The Great Gatsby Chapter 9

1. The Great Gatsby: Chapter 9(pg 163-180)

2. It is two years now since Gatsby's death and Nick writes what happened since the day Gatsby died and Nick recalls of all the police, reporters, and rumors that went with Gatsby. Nick learns Daisy and Tom had moved without word and Wolfsheim and Klipspringer both replied they could not go to the funeral. Gatsby's father, Henry C. Gatz, had arrived from Minnesota for Gatsby's funeral and felt pride by the accomplishments of his son. Nick learns from Wolfsheim that he brought Gatsby up from being poor. Gatsby's funeral consisted of Nick, Mr. Gatz, a minister, and several servants until owl-eyes showed up. Nick meets Jordan and they decide to break their relationship and Nick meets Tom where Tom tells Nick that he told George who owned the car, Gatsby deserved it, and he suffered also when he gave up the flat. Nick goes back to the last day before he left West Egg and describes his time at the beach and wondered how Gatsby felt when he first saw the green light of Daisy's dock and how it showed he was close to his dream.

3. Henry C. Gatz

" It was Gatsby's father, a solemn old man, very helpless and dismayed, bundled up in a long cheap ulster against the warm September day." (Gatsby 167)

Qualities:

" His eyes leaked continuously with excitement, and when I took the bag and umbrella from his hands he began to pull so incessantly at his sparse gray beard that I had difficulty in getting off his coat." (Gatsby 167)

" His eyes, seeing nothing, moved ceaselessly about the room." (Gatsby 167)

" After a little while Mr. Gatz opened the door and came out, his mouth ajar, his face flushed slightly, his eyes leaking isolated and unpunctual tears." (Gatsby 168)

" He had reached an age where death no longer has the quality of ghastly surprise, and when he looked around him now for the first time and saw the height and splendor of the hall and the great rooms opening out from it into other rooms, his grief began to be mixed with an awed pride." (Gatsby 168)

" He pointed out every detail to me eagerly. 'Look there!' and then sought admiration from my eyes. He had shown it so often that I think it was more real to him now than the house itself." (Gatsby 172)

" He told me I et like a hog once, and I beat him for it." (Gatsby 173)

Earlier in the novel, Gatsby had told Nick that his parents are dead and there was no point in looking further into his past. Later on in chapter 6, Nick first tells of Gatsby's real past as being from North Dakota. Gatsby had the imagination to change his name and join with Dan Cody and also by leaving his own family. Now appears Henry C. Gatz, the real father of Jay Gatsby. Mr. Gatz kept saying that he knew that Gatsby had more potential to become as great as James J. Hill and could have helped build the country.

4. " I raised him up out of nothing, right out of the gutter. I saw right away he was a fine-appearing, gentlemanly young man, and when he told me he was an Oggsford I knew I could use him good." (Gatsby 171)

This quote stood out for me because Wolfsheim was first mentioned in Chapter 4 and he was believed to be part of the reason to the source of Gatsby's wealth. Gatsby would have become rich from the inheritance of Dan Cody  if it had not been for Ella Kaye who took the money legally. Wolfsheim further confirms the social class of Gatsby when he says that Gatsby had nothing and came from the "gutter" and that Wolfsheim is the reason to Gatsby's wealth. Gatsby will be remembered in the same way as Rosy Rosenthal who was also friends with Wolfsheim.

The Great Gatsby Chapter 8

1. The Great Gatsby: Chapter 8(pg 147-162)

2. Nick visits Gatsby to tell him to leave West Egg, but Gatsby refuses to leave Daisy and later tells Nick more about his past about himself and his time with Daisy. Gatsby tells Nick how he had once gone to Louisville after the war and started to remember the good times he had with Daisy. The chapter went back to George and Michaelis a few hours after Myrtle had been killed and George says he has a way of finding out who the yellow car belongs too. George shows Michaelis a dog leash he found that belonged to Myrtle and when Michaelis left to sleep and returned, he found that George was gone. The police had traced the whereabouts of Wilson to the point where he was at Gatsby's house and later on Nick arrives at Gatsby's house and Nick, the butler, the gardener, and the chauffeur find Gatsby dead in his pool. The gardener finds Wilson dead in the grass nearby.

3. George Wilson

" About three o'clock the quality of Wilson's incoherent muttering changed-he grew quieter and began to talk about the yellow car." (Gatsby 156)

Qualities:

" He announced that he had a way of finding out whom the yellow car belonged to," (Gatsby 156)

" He didn't like to go into the garage, because the work bench was stained where the body had been lying, so he moved uncomfortably around the office-he knew every object in it before morning-" (Gatsby 157)

" The effort of answering broke the rhythm of his rocking-for a moment he was silent. Then the same half-knowing, half-bewildered look came back into his faded eyes.(Gatsby 157)

"But conceivably Wilson had heard some of these same explanations before, from Myrtle, because he began saying 'Oh, my God!' again in a whisper-his comforter left several explanations in the air." (Gatsby 158)

" Wilson shook his head. His eyes narrowed and his mouth widened slightly with the ghost of a superior 'Hm!" (Gatsby 158)

" I'm one of these trusting fellas and I don't think any harm to nobody, but when I get to know a thing I know it." (Gatsby 159)

" there were boys who had seen a man 'acting sort of crazy,' and motorists at whom he stared oddly from the side of the road." (Gatsby 160)

" like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees."(Gatsby 161)

George has played the similar role to Daisy where they have their loved ones cheating on them. However, George now becomes suspicious of Myrtle especially when he finds the expensive dog leash that she owned  which was mentioned earlier as part of Myrtle's "To Buy" list. He shows that he loved Myrtle a lot and was willing to take her away to some other place. I had thought at first before that it might have been Tom who would try to kill Gatsby but it shows that it was  really George Wilson, as suspected by the police when they try to trace his wherabouts.

4. " I suppose Daisy'll call too." He looked at me anxiously, as if he hoped I'd corroborate this." (Gatsby 154)

This quote stood out to me because I thought Gatsby would think his dream of being with Daisy has been somewhat ruined after the confrontation with Tom since Daisy did not come to his expectations by saying that she had never loved Tom. Gatsby shows that he will continue to follow his dream and to love Daisy by believing that Daisy will call him. Another proof of Gatsby wanting to continue loving Daisy was when he tells Nick his past on how he met Daisy and how she was the first "nice" girl he had ever known, how he felt especially when he had to leave for the war, and what he wanted to do to be with Daisy.

The Great Gatsby Chapter 7

1. The Great Gatsby: Chapter 7(pg 113-145)

2. It was one of the hottest days of the summer and Nick learns that Gatsby had fired all his servants and hired half a dozen more and that Gatsby had stopped having parties in his mansion. Nick and Gatsby are invited to lunch at Daisy's house and Gatsby is stunned when he sees Daisy's daughter. Daisy suggests they go to town and they rented a suite in the Plaza hotel where Tom and Gatsby have an argument. Tom reveals that he had investigated into Gatsby's past saying that Gatsby had sold alcohol over the counter in drug stores and that he was right in calling Gatsby a bootlegger. They argue with each other over who Daisy loves and eventually Tom realizes that he had won and tells Daisy to return home with Gatsby in Gatsby's car. When Tom, Jordan, and Nick are driving to West Egg they learn that Myrtle Wilson had been run over by a yellow car and Tom believes it was Gatsby. Nick waits for a taxi home but meets Gatsby who tells him that it was Daisy who was driving but Gatsby says he will take the blame. Nick offers to check on Daisy and Tom and sees that they are neither happy nor unhappy.

3. Tom Buchanan

" Tom flung open the door, blocked out its space for a moment with his thick body, and hurried into the room." (Gatsby 116)

Qualities:

" And Mr. Thomas Buchanan, the athlete?' I inquired. Simultaneously I heard his voice, gruff, muffled, husky, at the hall telephone." (Gatsby 116)

" She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. He was astounded. His mouth opened a little, and he recognized her as someone he knew a long time ago."(Gatsby 119)

" You think I'm pretty dumb, don't you?' he suggested. 'Perhaps I am, but I have a-almost a second sight, sometimes, that tells me what to do. Maybe you don't believe that, but science-" (Gatsby 121)

" I stared at him and then at Tom, who had made a parallel discovery less than an hour before-and it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. (Gatsby 124)

" Several times he turned his head and looked back for their car, and if the traffic delayed them he slowed up until they came into sight. I think he was afraid they would dart down a side street and out of his life forever." (Gatsby 126)

" I know I'm not very popular. I don't give big parties." (Gatsby 130)

" In a little while I heard a low husky sob, and saw that the tears were overflowing down his face." (Gatsby 141)

" A change had come over him, and he spoke gravely, and with decision." (Gatsby 142)

Tom is already realizing that he is losing his grip on Myrtle and Daisy. He has already revealed what Gatsby does and shows that he is intent on continuing his investigations into Gatsby. When Myrtle was killed, Tom showed that he cared for her a lot and I thought that maybe Tom might kill Gatsby or try to take revenge on him later on in the novel since he learns that it was a yellow car that hit Myrtle and Gatsby owns a yellow car. I think Tom might have regained control with Daisy in the end when Nick describes them as if they were "conspiring together".

4. " Yes,' he said after a moment, ' but of course I'll say I was."

This quote stood out to me because even though Gatsby was not able to fulfill his fantasy where Daisy would tell Tom she never loved him and Gatsby and Daisy would be together, Gatsby still shows he loves Daisy by saying that he will take the fall for the hit and run of Myrtle. I think that Gatsby will continue to love Daisy until the end and that he might have a new fantasy or dream that has him and Daisy together.

The Great Gatsby Chapter 6

1. The Great Gatsby: Chapter 6(pg97-111)

2. Nick tells the real history of Jay Gatsby by revealing that his real, at least legal name, was James Gatz, born in North Dakota and dropped from high school after 2 weeks. On Lake Superior he meets Dan Cody who takes him in as a yacht assistant and to watch over Cody when he gets drunk making Gatsby realize the dangers of being an alcoholic and so decides to not become a drinker himself. Cody dies a week after meeting a women named Ella Kaye, Cody left Gatsby $25,000 as inheritance but somehow Ella took Gatsby's inheritance away. Nick visits Gatsby one afternoon to see Tom and Mr. and Mrs. Sloane. Tom and Daisy go to Gatsby's party, Daisy and Gatsby dance, and after the party Tom shows he already distrusts Gatsby and his time with Daisy by saying that he wants to learn who Gatsby is, what he does, and says that he might be a bootlegger. Gatsby tells Nick that he thought Daisy had a horrible time at the party, wants to make things the way they were back then and Nick tells Gatsby that the past cannot be redone but Gatsby does not believe this and says he will make everything the way they were in Louisville.

3. Dan Cody

"Cody was fifty years old then, a product of the Nevada silver fields, of the Yukon, of every rush for metal since seventy-five."(Gatsby 99)

Qualities:

" The transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionaire found him physically robust but on the verge of soft-mindedness, and, suspecting this, an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money." (Gatsby 99)

" for Dan Cody sober knew what lavish doings Dan Cody drunk might soon be about, and he provided for such contingencies by reposing more and more trust in Gatsby." (Gatsby 100)

" I remember the portrait of him up in Gatsby's bedroom, a gray, florid man with a hard, empty face-the pioneer debauchee, who during one phase of American life brought back to the Eastern seaboard the savage violence of the frontier brothel and saloon." (Gatsby 100)

Dan Cody was earlier seen in a picture with Gatsby when he was 18 in yachting uniforms. Dan Cody was the reason why Gatsby drank little and because of this he put a lot of trust into Gatsby which might have later led to him giving $25,000 to Gatsby as an inheritance which was unfortunately later taken legally by Ella Kaye, Cody's mistress. Cody played the role of showing Gatsby the wonders of the world when it says," that yacht represented all the beauty and glamour in the world." (Gatsby 100) I thought that Dan Cody might have represented a fatherly figure when it showed him with Gatsby in a picture in Chapter 5. Cody might have also been the cause to the creation of Jay Gatsby from James Gatz's imagination.

4. " It was James Gatz who had been loafing along the beach that afternoon in a torn green jersey and a pair of canvas pants, but it was already Jay Gatsby who borrowed a rowboat, pulled out to the Tuolomee, and informed Cody that a wind might catch him and break him up in half an hour." (Gatsby 98)

When I read this quote it seemed like Gatsby was throwing his lower class identity of James Gatz and planned on assuming a new higher class identity as Jay Gatsby by joining with Dan Cody. Gatsby wanted to attain the wealth and glamour and showed he was ambitious when the novel mentions," At any rate Cody asked him a few questions (one of them elicited the brand new name) and found that he was quick and extravagantly ambitious."(Gatsby 100) This also seemed important because assuming the name of Jay Gatsby he was "faithful to the end" showing that Nick might outlive Gatsby who will continue to use Jay Gatsby, his higher class identity.

The Great Gatsby Chapter 5

1. The Great Gatsby: Chapter 5 (pg81-96)

2. Nick returns to West Egg to see that Gatsby's mansion is lighted up but empty and to see Gatsby walking towards him. Gatsby wants to know if Nick agrees with the plan by offering a trip to Coney Island or a swim but Nick agrees to help making Gatsby overjoyed and wanting to let him have someone cut his grass and to join him on some side business for extra money. On the day of the meeting it is raining and Gatsby had sent a gardener and florist to Nick. Gatsby goes to Nick and while waiting Daisy arrives, when Nick follows her into his house Gatsby is gone only to find him knocking on the door from the outside. Nick leaves them for half an hour and when he returns he sees Daisy in tears and Gatsby radiantly overjoyed and Gatsby invited Nick and Daisy to his house. Daisy is amazed with Gatsby's house and his English shirts, Gatsby tells her of the times he stared at the green light across the bay, and Gatsby calls Klipspringer, a boarder, to play the piano and the song The Love Nest. Nick realizes they had forgotten about him and so he leaves them together and goes out.

3. Daisy Buchanan

"Daisy's face, tipped side-ways beneath a three-cornered lavender hat, looked out at me with a bright ecstatic smile." (Gatsby 85)

Qualities:

"The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain."(Gatsby 85)

" Then from the living-room I heard a sort of choking murmur and part of a laugh, followed by Daisy's voice on a clear artificial note."(Gatsby 86)

" Daisy, who was sitting, frightened but graceful, on the edge of a stiff chair."(Gatsby 86)

" With enchanting murmurs Daisy admired this aspect or that of the feudal silhouette against the sky, admired the gardens, the sparkling odor of jonquils and the frothy odor of hawthorn and plum blossoms and the pale gold odor of kiss-me-at-the-gate." (Gatsby 90)

" They're such beautiful shirts,' she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. 'It makes me sad because I've never seen such-such beautiful shirts before."(Gatsby 92)

" Did we interrupt your exercises?' inquired Daisy politely." (Gatsby 94)

In chapter 1, we learned Daisy is Nick's cousin and is the wife of Tom Buchanan, who is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson. In chapter 4, Jordan reveals that Daisy and Gatsby have met before in Louisville before the war and that they used to be together until Gatsby had to leave for the war and that Gatsby still has feelings for Daisy. Daisy is the reason for Gatsby's settlement in West Egg and the parties he has in his mansion. Now it looks as though Gatsby's hopes are coming true where he and Daisy might be together but the problem he faces is the reality of the situation.

4. " Well, this would interest you. It wouldn't take up much of your time and you might pick up a nice bit of money. It happens to be a rather confidential sort of thing." (Gatsby 83)

This quote stood out to me because it has a relation to the conversation that Nick had with Wolfsheim and Gatsby in chapter 4. I wondered what Gatsby had to do with someone like Wolfsheim a gambler and the person responsible for fixing the World Series of 1919 and made me wonder if Gatsby was doing something illegal. Reading this quote, it made me feel that Gatsby might be doing something illegal and wanted to invite Nick on the business as a way of repaying him for helping him see Daisy again. I thought that since Tom was rich and Gatsby knew this he had large parties and a large mansion to look good. If he had been doing all that planning and secrecy for Daisy then he probably did the illegal acts for Daisy as well, if he had done something illegal. I think he is still trustworthy, because his motives are in the right place but his methods or the way he does it does not make him look honest.

The Great Gatsby Chapter 4

1. The Great Gatsby: Chapter 4 (pg 61-80)

2. Nick describes all the people who had visited Gatsby's house during that summer and is later invited by Gatsby to take a ride into New York. Gatsby reveals to Nick his past such as his military service and decorations during World War . During the luncheon with Gatsby, Nick meets Meyer Wolfshiem whom Gatsby claims to have been responsible for fixing the World Series of 1919. Nick later has lunch with Jordan who tells him her past with Daisy, Gatsby is in love with Daisy, and how she realizes that the military officer with whom Daisy spent time with before the war was Lt.  Jay Gatsby. She reveals that Gatsby bought his house so he could be on the other side of the bay from Daisy and that during the party he had asked Jordan to convince Nick to invite Daisy and Gatsby to his house for tea. Nick pulls Jordan close to his face in the car at the end.

3. Meyer Wolfsheim

" It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people-with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe." ( Gatsby 73)

Qualities:

"A small, flat-nosed Jew raised his large head and regarded me with two fine growths of hair which luxuriated in either nostril. After a moment I discovered his tiny eyes in the half-darkness." (Gatsby 69)

"The old Metropole,' brooded Mr. Wolfsheim gloomily. 'Filled with faces dead and gone. Filled with friends gone now forever. I can't forget so long as I live the night they shot Rosy Rosenthal there." (Gatsby 70)

"His eyes, meanwhile, roved very slowly all around the room-he completed the arc by turning to inspect the people directly behind. I think that, except for my presence, he would have taken one short glance beneath our own table." ( Gatsby 71)

"You're very polite, but I belong to another generation." (Gatsby 72)

"As he shook hands and turned away his tragic nose was trembling." (Gatsby 72)

" It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people-with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe." ( Gatsby 73)

"Why isn't he in jail?" "They can't get him, old sport. He's a smart man." (Gatsby 73)

We learn that Meyer Wolfsheim is the person responsible for fixing the World Series Game in 1919. It makes people wonder how a man like Mr. Gatsby with all his high status and reputation would be associated with a thief and gambler like Meyer Wolfsheim for several years since the end of World War 1. I think  that later on in the book Meyer Wolfsheim will be revealed as part of the reason to the source of Gatsby's wealth. He also shows himself to be a bit paranoid or careful of his surroundings when he says,"His eyes, meanwhile, roved very slowly all around the room-he completed the arc by turning to inspect the people directly behind. I think that, except for my presence, he would have taken one short glance beneath our own table." ( Gatsby 71) Wolfsheim shows that he might still be doing something illegal when he says," I handed the money to Katspaugh and I sid: 'All right, Katspaugh, don't pay him a penny till he shuts his mouth.' He shut it then and there."(Gatsby 69)

4.  "He wants her to see his house," she explained." And your house is right next door." (Gatsby 79)

This quote stood out to me because it now looks as though Gatsby is using Nick for his own goals which is to invite Daisy to his house so that she could see Gatsby's house next door. We learn though now why Gatsby decided to live in West Egg, why he was staring across the bay towards the green light, and the reason for his parties. Most of the things he did was for Daisy and to see her again just like how they used to see each other before the war when Gatsby left. 

The Great Gatsby Chapter 3

1. The Great Gatsby: Chapter 3 (pg 39-59)

2. Chapter 3 starts with Nick describing how extravagant the parties of Mr. Gatsby and later mentions how Mr. Gatsby's chauffeurs came to visit him and give him an invitation to Mr. Gatsby's party. Nick arrives at the party and was planning to go to the cocktail table to get drunk until he meets with Jordan Baker who later decides to look for Mr. Gatsby. They enter a library where a man is sitting who shouts to them how real the books are in amazement. Later, Nick meets Mr. Gatsby and both realize they served in the same military division during World War 1. Mr. Gatsby later asks if he could speak with Jordan Baker alone and near the end of the party Nick says goodbye to Mr. Gatsby and witnesses the scene of a car problem in front of Mr. Gatsby house. Nick describes his everyday life and mentions his times with Jordan Baker and shows he is attracted to Jordan if though he knows she tends to be dishonest. He says," I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known." (Gatsby 59)

3. Jordan Baker

"At first I was flattered to go places with her, because she was a golf champion, and everyone knew her name." (Gatsby 57)

Qualities:

"Let's get out,' whispered Jordan, after a somehow wasteful and inappropriate half-hou;    'this is much too polite for me." (Gatsby 45)

"Something in her tone reminded me of the other girl's 'I think he killed a man,' and had the effect of stimulating my curiosity." (Gatsby 49)

"The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something" (Gatsby 57)

"At her first big golf tournament there was a row that nearly reached the newspapers-a suggestion that she had moved her ball from a bad lie in the semi-final round." (Gatsby 57)

"She was incurably dishonest. She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage and, given this unwillingness, I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard, jaunty body." (Gatsby 58)

Jordan Baker shows herself as a possible love interest for Nick because in Chapter 1 he says," I enjoyed looking at her." (Gatsby 11) and later in Chapter 3 Nick admits saying," and for a moment I thought I loved her." ( Gatsby 58) He writes letters once a week and signing them with," Love, Nick." She shower herself to be trustworthy in Chapter 1 especially since she is the reason Nick learned of Tom's affair but we learn at the end of Chapter 3 that she tends to be a liar but she likes Nick because he is not careless and is trusting.

4. "There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach." (Gatsby 39)

This quote stuck out to me because this seemed like Fitzgerald portraying the rich of the 1920's after World War 1 through the parties of Mr. Gatsby. His parties are extravagant with large musical bands, buffet tents, caterers, and large amounts of alcohol. The parties are filled with people from West Egg the new rich and East of the old rich. Both groups join together in loud merriment and joy in contrast with the Englishmen at the party, as the book described them being," all well dressed, all looking a little hungry, and all talking in low, earnest voices to solid and prosperous Americans." (Gatsby 42)