How does Tom find out about the affair between Gatsby and Daisy? How does Gatsby make his money? How are West Egg and East Egg different? What is the importance of the character Owl Eyes? Does Daisy love Gatsby or Tom? Why does Tom insist on switching cars with Gatsby when they go to the city?
Why is Nick the narrator of the story? Why does Tom bring up race so often? Why is Myrtle attracted to Tom? Why does Gatsby stop throwing parties? Summary Chapter 6. See Important Quotes Explained. We know this because they graduate in Dan Cody dies in Boston. They are together for a month, and he is shocked by how much in love with her he falls. The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.
His name was Jay Gatsby" 4. Wild rumors were circulating about her—how her mother had found her packing her bag one winter night to go to New York and say goodbye to a soldier who was going overseas. Jordan becomes a professional golfer. She is later mired in a cheating scandal, but nothing is proven. By the next year I had a few beaux myself, and I began to play in tournaments" 4.
Gatsby fights with distinction in the Argonne Battle, and then is promoted to Captain and then to Major. He also receives several medals. He was a captain before he went to the front and following the Argonne battles he got his majority and the command of the divisional machine guns. After Armistice, Gatsby spends five months at Oxford University in England, in a program for army officers.
That's why I can't really call myself an Oxford man It was an opportunity they gave to some of the officers after the Armistice," he continued. Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night The girl who was with 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.
I saw right away he was a fine appearing, gentlemanly young man, and I knew I could use him good. We were so thick like that in everything—" He held up two bulbous fingers "—always together. Prohibition goes into effect through the passage of the 18th Amendment, which outlawed most kinds of alcohol.
Prohibition spurs widespread underground organized crime represented by Meyer Wolfshiem and Gatsby in the novel. I saw them one spring in Cannes and later in and then they came back to Chicago to settle down. I was so excited that when I got into a taxi with him I didn't hardly know I wasn't getting into a subway train. Nick decides to learn bond trading in New York. Tom takes Nick to meet Myrtle.
They go to a Manhattan apartment, to a small party that ends with Tom punching Myrtle in the face for talking about Daisy. We know the exact date because Nick notes that it was two days before the 4th of July holiday. Gatsby's notoriety, spread about by the hundreds who had accepted his hospitality and so become authorities on his past, had increased all summer until he fell just short of being news.
I hadn't been there two minutes when somebody brought Tom Buchanan in for a drink Nick recounts dozens and dozens of names, all of them supposedly recognizable. Clearly, everyone who was anyone wanted to be seen at Gatsby's lavish gatherings. Fitzgerald's use of names here brings out the notion that East Egg is symbolic of the established social order the old money while West Egg is home to the newcomers, people who may have equal wealth, but haven't had it nearly as long.
It is curious that Nick recounts the names off notes he took on a timetable dated July 5, , the day after Independence Day, as if to indicate these people have somehow only just arrived and are enjoying the benefits of independence that they didn't even fight for.
After the conspicuous cataloging of Gatsby's guests, Nick recounts another of his adventures — this time one that changes the course of his life forever.
Gatsby, arriving at Nick's house for the first time, informs him that because they will be having lunch together, they may as well ride together. The real reason for Gatsby's visit, however, is to talk to Nick alone, and so the two men head to the city driving Gatsby's car — so big and excessive as to border on being gaudy.
How ironic it is that a car, a massive symbol of the American dream and here an outward manifestation of Gatsby's wealth, will ultimately lead to his undoing. When the two men leave for town Nick, by his own disclosure, has little real knowledge of Gatsby, having "talked with him perhaps half a dozen times in the past month.
The discussion is particularly important because it gives the first strong indication that Gatsby isn't quite what he presents himself to be. Up to now, there has been mystery and speculation, but Fitzgerald hasn't revealed enough of Gatsby to allow readers to figure him out. Gatsby tells Nick, "God's truth," that he comes from wealthy people in the Middle West and was "educated at Oxford. When Nick questions him as to where in the Middle West he hails from, readers get their first clear indication that Gatsby is recounting an elaborate lie — "San Francisco" is hardly the Middle West, and Nick knows it.
Sadly, Gatsby isn't even a good liar and he continues to tell his story, as if telling it will make it so. Fitzgerald later reveals that nearly everything perhaps everything he tells Nick during this ride, the candid self-disclosures he freely offers so that Nick doesn't get "a wrong idea" of him from the stories floating around, are themselves fictions created by Gatsby as part of his plan to reinvent himself.
In fact, the past that Gatsby describes reads like an adventure tale, a romance in which the hero "lived like a young rajah," looking for treasures, dabbling in everything from the fine arts to big game hunting. Gatsby's past is highly unbelievable — a point not lost on Nick.
When Gatsby informs Nick that his "family all died and [he] came into a good deal of money," it is wishful thinking at best, and Chapters 7 and 9 disclose that Gatsby's money came from a very different place. As the two men head to the city, they pass through the valley of ashes, moving from a desolate gray world of dead-end dreams to the city, the place where anything at all can happen.
When Gatsby is stopped for speeding, Gatsby need merely to wave a card before the officer and he is let go with a polite "Know you next time, Mr. Excuse me! Although Gatsby has just fed Nick an elaborate series of lies, this is the first piece that may well be true. Gatsby, through a business associate whom they are on their way to see, may likely have done a favor for the commissioner — and it is likely to have been something of a questionable nature. The luncheon with Gatsby is not remarkable, save for the character who is introduced: Meyer Wolfshiem, a notorious gambler who is rumored to have rigged the World Series, an unprecedented scandal that degraded America's Game.
Wolfshiem, a business associate of Jay Gatsby, is everything his name suggests: He is a perfect combination of human and animal. He is wolf-like in his ways, and nowhere do we get better evidence of this than by the human molar cufflinks he sports proudly. Although Nick has begun to like Gatsby and wants to give him the benefit of the doubt, Gatsby's taste in business connections is not at all what a man who comes from the background Gatsby has just recounted would make.
In Chapter 4 Jordan recounts how, the day before the wedding, she found Daisy drunk, sobbing, and clutching a letter. Tom is attracted to Myrtle merely due to her immorality and position in the lower-class. Because Myrtle is dissatisfied with her social standing, she is practically desperate and willing to endure Tom's many abuses in order to transcend her social status. So, Daisy chooses Tom over Gatsby because she knows who she is.
On the five years between their first meeting and the events of the novel, Daisy has loved Tom , she has a daughter with him. Gatsby now sweeps back in and asks her to claim she never loved Tom , which isn't true.
By telling Daisy to leave with Gatsby , Tom shows that he has nothing to fear. He knows that Daisy's affair with Gatsby is over and that she will not disobey him by rekindling their romance. Secondly, Tom also does this because he wants Gatsby to feel humiliated.
Daisy does not see her until it is too late, and runs her over. Daisy , panicked, drives away from the scene of the accident.
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