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.