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Chapter Four. Gatsby _____________, “I’m going to make a big request of you today so I thought you ought to know something about me” (71). Characterization- Gatsby tells his life “story.” What does he want? Is he getting to know him only because he wants something?
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Gatsby _____________, “I’m going to make a big request of you today so I thought you ought to know something about me” (71).
Characterization- • Gatsby tells his life “story.” • What does he want? • Is he getting to know him only because he wants something? • Does Nick believe him?
Jordan ________________, “When I described [Gatsby], [Daisy] said in the strangest voice that it must be the man she used to know. It wasn’t until then that I connected this Gatsby with the officer in her white car” (83).
N/A • Daisy and Gatsby were once in love • Daisy does not know Gatsby lives near her
Jordan _____________, “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (83).
Theme (Idealism/Obsession)- • Gatsby became rich to win Daisy back.
The narrator ________________, “Then it had not been merely the stars to which [Gatsby] aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor” (83).
Theme (Idealism/Obsession)- • In ch. 1, he was looking out at Daisy’s green light on her dock.
Jordan ________, “[Gatsby] wants her to see his house, and your house is right next door… Gatsby doesn’t want her to know. You’re just supposed to invite her to tea” (85).
Theme (Social Position)- • Gatsby wants Daisy to see his wealth up close.
SymbolismChapter Four • “timetable” (65) • “cream color” car (68). • “green leather” seats of car (68). • Wolfshiem’s “cufflinks” (77) of human molars.
CharactersChapter Four • Klipspringer- “the boarder” (67) that doesn’t ever leave • Wolfsheim- the gangster that holds Gatsby in high regard
Nick _________, “You’re acting like a little boy. Not only that but you’re rude. Daisy’s sitting in there all alone” (83).
N/A • Gatsby is nervous when Daisy and he see each other again, so Nick gives him a pep talk
Gatsby ________,“I want you and Daisy to come over to my house. I’d like to show her around” (95).
Themes (Idealism/Obsession & Social Position)- • After an hour, they aren’t as nervous • Gatsby wants to show off his stuff • She is the reason for all the stuff
Nick _________, “[Gatsby] stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in [Daisy’s] actual astounding presence, none of it was any longer real” (97).
Theme (Idealism/Obsession & Social Position)- • Write your own CM
The narrator __________, “[Gatsby] had been full of the idea [of having Daisy] so long…Now in the reaction, he was running down like a over-wound clock” (97).
Theme (Idealism/Obsession)- • Once she’s actually THERE, he does not know what to do Symbolism • Time- Now what should he do?
Nick __________, “Possibly it had occurred to [Gatsby] that the colossal significance of the [green] light had now vanished forever” (97).
Theme (Idealism/Obsession)- • What happens when an obsession becomes a reality? Symbolism • What happens when possibility becomes reality?
The narrator ________, “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything” (97).
Theme (Idealism/Obsession)- • What happens when an obsession becomes a reality? • How can a person live up to their status of being on a pedestal?
Symbolism: Chapter Five • Gatsby wore “a white flannel suit, silver shirt and gold colored tie” (89). • “I can’t wait all day”(90). (But he waits his whole life…) • “defunct mantelpiece clock” (91-92). (Time is broken) • “[Gatsby] was running down like an over-wound clock” (97). • “the colossal significance of the [green] light had now vanished forever” (97).
CharactersChapter Five • N/A
The narrator ________, “The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from [James Gatz’s] Platonic conception of himself” (104).
Theme (Idealism/Obsession)- • Jay Gatsby is an invented “self” • Platonic (adj): perfect in form or conception, but not found in reality
The narrator ______, “[Daisy] was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented ‘place’…and by its inhabitants along a short cut from nothing to nothing” (114).
Theme (Social Postion)- • Daisy is not impressed with “new money” or its behavior (though she does admire one movie star)
The narrator _____, “[Gatsby] wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you’” (116).
Theme (Idealism/Obsession)- • Jay Gatsby is obsessed with starting where they left off • He has this idea of how perfect they should have been
Gatsby _________, “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!...I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before. She’ll see” (117).
Theme (Idealism/Obsession)- • Jay Gatsby is obsessed with starting where they left off • He has this idea of how perfect they should have been Symbolism- • Time!
Symbolism: Chapter Six • “A gorgeous, scarcely human orchid of a woman” (111). • “Here’s my little gold pencil” (112).
CharactersChapter Six Dan Cody- rich man on the yacht Gatsby helped; his role model
Gatsby _______“I wanted somebody who wouldn’t gossip. Daisy comes over quite often- in the afternoons” (120). -Gatsby
N/A Gatsby changes his lifestyle for Daisy.
The train conductor ______, “Hot! Some weather! Hot!...Hot!...Hot!”(121).
Symbolism- Heat- the plot heats up when Tom sees Daisy tell Gatsby she loves him! Heat makes people mean and impatient. Do the Right Thing?!
The narrator __________, “Afterward [Gatsby] kept looking at the child with surprise. I don’t think he had ever really believed in its existence before” (123).
Theme (Idealism/Obsession)- Pammy is not part of his masterplan.
Theme Daisy loves Gatsby, but is this enough. What does Gatsby want?
Daisy _________, “What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon and the day after that, and the next thirty years?” (125). -Daisy
Themes (Social Position / Decline of Values)- Rich & spoiled & bored Symbolism- Time
