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- Tom comforts Gatsby about his life.
- Tom figures out that Daisy is having an affair with Gatsby by her comments.
- Daisy kills Myrtle with Gatsby's car.
-Daisy and Gatsby meet up and Gatsby shows Daisy around his house.
-Daisy cries when Gatsby shows her his shirts.
- Find out the Jay Gatsby's real name is James Gatz
- Learn about Dan Cody, Gatsby's mentor
- Gatsby wants Daisy to tell Tom that she never loved him
-Hottest Day:
- "The next day was broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the summer" (Fitzgerald 114).
-1920's Cars
- Cars in the 1920s showed people everyone's wealth. Cars in this book play a big part especially the color of the cars because the colors represent different things. Gatsby has a yellow car and Tom has a blue car. In this chapter Gatsby's fancy yellow Rolls Royce kills Myrtle. Also during this chapter Tom and Gatsby switch cars and they are trying to one up each other while racing.
- The Green Card:
-"Or present a green card. I'm giving out green" (Fitzgerald 104). [ Gatsby says this to Tom]
- Green in this case represents envy/jealously
-Gatsby's Gold Tie:
- Gold represents wealth
-World's Fair
- The world's fair is a huge fair where nations would gather to show their scientific, artist or technological achievements. The world's fair relates to this chapter because Gatsby puts together a huge and extravagant presentation for Daisy. He wants to win over Daisy by showing her his achievements.
*This video shows Gatsby American Dream throughout the movie.
-Weather/Rain
- "Pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes" (Fitzgerald 86).
- The Blue Nose:
-"I liked that man - what was his name?-- with the sort of blue nose" (Fitzgerald 105).
- Blue represents sadness/depression
-Yellow Car
-"He says he knows that car that did it .. It was a yellow car.... The God damned coward! he whimpered. He didn't even stop his car" (Fitzgerald 140-141).
-American Dream
- In this chapter the audience learns that Jay Gatsby is not who he says he is. His real name is actual James Gatz. James Gatz has always had the american dream of being rich. James Gatz achieves his goal of becoming rich and now the second part of his american dream is to get Daisy.
-Illegal Activity
- During the 1920s there was tons of illegal activity going on. There was bootleggers, gamblers etc. Throughout this chapter people try to guess what type of illegal activity Gatsby does. Daisy thinks it has to do with prescription medication, but it turns out he is a bootlegger.
- Gatsby is pulled over by the police and gets let go after showing the officer a card.
-Meet Meyer Wolfsheim, he fixed the 1919 World Series.
-Learn the story of Gatsby and Daisy.
- George believes who ever killed was her lover [Thought put in his head by Tom].
-George goes over to Gatsby's house and kills Gatsby and himself.
-Wolfsheim Cufflinks:
-"I hadn't bee looking at them, but I did now. They were composed of oddly familiar pieces of ivory. 'Finest specimens of human molars,' he informed me"(Fitzgerald 72).
- 1919 World Series
- Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati Reds were competing in the 1919 World Series. Players of the Chicago White Sox's were accused of losing games in exchange for money from gamblers. This event relates to this chapter because Meyer Wolfsheim, who is a gambler, claims that he fixed the 1919 World Series.
- The Midwest:
- "I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West- all dead now." (Fitzgerald 65).
- "What part of the Middle West? San Francisco" (Fitzgerald 65).
-Gray Tea Hour:
- "At the gray tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low, sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor" (Fitzgerald 151).
- Gray in this case represents dull and dreary.
-Gangsters and Racketeering
- Since the 1920s was the time of Prohibition gangsters thrived. A famous bootlegger and gangster during the 20s was Al Capone. Gangsters and racketeering relates to this chapter because of George Wilson. George Wilson is a racketeer because conduces business/killing Gatsby under false pretenses. Gatsby gets killed under false pretense because of Tom.
- Doctor T.J Eckleburg:
- "Pale and enormous, from the dissolving night" (Fitzgerald 160).
- The eyes of Eckleburg in this story only show up when something is about to happen. The eyes of Eckleburg sees everything.
- Nick is invited to Gatsby's party and meets Gatsby for the first time.
-Nick meets the Owl-Eyed Man in Gatsby's library.
- Owl- Eyed man doesn't get sober enough and ends up crashing his car.
- Nick plans Gatsby's funeral but no one shows up except the Owl- Eyed Man, his dad and, Nick.
- Meet Henry Gatz, Gatsby's dad.
- Nick reveals the truth about Tom and Daisy.
-Parties/Alcohol Consumption:
- "On buffer tables, garnished with glistening hors d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowed against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guest were too young to know one from another" (Fitzgerald 40).
- Prohibition
- Prohibition was when the government banned the selling and consumption of alcohol. This ban did not work because bootleggers were selling alcohol to people and alcohol would be consumed at parties. A famous bootlegger during this time was Al Capone. Prohibition relates to this chapter because at Gatsby's party there was alcohol flowing throughout the party. Everyone but Gatsby was intoxicated at the party.
-Gatsby's Library:
-"Absolutely real- have pages and everything. I thought they'd be a nice durable cardboard. Matter of fact, they're absolutely real. Pages and- Here! Lemme show you" (Fitzgerald 45).
- Nick meets Myrtle, Tom's mistress and George's wife.
- Tom, Nick and Myrtle go to a party.
- At this party Tom and Myrtle get into a argument and Tom hits Myrtle.
- Meet Nick Carraway, the narrator, he lives next to Gatsby but has never met him.
-Nick goes to Tom and Daisy's house.
-Jordan, Daisy's friend, alludes to Nick that Tom has a mistress in New York.
- The Green Light:
- "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter- to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... And one fine morning-" (Fitzgerald 180).
- Jazz Age
- The Jazz age was when jazz music and new dances became popular. The jazz age showed at Gatsby's parties. The jazz age relates to this chapter because Nick believed that Gatsby's funeral was going to filled with jazz music and people dancing when in reality only the Owl- Eyed Man, Nick and Henry Gatz showed up.
-Weather/Rain:
-"The rain poured down his thick glass, and wiped them to see the protecting canvas unrolled from Gatsby's grave"(Fitzgerald 174).
-"Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on" (Fitzgerald 174-175).
-The 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 chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air" (Fitzgerald 23).
-Rockefeller
-Rockefeller owned and founded a Oil Company. Rockefeller is connected to this chapter because the audience meets George and Myrtle. George owns and gas station and he is a mechanic.
- The Green Light:
- "Distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far way, that might have been the end of a dock" (Fitzgerald 21).
-Race Relations
-Race Relations is shown in this book because of Tom. Tom references The Rise of the Colored Empires and says : The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be -- will be utterly submerged. Its' all scientific stuff"(Fitzgerald 13).
- Tom's comments show that during the time there was a divide of races. His comments also show that people were in favor of the law: separate but equal.
- Gatsby's House:
-"It was a factual initatiion of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby's mansion"(Fitzgerald 5).
-Doctor T.J. Eckleburg:
- "The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic - their retinas are one yard high. They look out old no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a non-existent nose" (Fitzgerald 23).