gatsby final

quote: I decided to call to him. Miss Baker had mentioned him at dinner, and that would do for an introduction. But I didn't call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone — he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward — and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness

- chapter 1 - speaker is nick - going on: it is that nick is coming home from a party he had with jordan, daisy, and tom. he sees gatsby for the first time looking at staring at the green light (dreaming about him and daisy getting reunited) - significance- it is a foreshadow to what we are going to find out later in the novel: that he is dreaming about the reunion with daisy

gatsby stretching out his hand

- a symbol that his dreams are out there but they are just out of reach - forshadow about his dream that it is going to happen soon

quote: I had been actually invited. A chauffeur in a uniform of robin's-egg blue crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning 33 with a surprisingly formal note from his employer: the honor would be entirely Gatsby's, it said, if I would attend his "little party." that night. He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it — signed Jay Gatsby, in a majestic hand.

- chapter 3 - speaker is nick - going on= gatsby sent his chauffeur to tell nick that that is inviting him to his party; gatsby is making a party at his house and many had come even the people that weren't invited were here. - this party is going to later foreshadow why gatsby threw all these parties: so that daisy would hopefully come to one of them (not because he really likes to)

quote: americans while occasionally willing to be serfs have always been obstinate about being peasantry

- chapter 5 - speaker= nick -

quote: As I went over to say good-by I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby's face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon whe 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. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. As I watched him he adjusted himself a little, visibly. His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn't be over-dreamed — that voice was a deathless song. They had forgotten me, but Daisy glanced up and held out her hand; Gatsby didn't know me now at all. I looked once more at them and they looked back at me, remotely, possessed by intense life. Then I went out of the room and down the marble steps into the rain, leaving them there together

- chapter 5 - speaker= nick - going on= this at the end of the chapter when daisy and gatsby are reunited together after almost 5 years - this is when gatsby literally reunites with daisy again; this is the climax part of the novel

quote: He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real. Once he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs.

- chapter 5 - speaker= nick - going on= nick invited daisy and nick into his house and now they are just going through and having a look in gatsby's house; he is just showing them around - in this quote it shows how nervous gatsby is around daisy but in a romantic way; this forshadows (since daisy and tom are married and gatsby wants to get her back) how he is fighting for her back that he is inlove with her and wants her.

quote: His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy's white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that 85 had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete

- chapter 6 - speaker is nick on gatsby - symbol of flower and the incarnation was complete is that his dream that he was waiting for 5 years is finally come true; stretching is hands he has finally caught it. - he is actually kissing daisy and he literally has her back

quote: there is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind, and as we drove away tom was feeling the hot whips of painic

- chapter 7 - speaker= mrytle - going on= they are in the car

quote: The young Greek, Michaelis, who ran the coffee joint beside the ashheaps was the principal witness at the inquest. He had slept through the heat until after five, when he strolled over to 104 the garage, and found George Wilson sick in his office — really sick, pale as his own pale hair and shaking all over. Michaelis advised him to go to bed, but Wilson refused, saying that he'd miss a lot of business if he did. While his neighbor was trying to persuade him a violent racket broke out overhead.

- chapter 7 - going on wilson says that he has his wife locked up

quote: She was the first "nice" girl he had ever known. In various unrevealed capacities he had come in contact with such people, but always with indiscernible barbed wire between. He found her excitingly desirable. He went to her house, at first with other officers from Camp Taylor, then alone. It amazed him — he had never been in such a beautiful house before. but what gave it an air of breathless intensity, was that Daisy lived there — it was as casual a thing to her as his tent out at camp was to him. There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms up-stairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities taking place through its corridors, and of romances that were not musty and laid away already in lavender but fresh and breathing and redolent of this year's shining motor-cars and of dances whose flowers were scarcely withered. It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy — it increased her value in his eyes. He felt their presence all about the house, pervading the air with the shades and echoes of still vibrant emotions.

- chapter 8 - speaker is nick writing down what gatsby said - going on= gatsby sits with nick at gatsby's house to talk to about daisy (about when he 1st met her, how he loved her, she is rich, he lied to her about past so that he can think of as worthy

quote: Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men, and drowsing asleep at dawn with the beads and chiffon of an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed. And all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand.

- chapter 8 speark= nick writing down what gatsby said - going on= gatsby is talking tom about his past with daisy

quote: He stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast now for his blurred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.

- chapter 8 - speaker= nick

quote: He came back from France when Tom and Daisy were still on their wedding trip, and made a miserable but irresistible journey to Louisville on the last of his army pay. He stayed there a week, walking the streets where their footsteps had clicked together through the November night and revisiting the out-ofthe-way places to which they had driven in her white car. Just as Daisy's house had always seemed to him more mysterious and gay than other houses, so his idea of the city itself, even though she was gone from it, was pervaded with a melancholy beauty.

- chapter 8 - speaker= nick writing down what gatsby said - gatsby talking to tom about daisy

gatsby's boyhood schedule - rise from bed 6 - dumbell excersie study electrinity etc. - sork - baseball and spaorts - practice elocution, poise and how to attain it study needed inventions

- chapter 9 - can really tell that he was extremely ambitous (having or showing a strong desire and determination to succeed) from a young age

quote: Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound. And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes — a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

- chapter 9 - speaker= nick - gatsby thinking about the dutch sailors when they first arrived in the USA

quote: That's my Middle West — not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth, and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow. I am part of that, a little solemn with the feel of those long winters, a little complacent from growing up in the Carraway house in a city where dwellings are still called through decades by a family's name. I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all — Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

- chapter 9 -spearker= nick

quote: But as I walked down the steps I saw that the evening was not quite over. Fifty feet from the door a dozen headlights illuminated a bizarre and tumultuous scene. In the ditch beside the road, right side up, but violently shorn of one wheel, rested a new coupe which had left Gatsby's drive not two minutes before. The sharp jut of a wall accounted for the detachment of the wheel, which was now getting considerable attention from half a dozen curious chauffeurs. However, as they had left their cars blocking the road, a harsh, discordant din from those in the rear had been audible for some time, and added to the already violent confusion of the scene.

- chapter3 - spearker is nick - going on= that a drunk man was driving and he got into a car wreck and he is so drunk that he doesn't even notice this; this all takes place after the party

quote: She began to cry — she cried and cried. I rushed out and found her mother's maid, and we locked the door and got her into a cold bath. She wouldn't let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up into a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap-dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow

- chapter=4 - speaker= jordan - going on= jordan talks about how she went in one daisy and found her crying while holding a letter (a letter probably from gatsby) and then the next day she got married to tom; - the author fixes the problem of the narration by letting the reader know about this information from another character jordan telling the narrator so the that the narrator can inform us with this info. - according to jordan daisy drank herself that night after reciving the this letter from gatsby

quote: he wants to know if you'll invite daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over. Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor.

- chapter=4 - speaker= jordan to nick - going= gatsby asked jordan to tell daisy if she can tell gatsby if he can invite daisy into his house for tea without her knowing that gatsby will be there and then let him in; jordan says that gatsby wants daisy to see his house - this is the beginging of the forshadow of how gatsby is going to get back after 5 yrs. with daisy (because now she is married to tom)

quote: saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees and once he could suck on the pap of life gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder

- chatper 6 - speaker= nick (imagining) - this is nick's imagination of gatsby's past self wondering (climbing up the stairs) to see the wonder of the future;they are walking (daisy and gatsby) sidewalk (5yrs back in time) - symboliizng of how he wishes to go back in time to know what wrong errors he did to correct them and to not do them. (as gatsby said you can repeat the past

chapter 7

- gatsby replaces his servants to prevent gossips - nick takes train - one their way back they see the car accident; they were told by the Michaelis that mrytle was hit by a car - Nick finds Gatsby hiding in the bushes. Gatsby says that he has been waiting there in order to make sure that Tom did not hurt Daisy - gatsby tells nick that daisy was driving and hit mrytle

chapter 4

- gatsby takes nick out for lunch in gatsby's ccar - gatsby is from san fransisco; he is educated at oxford becuase all his ancestors have been educated there for many years (family tradition) - in the car gatsby talks to nick about his past; life in oxford - jordan tells nick that gatsby brought this house so that he can be close to daisy

gatsby looking at the greenlight

- it is a foreshadow - we see that gatsby looks at this light dreaming of reuniting with daisy - it has been 5 years since they were togethe

chapter 8

- nick advicses gatsby to leave and forget about diasy; but gatsby refuses to do this. - (nick talking to gatsby) nick says that he loved her for her youth and vitality, and idolized her social position, wealth, and popularity. He adds that she was the first girl to whom he ever felt close and that he lied about his background to make her believe that he was worthy of her - gatsby then left for the war and then daisy married tom - narration shifts to michellias - wilson thinks that whoever ran over mrytle was her lover and so he goes down to kill the owner of the car (gatsby) - he shoots gatsby then himself - Nick imagines Gatsby's final thoughts, and pictures him disillusioned by the meaninglessness and emptiness of life without Daisy, without his dream

chapter 1

- nick carraway is the narrator - he lives in west egg with a next door neighbour gatsby - nick drives to east egg to have dinner with daisy and jordan diasy is nick's cousin and tom (classmate at yale) - daisy and tom are old money - while daisy was giving birth tom was somewhere we don't know yet; daisy calls her daughter a "beautiful little fool" - goes home and finds gatsby staring at the greenlight with his hands stretched (1st time seeing him)

chapter 2

- nick describes the areas between egg and new york as valley of ashes. - nick is traveleing with tom and then they tom to see tom's mistress; the mistres name is mrytle and then husband is george wilson - mrytle keeps on saying daisy and then tom punches her in the nose

chapter 5

- the climax of the novel - gatsby is so overjoyed and relieved when nick says that he will help him with the daisy plan - Gatsby worries that even if Daisy accepts his advances, things between them will not be the same as they were in Louisville. - gatsby says that this meeting was a mistake - they go to gatsby's house (as planned) - at the end while kilpsring plays the paino they (daisy and gatsby) hold hands

chapter 3

- there are gossips about how gatsby could be a murderer - at the gatsby's party he sees a woman crying because she had a fight with a man who said that he was her husband when he actually wasn't . - there is a car wreck; man was so drunk he didn't even realize there was something wrong

chapter 6

- we are told from gatsby himself that his name is james gatz and that he was born in north dakota - this is when he says that he went with dan cody and got his new name= jay gatsby - Tom has stopped for a drink at Gatsby's house with Mr. and Mrs. Sloane, with whom he has been out riding

quote: 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 ——

-chapter 9 - spearker is nick - arms strech out is seen in chapter 1; nick's thoughts