I wonder what Nick is worried about that pretty much keeps him up all night and has him not focused at work. He goes over Gatsby's house to talk to him about the other night. Nick suggests that Gatsby goes away but he refuses because he does not want to leave Daisy.
I'm not too sure why Michaelis has any part in Myrtle love life. He's not really a main character or of any importance to anybody in the novel. It somewhat makes me wonder if he had a secret crush on Myrtle. But he preaches on to Myrtle about how God see's everything and how she is sinning.
Wilson has every right to be upset with everything that has occurred. He found out that his wife was having an affair with another man but he isn't sure who it is. Then after he finds out her cheating, she gets ran of and dies from impact. Besides asking around if anybody knows who Myrtle has been having an affair with, he makes a quick decision. He goes to Gatsby's home and murders him. After he murders Gatsby, he takes his own life. If he would have asked around or even asked Gatsby about it, this could have been avoided. He killed the wrong guy. I wonder how Daisy will react to the news she will receive about Gatsby death.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
To Hot For Summer
At this point in the book, I believe that Nick is in too deep. By too deep I mean that he has become involved in other people personal business. He can not say anything because it is not his place to say anything and he will ruin a lot of life's if he does so.
Gatsby has built Daisy up to be this perfect girl he remembers before he left for the war into his fantasy. He has built her up so much that in reality she cannot uphold to his expectations. Gatsby thinks he is just going to walk back into her life, win her over from Tom, and they start a happy life that he has constructed in his mind. I believe that when Gatsby meets Daisy daughter, "Gatsby and I in turn leaned down and took the small reluctant hand. Afterward he kept looking at the child with surprise. I don't thin he had ever really believed in its existence before"(Fitzgerald 117), reality slaps him in the face. He is almost stunned that she is real. Daisy has mentioned her in the past but it is not until now that it is settling in with Gatsby.
Later on in the chapter, things get a little heater between everybody. Tom was suspicious about Gatsby and his wife in the previous chapter. Now he knows that there is something going on between them. Daisy basically comes clean when all of them are in the same room. Tom sends Daisy with Gatsby back to long Island to prove that even when Daisy is with Gatsby, she still comes back to him. Tom tells Gatsby to switch cars with him, but Gatsby does not know that Tom says that to let him know in a way that Tom has power of him. Daisy is in the car with Gatsby and accidentally hits and kills Myrtle. In my opinion, I think Daisy hits her on purpose because maybe she secretly know that Tom and Myrtle is a thing. But at the end of the chapter, Tom and Daisy has settled their differences and Gatsby is left alone in the moonlight. I wonder if Gatsby fantasy will ever come true about him and Daisy.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Chapter 5 - Reuniting lost love
I find it strange how Nick is in between both situations. He knows that Tom is having an affair with Myrtle, but Tom is married to his cousin Daisy. Now Nick has to set up a date with Daisy and Gatsby. Gatsby is acting weird about all of it. He tries to pay Nick off and make him happy so that he can invite Daisy over and they can see each other at once.
The day Daisy comes over it's raining. Gatsby was already in the house with Nick when Daisy showed up to Nicks house. She comes in and Gatsby disappears. That's strange considering the fact that the whole idea was Gatsby's. But he shows up at the door as if he was just stopping through. They see each other for the first time in years and they're some what awkward. I guess that's what happens when you do not see a person you loved for years. Nick leaves the house to go outside and let them have some alone time. As he comes back in they're laughing and talking finally but with a hint of awkwardness roaming in the room. I wonder what Gatsby said to Daisy while they were in the room alone. Forgetting that they were invited to have tea and did not touch the tea.
After getting the awkwardness out, Gatsby decides to invite both Nick and Daisy over to his home. He wants to show off his belongings to Daisy because he knows that she loves money and expensive items. Daisy is very surprised that the home is Gatsby's. But of course she loves everything she encounters in his home. When he shows her his clothes that some English man sends him at the beginning of each season, she begins to cry. I'm not really sure why she cried over the shirts. Maybe it was because Gatsby was always the perfect guy and was not rich but now he finally it. Or maybe it was because she knows it's too late to try and do anything with Gatsby because she is now married to Tom. I wonder what the next chapter holds.
The day Daisy comes over it's raining. Gatsby was already in the house with Nick when Daisy showed up to Nicks house. She comes in and Gatsby disappears. That's strange considering the fact that the whole idea was Gatsby's. But he shows up at the door as if he was just stopping through. They see each other for the first time in years and they're some what awkward. I guess that's what happens when you do not see a person you loved for years. Nick leaves the house to go outside and let them have some alone time. As he comes back in they're laughing and talking finally but with a hint of awkwardness roaming in the room. I wonder what Gatsby said to Daisy while they were in the room alone. Forgetting that they were invited to have tea and did not touch the tea.
After getting the awkwardness out, Gatsby decides to invite both Nick and Daisy over to his home. He wants to show off his belongings to Daisy because he knows that she loves money and expensive items. Daisy is very surprised that the home is Gatsby's. But of course she loves everything she encounters in his home. When he shows her his clothes that some English man sends him at the beginning of each season, she begins to cry. I'm not really sure why she cried over the shirts. Maybe it was because Gatsby was always the perfect guy and was not rich but now he finally it. Or maybe it was because she knows it's too late to try and do anything with Gatsby because she is now married to Tom. I wonder what the next chapter holds.
Monday, April 16, 2012
Chapter 1
The story begins with the narrator, who we find out later to be Nick Carraway. Nick is talking about the advice his father gave him once. His father told him not to ever criticize anyone because other people have not have had the same advantages in life that he has. Nick explains how he always has tried to live life with out judging others around him.
He decides to head East to learn a bond business and thinks it practical to live on Long Island instead of New York City. He settles into a little house at West Egg, the "poorer" of the two Eggs. It was located next to Gatsby's mansion and directly across the bay of East Egg, the more fashionable village. Nick decides to visit his second cousin Daisy and her husband, Tom Buchanan, who reside on East Egg. He meets Tom, Daisy, and Daisy's friend, Jordan Baker. Tom Buchanan is a very wealthy, arrogant man and feels as if he's superior. He is also having an affair on Daisy with a woman in New York. Daisy is very cynical. There's a hint of sadness in her words and her actions. Fitzgerald makes her to sound unintelligent in the way she talks and her mannerisms. There is not much learned about Miss Baker but she is very talkative. Gatsby is introduced into the story at the end of Chapter 1. He is portrayed as a very, mysterious character. Nick does not talk to him, but he just sees Gatsby in the distance and is curious about him.
He decides to head East to learn a bond business and thinks it practical to live on Long Island instead of New York City. He settles into a little house at West Egg, the "poorer" of the two Eggs. It was located next to Gatsby's mansion and directly across the bay of East Egg, the more fashionable village. Nick decides to visit his second cousin Daisy and her husband, Tom Buchanan, who reside on East Egg. He meets Tom, Daisy, and Daisy's friend, Jordan Baker. Tom Buchanan is a very wealthy, arrogant man and feels as if he's superior. He is also having an affair on Daisy with a woman in New York. Daisy is very cynical. There's a hint of sadness in her words and her actions. Fitzgerald makes her to sound unintelligent in the way she talks and her mannerisms. There is not much learned about Miss Baker but she is very talkative. Gatsby is introduced into the story at the end of Chapter 1. He is portrayed as a very, mysterious character. Nick does not talk to him, but he just sees Gatsby in the distance and is curious about him.
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