The Great Gatsby Chapter Summaries

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.

In Chapter 1, the narrator introduces himself as Nick Carraway and talks about himself and his father. He describes himself as tolerant but fails to realizes his views are very biased and speaks with pity to those who “haven't had the advantages that you've had,” as his father says. Nick comes from a well-known Mid-Western family, and graduated from Yale (as his ancestors have) in 1915. After fighting in World War I, he comes home restless and decides to learn the bond business. His father finances Nick for a year and Nick lives in a house on West Egg. He talks about West and East Egg. West Egg is the less fashionable of the two, and consists of new money. He lives between Gatsby's mansion and another millionaire. East Egg consists

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

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

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

During chapter 7, at lunch, Gatsby and Daisy seem to unveil their feelings for eachother and Tom seems to have realized what has been going on between them. Daisy says that they should go into town, but after saying something to Gatsby, Tom picks up on the situation and starts to make things tense. Tom insists that they do go into town, so they do. Tom takes Gatsby’s car with Nick and Jordan though Gatsby says that he his running low on gasoline; Gatsby and Daisy take Tom’s car. Once Tom, Nick, and Daisy stop for gas at the Wilson's’ shop we learn that Mr. Wilson has found out that his wife is cheating on, though he doesn't know who with and says that he is going to move them somewhere far away.

I really don’t understand tom and I don’t agree with him having a mistress even though he’s already married and has a kid. I think its wrong and I agree with how nick was reacting on how he was thinkung he should call the police. If I had to say a theme for this chapter It might be money can’t buy happiness. Because with all the money that tom has you would think that daisy and tom would be a happy

In Chapter 8: Things Fall Apart: Amusia and Dysharmonia, Oliver Sacks examines these two neurological conditions. He states that there are numerous factors involved, all connected with the perception, deciphering, and combination of sound and time, and hence that there are numerous types of amusia. Sacks indicates that A. L. Benton (in his chapter on the amusias in Critchley and Henson's Music and the Mind) admits "responsive" from "interpretive" or "performance" amusia, and distinguishes more than twelve types. By and large, however, types of rhythm deafness are not common, in light of the fact that rhythm is portrayed broadly in the brain. Approximately five percent of the population suffer from true tone deafness, and individuals with such

Chapter seven starts off with Nick discovering that Gatsby ended his parties because he no longer needed them to attract Daisy and he fires all his servants, replacing them with Wolfsheim’s men. On the hottest day of the summer, Daisy invites Nick and Gatsby to her house to have lunch with her, Tom and Jordan. The lunch is awkward as a result of the intense heat, and Daisy questions what they should all do with the rest of their day and she says that she wants to go into the city. Daisy and Gatsby lock eyes and Tom can sense by looking into her eyes, that they love each other and then agrees to head to the city. Before they leave for the city, Gatsby tells Nick that Daisy’s voice is “full of money”. As Tom drives Nick and Jordan in Gatsby’s yellow car, Daisy and Gatsby ride alone in Tom’s coupe and at this moment, it is clear that Tom is aware of their

Chapter 1: In this chapter we meet Nick the narrator, and learn how he moved from the midwest to West Egg, Long Island, NY. The eggs are divided by the new unrefined rich in the west and the old rich in the east. Nick goes to a dinner at Tom Buchanan’s with his cousin Daisy and Jordan Baker. In the middle of the dinner Tom gets a call and it is revealed it is from his mistress.

In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald does not title each of his chapters. Imagine that you could create a title for each of the nine chapters. What would you name chapter five? I decided to name chapter five “Flight of Fancy.”

The Great Gatsby is full of scenes that have great meaning. The third passage describes the scene where Gatsby was showing daisy and nick around in his house. The setting for this passage is Gatsby asking Nick to invite Daisy to Nick’s house for tea. However, the plan was that Gatsby would meet here for the first time since he left for the war. That meeting is considered to be the Inciting incident. This passage is significant because the first meeting was extremely awkward and daisy was crying. However, when they went to Gatsby’s house, Daisy was extremely happy leading to the scene were Gatsby distributed the shirts. While the shirts are only clothes, they were used to represent the time that was wasted and the strong dream of them being together. It also shows a moment of realization for Daisy. In this part, the overall tone was different than the rest book. Nick, the narrator, was confused during this part because he

As Gatsby cautiously returns to the room, a heavy atmosphere oppresses the two occupants. Gatsby, afraid of getting too close to Daisy and ruining their meeting, sits on the opposite end of the couch. Daisy and Gatsby maintain their conservative distance from each other, enduring the awkwardness of the situation. The old clock resonates with each tick as it dictates the time in the room, with only the rain connecting them with the world outside. A competion of patience in the awkward silence begins. Gatsby is the first to move as he shoots up from the couch and speaks.

Chapter four filled with mysteriousness and suspenseful scenes. In this chapter we are introduced to A. G. Geiger’s place, the ash blonde, and a tall bird man with a cane. This chapter becomes intense since it is the first investigation Marlowe is doing after the General’s home. The scene of this chapter begins with the description of the store. The bookstore was cluttered with junk and the dimness of the store made it hard to see inside. In the back of the store was a door and aside from the door in the back sat a woman behind the desk. This ash blonde hair with green eyes woman wore a tight black dress that showed her long thighs. She approached Marlowe with a certain something often not seen in bookstores and gave a tentative smile with enough sex appeal.

Gatsby is passionate, hopeful, ambitious and is dedicated to reach his dreams. These characteristics are important to achieve the American dream because they keep the person motivated and hopeful for the better life along with hard work and effort.