The Great Gatsby Chapter 8 Summary

This chapter opens with a reporter at Gatsby’s door asking him if he had anything to say and wants to interview at random. It is explained that rumors are constantly going around New York about Gatsby. Nick knows mostly all about Gatsby’s personal life so he does not believe many or all of the rumors he has heard. Nick then begins to explain Gatsby’s personal life. It is explained that his legal name is James Gatz. He changed his name when he was 17 when he saw Dan Cody drop the anchor of his yacht into Lake Superior. It is also explained that Gatsby’s parents were “shiftless and unsuccessful farm people”. He actually had attended a small Lutheran college called St. Olaf’s in Minnesota. He only ended up staying there for two weeks then left.

Skipping ahead of where we left off last chapter, chapter 6 starts by giving us more background on Gatsby through Nick. We find out that Jay Gatsby is actually a made up persona from James Gatz, and his actual background seems to be in sharp contrast with that of Jay Gatsby’s. He spent his childhood in Minnesota where he met who seems to have played a major impact on Gatsby’s character, and older man named Cody, who took Gatsby under his wing and essentially brought Jay Gatsby to life. Another downside to Gatsby's American dream is that it has, in essence, stunted his growth, intellectually, spiritually, and emotionally.

Chapter seven starts with Gatsby changing his whole life around. He no longer hosts parties every week, he doesn't need to anymore because he has Daisy. He also fires his past servants and replaces them with workers of Meyer Wolfsheim, since he does not want any gossip around him. To Nick’s surprise, Gatsby was headed over to Tom’s house to have lunch. It is the hottest day of the year when this lunch is happening. The group hears Tom yelling at Mr.Wilson on the telephone. Gatsby sees Pammy, Daisy’s daughter and is somewhat irritated because he realizes how much more complicated the situation had become and the fact that there is living proof of Tom and Daisy’s love. Tom finds out about the affair when Daisy’s tone shifted when she spoke to

In chapter seven, Nick, Jordan, Gatsby and the Buchanan's, go to New York, where Tom confronts Gatsby on the topic of Daisy. Later as Gatsby and Daisy are driving back from New York, they hit Myrtle Wilson with their car killing her. This is where the American Dream’s demise begins. Gatsby and Daisy have recently been seeing a lot of each other. So much so that Gatsby fired his servants, to prevent gossip spreading; "I wanted someone who wouldn't gossip". However Tom is suspicious of the two of them and believes they are having an affair. When Nick goes to the Buchanan’s he is surprised to see Gatsby and Jordan there. All of them decide to go to New York, and Tom splits them up, taking Gatsby’s car with Nick and Jordan, and Gatsby and Daisy taking Toms car. In New York they stay in a hotel room. Tom becomes increasingly hostile, mocking Gatsby before snapping at him, confronting him and Daisy "I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife". Gatsby insists that Daisy loves him, and demands Daisy tell Tom she had never loved him,

Chapter 4 starts off with Nick providing a list of all the guests who attended Gatsby’s parties in the summer and the irony is that none of them actually knew him. When Nick accompanies Gatsby on a trip into the city for lunch, he reveals the truth about his past. Gatsby states that he is from a wealthy family from the Midwest town of San Francisco, he graduated from Oxford, and declared himself a hero in the war. During lunch, Gatsby introduces Nick to his former business partner, Meyer Wolfsheim who apparently fixed the 1919 World Series. Based on the conversation, Nick begins to think that Gatsby is involved in an organized crime. When they leave the restaurant, they come across Tom Buchanan and as Nick introduces Gatsby to him, Gatsby becomes

As the summer goes on, Nick gets invited to one of Gatsby’s big parties. He meets Jordan at the party and they meet Gatsby himself, a young man, a great smile, and tells everyone “old sport”. Later on in the party Gatsby asks to talk to Jordan Baker alone. Nick learns that the parties were all to get and impress Daisy. Gatsby asks Nick to invite Daisy over to his to tea, so Gatsby can meet her. When Daisy and Gatsby meet each other for the first time in five years it starts off awkward, then they start talking to each other. Gatsby tells her about how rich he is now and invites her over to his house. Daisy and Gatsby then begin the affair between each other as their relationship grows. Later, Gatsby get invited to Daisy’s house where Tom starts

Chapter four begins with Nick listing the people who attended Gatsby's party. Then he describes the trip he and Gatsby took to New York to eat lunch. On the way there, Gatsby talks about his past, but to Nick his story seems improbable. Gatsby claims to be the son of wealthy, deceased parents from the Midwest. When Nick asks Gatsby where he is from, he replied, “San Francisco.” Gatsby then claims to have been taught at Oxford, collected jewels in Europe, hunted big game, and has been awarded medals in World War I. To prove himself, he shows Nick a medal from Montenegro and a picture of himself playing cricket at Oxford.

The beginning of chapter four starts off with Nick giving a list and describing the guests that come to Gatsby’s parties. The tone of this passage seems to be casual but amused. Nick starts ranting a list of endless names, each with a description about that person, while seeming very interested in who these people are and why they are at Gatsby’s party. He says it as if he has had a lot of time to analyze and group the different kinds of people at the party. He is able to group them apart from East Egg and West Egg. He tells a lot of background information about each person,like the fact the “young Brewer, who had his nose shot off in the war” or “Edgar Beaver, whose hair turned cotton-white one winter afternoon for no good reason at all” (Fitzgerald

Main Idea: In a large part, thanks to Freud, a lot of things can be interpreted as being sexual in nature, and this is definitely true in literature. Even before Freud, sexual symbolism has run rampant in literature since its existence. For instance, in Chivalric Romance, the Knight with his Lance and the Holy Grail are all connected to the idea of sexuality. Foster explores the range of scenes that can be created to symbolize sex, without it actually being sex. In literature a lot of times, sexual acts are actually disguised as something different entirely or at least not explicitly shown.

In Chapter 8 of The Great Gatsby, a lot occurs. I also believe it shows the most meaning. Lots of themes are portrayed in Chapter 8. One of the main themes is the “roaring twenties”, and how it brought everybody a short term closure from reality. The characters were too accustomed to extravagant lifestyles that moved too fast for some, and even causes death for certain individuals.

This chapter starts out with the description of another part of New York known as the “Valley of Ashes.” This is the poverty side of New York and is noticeably poor since it's referred to such a name. We are introduced to another character named George Wilson and his wife Myrtle. Tom takes Nick to George Wilson's garage, which is located in the Valley of Ashes. By this we know that George Wilson is a poor man.Tom is cheating on his wife for Wilson's wife which is pretty absurd.Tom takes a visit to a party with Catherine, and brings Daisy Nick and Myrtle along with him. (Catherine and Myrtle are sisters). The group starts gossiping about Gatsby, while getting drunk. Myrtle then begins to annoy Tom because she keeps talking about his wife Daisy. This non-stop talk about

After Cody’s departure, Gatsby had received a letter from his uncle Von Hindenburg who was fighting a stalemate in Europe and feared the contingencies of an American intervention. He told him that the Kaiser asked him to spy on the Americans in exchange for the “extravagant wealth of the German Empire”. Gatsby complied, not out of fear or greed, but to satisfy the tempestuous riots of his heart.

Throughout high school a student is required to obtain four credits of English. In these English classes we have read many stories with numerous characters. The story we are reading now is “The Great Gatsby.” In chapter one of this novel there are three main characters- Daisy, Tom, and Nick. This chapter sets the tone for the rest of the story and leads the reader to feel a certain way about each character.

In chapter 9 from “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the readers are taken two years into the future after Gatsby’s tragic death. The chapter is told from Nick’s perspective as a memoir and describes the events and ideas that took place in the funeral. Even though Gatsby is dead, the rumors keep circulating him and his relationship to Myrtle and Wilson. In the chapter, Nick realizes that he is the only loyal person beside Gatsby’s father to attend his funeral despite the fact that people never refused to attend his great parties and admired him. Eventually, Daisy and Tom leave town, and Nick feels contempt and scornful as he begins to understand the real values of people like Tom and Daisy. These people will never realize the error

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”