Words, terms, concepts or characters
Rajah- an Indian or Malay prince or chief
Juxtaposition- the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side
Mr. Meyer Wolfsheim- a gambler that fixed the World’s Series in 1919
Summary:
In this chapter we can learn a little more about the mysterious Mr. Gatsby and his relationship with Daisy. The chapter starts with all the names of the guests that attended Mr. Gatsby’s parties since July 5th, 1922. His guests were from both East Egg and West Egg. It kind of shows the different class of people between the two parts of the Egg. East Egg seems more normal people that we see in our lives and West Egg has more of a celebrity type of people, like the State senator and actors and actresses. It seems that he is well liked by everyone that crosses his path, for example, Mr. Wolfsheim said “… a man of fine breeding, there’s the kind of man you’d like to take home and introduce to your mother and sister”.
Mr. Gatsby is from a wealth family from San Francisco and was educated at Oxford. He inherited all the wealth when his family died. He lived in Europe collecting jewels, hunting big game and painting. He did this to forget about something sad that had happened to him. Mr. Gatsby tried to end his life in World War I but instead he got promoted as major and received many awards.
We find out that Mr. Gatsby and Daisy were in love. Eventually they broke up when Mr. Gatsby went to war. After one year Daisy met Tom Buchanan and they got married. She did not want to get married to Tom Buchanan after she had received a letter from Mr. Gatsby, but she was almost forced to marry Tom. We can understand now why she is always mad at Tom. After all those years have passed, Mr. Gatsby buys his house just the opposite side of the Egg where Daisy lives and throws so many parties just to have a chance of see her. He asks Nick’s help to see Daisy again by asking Nick to invite her to his home for tea.
Question for discussion
“I’m the Sheik of Araby.
Your love belongs to me.
At night when you’re asleep
Into your tent I’ll Creep-----“
Who do you think this refers to? Gatsby or Tom or both?
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I think this quote is referring to Gatsby because he dreams to be united with Daisy once again!!
Gatsby did not come from a rich family, he became wealthy as a bootlegger. He just made up about his business and the source of his money.His real background would reveal in later chapters.
I think this refers to Gatsby, as Gatsby cannot get Daisy in real time. He just wants to at least get along with Daisy in dream.
I think this is referring to Gatsby, he seems like he is the creepy stalker character in this novel. all those years searching for Daisy in the newspaper, and buying a house that overlooks her house. This quote fits right up his alley of being a creepy stalker.
-Lev Starikov
I think this refers to Gatsby because he is obsessed with gaining Daisy's love back.
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