The Great Gatsby Chapter 2 By: Rebecca, Ola, and Courtney

Summary The Chapter opens up with describing the Valley of Ashes which is located half way between West Egg and New York. The Valley of Ashes is where the poor citizens belong to. Doctor T J Eckleburg’s eyes represent that someone is always there watching and that nothing is a secret because someone always knows somehow. Nick and Tom got off the train one day and wondered off and ended up in front of George Wilsons garage. The garage was not far from the train tracks which are near the Valley of Ashes so everything had a film of ashes. Tom meets Georges wife Myrtle while at the garage. They end up talking and they get on the train with Nick and go to New York. Tom buys Myrtle a dog right when they arrive to New York. While in New York they have a small get together. Myrtle invited her sister Catherine, and a couple, the Mckee’s. Myrtle began to explain why she had married George. She thought she wanted to be with him but it turns out that he just wasn’t right for her and that ever since the day they got married she knew it was a mistake. During the party they had been drinking and Myrtle started to chat “Daisy Daisy Daisy,” which resulted in Tom breaking Myrtles nose and then the party ended abruptly. Rebecca

QUOTES -“It was a few days before the fourth of July, and a gray scrawny Italian child was setting torpedoes in a row along the rail road track”(27 1.That where the Wilson’s live is a terrible place, There not Rich they basically live in a poor place -“ I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon; so everything that happened has a dim, hazy cast over it, although until after eight o’clock the apartment was a full of cheerful sun”(29) 1.Basically Everything that happen she doesn’t remember, Her Being with another guy she really doesn’t remember either. She Doest Remember anyone being with her, and the book that she read she didn’t understand much.

QUOTES “The apartment was on the top floor- a small living-room, a small dining room, a small bed room, and a bath” 1.I feel like this is another way of showing they weren't the riches that didn’t have a lot of money at all, they explained in the story that it looked bigger then it actually was.

Important Details - The valley of the ashes is a place where industries dumped ash between the west and the north. It is a place of poverty. - The eyes of doctor T. J. Eckleburg are in the valley of ashes painted on a billboard. They watch everything that happens in the valley of the ashes. - The evening in Tom’s apartment was hazy because he was drunk. - Tom bought Mrs. Wilson a dog. - Mrs. Wilson started to talk about Daisy after Tom asked her not to, so he broke her nose. -Ola

Lexi, Katie, & Jamie The Great Gatsby Chapter 3

Nick gets an invite to one of Gatsby’s parties. When he shows up he feels very out of place. There is a lot of drinking and dancing, the garden was full of people and food. He runs into Jordan Baker who he spends the rest of the night with. During the party, many people were spreading rumors about where they thought Gatsby came from. After a while, Jordan and Nick decide to go find the host. When they go in the house, they run into a man with owl-eyed glasses sitting in the library. Jordan and Nick go outside to sit and when they do, they sit with a man who claims he knows Nick. So after some conversation, they realized they were in the war together.. Summary

Then the man introduced himself as Gatsby. After that, Nick noticed how different Gatsby was from his guests. He didn’t drink, or dance. He stood and watched everyone else. Later in the night, Gatsby asks to pull Jordan aside, alone. When she returns, she tells Nick that she just heard the ‘most amazing’ news. At the end of the night there was an accident outside of the house, Owl-Eyes ran his car into a ditch and claims he didn’t do it. The chapter ends with Nick telling us about his and Jordans relationship. He thinks he loves her, but hes not sure. Summary (cont)

“People were not invited- they went there.” (pg. 41) – -Most people just came and Gatsby was a very famous man that had the money and the fame to host a party like this one. “There's something funny about a fellow that’ll do a thing like that,” “he doesn’t want any trouble with anybody.” (pg. 43) – -he tries to cover his tracks and he doesn't want anyone mad at him or going after him Quotes

“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” – -He doesn’t trust people easily, and has a hard time believing what people tell him. Quotes (cont)

Symbolism Gatsby’s smile symbolizes hope and optimism Gatsby’s party symbolizes whealth Cars symbolize danger because at the end of Gatsby’s party there is a car accident and at the end of the chapter Nick tells Jordan she is a bad driver and she needs to be more careful. The owl eyed man symbolizes all of the other guests at Gatsby’s party because he was brought by someone he knew and he was not actually invited, and he was amazed by everything Gatsby had Theme Violence- Cars resemble violence because of the accident at the end of the party and Jordan and Nick’s conversation might foreshadow danger Honesty- Nick was thinking about how Jordan was very dishonest and how he is honest and the no one knows if the rumors about Gatsby are true Important Details

Figurative Language Imagery He was dressed up in white flannels Turkeys bewitched to a dark gold In his blue gardens Personification- men and girls went like moths among the whisperings Simile- She appeared suddenly at his side like an angry diamond Important details

The Great Gatsby Ch. 4 Important Details By: Nathaniel Brocato

Important Details Plot: “I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle-all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford, because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It was a family tradition. He looked at me sideways-and I knew why Jordan Baker had believed he was lying.” Pg. 65

Important Details Imagery: “Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the grinders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” Pg. 69

Important Details Plot: “Yeah, Gatsby’s very careful about women. He would never so much as look at a friend’s wife.” Pg. 73

Important Details “‘Gatsby bought the house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.’ Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly form the womb of his purposeless splendor. ‘He wants to know,’ continued Jordon, ‘if you’ll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over.’” Pg. 79

The Great Gatsby Chapter 5 Laura McDonald, Megan Sullivan, & Taylor Wolf

Quotes Megan Sullivan “id like to get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around” -95 -Daisy is saying she would pamper Gatsby. “I am going to call up Daisy tomorrow and invite her for some tea” -85 -Nick is trying to get Gatsby and Daisy to go on a date without giving it away. “You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of the dock” -94 -We find out that the green light Gatsby was reaching for is actually Daisy’s house.

Important Details Taylor Gatsby is in love with Daisy. He wanteed Nick to invite her to his house so Gatsby could come over while she was there and pretend to not know and come over. That day of the tea he came over and made sure Nick's house was presentable. That day he sent his gardener over to cut his grass to make it look better. He brought flowers to the house also. Gatsby was leaning against it it fell and he cought it before it hit the ground. It was significant at that time beacuse everything was wierd and he was nervuse and scared about seeing Daisy after years of not seeing her. Gastby inheritated his money but then lost in it in the panic, the panic of the war. He ended up getting money again by being in the drug business and then the iol busines.

Important Details con. When he told Daisy about the light they were standing at the window loooking out and he said if there was no mist you could see there green light they had at the end of ther dock. She put her arm through his abruptly, now that she new he thought of it as just another light at the end of a dock. " Come here quick! cried Daisy at the window. The rain was falling, but the drakness had parted in the west, and there was a pink and goled billow of foamy clouds above the sea. look at that, she whispered, and then after a moment: I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around" (p. 95)

Summary Upon returning home Nick notices that Gatspy’s house is lit from top to bottom. Gatspys comes over to talk to nick about inviting Daisy over for Tea. As they talk Nick tells Gatspy that he will invite her over for the next day and he returns home to prepare. The next day after Gatspy has the lawn cut e comes up to nicks house wearing a whit flannel suit with a silver shirt and a gold colored tie. He wears this to represent his new wealth. Daisy come and Gatspy nearly embarrasses himself by being the opposite of cool calm and collected he seemed very unsure about himself.

Summary con. In all of his nervousness he knocks the clock of the mantel and catches it before it falls but the clock stops. This helps represent the fact that when he was poor he could not have her and he was stuck in that state with his dreams of love with daisy. As Gatspy shows daisy his house he shows her all of the shirts in his closet. This makes daisy start to cry, she says she has never seen so many beautiful shirts. Later Gatspy tells Daisy about the green light at the end of her dock. Gatspy shared his secret with her. As the chapter ends Nick leaves Gatspy and Daisy alone together