Chapter 1 Study Questions:

1. Hope and dream are mentioned most likely because the main theme of the story is about people's want for the 'American Dream', to succeed.

2. Some of Nicks advantages go back to the idea of new money and old money. He works for what he has but his family does have some money from his great grandfathers harware business. Nick is able to travel from the west to the east and can maintain an eighty dollar payment for a house rental (even if it's not quite ideal) monthy. He keeps his judmements to himself for instance when Jordon told him about Tom cheating on his cousin, he didn't confront him. He also kept to himself when Tom was arrogant and made racist comments throughout the first chapter.

3. June 7th, 1922.

4. Nick seems like a pretty well set man in that he has money but doesn't flaunt it and is very kind but doesn't necessarily show too much emotion. He's able to listen to his cousin Daisy talk about her stressful life with Tom, and also Tom talk about all his 'scientifically proven' books he has read and have made him upset. Nick being the narrarator of this book I think will only make it better because he seems to sit on the outside of things rather than being involved in a lot of them. He's trustworthy and can be understood.

5. 'She was a slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage, which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet.' This could mean one of two things. One, she is confident about who she is and likes to sit up straight and show it like a 'cadet.' Two...she may just like the attention.

6. He thinks he has seen her somewhere before, and she seemed to know him too because he lived in West Egg. He later at the end of chapter one realizes he has seen her off of golf magazines. He remembers that he had heard a story of her that was unpleasant.. but he had forgotten it.

7. Tom's behavior shows that he's a racist, a sexist, and a womanizer. He needs more than one woman, he gets upset about colored people in books, and doesn't think Jordan should be able to be as successful as she is in golf.

8. Throughout chapter 1 he describes her voice in basically two different ways; happy/cheerful/ecstatic and sad/gloomy. She is said to have 'turbulent' emotions. "As if his absense quickened something within her, Daisy leaned forward again, her voice glowing and singing." "With an expression of unthoughtful sadness." "With tense gayety"
  It seems she plays this shining front but has all these other emotions not really expressed.

9. It is explaining Daisy herself. The best thing for a girl to be is a beautiful little fool... or in other words a complete gold digger like she is. She will have a nice home, money... and a man who cheats on you.

10. I feel that Tom is an ahole who is wealthy and likes to show it. He has and likes to be with his horses like most people with money did. He moved to the East most likely because he wanted to get closer to his other love affair in New York. I don't really think they're 'allied' but more opposites which can link back to the idea of 'new/old money'. Tom only cares about himself which there makes him opposite of Nick and also makes him a terrible husband. He continues to cheat on his wife even though she and everyone else knows.
Tom read a book called 'The Rise of the Colored Empires' about how if the white people don't look out the colored people will become the more dominant race. He get upset which shows he's a racist. Nick stayed silent throughout the conversation of the book.

11. The difference between Nick and the Buchanan's is that Nick is able to keep his mouth shut where they are not. They're old money and Nick is new money.