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
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