Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men, and drowsing asleep at dawn with the beads and chiffon of an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed. And all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately—and the decision must be made by some force—of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality—that was close at hand”
1. After Gatsby is gone Daisy almost instantly goes back to the way her life was before him. It shows that society tries the utmost to keep us in our place and to break out of that pattern is nearly impossible. It also illustrates that it is almost easier just to stay where you are and accept it, it may be safer too.
It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete
1. Fitzgerald is arguing that there is no escaping what you come from. you must either return to the life that you once came from or everything as you know it will come to an end.
2. Daisy is a typical example of somebody who allows her life to be controlled by others. Her dream is whatever someone persuedes it to be. Perhaps that is why she is never content because she doesn’t now what she wants. She tries to break out by having an affair with Gatsby but will most likely be thrust into what is familiar to her. Whoever has the most power of Daisy is who controls what and how she thinks although she is unaware that she is a trade piece of meat.
“She’s not leaving me!” Tom’s words suddenly leaned down over Gatsby. “Certainly not for a common swindler who’d have to steal the ring he put on her finger.”
1. Daisy and Gatsby’s dream has come to a crashing halt. Toms outbreak is example that even when we acheive our dreams we will shortly lose them or there will be dire consequences. No matter how hard people try to make things perfect or right they never will be. Therefore we are always constently chasing our dreams of happiness never able to get there.
“He spoke as if Daisy’s reaction was the only thing that mattered”
1. we are to consumed by lour dreams as Gatsby is to realize that they begin to control our lives and actually keep us from acheieving them.
2. Gatsby seems to have figured out he might be stretching himself a little thin and he’s gone back to hiding himself. Although all his caution is broken by surrounding himself by Daisy. He appears to care deeply and careless about himself all at the same time. it’s obvious that Nick is consumed with pleasing Daisy and that neither of them care about anybody elses feelings that they hurt in the process. Gatsby made everyone pawns to get Daisy and its evident. As soon as he got her he pretty much dropped them all out of his life rendering them unimportant anymore.
I suppose he’d had the name ready for a long time, even then. His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people—his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.
1. The event that happened with Mr. Cody was what truly Jumpstarted Gatsby;s dream of changing his stars. It emphasizes Fitzgerald’s idea that you can pull yourself up from nothing and can acheive everything. It also shows that the road to sucess takes a lot of will power and determination to get to that place however. Sometimes even something as drastic as a name, personality, and lifesyle change.
2. Gatsby was hiding his past and for good reason, it could ultimately destroy him. Gatsby also is a determined and powerful individual propelled forth by trying to gain love. Even though he wmay not be trying to better his life for the best reasons at least he is trying his hardest to do so. Gatsby’s determination will ultimately get him into trouble as he is to aggressive in his words with Tom and Gatsby’s dream may be over quicker then it began. It appears to be the beginnings of his unraveling.
“and if you want to take down any addresses here’s my little gold pencil.”
3. The mention of daisy’s pencil being gold is a representation of her wealth and that she carries it where ever and when ever she goes out.
