatsby and Daisy’s first kiss.

3.    a. James Gatz aka Jay Gatsby
      
       b. His brown, hardening body lived naturally through half-fierce, half-lazy work of the bracing days. He knew women early, and since they spoiled him became contemptuous of them, of young virgins because they were ignorant, of the others because they were hysterical about things which in his overwhelming self-absorption he took for granted.

       c. Gatsby's best qualities is his "sensitivity to the promises of life....it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as i have never found in any other person and which is not likely I shall ever find again." (Fitzgerald 2) He is a hopeless romantic, everything he does is for hope and romance. He throws huge parties, not for appearances he hardly ever talks with anyone at his parties, he throws them in hopes that Daisy will come to his party. Daisy, the women he is truly in love with. Everything that he does is for Daisy, he doesn’t want all the materials he has, he has them because he believes they will help him win Daisy. The way he tosses his shirts around his room in front of Daisy, imported silk shirts and he just throws them on the floor. He does not care about them, he does not want them, he does not want the huge house and parties every weekend, he does it to win Daisy. It is all about Daisy, she is his dream.  
  
       d. Gatsby’s role in this novel is strictly to win Daisy, he has been in love with her for five years and will stop at nothing to get her. He buys a huge house and many cars, and has silk shirts imported for her. He wants Daisy. That is all he wants.

4. “These things excite me so,” she whispered. “If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I’ll be glad to arrange it for you. Just mention my name. Or present a green card. I’m giving out green-“ (Fitzgerald 104)

    I thought this quote was important because it gives us more insight on who Daisy is and what she wants. This quote shows that Daisy is a total flirt and that she will flirt with anyone even her cousin. She doesn’t really want to be with Nick or kiss him, she just wants romance and to be adored. Daisy is an attention seeker, she wants love and romance and flirtation, so much that she will even flirt with Nick to get it. It doesn’t matter who the person is, all she wants is attention and romance.

Chapter 5: pages 81-96

2. In chapter five Nick tells Gatsby that he will invite Daisy over for tea so he can see her. Gatsby is concerned with how Nick's lawn looks and has someone sent over to mow his lawn before Daisy comes. When Daisy gets there Gatsby freaks out and gets really embarrassed and thinks that the whole meeting was a bad idea but Nick calms him down saying Daisy is embarrassed to. Gatsby then invites Nick and Daisy over to his house to give Daisy a tour of his place. Daisy is in awe of Gatsby's house and all the stuff inside it and his bedroom. The chapter ends with Nick leaving Gatsby and Daisy alone at Gatsby's house.


3.  a. Daisy Buchanan


     b. A damp streak of hair lay like a dash of blue paint across her cheek, and her hand was wet  with glistening drops as I took it to help her from her car. "Are you in love with me," she said low in my ear, "or why did I have to come alone?" (Fitzgerald 85)

     c. Daisy's best quality is her ability to say one thing but let us know she means the opposite. She is a really intelligent women but plays foolish because that is the time she is in where women are foolish and know nothing. She knows that Tom is cheating on her and she mocks him all the time.


     d. Daisy's role in this novel is the love interest of Gatsby and Nick's cousin. The story is based on her romance with Gatsby and how Nick plays into that story. Daisy is the reason for all the things Gatsby has done, buying the house where he did so he could see the green light from her house. Throwing parties every weekend in hopes that she would show up. He does that all for his love for Daisy. 


4. Gatsby, his hands still in his pockets, was reclining against the mantelpiece in a strained counterfeit of perfect ease, even of boredom. His head leaned back so far that it rested against the face of a defunct mantelpiece clock, and from this position his distraught eyes stared down at Daisy, who was sitting, frightened but graceful, on the edge of a stiff chair. (Fitzgerald 86)


  I found this quote to be important because in the novel we are lead to believe that Gatsby is this great man who has killed before and is a German spy and was in the war and went to Oxford, yet here he is scared to death, hands in his pockets, afraid of a girl whom he is in love with. We see the cowardly side of Gatsby in this quote. And same for Daisy she was frightened, a women whose husband cheats on her but wont get upset in front of other people shows how frightened she is in the presence of Gatsby. We see a new side of Daisy and Gatsby that only they bring out in each other. 

Chapter 4: pages 61-80

2.   Chapter four begins with Nick telling us about all the people that went to Gatsby's house that summer. Then Gatsby invited Nick to lunch and on the drive telling him about himself. That he was in the war and went to Oxford and showed Nick a picture of him at Oxford. He told Nick that he was telling him these things because he wanted Nick to know him better because he had a favor to ask and that Jordan would tell him more about when Nick had tea with her later that day. At lunch Nick and Gatsby were joined by Mr. Wolfsheim. After lunch they ran into Tom Buchanan and when Nick introduced Gatsby to Tom he was embarrassed and when Nick turned around Gatsby was gone. At lunch with Jordan, Nick learns that Daisy and Gatsby knew each other a long time ago and that Daisy did not want to marry Tom and almost did not but she ended up marrying Tom. We also learn that Tom had been cheating on Daisy for a long time not just recently but for their whole marriage. Nick then learns that the favor Gatsby wanted was for Nick to invite Daisy over to his house and then let Gatsby come by so they could see each other but he did not want Daisy to know. This chapter ends with Nick kissing Jordan.


3.  a. Jay Gatsby
    
     b.  I had talked with him perhaps six times in the past month and found, to my disappointment, that he had little to say. So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate road-house next door. (Fitzgerald 64)
     
     c. Gatsby's best qualities is his "sensitivity to the promises of life....it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as i have never found in any other person and which is not likely I shall ever find again." (Fitzgerald 2) He is a hopeless romantic, everything he does is for hope and romance. He throws huge parties, not for appearances he hardly ever talks with anyone at his parties, he throws them in hopes that Daisy will come to his party. Daisy, the women he is truly in love with. 


     d. Gatsby's role in this novel is to win Daisy. He has been in love with her for so long and now that he finally has money he wants her to know it so she will come back to him. This novel is all about the love between Gatsby and Daisy. His other purpose is to give us insight into what has happened in the past via telling Nick. 


4. The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at some time, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since. His name was Jay Gatsby, and I didn't lay eyes on him again for over four years-even after I'd met him on Long Island I didn't realize it was the same man. (Fitzgerald 75)

   This quote is extremely important because it reveals that Gatsby and Daisy knew each other and that they had dated. This is important because this is where the novel really starts. It ties everything from the first three chapters together: why Gatsby was standing at the dock looking at East Egg, looking at Daisy, why Daisy had the loud reaction when Jordan mentioned Gatsby's name, because she knew him. 

Chapter 3: pages 39-59

2.  Chapter three starts with Nick describing the coming and goings of lots of people from Gatsby's house. Gatsby throws parties everyday that last all night and most of the people who show up are not even invited. One morning Gatsby's butler goes up to Nick with an invitation inviting him to a party at Gatsby's house. At the party Nick runs into Jordan Baker and they hang out for most of the evening. Nick asks around but no one seems to know where Gatsby is and they don't seem to care either. Nick finally meets Gatsby but at first he does not know who it is and when he finds out that he is talking to Gatsby he is shocked. Gatsby invited Nick to check out his hydroplane the next morning. After the party Nick starts hanging out with Jordan more often, and the chapter ends with saying he thinks he loved her. 


3. a. Jordan Baker


    b.  Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever, shrew men, and now i saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible. She was incurably dishonest. (Fitzgerald 57-58)


    c. Jordan's best quality also is her worst, she is a huge gossiper and if you need information she is the one to give it to you. It is good because that is how we learn that Tom is cheating.


    d. Jordan's purpose in this book is to give up information via Nick, she is the one who tells Nick that Tom is cheating on Daisy. Jordan is also the one to first mention Gatsby and gets the reaction out of Daisy that makes us think she knows him. 


4. A chauffeur in a uniform of robins-egg blue crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his employer: the honor would be entirely Gatsby's, it said, if I would attend his "little party" that night. He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it-signed Jay Gatsby, in a majestic hand. (Fitzgerald 41)


I found this quote to be important because it illustrates that Gatsby noticed Nick and wants to get to know him. It is also how Nick ends up at the party and meets Gatsby. In my opinion it also eludes to the fact that maybe Gatsby knows that Nick is Daisy's cousin and somehow thinks that by getting close or befriending Nick he will be able to get to Daisy. 

Chapter 2: pages 23-38

      2. In chapter two Tom forces Nick to meet his mistress, Mrs. Myrtle Wilson. Mrs. Wilson is married to a garage repair man. Tom makes Nick go with him and Myrtle to an apartment in the West Hundreds. While in the apartment Nick gets drunk for the second time in his entire life and he meets Myrtle's sister, Catherine and friend Mr and Mrs. Mckee. Catherine explains to Nick that Tom and Myrtle can not stand the person they are married to and they would get a divorce and marry each other but Daisy is Catholic, but Nick tells us that Daisy is not Catholic and that he is shocked at the elaborateness of the lie. Tom and Myrtle get into an argument on weather or not she should be allowed to say Daisy's name, in the end Tom smacks her becuase she says Daisy's name. The chapter ends with Nick falling asleep at the Pennsylvania Station waiting for the four o'clock train.


     3. a. Mrs Myrtle Wilson


     b. "I married him because I thought he was a gentleman, I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoes." (Fitzgerald 34)


     c. Mrs. Wilson is in the middle of her thirties, and faintly stout, but she carries her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can. Her face contained no facet or gleam of beauty but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her. She is the mistress of Tom Buchanan, and she is married to Mr. Wilson. She is unhappy in her marriage and thinks that her husband doesn't treat her right and that Tom is the first sweetie she has ever had.


     d. Mrs. Wilson's role in this novel is to be the Tom's mistress. She doesn't ruin Tom and Daisy's marriage because Tom has already done that before he started cheating on Daisy. Also, Daisy just doesn't care anymore what Tom does, she hates him and is disgusted by him and constantly mocks him. Myrtle is there to further the rift between Tom and Daisy, and now that Nick has met her that is going to put Nick in a difficult position because Daisy is his cousin.


    4. "The fact that he had one was insisted upon wherever he was known. his acquaintances resented the fact that he turned up in popular restaurants with her..."We're getting off," he insisted. "I want you to meet my girl."" (Fitzgerald 24)


       This section of the novel stood out to me because Tom doesn't even try to hide the fact that he is cheating on Daisy. He parades Myrtle around town and goes to popular restaurants where his friends see him with her.  I found this to be significant because it shows how little Tom respects Daisy. It is bad enough that he is cheating on her but to parade his mistress around town like he is proud that he is cheating on his wife is disgusting. It shows a lot about Tom's character and morality, or lack there of one. It is just really awful that he disrespects Daisy like that.

Chapter 1-pages 1-21

2. In this first chapter we are introduced to the narrator of the novel Nick Carraway. He describes the mansion of Mr. Gatsby that is next to his house. He talks about his time in the war and how when he came back he wanted to do more. Nick talks about his cousin Daisy who marred Tom Buchanan, a very powerful ends that ever played football. He decides to go visit his cousin Daisy for dinner, upon his arrival he mets Miss Baker. At dinner Miss Backer informs him that Tom has a "women in New York".


3. a. Nick Carraway


    b. "And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I wad a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler." (Fitzgerald 5)


     c. Nick's best quality is that he is a great listener, he doesn't interrupt Daisy's rants he just listens to her and tells her what she wants to hear.


    d. Nick's role in this novel is as narrator telling the reader what's going on and how everyone, including himself is feeling. As narrator he is giving us all the background information on all the characters in the novel.


4. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." -Nick Carraway's Father.


  This quote stood out to me because it was the first quote and it was advice that nicks father gave him and he is living by it, it is how he choose to live his life by being non judgmental and I think that is his greatest significance in this novel is his non judgmental ways.

The Great Gatsby Journal

Directions:
        You will be required to keep a reading journal for The Great Gatsby on
this blog as well as on a blog of your own. This must be labeled and responses must be entered after each chapter is completed.
         These journals will be checked regularly, so it is important that you stay on track during this novel! 
         Make sure that you post your journal entry on your blog as well as on my blog here in the comments section underneath the designated chapter.


Journal Requirements:
1.     Heading must include the chapter number and page numbers.
2.    Write a five sentence chapter summary.
3.    For each chapter choose a different character to focus on for the following:
a.     Name the character.
b.     Choose a quote the best represents the character
c.     List & describe his/her best qualities, only those mentioned in the story thus far.
d.     In a paragraph describe the characters role in the novel, refer back to other chapters.
4.    From the chapter, choose one meaningful quote, and then describe its significance to you. What made it stand out?