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.