The Great Gatsby, Chapter 6

• Starts and ends in the past, framing the chapter and showing how Gatsby is trapped there and is longing to 'repeat' it. 
• His past is given now by Nick which establishes a close bond between him and Gatsby, but also highlights his unreliability.

Beginning - Gatsby's past

• Dispels all rumours we've had about him before
• His past realigns our sympathies for the horrific events to come
• Shows his rise  - representative of the American Dream

Destination

• Echoes the kiss of the 'movie-star and her director' before, as she has a higher status than him and Daisy is higher than Gatsby
• The 'moment' that the end of chapter 5 was leading up to - the climax in Daisy and Gatsby's relationship.
• Ends ambigously as Nick obscures it, detaching it from reality

Narrator

• Nick romanticises and idealises Gatsby's past, creating him as a LEGEND as he is likened to the 'son of God'.
• He confirms that Jay Gatsby is from James Gatz's imagination

Destination

• Nick's voice alters at the end; he feels he can talk for Gatsby
• Last paragraph: authorial intrusion by Fitzgerald, makes us question the validity of the novel as a whole

Daisy

• Her voice was 'playing murmourous tricks in her throat', characterising her as flirtatious and manipulative, cultivating society around her but remaining to stay elevated and rich
• Her voice is linked to music, likening her to part of the Jazz Age, but in abstract terms

Women

• 'some authentically radiant girl...one moment of magical encounter' - sums up the novel's quest for women who are unique and rare, and reinforcing Gatsby's new found snobbishness as Jay Gatsby from him being 'contemptuous' of most girls
• Traditional view of 'women run around too much these days' from Tom, contrasting the "New Woman" and the changes that were happening in the 1920s.

Movie-star and her director

• Represent Gatsby and his quest for the 'ultimate degree': Daisy
• Movie star called 'his Star', echoed later by Daisy being called 'a star'

Destination

• Gatsby represents immortality and we now comprehend he is outside our understanding

Tom

• Sexist - 'women run around too much'
• His presence 'lent the evening its particular quality of oppressiveness'
• Called 'polo player' by Gatsby: offends him as it connotes he has to work 

Daisy

• Objectified/idealised at the end
• The 'kiss' by the 'moving-picture star and her director' offends her as she had to hide her real emotions
• Aspires to be something higher

Gatsby

• Placed above hedonism as he 'drank so little'
• 'Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!' - encapsulates him as a character, emphasises his reliance on something tangible, sums him up before his death