In chapter five, we see how much Gatsby really wanted to impress Daisy with all this possession. We start off with Gatsby and Nick talking about how Gatsby's home is full of lights because he is inspecting all the rooms in his home. The next day Daisy comes over to Nick's house and that is where she finds Gatsby. Daisy and Gatsby talk for awhile in Nick's home before moving to Gatsby's mansion and he gives Daisy a tour of his home taking in account all her reactions.
Daisy Buchanan
"Are you in love with me" (pg 85)
-she is judged by her looks: "that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful fool." (pg 17)
-she does not care about her husband: "who is Tom?" (pg 83)
-hard to forget/ draws people in: "her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget." (pg 9)
-she is popular: "Daisy was popular, as you know" (pg 77)
Daisy is the type of person who seems to get everything she wants. She is also very high class so it seems like she cannot love someone like Gatsby. She plays a big role, she is the leading lady for the guy of whom the book is named after. She is practically like a trophy because she loves the idea of being pursued by people and of being wanted. It will be interesting to see how her love life will end up being. And also she seems to cover up a lot about her and that there is more to her than what she leads on even though she is not fully a deep person.
"You're just embarrassed, that's all" (pg 87)
When Nick says this quote I think of many times when I have felt embarrassed by something that I did or that happened but the way Nick says it makes me think that it should not be an obstacle. In the context for this quote Gatsby is nervous talking to Daisy and gets embarrassed at what he ends up saying but Nick does not let him give up because he has worked hard to get to where he is at, at the moment. I think that it is a good thing to take away from this chapter that feeling embarrassed is not a good excuse to give something up especially if I have worked on it for a long time.
--Andrea Garcia, 4
http://garcia2012.blogspot.com
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