NOTES AND THOUGHTS CHAPTER 8

• THE MANSION FEELS HUGE NOW BECAUSE ITS SO EMPTY
• REDOLANT- NEW CAR SMELL
• DAISY AND GATSBY MADE LOVE W/EACH OTHER
• WITH HIS UNIFORM ON HE LOOKED LIKE EVERYONE ELSE
• WITHOUT IT HE LOOKED LIKE A POOR GUY WHO DIDNT DESERVE DAISY
• GATSBY LET DAISY BELIEVE THAT HE COULD CARE FOR HER 
• CHEAP SHARPER= CONARTIST
• "AUTUMN FLAVOR IN THE AIR" - THINGS DIE DURING FALL EX. MYRTLE
• THE GARDENER SAID HE WAS GONNA DRAIN THE POOL
• GATSBY NEVER USED THE POOL
• WANTED TO USE IT AT LEAST ONCE
• WILSON SHOT GATSBY AND THEN SHOT HIMSELF 
• WILSON SHOOTS GATSBY WHILE HE WAS IN THE POOL

GATSBY NOTES AND THOUGHTS: CHAPTER 7

• DAISY COMES OVER OFTEN NOW
• DAISY AND GATSBY KISS IN HER HOME
• GATSBY FIRED ALL HIS STAFF AND HIRED PEOPLE WHO ARE FAMILY
• HE DOESNT WANT PEOPLE TO SPREAD RUMORS ABOUT DAISY AND HIM BECAUSE SHE COMES OVER OFTEN NOW

• TOM RECOGNIZED WHAT DAISY AND GATSBY HAVE (THE CHEMISTRY BTWN THEM)
• MYRTLE WANTS TO LEAVE AND GO WEST WITH WILSON

• TOM WANTS TO GO TO NEW YORK DOWNTOWN SO THEY DECIDE TO GO BUT THEYRE FICKERING BECAUSE DAISY WANTS TO GO WITH GATSBY IN HIS CAR 
• THEY END UP GOING TO A HOTEL
• TOM CONFRONTS GATSBY AND ASKS A BUNCH OF QUESTIONS 
• HE THEN SAYS THAT HE WONT STAND BACK AND WATCH AS GATSBY MAKES LOVE TO HIS WIFE
• GATSBY TELLS TOM THAT DAISY NEVER LOVED HIM AND ONLY LOVED GATSBY 
• GATSBY AND DAISY LEAVE 

• WOLFSHIEM APPARANTELY DRUG DEALED WITH GATSBY AT THEIR PHARMACYS
• APPARANTELY GATSBY LET HIM GO TO JAIL 

• DAISY KILLED MYRTLE IN A CAR ACCIDENT
• SHE WALKED IN FRONT OF THE CAR AFTER HAVING HEATED ARGUMENT WITH WILSON ABOUT MOVING 
• WILSON HAD LOCKED MYRTLE IN THEIR HOME 
• DAISY WAS DRIVING FAST AND INSTANTLY KILLED HER
• TOM KNEW WHOS CAR IT BELONGED TO AND SAID GATSBY 

• DAISY CANT THINK FOR HERSELF AND CANT MAKE UP HER MIND ON WHO HE ACTUALLY WANT TO BE WITH
• SHE HAD GATSBY WAITING FOR 6 HOURS OUTSIDE HER HOME

GATSBY NOTES AND THOUGHTS: CHAPTER 6

• CODY IS GATSBYS FRIEND ABOUT 50 YEARS OLD WHEN GATSBY WAS 17
• GATSBY WENT WITH CODY ON HIS BOAT FOR 5YRS AND WOULDVE LASTED LONGER BUT CODY DIED 
• GATSBY INHERITED 25,000 DOLLARS AND MILLIONS WENT TO ELLA KAYE
• TERE WAS FORESHADOWING WHEN GATSBY MENTIONED PICTURE OF CODY
• GATSBY DOESNT DRINK BECAUSE OF CODY

• TOM IS AT GATSBYS HOME 
• TOM CAME WITH DAISY TO GATSBYS NEXT PARTY 
• PARTY FULL OF CELEBRITIES AND DRUNK PEOPLE
• DAISY DIDNT ENJOY HERSELF AT THE PARTY 
• SHE TALKED TO WOMEN WHO THOUGHT ALOT OF THEMSELVES

• GASTBY TALKING TO NICK AFTER THE PARTY:
• GATSBY SAID DAISY DIDNT LIKE THE PARTY
• TELLS NICK THAT DAISY DIDNT UNDERSTAND LIKE SHE USED TO BEFORE
• GATSBY WANTED ALL OF IT TO BE THE SAME AS 5YRS AGO 

• MONEY WILL NOT CHANGE DAISYS OPINION 

• THE PARTY THAT GATSBY HAD DIDNT HAVE THE EFFECT ON DAISY HOW HE WISHED IT DID
• HE ISN TBEING LOGICAL ABOUT WANTING EVERYTHING TO GO BACK TO THE WAY IT WAS 4 YEARS AGO

NOTES AND THOUGHTS ON GATSBY CHAPTER 5

• GATSBY WANTS TO HOLD OFF MEETING WITH DAISY FOR TEA 
• HE WANTS HIS GRASS CUT -MAYBE TO IMPRESS DAISY?
• ALSO HE MIGHT BE WORRIED AND NERVOUS TO MEET WITH HER
• NICK INVITES DAISY TO TEA & TELLS HER NOT TO BRING TOM
• GATSBY WAS PALE AND HE LOOKED SLEEPY
• HE PROBABLY DIDNT GET ENOUGH SLEEP BECAUSE HE WAS SO NERVOUS FOR MEETING HER
• THE AUTHOR IS DESCRIBING THE WEATHER ALOT
• SAYING THAT THE RAIN HASNT STOPPED 
• AS WELL AS SAYING WHEN THE RAIN WILL STOP
• GATSBY IS STARTING TO BE IMPATIENT 
• THINKS THAT DAISY WONT COME
• WHEN DAISY CAME HE WENT BACK AROUND TO THE FRONT DOOR AS IF TO PRETEND THAT HE JUST GOT THERE
• GATSBY REMEMBERED THE EXACT DATE AS TO WHEN HIM AND DAISY HAD MET
• IT MADE IT WEIRD THAT HE REMEMBERED EXACTLY WHEN
• GATSBY IS SAYING IT WAS A MISTAKE TO MEET UP WITH DAISY 
• GATSBY AND DAISY TALKED AND SOMETHING HAPPENED BUT WHEN NICK CAME BACK DAISY HAD TEARS AND GATSBY LOOKED JOYFUL AND GLOWING 
• GATSBY INVITED BOTH OF THEM TO GO LOOK AT HIS HOUSE
• GATSBY SAID IF IT WASNT FOR MIST HE WOULD BE ABLE TO SEE DAISYS HOUSE ACROSS THE BAY 
• SOUNDS LIKE A STALKER
• NICK WAS UNNOTICED BY GATSBY AND DAISY BECAUSE THEY WERE FOND OF EACH OTHER 
• THEY DIDNT NOTICE HIS PRESENCE 
• GATSBY AND DAISY WERE HAVING A GREAT TIME TOGETHER

GATSBY pages 69-?

• WORDS ARE SO WELL REHEARSED AND BECUZ SO WEL REHEARSED HE DIDNT BELIVE IT
• FROM FAR AWAR THE CITY LOOKS GREAT BUT WHEN CLOSE TO IT YOU CAN SEE WHATS REALLY GOING 
• BEGINING OF CHAPTER 4 ITS DESCRIBING THE PEOPLE WHO WERE AT THE PARTY
• THEY ARE FAMOUS PEOPLE OR IMPORTANT PEOPLE AT THE PARTY
• DESCRIPTIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS AND JEWS IS SUPER RACIST
• VERY STEREOTYPICAL EX. SMALL EYES IN DARK AND FOCUSING ON THE NOSE
• SOMNAMBULATORY- SLEEP WALKING
• WORLD SERIES OF 1919- CHICAGO WHITE SOX GOT PAID TO LOSE
• GATSBY KNOWS DAISY

TESTING UDERSTANDING FROM THE OTHER SIDE

ANSWERS

Chapter 1

1.  Nick is a guy who moved from Minnesota and main character
2.  Daisy is Nicks second cousin

Chapter 2

1.  Myrtle Wilson
2.  That she is going to visit her sister

Chapter 3

1.  That he killed someone and was a german spy
2.  Jordan Baker is Daisys friend and professional golfer

Chapter 4

1.  He was an officer and she was a popular girl where he was stationed and they had a love affair and he wanted to marry her but he got shipped off somewhere else.
2.  Meyer Wolfshiem

The questions I chose were mostly to assure that people knew who the characters were because it got confusing trying to keep up. As well as knowing some of the things I think were more important and some which I think might later come up in the story.

GATSBY TEST CHAPTERS 1-4

Chapter 1

1.  Who is Nick?
2.  Who is Daisy?

Chapter 2

1. Who is Toms Mistress?
2. What excuse does Myrtle use to leave?

Chapter 3

1.  What rumor(s) were spread about Gatsby at the party?
2.  Who is Jordan Baker?

Chapter 4

1.  How does Gatsby know Daisy?
2.  Who fixed the world series back in 1919?

GATSBY pages 39-48

OBSERVATIONS

• NICK IS FEELING LIKE AN OUTSIDER ALTHOUGH HES INSIDE WITH EVERYONE
• "IT WAS NINE O-CLOCK-ALMOST IMMDEIATELY ADFTERWARDS I LOOKED AT MY WATCH AND FOUND IT WAS TEN"- HES DRUNK 
• TOM BROKE MRS.WILSONS (MYRTLE) NOSE BECAUSE SHE WAS SAYING DAISYS NAME
• NICK LEAVES AND DROPS OFF MR MCKEE THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT HIS HOUSE AND WAITS FOR THE TRAIN TO COME SO HE CAN LEAVE
• NICK GOT INVITED TO GATSBYS HOUSE PARTY-MOST PEOPLE JUST WENT TO THE PARTY WITHOUT EVEN MEETING GATSBY

VOCAB

• KYKE- A BAD WORD TOWARDS JEWS EQUIVALENT TO SOMEONE SAYING THE N WORD 
• DICTION: IS LIVELY AT THE PARTY
• CONTEMPTOUS: SO JUDGEMENTAL ALMOST HATRED

CHARACTERS

• JORDAN BAKER: A WOMEN 
• LUCILLE: A GIRL IN YELLOW DRESS
• 
  

GATSBY pages 27-38

OBSERVATIONS

• TRANSCENDENT: ABOVE AND BEYOND
• DOCTOR T.J. ECKLEBURG: EYES ARE BLUE AND GIGANTIC 
• EYES SYMBOLIZE SEA, THEY SEE EVERYTHING
• TOM MADE PLANS TO MEET WITH MISTRESS

CHARACTERS

• MYRTLE WILSON: TOM BUCHANAN'S MISTRESS, IS MARRIED TO GEORGE
• GEORGE WILSON: HUSBAND TO MISTRESS OF TOM 
• CATHERINE: MISTRESS SISTER
• MR. MCKEE: DOWNSTAIRS NEIGHBOR OF TOM 

CONNECTIONS

• DAISY IS CATHOLIC AND THATS WHY THEY CANT DIVORCE BUT ITS A LIE
• NICK KNOWS THAT DAISYS NOT CATHOLIC
• IN FIRST PARAGRAPH NICK SAYS THAT PEOPLE CONFIDE IN HIM AND SOMETIMES ITS THINGS THAT ARENT EVEN TRUE (EX. THAT DAISY IS CATHOLIC) 

GATSBY pages 11-26

DEFINITIONS: 

• DIVAN IS CELL PHONE

• IMPERCEPTIBLY- SLIGHTY 

• INCREDULOUSLY-WITH SURPRISE

• WAN-PALE

• LANGUIDLY-SLOWLY ALMOST SUPER RELAXED

• PEREMPTORILY- BEFORE THE ACTION

WHATS TOMS PROBLEMS?

• AFRAID OF OTHER RACES
• TOMS GOT A WOMEN IN NEW YORK

ARE THESE PEOPLE HAPPY?
NO THEY SEEM WEIRD

DAISY:

• DAISY LOOKING FORWARD TO AHEAD NEVER LOOKING BACK AND ALWAYS NOT IN THE MOMENT

• DAISY IS SELF OBSERVED

"IM GLAD ITS A GIRL. AND I HOPE SHELL BE A FOOL-THATS THE BEST THIG A GIRL CAN BE IN THIS WORLD, A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOL."(pg. 21)

• NICK CARRAWAY =MAIN CHARACTER

• "IVE GOT A NICE PLACE HERE" USUALLY PEOPLE WHO GO OVER TO SOMEONE ELSES HOUSE ARE THE ONES WHO SAY THAT AND IN THIS CASE IT WASNT (pg.12)

• WINE COLORED RUG- SIMILE

• DESCRIPTION OF GLOOM IS TO DESIGN THE MOOD

WHATS IN MY BIG QUESTION FOR ME

I think the main thing that my big question will do is ease me. I have been frustrated with the curiosity of knowing if the life we live is in fact real. To me, this life we live doesn't make sense at all. Not only do we not know many things about it but we believe what others have told us about it. It will also bring a lot of closure. Not knowing what to think about this world or about this life we apparently have to live will let me know if doing my best in this life is really worth it.