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.
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