Chapter response

During Gatsby’s lifetime he had many crowds of people attend his great and illustrious parties. In his death, only three men attended his funeral. These men, Nick, Gatsby’s father, and the owl-eyed man were the only people to see Gatsby at his final moments. Daisy, Gatsby’s love, fled the area with her husband and didn’t even send a note or flowers. Maybe she did this because Tom would forbid her from attending or maybe she was grief stricken and felt too guilty to attend. Gatsby did in fact die because of her actions.

I was surprised that Wolfsheim did not attend. I’m sure it was because he wasn’t that close with him and Gatsby was only a way to obtain more capitol. Nobody really knew Gatsby from his parties so the partiers didn’t care too much or even realize what had happened. I think the guy with the owl glasses went because he realized Gatsby was indeed great. 

chapter 8

From actions taken and stories revealed earlier in the novel we could decipher what was going to happen in chapters 7 and 8. It isn’t much of a stretch for Daisy to be the driver of a hit and run in which she responsible for the death of another in. Earlier in the novel we found out she was irresponsible on the road and that other drivers would make up for her lack of consideration on the road. Also, it’s unsurprising that daisy fell back in love with Gatsby from the story about how she was reluctant to marry Tom, but “fell in love” with him after someone told her she should be. Previously in the novel we heard Gatsby describe himself as a man of God. In the instances in the Bible, it was common for prophets to be killed. Even God’s son, Jesus, was crucified for our sins. Similarly, Gatsby was crucified for the murder of Myrtle Wilson, somebody he did not kill. 

Chptr. 6 and 7 response

Gatsby’s charade of attending Oxford and being an Oxford man was revealed to us in chapter seven. Nick, being the narrator of the story, knew this while telling us the story of Gatsby. I believe Nick didn’t tell us this earlier when Gatsby first made the claim of being an Oxford man because he was telling the story as it happened and letting the story develop as it had developed when it was actually occurring in Nick’s timeline.

I believe that Gatsby lied about attending Oxford and being of an Oxford family because had he not; it would have made his wealth and social status questionable. Living the upper class life he is living would have seemed credible and reliable due to the fact that he claimed he came from old money, meaning he was born into this wealth. Suddenly becoming fantastically rich during the Depression would have seemed suspicious and could’ve hinted at his true shady rise to power. Without this lie the Great Gatsby would have seemed like a common gangster and not the man he is viewed as. 

Nick says in chapter 5 that Gatsby’s “count of enchanted objects had diminished by one”. I assume Nick is referring to the lavish balls and parties that Gatsby frequently hosts. These elegant yet wild parties were all but a ruse to cause some sort of connection or meeting between Gatsby and Daisy.  Daisy had not attended any of these parties but after tea at Nick’s home the two had made their connection, five years this November in the making.

Gatsby’s reclusive behavior at his social events had given us the impression that he only hosted them in order to see Daisy, not to have fun and socialize with his guests. At Nick’s tea party the “chance” meeting between Daisy and Gatsby starts out awkwardly, but ends up leading to an assumed romantic connection. From Daisy calling Gatsby by his first name, to Gatsby finally getting the chance to preview his gargantuan house to Daisy it seems that Gatsby’s parties have since become obsolete. 

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