The Great Gatsby Journal

Summary- In Chapter 1, the reader finds that Nick Carraway, a moral and tolerant man from the Midwest, narrates and takes the role of author for the rest of the story. Throughout the book, the reader looks at the happenings through Nick's eyes and finds out what he is thinking. Chapter 1, like many chapter 1's, starts out with someone or something explaining themselves and showing how their life has gone thus far. The Great Gatsby is no exception. Nick says that he came from the Midwest to New York's "West Egg" on Long Island. As the name might imply, there is also an "East Egg", which Nick describes the more fashionable of the two. East Egg is where Nick goes one evening, in order to reacquaint himself

At the beginning of the book Nick sees Gatsby as a mysterious shady man. In the beginning of the chapter Nick somewhat resents Gatsby. In Nick’s opinion Gatsby was the representation of “…everything for

3)Daisy and Gatsby are different when Nick returns because when Nick went back in the living room Daisy and Gatsby were on both ends of the couch looking at Nick. There was complete silence like there was a question asked or something. Daisy was crying

tries to take Daisy away from her current husband Tom. He tries anything he can just to get close

2. How does Tom suddenly come to realize that Daisy loves Gatsby? How does he react?

about. That yellow car I was driving this afternoon wasn’t mine—do you hear? I haven’t seen it

133). Daisy had to express to Tom that she had loved him in the past

This final section of the paper will discuss the relationship between Gatsby and Nick. More specifically, this section will discuss Nick’s personal bias towards a man whose actions throughout the novel are questionable. As previously discussed, Nick is instantly drawn towards the man who would be named Gatsby. Nick is drawn in by Gatsby’s smile, judging him positively. Past the introductions between the two men, Nick learns more and more about Gatsby. Nick gathers information of Gatsby difficult past, and learns that the purpose of his personal success and wealth was to attract the woman who he loved. Gatsby and Daisy could not be together despite their love for each other simply because of class differences. Daisy was born into a life of advantage, whereas Gatsby had to struggle to find success. Although Gatsby’s pursuit of success as a means to win Daisy’s love is admirable, it does not excuse him from his injustices. As the novel progresses, Nick gathers more information regarding the life of Gatsby. Although aspects of Gatsby’s life are considered questionable, Nick remains ignorant and biased towards his character. The affair between Gatsby and Daisy is an basic example of Gatsby’s flawed character. As previously discussed, Gatsby pursued an affair with Daisy. In the mind of Nick, this affair between Gatsby and Daisy was judged as attractive, unlike other affairs. Although Tom was also having an affair with Myrtle, that does not justify the affair between Gatsby and

Nick has to make the decision to either invite Daisy to his house to see Gatsby again after five years or to not. Nick decides to invite Daisy over in chapter V when he says “Don’t bring Tom.” (Fitzgerald 83) While I was reading this I was thinking about the pros and cons of this decision with an obvious pro being gaining trust and friendship with Gatsby. A con being because Tom is a very aggressive person he might hurt Nick or Gatsby if he finds out. personally, I don’t believe this was morally okay because he knew about their former relationship he knew that it would lead to an affair.

Daisy’s infamous line, when all the pieces begin to line up for Gatsby’s demise. It is also the line that sets the theme for the entire novel. Who is Gatsby, where did he come from, and what does he want? These are the inquiries that boggle the readers throughout the novel. Gatsby was like a monster created by his own Frankenstein, Daisy and Nick Carraway, is the ominous narrator, god, the eyes that were always watching and making judgments upon others. During the Jazz Age in New York, it was a time of little frugality and great extravagance. “It was in such a profusion around you.”(p.3) and the prodigality was attained in each class through lust (Tome and Daisy), deceit (Gatsby and the world), and murder (Wilson and Myrtle) of Jay Gatsby.

In the beginning, Gatsby fires all his servants so there would not be any rumours about him and Daisy when she came in the afternoons. The next day was a very hot day. Nick takes the train to East Egg to see and have lunch with Tom and Daisy. When he arrives, he is surprised to find Gatsby and Jordan there. The nurse brings in Daisy’s baby girl, Gatsby is stunned to see a child. Later, Daisy is getting bored and asks Gatsby if she would like to go to town with her. Tom is sure that he and Daisy have feeling for each other, so he insists that they all go to town. Nick rides with Jordan and Tom in Gatsby’s car, and Gatsby and Daisy ride together in Tom’s car. They take a suite in the Plaza Hotel. Tom starts to accuse Gatsby of lying about having

38. Daisy kept changing her mind about plans because she just wanted to get out of the argument and wanted to get her mind off of it. She came up with different plans so Tom could possibly

The fact that Tom has a mistress is clearly unsettling to Daisy and it is apparent that Daisy and Tom’s relationship is a little bit rocky. After dinner Nick has a chance ot speak with Daisy alone and she tells him “Well, I’ve had a very bad time, Nick, and I’m pretty cynical about everything” (16). Daisy doesn’t say specifically that her misery is due to her relationship with Tom, but it is quite evident that their relationship was very strained and causing a lot of frustration in both of their lives. Eventually their conversation takes a more depressing turn when Daisy tells Nick “I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

“He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you.’ After she had obliterated four years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures

Gatsby is quintessentially presented to us as a paradoxical enigma. As the novel progresses this sense of mystery shrouding him is heightened. We see Gatsby through the looking glass, we catch frequent glimpses of him, yet only through Nick’s trained eye. We are, to a certain extent, unable to judge him for ourselves. Even so Nick is eager to depict Gatsby as a multi-faceted character, one who hides behind his own self concocted images of himself. Is this the ‘indiscernible barbed wire’? Is Gatsby himself the ‘foul dust that floated in the wake of’ his own ‘dreams’?