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.
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