Nick Caraway = 1st person limited view

• "A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth"

West Egg = new money; bigger, but gaudier houses/ East Egg = old money; older homes, more
established

Tom Buchanan = never money; ever since his college football days, nothing will seem to measure up

• "seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game"

Physiognomy = character's physical stature describes his/her personality

• 'always leaning aggressively forward... a cruel body'

• Talks down to people

Daisy

• comfortable and light

• Murmured so you leaned forward

Jordan

• sits up, and pulled back, looking down

• terrifyingly con dent, with contempt in her voice

PARADOX from Jordan: small parties aren't as intimate as larger ones

The drunken scene with the automobile characterizes the nonchalant irresponsibility of society

Jordan Baker is incurable dishonest but "Dishonestly in a woman is something you never blame
deeply"

Rumors continue to swirl about Gatsby

Litany of celebrities, another testament to Gatsby's fame (infamy?)

One of a kind car

Gatsby seems like he cannot have done what he says, but he has some proof

"It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fty million people – with the
single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe"

Gatsby o ers Nick 'a job', Nick intelligently declines this 'rather con dential sort of thing'

"Who is Tom?" ...Daisy playfully denies ownership of their marriage

As Daisy arrives, Nick nds the living room deserted; Gatsby makes a soaked entrance

Gatsby "was reclining against the mantelpiece in a strained counterfeit of perfect ease, even of
boredom"

Gatsby knock the broken clock over = Time

"Five years next November" the automatic quality of the answer was embarrassing to everyone

Nick catches Gatsby in a lie (inherited money), and when he asks how he made his money, Gatsby
snaps, "That's my a air!"

Gatsby's three states: a. Embarrassment b. Unreasoning joy c. Wonder at her prescience

"It makes me sad because I've never seen such – such beautiful shits before" DEEP REGRET

As Daisy and Gatsby look across the bay arm in arm, "His count of enchanted objects had diminished
by one"

Third phone call: Detroit

Daisy will fall short of Gatsby's dreams; "because of the colossal vitality of his illusion"

"No amount of re of freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."

Chapter 6

The presence of a report

The party through the eyes of Tom and Daisy was depressing; "what had amused me then turned
septic in the air now"

"It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own
powers of adjustment."

Daisy fears that Gatsby will meet a fresh, young girl that could "blot out those ve years of unwavering
devotion"

Gatsby is getting greedy; he wanted nothing less than Daisy to say to Tom "I never loved you"

"Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!" insanity? Infatuation?

"His mind would never romp again like the mind of God" he had reached the pinnacle just before their
rst kiss

Chapter 7

Daisy's simple dislike of the party ended them forever: "The whole caravansary had fallen in like a card
house at the disapproval in her eyes"

Daisy and Tom's child is incomprehensible to Gatsby "I don't think he had ever really believed in its
existence before"

"You're so cool. You always look so cool." "She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan
saw"

Daisy's voice full of money: "High in a white palace, the king's daughter, the golden girl..."

Tom discovers Wilson and Myrtle are moving out West; Wilson is aware of the a air with someone

"I stared at Wilson and then at Tom, who had made a parallel discovery about an hour before... and it
occurred to me that there was no di erence between men so profound as between the sick and the
well"

Tom is losing both his love interests: "His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate,
were slipping precipitately from his control"

Tom's attacks: 1. 'old sport' 2. 'Oxford man' 3. What kind of dysfunction are you starting in my house?

"Mr. Nobody from Nowhere" is actually a good moniker for Gatsby

"There, Jay" — Daisy can't make either of them happy; Gatsby wants too much

"You loved me, too?" ...the words physically bite into Gatsby

Gatsby does not deny bootlegging, but he drags Tom's friend (Walter Chase) into the mix

Tom's victory is evident in Daisy's simple plea: "Please, Tom!" I can't stand this anymore!"

Nick's complete sel essness is clear wen he remembers that today is his 30th birthday

George Wilson: "He was his wife's man and not his own."

"I'd had enough of all of them for one day and suddenly that included Jordan too"

Gatsby only cares about Daisy's reaction in the death of Myrtle; he is waiting in the bushes for any sign
of danger

Nick sees Tom and Daisy "conspiring" inside; they weren't happy, but they weren't unhappy either

Leaves Gatsby "watching over nothing"