Chapter 9

The ninth chapter starts out with Nick trying to get in touch with Daisy. When he calls her house though, he is told that they had left with no forwarding address. Nick tries to track down people to come to pay their respects, but he has a tough time. Nick meets Mr. Gatz, Gatsby's father. Mr. Gatz has his misconceptions about his son, he believed that if he had lived. he would have "built up the country". Gatsby bought is father his house which shows that he used is money for good, or at least good intentions. We realize that Nick only has one true friend, Nick. All these people take advantage of Gatsby for his parties and his money and when he dies they do not care enough to even come to his funeral. It is a terribly rainy day on the day of Gatsby's funeral. The only other person that came to the funeral was the man with the owl eyes. The reason i think he came is because he is the one who went to Gatsby's library and saw all of his books. He realized there was a real person in Gatsby, just like Nick. Later it is revealed to Nick by Tom that Tom is the one who to told Mr. Wilson that Gatsby was the one driving that care. Nick cant find it in himself to tell Tom that Daisy was driving the car. Nick says that Tom and Daisy are careless people and that they just let other people clean up there messes. The story ends with Nick looking at the green light that Gatsby looked at, the light at Daisy's house. IT ends with "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter – to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And one fine morning –
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Chapter 8

Chapter 8 is the day after the hottest day of the year. Nick tells Gatsby that he should leave for awhile, but Gatsby thinks that daisy will be over soon to see him. One of Gatsby's servants tells him that he wants to drain the pool, and Gatsby tells him not to. This is another example of how Gatsby misses his chances to do something he wants, and then tries to do it before it's gone. This will lead him into death and bad outcomes every time. Nick leaves Gatsby's house saying "They're a rotten crowd, you're worth the whole damn bunch put together". This is the first time Nick really shows to Gatsby how much he likes him. This is interesting because Nick never approves of what Gatsby is doing the whole story, but Nick knows that he is a good man and is just lost. Everyone else in the story are bad people. Wilson, the man from the garage, reveals that he know that his wife has been having an affair. He finds a dog collar and the remembers seeing myrtle beaten and knows he did not do it. Wilson comes over to Gatsby's house thinking that he was the man cheating with his wife and that he was the man who killed her. He shoots Gatsby in the pool and then kills himself. Nick comes over later to find Gatsby dead. 

Chapter 7

Chapter 7 starts with the hottest day of the year. Nick, Gatsby, and Jordan all go over the Buchanan’s house. It is fitting that it is the hottest day because this is the day where the tension releases, and the sparks fly. This chapter is the climax of the novel. After Tom gets off the phone with his mistress, Daisy sends him into the other room to make a drink. After he leaves, she kisses Gatsby in front of everyone and declares that she is in love with him. I think she does this to get revenge on Tom somehow. She feels like she is getting back at him.  Her daughter shows up and Gatsby has a problem with it. The daughter makes him realize that she has a rooted life with tom. If she just walked away from it, it would be messy at the least. After a while, they decide to go to the town. They stop by Wilson’s garage to get gas. Myrtle sees Tom in Gatsby’s yellow car. They go to a hotel to decide what to do and that is where all the drama came out. Gatsby waits for Daisy to say to tom that she never loved him. When she does not, he says it. Daisy tell Gatsby he want too much, “I love you now, isn’t that enough”? Daisy runs out and Gatsby follows. They take Gatsby’s car and as the pass Wilson’s garage, Myrtle comes out thinking that it is Tom again. We find out that Myrtle dies and Tom makes sure Wilson knows it was not his car. Gatsby stays the night watching over the house. This shows that his is clinging on to her even though Tom has won and Gatsby never had a chance. 

Chapter 6

This chapter starts by with a reporter coming to interview Gatsby. This shows us the even though we know much more about Gatsby now, he still has a shroud of mystery surrounding him. Gatsby grew up poor with the name James Gatz. The name Jay Gatsby was created as he was become close friends with Dan Cody. When Cody died, he left all of his money to Gatsby, but his wife took it for herself. Tom stops by Gatsby house. Gatsby and Tom immediately build a dislike for each other. Gatsby feels secure in Daisy, so he says to Tom “I know your wife”. Gatsby tries to make a night of it so he can see more of Tom. They all invite him to go eat with them, yet as Gatsby gets dressed, they leave without him. At the next party, both Daisy and Tom come. Gatsby and Daisy sneak over to Nick’s house for some couple time. At this party, the atmosphere was very different then his other parties.  Everyone is rude, or drunk. Tom wants to find out the truth about Gatsby, like where he gets all of his money and such. Gatsby end wanting things that he cannot have. Nick says that he wants Daisy to go up to Nick and tell him he never loved him. 

Chapter 5

Chapter 5 is the important chapter when Gatsby and Daisy finally meet after many years. We can infer that Gatsby was in love with daisy and still remains in love with her to this vary day. Everything that Gatsby does in his life is for daisy. All the money that Gatsby has acquired over the last few years has been to impress daisy. When Nick meet Gatsby’s friend, Mr. Wolfsheim, who tells of how he rigged the 1919 World Series, we infer that Gatsby used many questionable means to gain his money also.  His parties were designed to attract her to his house. That explains why he never went to his own parties, he just watched over them to see who was there.  To prepare for daisy’s arrival to Nick’s house, Gatsby gets his men to cut the grass and bring in flowers and other extravagancies to make Nick’s house fancier. When Daisy finally gets there, Gatsby sneaks around the back to act as if he just happened to stop by. The awkwardness is intense. When nick comes back though, he finds Daisy crying and the awkward tension seemed diminished. Gatsby invites them over to his house and she is overcome with joy. When he shows her his closet of shirts, Daisy begins to cry because the money was, the only thing that Gatsby did not used to have. Daisy was in love with him, but she did not marry him because he was poor. They begin to dance and fall in love with each other again. They became immersed in themselves. “They had forgotten me, […]; Gatsby didn’t know me at all” 

Chapter 1 Analysis

The Great Gatsby begins with an introduction to the narrator's past. The narrator, Nick as we will later find out, says that his father once told him that “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had”. Therefore, right at the start of the book we realize that many of the characters of this book are privileged and wealthy. Because of the narrator’s nonjudgmental attitude, many people go to him with their stories and problems. The narrator tells of his journey to the East Egg. He tells of how he dislikes most of the people who are from there. The one person that he has some respect for and appreciation of is Jay Gatsby. During our narrator, who we now know as Nick’s journey to the East Egg, he stays with his second cousin daisy and her husband. As the night goes on, more secrets of their household are reviled. Nick finds out that Daisy’s husband has been cheating on her. It becomes evident that everyone knows about this affair. Probably because his girlfriend blatantly call the house when they want him. The lack of tact involved his affair leads to a tensioned marriage and an embarrassing reputation in the community. The people with the “new money” have a distraught life. Right in the first chapter, we see the major difference between “New money” and “Old Money”, East Egg and West Egg. Nick, from the West Egg, was taught that he should not judge anyone and be appreciative of his advantages, whereas Daisy and her family in the East Egg are selfish and constantly wanting more and are not happy with what they have. 

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