Summary-To start the chapter out there were gray cars lined up along the side. Above the gray land was spasms of dust which drifted endless over it. Nick met Tom's Mistress at the drawbridge when it was going up. He never wanted to met the acquantice but he did meet her. Wilson's wife if the mistress. Wilson think she goes to see her sister in New York. Tom, Nick, and Mrs. Wilson went to New York in two separate cars on the train for the East Eggers. She bought items at a small drug store and she wants a police dog. Her name is Myrtle. They had an appartment on the top floor. Nick had only been drunk twice in his whole life and this afternoon was his second time. Mrs. WIlson's sister Catherine is a slender lady and she is thirty with red hair. Mr. Mckee was a pale, very respectful man. He lives on the west egg. Right next to Gatsby. Catherine said Myrtle and her husband do not get along at all. THe chapter ends with him waiting at Pennsylvania statiion waiting for the four o clock train.
Response- I wonder if this group of people are all big drinkers because in this chapter they were all drunk. Tom bought Myrtle a puppy. This book is not very interesting at all to me. It is also very hard to understand because they're are a lot of characters.
Chapter One Summary- The reader is introduced to Nick Carraway, the narrator of the book. Nick talks about his midwestern beginnings and how he came to the New York area to work in bonds. He moves to a small house in West Egg, which is very near to Tom and Daisy Buchanan, who live on East Egg. Daisy is Nick's cousin .He for dinner one evening soon after moving he meets Jordan Baker, a professional athlete who is friends with Daisy. We also find out that tom is cheating on daisy.Later in the evening Tom and Daisy ask Nick about his engagement. He tells them he is not engaged, and that it is all a ggets home he sees Gatsby, standing out on the grass. He intends to go introduce himself but decides against it thinking that Gatsby would prefer to be alone. So he just watches him for a minute or two but the minute he takes his eyes off of him, Gatsby vanishes.
He uses weather to describe the way character look " her gray sun strained eyes..." (pg.11)
Ash heaps
In chapter two this is when we are introduced to the valley of ashes... it is like a "hell" on the way to the city. God is watching over this waste land.
"This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimney and rising smoke and, already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track...and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades..."(23) A lot of reference to the desolate area of abandonment found on the way through the borough of Queens including the ash-gray men who are probably depressed carrying "leaden", another reference to a gray-depressing color, shovel. Thus refering to a hopelessness that prevails in the "...desolate area of land."(23)
"A white ashen dust veiled his dark suit and his pale hair as it veiled everything in the vicinity--except his wife, who moved close to Tom." (26) Another reference to the "ashen heap" that covered the vacinity and yet, this time, the ashen is considered "white" and not the gray we have been seeing. Why white this time?
Time
There is not much about time,,, nothing that has a lot of significance
"Already it was deep summer on roadhouse roofs and in front of wayside garages, where new red gas-pumps sat out in pools of light, and when I reached my estate at West Egg I ran the car under its shed and sat for a while on an abandoned grass roller in the yard." (20) Time tells us it is "deep summer" meaning, at least, mid-July or better. The "abandoned grass roller" might mean that it is too late to plant grass and therefore, the roller, might never have been put away. There is a difference between a grass roller and a grass cutter. The roller is usually used when putting in a new patch or lawn of grass. Perhaps in Spring.
"'Why candles?' objected Daisy, frowing. She snapped them out with her fingers." (11) "'In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year.' She looked on us radiantly. 'Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.'" (11) This tells us the time is the time of year when the longest day occurs (Dec?). We can also guess that it is evening because the candles are lit for light.
Time: speaker notes a different kind of time on when he said, "When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at sort of moral attention forever..." (2) Therefore, we know that he is in reverie and in an autumnal frame of mind.
"We backed up to a gray old man..." (27) Another reference to the idea of "gray" Also we see on the same page, "...lavendar-colored with gray upholstery..." (27) Many references to "gray" in response to the Ashen heap. Chapter 2 seems to have a lot of these.
The rumors about Gatsby continue to circulate in New York—a reporter even travels to Gatsby's mansion hoping to interview him. Gatsby was really born James Gatz on a North Dakota farm, he attended college at St. Olaf's in Minnesota, he dropped out after two weeks, because he was asshamed of being a janitor to paay for his tuition. He worked on Lake Superior the next summer fishing for salmon and digging for clams. One day he saw a yacht owned by Dan Cody a wealthy copper mogul, and rowed out to warn him about an impending storm. The grateful Cody took young Gatz who gave his name as Jay Gatsby on board his yacht as his personal assistant. Gatsby traveled all over with him, and he learned to not drink cause cody was an alcoholic. When Cody died he left Gatsby $25,000, but Cody's mistress prevented him from claiming his inheritance. Gatsby then dedicated himself to becoming a wealthy and successful man. Nick does not see Gatsby or Daisy for several weeks after their reunion at Nick's house. Stopping by Gatsby's house one afternoon, he is alarmed to find Tom Buchanan there. Tom has stopped for a drink at Gatsby's house with Mr. and Mrs. Sloane, with whom he has been out riding. Gatsby seems nervous and agitated, and tells Tom awkwardly that he knows Daisy. Gatsby invites Tom and the Sloanes to stay for dinner, but they refuse. To be polite, they invite Gatsby to dine with them, and he accepts, not realizing the insincerity of the invitation. Tom is contemptuous of Gatsby's lack of social grace and highly critical of Daisy's habit of visiting Gatsby's house alone. He is suspicious, but he has not yet discovered Gatsby and Daisy's love.
The following Saturday night, Tom and Daisy go to a party at Gatsby's house. Though Tom has no interest in the party, his dislike for Gatsby causes him to want to keep an eye on Daisy. Gatsby's party strikes Nick much more unfavorably this time around—he finds the revelry oppressive and notices that even Daisy has a bad time. Tom upsets her by telling her that Gatsby's fortune comes from bootlegging. She angrily replies that Gatsby's wealth comes from a chain of drugstores that he owns.
Gatsby seeks out Nick after Tom and Daisy leave the party; he is unhappy because Daisy has had such an unpleasant time. Gatsby wants things to be exactly the same as they were before he left Louisville: he wants Daisy to leave Tom so that he can be with her. Nick reminds Gatsby that he cannot re-create the past. Gatsby, distraught, protests that he can. He believes that his money can accomplish anything as far as Daisy is concerned. As he walks amid the debris from the party, Nick thinks about the first time Gatsby kissed Daisy, the moment when his dream of Daisy became the dominant force in his life. Now that he has her, Nick reflects, his dream is effectively over.
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Weather- Summer time(sunshine) (p.4)
Some nights its calm.
Ash Heaps- Valley of ashes are a dirty place hell on weight to oasis.
Time- He describes time of day by weather.
By the next autumn she was gay again, gay as ever, (p.75) CH.4
CH.2 Dialectical Journal
Summary-To start the chapter out there were gray cars lined up along the side. Above the gray land was spasms of dust which drifted endless over it. Nick met Tom's Mistress at the drawbridge when it was going up. He never wanted to met the acquantice but he did meet her. Wilson's wife if the mistress. Wilson think she goes to see her sister in New York. Tom, Nick, and Mrs. Wilson went to New York in two separate cars on the train for the East Eggers. She bought items at a small drug store and she wants a police dog. Her name is Myrtle. They had an appartment on the top floor. Nick had only been drunk twice in his whole life and this afternoon was his second time. Mrs. WIlson's sister Catherine is a slender lady and she is thirty with red hair. Mr. Mckee was a pale, very respectful man. He lives on the west egg. Right next to Gatsby. Catherine said Myrtle and her husband do not get along at all. THe chapter ends with him waiting at Pennsylvania statiion waiting for the four o clock train.
Response- I wonder if this group of people are all big drinkers because in this chapter they were all drunk. Tom bought Myrtle a puppy. This book is not very interesting at all to me. It is also very hard to understand because they're are a lot of characters.
Chapter One Summary- The reader is introduced to Nick Carraway, the narrator of the book. Nick talks about his midwestern beginnings and how he came to the New York area to work in bonds. He moves to a small house in West Egg, which is very near to Tom and Daisy Buchanan, who live on East Egg. Daisy is Nick's cousin .He for dinner one evening soon after moving he meets Jordan Baker, a professional athlete who is friends with Daisy. We also find out that tom is cheating on daisy.Later in the evening Tom and Daisy ask Nick about his engagement. He tells them he is not engaged, and that it is all a ggets home he sees Gatsby, standing out on the grass. He intends to go introduce himself but decides against it thinking that Gatsby would prefer to be alone. So he just watches him for a minute or two but the minute he takes his eyes off of him, Gatsby vanishes.
Weather
He uses weather to describe the way character look " her gray sun strained eyes..." (pg.11)
Ash heaps
In chapter two this is when we are introduced to the valley of ashes... it is like a "hell" on the way to the city. God is watching over this waste land.
"This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimney and rising smoke and, already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track...and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades..."(23) A lot of reference to the desolate area of abandonment found on the way through the borough of Queens including the ash-gray men who are probably depressed carrying "leaden", another reference to a gray-depressing color, shovel. Thus refering to a hopelessness that prevails in the "...desolate area of land."(23)
"A white ashen dust veiled his dark suit and his pale hair as it veiled everything in the vicinity--except his wife, who moved close to Tom." (26) Another reference to the "ashen heap" that covered the vacinity and yet, this time, the ashen is considered "white" and not the gray we have been seeing. Why white this time?
Time
There is not much about time,,, nothing that has a lot of significance
"Already it was deep summer on roadhouse roofs and in front of wayside garages, where new red gas-pumps sat out in pools of light, and when I reached my estate at West Egg I ran the car under its shed and sat for a while on an abandoned grass roller in the yard." (20) Time tells us it is "deep summer" meaning, at least, mid-July or better. The "abandoned grass roller" might mean that it is too late to plant grass and therefore, the roller, might never have been put away. There is a difference between a grass roller and a grass cutter. The roller is usually used when putting in a new patch or lawn of grass. Perhaps in Spring.
"'Why candles?' objected Daisy, frowing. She snapped them out with her fingers." (11) "'In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year.' She looked on us radiantly. 'Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.'" (11) This tells us the time is the time of year when the longest day occurs (Dec?). We can also guess that it is evening because the candles are lit for light.
Time: speaker notes a different kind of time on when he said, "When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at sort of moral attention forever..." (2) Therefore, we know that he is in reverie and in an autumnal frame of mind.
-Wikiuser16
"We backed up to a gray old man..." (27) Another reference to the idea of "gray" Also we see on the same page, "...lavendar-colored with gray upholstery..." (27) Many references to "gray" in response to the Ashen heap. Chapter 2 seems to have a lot of these.
-Wikiuser16
The rumors about Gatsby continue to circulate in New York—a reporter even travels to Gatsby's mansion hoping to interview him.
Gatsby was really born James Gatz on a North Dakota farm, he attended college at St. Olaf's in Minnesota, he dropped out after two weeks, because he was asshamed of being a janitor to paay for his tuition. He worked on Lake Superior the next summer fishing for salmon and digging for clams. One day he saw a yacht owned by Dan Cody a wealthy copper mogul, and rowed out to warn him about an impending storm. The grateful Cody took young Gatz who gave his name as Jay Gatsby on board his yacht as his personal assistant. Gatsby traveled all over with him, and he learned to not drink cause cody was an alcoholic. When Cody died he left Gatsby $25,000, but Cody's mistress prevented him from claiming his inheritance. Gatsby then dedicated himself to becoming a wealthy and successful man.
Nick does not see Gatsby or Daisy for several weeks after their reunion at Nick's house. Stopping by Gatsby's house one afternoon, he is alarmed to find Tom Buchanan there. Tom has stopped for a drink at Gatsby's house with Mr. and Mrs. Sloane, with whom he has been out riding. Gatsby seems nervous and agitated, and tells Tom awkwardly that he knows Daisy. Gatsby invites Tom and the Sloanes to stay for dinner, but they refuse. To be polite, they invite Gatsby to dine with them, and he accepts, not realizing the insincerity of the invitation. Tom is contemptuous of Gatsby's lack of social grace and highly critical of Daisy's habit of visiting Gatsby's house alone. He is suspicious, but he has not yet discovered Gatsby and Daisy's love.
The following Saturday night, Tom and Daisy go to a party at Gatsby's house. Though Tom has no interest in the party, his dislike for Gatsby causes him to want to keep an eye on Daisy. Gatsby's party strikes Nick much more unfavorably this time around—he finds the revelry oppressive and notices that even Daisy has a bad time. Tom upsets her by telling her that Gatsby's fortune comes from bootlegging. She angrily replies that Gatsby's wealth comes from a chain of drugstores that he owns.
Gatsby seeks out Nick after Tom and Daisy leave the party; he is unhappy because Daisy has had such an unpleasant time. Gatsby wants things to be exactly the same as they were before he left Louisville: he wants Daisy to leave Tom so that he can be with her. Nick reminds Gatsby that he cannot re-create the past. Gatsby, distraught, protests that he can. He believes that his money can accomplish anything as far as Daisy is concerned. As he walks amid the debris from the party, Nick thinks about the first time Gatsby kissed Daisy, the moment when his dream of Daisy became the dominant force in his life. Now that he has her, Nick reflects, his dream is effectively over.
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