Chapter 6

1. The news reporter went to Gatsby's house because he 'had heard Gatsby's name around his office in a connection which he either wouldn't reveal or didn't fully understand. The news reporter had heard some of the rumors that had been spread about Gatsby so he was trying to find out himself whether or not they were true.

2. Dan Cody is a man who owns a yacht where he and Gatsby met one day when Cody had set anchor over the most indiginous flat on Lake Superior. Gatsby borrowed a rowboat and pulled out to Cody's boat to inform him that the wind might catch him and break him up in half an hour. Transactions in Montana copper made him a millionaire. He made Gatsby his personal assistant and looked after Cody on his drunken binges. This gave Gatsby a healthy respect for the dangers of alcohol and convinced him not to become a drinker himself. When Cody died, his mistress recieved the money instead, and so Gatsby then dedicated himself to becoming a wealthy and successful man.

3. He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: " I never loved you."

4. Tom imagined that Gatsby is a bootlegger because 'these newly rich people are just big bootleggers, you know." Tom also feels like there's something going on between them because Gatsby "knows your wife."

5. There were the same people, or at least the same sort of people, the same profusion of champagne, the same many-colored, many-keyed commotion. There was unpleasantness in the air, a pervading harshness that hadn't been there before. It was different because Tom and Daisy were there.

6. He wants everything as they were before he left for war and have Daisy be able to 'understand' like she used to.

7. His real name is Jay Gatz and he's from North Dakota. He changed his name when he was 17 so he ould reinvent himself.

8. Dan Cody gave him to inspiration to become wealthy and successful.

9. Daisy didn't really enjoy the party just wanted to be there because of Gatsby which shows that it was probably because Tom was there too. Gatsby wanted to impress her but because he felt distant from her and didn't think she enjoyed the party he was depressed.

10. Daisy gives Tom a pencil so he can write down the numbers and addresses of other woman. She's trying to make it easier on herself for when she tells Tom she's leaving him for Gatsby. She usually would care, but now because she has Gatsby it seems less important. She's shooing him off on other woman.. not like he objects.

1/26/11

Aspirations: Noun: I have high aspirations to WIN state again this year.

1/25/11

Exasperate: V: He exasperated the class when he said he was giving us a quiz.

Affable: Adj: The affable son made his mother breakfast in bed.

Chapter 5 Gatsby

1.    For Gatsby, Nick invited Daisy to his house so they can be reunited. Nick also allows Gatsby to have his lawn mowed so it would be presentable for her. Gatsby, as a payment for the favor, offered Nick a business deal, which seemed really fishy to him. He cuts Gatsby refuses the proposal, ‘because the offer was obviously and tactlessly for a service to be rendered, I had no choice except to cut him off there’.
2.    Gatsby knocking down the clocks backs of the motif of time, and symbolizes the stopping of time that Gatsby needs with Daisy. They have met again, time has stopped.
3.    Nick asked Daisy is the chauffeur’s nose was affected by gasoline which refers back to her butler (the same man) who once lived in New York that had a silver service for people. He polished silver until it began to ‘affect his nose…’
4.    It had been 5 years from that November
5.    Daisy cries over Gatsby’s shirts made of exquisite material that he continued to throw onto his bed. ‘They’re such beautiful shirts, it makes me sad because I’ve never seen such - beautiful shirts before. She was crying more over Gatsby, and her crying over objects suggests that she’s materialistic. It shows that Gatsby is not only real, but that he has money which provides her with more comfort.
6.    Mr. Klipspringer is Mr. Gatsby’s piano man that doesn’t really know how to play piano or hasn’t had much practice. He’s always around Gatsby’s house just hanging out.
7.    Gatsby told Daisy that he could see the green light of her house across the bay, that was usually lit all throughout the night. At the time, they couldn’t find it through the thick fog. ‘The colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.”
8.    The fifth chapter of Gatsby is most important part in the novel because it’s when Daisy and Gatsby finally come together and are reunited. It’s the inciting event to their own subplot, which is just the beginning.
9.    Something that was funny in chapter five was Nick’s joke about the butler/chauffer’s nose being affected by gasoline.
10.    The rain in chapter five was important to Gatsby because before Daisy got there it was raining, but when they were finally together again the rain stopped – symbolizing his problems are not only gone, but also his want for her has stopped because she is there.

Prestigious: Adj: The prestigious president spoke out to his people about the shooting in Arizona and said we 'have to do better'.

Prominant: Adj: Stephen Curry is much more prominent than Blake Griffen.

Video Questions

1. Fitzgerald uses the names he has in the story to reflect on where they come from and what their social class is. He also uses West/East Egg as symbols to show who is new/old money.

2. If you were old money you wouldn’t be nearly as wealthy or feel as good about yourself for having worked hard for what you have. I’d want to be new money because it shows that you’re ambition, aren’t lazy, and don’t have to depend on other people to help live.

3.

A) Valley of Ashes: symbol of the death of the American Dream. People who live there have lost the ability to achieve it.

B) Eyes of T.J. Eckleburg: symbolizes the eyes of God, and can make people question if he really does care if people live like that. It’s an old billboard that’s left in the Valley of Ashes.

C) Green Light: His dream of Daisy.  

D) Mantle clock: symbolizes the stopping of time, and that Gatsby wants to repeat the past.

E) Fay: Daisy’s last name means Fairy which can link back to her different tones of voices she uses. You can’t really trust all of what she says so that could be why her voice is ‘full of money’.. or maybe just that she’s from wealth.

4. Tom is old money, racist, and a complete womanizer. He’s married to Daisy yet has affair with other woman which proves him to be careless, unthoughtful, and selfish. Gatsby is new money, kind, and generous. His dream is to have Daisy yet she is stuck with Tom.

5. Daisy’s decision is mainly decided on who has safer money, and at the hotel she discovered it wasn’t Gatsby. Even though she loves him, she can’t leave Tom because of that comfort. Gatsby’s dream of having Daisy wash crushed and the idea of money being the only thing that is able to succeed in fulfilling the American Dream was something Daisy didn’t realize. Love is needed as well.

6. The Jazz age was right before the Great Depression and WWII. It was reflects back on the roaring twenties and it was where people made money off of music and were able to celebrate with it.  

7. Tom made the real downfall because he knew how Gatsby got his money. He knew that Daisy was basically a gold digger so by revealing this information she would remain his. Even though she knows that Gatsby would love her more, she’s weak and can’t stand up to Tom. This was at Plaza Hotel in NYC.. where dreams were supposed to be made not broken. 

1/21/11

Decadent: Adj: I am decadent because I eat double happy burgers every Friday.

Pastoral: Adj: I deleted farmville so I would be less pastoral.