Summary: Nick is coming home one night and Gatsby comes over and tries to start a conversation with Nick and even offers him a job that will be easy, but make lots of money. The next morning Nick calls Daisy to ask her over for tea, so Gatsby sends over people to tidy up Nick’s lawn and home. Daisy finally comes over and Gatsby freaks out and does not know what to do. Finally they talk for a while and he becomes more comfortable and invites her over to see his house. They start to talk about the green light that is on Daisy’s dock across the water, and Nick finally sneaks out and leaves them alone.
Character: Gatsby
“He had passed visibly through two states and was entering upon a third. After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence. He has been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock” (Fitzgerald 97).
Gatsby is very wealthy. He throws outrageous parties and lets anyone come. He also buys extravagant cars and clothes and cares about his appearance a lot. He is always careful about what to say and when to say it. Gatsby works hard to get something. He has been trying to run into Daisy for almost five years and keeps throwing these expensive parties although she has never come. He will not stop until he gets what he wants. Most of all Gatsby is mysterious and intriguing.
Gatsby is the essentially the plot of the book. Nick is narrating his life ever since he met Gatsby. He is a very wealthy man that has parties for anyone that wants to come. His main purpose is to somehow steal Daisy away from Tom in a classy manor. No matter what Gatsby does it always seems okay; even when he is dealing with criminals and trying to steal some man’s wife. Gatsby’s desire for Daisy is what the main point in this book.
Quote: “‘It took me just three years to earn the money that bought it’” (Fitzgerald 95). When Daisy asks about Gatsby’s huge house he said that he worked to pay for it, but he told Nick that he inherited money from his family to pay for it. When Nick hears this he actually jumps up and questions Gatsby, and Gatsby answers extremely fast saying he lost it in the panic, but worked it all back. This makes Gatsby look even more untrustworthy. He keeps getting tangled up in his lies, and it is making him look bad. Nick is noticing it and having a hard time buying everything he says.
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