Chapter 2 ~ pg 23-38

In chapter two, we are introduced to the infamous mistress of Tom, Myrtle also known as Mrs. Wilson. In order to meet Myrtle, Nick and Tom take a train ride across the "valley of ashes" into the city. In the city they go to George  B. Wilson's garage, where they meet his wife Myrtle. After awhile they leave and meet Myrtle later. Later one Tom and Myrtle bring Nick along to their apartment where they have a party. Nick meets her sister Catherine who tells him about how both Tom and Myrtle hate their spouses and also a bit more information about Gatsby. The party continues but ends when Myrtle yells Daisy's name and Tom breaks her nose.

Catherine

"I'm scared of him. I'd hate to have him get anything on me" (pg 32)

-she gives Nick some more information about Gatsby: "Well, they say he's a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm's. That's where all his money comes from." (pg 32)

-she was about to marry someone in a different class: "I almost married a little kike who'd been after me for years. I knew he was below me. Everybody kept saying to me: 'Lucille, that man's way below you!' But if I hadn't met Chester, he'd of got me sure." (pg 34)

Catherine seems to be the type of person who lets many things slip out of her mouth, basically she is a gossiper. She lets Nick in on some interesting details about many things that he is trying to find out without even knowing what she is doing. Maybe later in the novel she will reappear again or be mentioned with some other clues to crack the mysteries that are flying around the people Nick is associated with.

"You can't live forever; you can't live forever" (pg 36)

This quote from Myrtle really stood out to me because of the idea of living life day by day and trying new things. Sure it was not a good thing that the new thing she wanted to try was cheating on her husband but it is a good thing to try new things. For me that is what I would love to do, to have the courage to try new things and live day by day because obviously I can't live forever and I do not want a day to go by that I will regret not doing something. This quote is important to the book because it is at the end of the paragraph of how Tom and Myrtle met and that is a big part of this chapter especially.

--Andrea Garcia, 4

Chapter 1 ~ pg 1-23

In chapter one the first character we meet is Nick Carraway a young graduate from New Haven who lives in West Egg. One day he goes to visit his old classmate Tom Buchanans and his distant cousin Daisy who are married and have a young daughter. Dinner seems to be tense and Tom makes obvious the class difference between them. In the middle of dinner Tom receives a call, Jordan Baker tells Nick that it is  from Tom's mistress in New York. Gatsby is mentioned a couple of times as Nick's neighbor.

Tom Buchanans

"That's what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen" (pg 12)

-he comes for a family of wealth: "his family were enormously wealthy--even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach" (pg.6

-he is very arrogant: "it's up to use, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other race will have control of things" (pg. 13) "just because I'm stronger and more of a man than you are" (pg. 7)

Tom seems to be the type of person who is going to make things complicated in the rest of the novel. He seems to get what he wants and not cares about other's feelings except for his own. Chapter one set him as a very arrogant rich boy who really just acts to get what he wants. He wants to be on the top but has a bit of fright in him that someone might come and take his power away from him.

"You see I think everything's terrible anyhow" (pg. 17)

When Daisy said this quote I thought it was significant to the book and her character because she seems like the time of person who would be happy with everything she has except for the fact that her husband has a mistress and does not seem to care if she knows or not. It stood out to me because I do not like to see anything as terrible and I try to make the best shine out of anything even if it seems like it has nothing nice to present. Hopefully throughout the book Daisy changes her vision from viewing everything negatively to positively.

--Andrea Garcia, 4