Great_Gatsby_Study_Guide

Chapter 1 1. By using Nick's point of view to tell Gatsby's story, it gives the reader a better insight to how Gatsby affected everyone. Because he doesn't know them it's almost a non-biased introduction and view of everyone. 2. In the introductory section of the novel, we learn that Nick moved from the west, he's a war veteran, and he's a graduate from Yale. 3. Type of people and the type of homes 4. Nick is inexpensive and Gatsby is showy 5. Tom is abusive and having an affair, Daisy is delicate  6. Nick doesn't understand why Daisy stays, but she stays because of Tom's money. 7. The impression of Gatsby is that everyone knows of him but nobody truly knows him personally. Chapter 2 1. The valley of ashes is dismal and symbolizes death 2. When Myrtle talks about her unhappy marriage, she seems to be justifying that it's okay for her to be cheating on her husband. 3. Myrtle's speech reveals her lifestyle about how poor she is, yet she's poor and ashamed of it. 4. The scene in the New York apartment shows that Tom is violent and selfish and that Myrtle is materialistic Chapter 3 1. At Gatsby's "little party," there are colored lights in the garden, fancy foods on a buffet table, a bar, and a full orchestra. Many people who weren't actually invited attend the party and several groups talk of unhappy marriages while they are drunk. It is also brought up that many of the party goers have never met Gatsby and have heard a rumor that he killed a man. 2. Nick is with Jordan at a table with people he doesn't know and has a conversation with a man who recognizes him from the Third Division in the war, and the man turns out to be Gatsby. Fitzgerald basically sneaks Gatsby into the scene so that there is no biased towards him based on the previously mentioned rumors.  3. Nick and Gatsby are both similar at this point by their past relations in the war and their memories of it. 4. He wanted to assure people this wasn't the only thing he was preoccupied about 5. Jordan is a hypocrite and likes honesty yet has none Nick is honest, too tender for Jordan Chapter 4 1. They speculate about his past and come for a good time 2. Rich creme color with green interior 3. Gatsby says he lived in the Midwest then mentions San Fransisco, he rushes through saying he graduated 7. The epigraph is saying do whatever she wants to get her attention until she wants you. It reveals that Gatsby has spent all this money on fancy things trying to get Daisy's attention. 10. Gatsby asked Jordan Nick's story so he can eventually get Daisy to go,e over. He didn't ask Nick directly because he didn't want to offend him. Chapter 5 1. Gatsby sends flowers to Nick's house, reads books, wears a white suit and silver shirt. He does this to impress Daisy. 2. "pale as death with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets" shows how nervous Gatsby was about seeing Daisy and he walks in the rain so it won't seem like he was anticipating Daisy's company 3. Nick thinks that Daisy has fallen short of Gatsby's expectations but it's not her fault because Gatsby has been putting her on a pedestal all these years as if she's perfect when she's not. 4. daisy is very careful what she says and is unsure how to react to seeing Gatsby 5. Yes, Nick feels that he's going against his morals but accepts it because he's reconnecting long lovers Chapter 6 1. Gatsby's real name is James Gatz, he changed it because he didn't feel like he belonged to his parents but to God and in his mind he was Jay Gatsby so he changed it 2. Dan Cody had the life Gatsby wanted so in being around him he figured out how to live that life without being a drunk like Dan. 3. Tom attends Gatsby's party to keep an eye on Gatsby and Daisy and the scene reveals how Gatsby is very social whereas Tom is a serious man and not very social and very judgmental 4. His wife Daisy doesn't run around, she mostly stays at home to stay out of trouble plus he's the one running around not Daisy. 5. Daisy is very uncomfortable and her reactions and responses are stiff and short. Tom is very irritable and is asking many questions of Gatsby, very skeptical. 6. Tom suspects that Gatsby is a bootlegger and intends on finding out how Gatsby can afford everything he has 7. They talk about whether Daisy liked the party or no, how Gatsby feels detached from her and how he wishes she would leave Tom. 8. Gatsby wants Daisy to be like she used to be and Nick thinks that's asking too much of her because it won't happen Chapter 7 1. Fitzgerald uses the weather to set the tone for the scene such as the rain when Gatsby and Daisy are meeting again. 2. Gatsby didn't throw a party that Saturday night, he fired all of his servants because they gossip and he didn't want them telling others that Daisy had been coming over often. 3. Daisy is an absent mother and before when she talked about wishing her child to be a fool, she shows false emotion like she doesn't really care about her daughter but more about herself. Gatsby is surprised to see the child because he always imagined it being just him and Daisy, never a child in the picture. 4. Tom talks to Myrtle's husband about the car Tom was going to sell to him 5. Tom discovers that Daisy loves Gatsby and has apparently known him for awhile. 6. When Gatsby says Daisy's voice is "full of money" he means that she doesn't think twice when it comes to spending money because she's so used to always having it whereas Gatsby was poor before. These words are put into Gatsby's mouth because he had been poor and he's sees a fault in Daisy and why she hadn't married him before. 7. Tom takes Gatsby's car in order to learn more about him and Nick and Jordan ride with him in Gatsby's "circus car" while Daisy and Gatsby take Tom's coupe. The coupe is small and close so the coupe is for the secret couple and the other car is fractious for friends. 8. Gatsby and Daisy exchange many glances as if that's how their communicating because of Tom. Eckleburg's eyes also seem to be watching the couples and what they're doing. 9. Nick said this because Wilson had a wife with another life just as Tom does now and they have the same mindset and thoughts despite the difference in wealth. 10. Gatsby says he was allowed to go to any university he wanted after the war which was a lie and Nick disapproved. 11. No, she loves money and herself 12. Gatsby is in the car with Daisy when she accidentally strikes and kills Myrtle. Jordan, Nick and Tom were in Gatsby's car following after, but we're unaware of Daisy causing the death of Myrtle. The exchange of cars is so ironic because Daisy accidentally killed her husbands mistress. This symbolizes the different levels of deceit.  13. Nick is turning 30 which is the decade of loneliness which actually seems to be proved by the other people in the story even though they're married they're lonely and in ll these bad situations, but Nick won't have the "couples" problems because he's not married. 14. Michaelis witnessed the accident and knows Wilson and Tom which gives Tom dirt on Gatsby and the ability to dig in his past and pull Daisy and Gatsby apart. 15. He was tired of Gatsby lying to him but then he realized why he had been lying to him 16. They were unhappy and Gatsby worries that Tom will become violent 17. Refers to chapter one when Gatsby is looking out over at Daisy's house and now after the course of events of the day he has nothing to look at and is back where he started, dream is gone Chapter 8 1. The interruption shows us how the dream and hopes he had to be with Daisy had actually developed so we understand how special she is to him 2. He has nothing to lose 3. We learn how intense Gatsby and Daisy's love was and that she waited for him for awhile but gave up and married 4. "They" are Tom, Daisy, & Jordan and they're rotten because its as if the death doesn't phase them and Tom tattles about the murderer out of jealousy like a snob, Gatsby has a purpose the others don't  5. Nick says "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."  Because he sees Gatsby's dream as something that Tom, Daisy, and Jordan wouldn't aim for because of their wealth, differences in how their wealth is used 6. Although Gatsby has been involved in illegal things, his dream is what maintains his image and purpose 7. The eyes are God and Wilson is acting as if he is God 8. The holocaust is to death as Gatsby is murdered as revenge Chapter 9 1. Nick took responsibility of the funeral because no one else would so he felt like he needed to, he sent a letter to Wolfsheim and tried to contact anyone who would want to attend the funeral. 2. That Gatsby is a murderer and Wilson is in grief but it doesn't mention that Myrtle was having an affair  3. Gatsby's father learned about his death in the Chicago newspaper and he doesn't know the reasons behind Gatsby's wealth 4. Gatsby believed that if he worked hard he could achieve the American Dream 5. The irony is that so many people would go to Gatsby's house for his parties but none of them would come to his funeral 6. Nick is basically cutting any connection with the East and the people he had been associated with 7. Nick feels that Tom and Daisy don't really care what happened and that it's not their problem if they aren't there so that they can just continue with life when they leave and let other people fix what had happened. 8. The dream is always behind us