The Great Gatsby - Chapter 5
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- Created on: 21-02-14 11:58
'The Great Gatsby' Reading Log - Chapter 5
Key Events
- Gatsby meets Nick and they arrange for Daisy to come to tea
- Gatsby offers Nick a business proposition and he declines
- Gatsby and Nick prepare for Daisy’s arrival – cut the grass, flowers, cake
- Gatsby nearly leaves – he is impatient – waited 5 years for this moment
- Awkward atmosphere when Daisy arrives and sees Gatsby – Nick leaves in hope it will make the encounter less awkward
- Nick comes back and Daisy and Gatsby look happy
- They go over to Gatsby’s house and Daisy realises she could have been with him
- Daisy and Gatsby talk about the green light and it becomes less significant
- Klipspringer is rude to Gatsby and plays the piano
- Nick leaves and leaves Daisy and Gatsby alone
Significant moments
- Gatsby meets Daisy for the first time in 5 years
- Gatsby doesn’t want to talk about his past and slips up with his fascade
Scenes and places
- Gatsby’s house – ‘Well, suppose we take a plunge in the swimming-pool? I haven’t made use of it all summer’ – wealth is just for show – he doesn’t use it as he only wants to impress Daisy and use his money to reach his dream
- ‘wandered through Marie Antoinette music-rooms and Restoration salons’ -associated with wealth – Marie Antoinette – gold embellishments and colourful patterns that exemplify grandeur – Restoration – English style with Dutch and French influences focusing on exotic and ornate detailing – very wealthy and cultural
‘ghostly laughter’ – foreshadowing – Daisy and Gatsby meet and death is being referred to again
‘period bedrooms’ ‘new flowers’ ‘dressing-rooms and poolrooms’ ‘bathrooms with sunken baths’ – first time Nick has ever been here and actually went around with Gatsby – shows extravagance and the things that new money can buy – materialistic – all for Daisy
- ‘His bedroom was the simplest room of all – except where the dresser was garnished with a toilet set of pure dull gold’ - contradiction – could be said that his room is simple as he has only come into money recently and has not yet understood what to do with his money – he hasn’t completed his dreams yet
‘In the morning’ – Ain’t we got fun – song Klipspringer is playing – ironic – song is about working class unrest – Gatsby and Daisy are rich
- Nick’s House – ‘there was a sharp line where my ragged lawn ended and the darker, well-kept expanse of his began’ – could show the difference between Gatsby and Nick’s houses – Gatsby can afford it, Nick can’t - even though he isn’t poor, it shows that Gatsby is much more extravagant
- ‘greenhouse arrived from Gatsby’s’ – his house looks uninviting and by adding materialistic things, it will make his house fit into the area more
- The setting for the reunion of Daisy and Gatsby…
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