Chapter+6

=The Great Gatsby= [|The Novel]

In //The Great Gatsby// by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the recurring theme throughout chapter six is destiny.

"//Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"//

Through this quote we can assume that he believes with money anything is possible including turning the wheels of time and repeating a single moment in time. For this particular moment of time we can assume that the target is the moment that Daisy and himself met, the moment in which the sparks blew and love bloomed. but what does you

**__Questions:__**
1. Study the various parties and guests at the parties in order to construct a thesis and arguments that typify America and Americans at play in the 1920s. What do the parties reveal about these guests? 2. Consider all the meanings of Daisy’s admiration for the movie director leaning over his wife. Does she see herself in that image? Is Fitzgerald simply magnifying film, a new medium in the 1920s? 3. Gatsby grew into adolescence after being introduced to a tawdry lifestyle on Dan Cody’s yacht. Show how the boy on the yacht was ironically more worldly and realistic than the unrealistic adult gazing longingly at the green light. 4. In what ways can Nick be said to be the real hero of the story? Prove your answer. 5. Select a line or a passage about time and show its thematic significance.

__**Question 1.**__
“Anything I hate is to get my head stuck in a pool,” mumbled Miss Baedeker. “They almost drowned me once over in New Jersey.”

“Then you ought to leave it alone,” countered Doctor Civet.

“Speak for yourself!” cried Miss Baedeker violently. “Your hand shakes. I wouldn’t let you operate on me!”

This conversation shows the big influence alcohol had on the people. At this time and setting, Prohibition played a big part not only in the economy, but in the overall morality that seemed to have existed in America. As Nick analyzes, he finds that those who surround him have less interest in morals and more interest in enjoying their own riches. Alcohol is apparently something that this society will not give up. In this quote, Miss Baedeker quickly defends alcohol when she is indirectly accused of having troubles when drinking. From this we can imagine that quests at these parties enjoyed their own wealth and applauded their ability to live life as happy, drunk fools.

__Question 2.__
Daisy admiring the movie director leaning over his wife has many different meaning of her loving and wanting to be love. It gives her memories with Gatsby when they were younger and in love and how she dreams that she could be with him again. How Daisy is not being in love right now and she wants to be in love like the movie director and his wife. Even though she has money, she does not have the happiness that she would like to be. “watching the moving-picture director and his Star. They were still under the white plum tree and their faces were touching except for a pale, thin ray of moonlight between. It occurred to me that he had been very slowly bending toward her all evening to attain this proximity, and even while I watched I saw him stoop one ultimate degree and kiss at her cheek. “I like her,” said Daisy, “I think she’s lovely.” ”

__Question 3.__
Before Gatsby met Dan Cody in his yacht, he was a poor boy named James Gatz. He was more worldly and realistic because how he reacted after knowing that winds might catch and break Cody’s yacht. When Gatsby went on board Cody asked him few questions in which Gatsby answered him really quickly. It showed the real man inside of Gatz. Now that he older and richer, he is not the same boy that once was on Dan Cody’s yacht. He seems more quiet and more not himself when he is starring the green light. Its seems like he is waiting for something or someone, He is not doing anything to find it, like he found Dan Cody’s yacht to tell him that he was in danger.

“It was James Gatz who had been loafing along the beach that afternoon in a torn green jersey and a pair of canvas pants, but it was already Jay Gatsby who borrowed a rowboat, pulled out to the TUOLOMEE, and informed Cody that a wind might catch him and break him up in half an hour.”-ch.6

“fifty feet away a figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbor’s mansion and was standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars. Something in his leisurely movements and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens.”-ch.6

“for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone—he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness”-ch.1

__Question 4.__
Nick can be the hero of the story for many reasons. He is the Narrator of The Great Gatsby. His character is the most honest and Honorable of them all. He is not involved in any bad situation like Gatsby, Daisy, or Tom. He just wants to have a better life in which he does it honorable way. When looking for love he wants it to be right not to be wrong doing.

__Question 5.__
‘“I wouldn’t ask too much of her,’ I ventured. ‘You can’t repeat the past.’

‘Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!’

He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

‘I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before,’ he said, nodding determinedly. ‘She’ll see.”’

Gatsby’s love for Daisy blinds him from the fact that he cannot achieve the impossible. It is even evident that Daisy wouldn’t love Gatsby if he hadn’t created this new persona that is “Jay Gatsby.” Without his money he would not be able to obtain Daisy. Her love for her own class shows that she would never abandon her riches and her background to be with a poor but loving Gatsby.