Chapter Nine

Pg.179... "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

This just pretty much describes how Daisy and Tom are. This is how they have been acting through the whole book. They don't care about anyone but themselves. and they always create a conflict and then they just disappear. 

Pg.176... I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

I feel like this quote is just what brings the book together. It really would be a story about the West if it wasn't taken place in the East. It's just that fact that they all came from there and that they had nothing else to show for it. They just moved to the East so that they could have their money. That's all they cared about. 

Pg.174-175.... "Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on..." 

I really like this quote. It not only shows the picture in your head of a grave and the fact that is is raining outside. but it's just a simple sweet text. 

Pg. 180.... "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—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther..."

I feel like this quote is trying to say that we are attached to things for so long that we start to loose how long we are really attached to it. That is what happened in Gatsby's case. He was obsessed with something he knew he couldn't have and that inevitably got him killed. 

Chapter Eight

Pg. 148... "She was the first "nice" girl he had ever known."

This quote to me is just the one that really sticks out. Like Daisy is the first nice girl the Gatsby has really ever known, but she hasn't really been that nice to people. 

Pg. 152.... "Of course she might have loved him just for a minute, when they were first married- and loved me more even then, do you see?"

Gatsby just loves Daisy, and its the only person that he will ever love. He is still convinced that she never loved Tom and that her love was always just towards him. And that she only married Tom because she was lonely while he was away in the war. 

Pg. 154....  "good-by," I called. "I enjoyed breakfast, Gatsby."

This is the last thing that Nick ever says to Gatsby. I feel like this was just a sad thing in this book. I feel like that was just the most important thing because of the way that it is portrayed. Nick later tries to call Gatsby's house but, no body cares to answer.

Pg. 162... "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."

This was the little paragraph that was right after Wilson had shot and killed Gatsby in his pool and then shot himself a little ways away. Gatsby said that he would be blamed for anything that Daisy had done just because he loved her.

Chapter Seven.

Pg. 113... "Is Mr. Gatsby sick?" "Nope."

Nick hasn't seen Gatsby in a while. He hasn't thrown any parties. He fired all of his staff and replaced them with shadier ones. He says that it is because Daisy has been coming over ever afternoon and he didn't want anyone to gossip about it. The parties were all for Daisy, so now that he has her (for the time being) he can stop trying to get her attention. 

Pg. 125... "There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind, and as we drove away Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic. His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control."

Tom had everything in control of the people the he was with. Little did he realize that Daisy was falling more and more in love with Gatsby. All while Myrtle was moving to the south with her husband. He was losing both of the women that he was with in a matter of seconds. 

Pg. 138... "Myrtle Wilson's body, wrapped in a blanket, and then in another blanket..."

Driving back home they stumbled upon an accident that involved Myrtle. Someone had hit her with a car and then just left the scene. Later they found out it was a bright yellow car. Which is what Gatsby drives. Come to find out Daisy was driving when the accident happened. But Gatsby will take the blame for anything that happens with her. 

Pg. 145.. "I'll wait here till Daisy goes to bed.Good night, old sport."

Gatsby is going to wait outside of her house just until she goes to sleep, because she doesn't trust Tom. He thinks that Tom is going to try and do something to her. like ask her about the events of today. Gatsby doesn't want that. so he refuses to go home. and if there is any commotion in her house then she is to turn the light on and then off again. I don't think that Gatsby realizes the severity of this accident and what happened today. he is just willing to do whatever he has to, to protect Daisy. 

Chapter Six.

Pg. 110..... “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!”

 Gatsby wants to have Daisy back and not let her go. This quote is talking about how he doesn't care if he repeats that past as long as he has Daisy the past and the present don't matter to him. and his future is all about Daisy. That will never change. 

Pg. 110.... "I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before. He said, nodding determinedly. "She'll see." 
If he had to give everything away just for Daisy Gatsby would. He has only wanted Daisy. Gatsby really wishes that she would just tell Tom the she never loved him and the  just go live with Gatsby. I don't think Gatsby realizes that it is that hard to do. I think she genuinely liked Tom in the beginning and then he changed completely.


Pg. 109.... "I feel far away from her," he said. It's hard to make her understand."

He can't  make Daisy realize that he is the right one for her. He feels like he is drifting away from her. The party that he had ans she went to. it just didn't do anything right. They were distant from each other and Tom wasn't really happy.


Pg. 105.... "I'd rather look at all these famous people in-- in oblivion."

This quote just really stuck out at me. I felt like it had some hidden meaning to it, but I'm not exactly sure what that is. 

Chapter Five.

Pg. 81... "...lit from tower to cellar."

Gatsby has a big house, do for all of his lights to be on it a little ridiculous. Especially since he wasn't even having a party that evening he just had all of his lights on. He must be uneasy. Not being able to sleep and insists on having every single light on in his BIG house.

Pg. 83... "Who is 'Tom'?" she asked innocently"

When Nick asks Daisy to come over to tea, but tell her not to bring tom. She acts all innocent like she doesn't even know who her own husband is. I guess that is what happens when you have a husband who is never around and you know that he has another girl on the side.

Pg. 92.... "You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock."

This brings meaning to what happened in chapter one. When Gatsby was standing on his lawn looking across the bay into a green light. Now that we know that he would always watch the end of Daisy's dock at night and probably even during the day. He knew that Daisy was across the bay all along he just never did anything about it because he was heart broken.

Pg. 94.... "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around."

To me I actually like this quote. It's just cute and then it also shows a little insanity at the same time. They just finally got reunited after five years and she says little things like these. She would never say anything like this to Tom. I feel like her feelings for Tom are just not there anymore and she stays because she has a daughter. Now that Gatsby's back in the picture I really wonder if she is going to choose Tom again or choose Gatsby this time.

Chapter Four

Pg. 68... "We slowed down. Taking a white card from his wallet, he waved it before the man's eyes."

Gatsby can get away with anything. He did the commissioner a favor and since he did that he gets a Christmas card every year with a card that lets him get out of having to do anything with the cops. I guess when you have connections and you help people out they give you favors to believe in.

Pg. 74... "I turned towards Mr. Gatsby, but he was no longer there."

Something obviously set Gatsby off. He didn't want to be there.  It could have possibly been the meeting of Tom. Is there something that Gatsby isn't telling us? Does he has something against Tom? Maybe it's because of Daisy. Gatsby is a very secretive person who never opens up to anyone.

Pg. 78.. "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay."

Well by now we have learned that Daisy and Gatsby used to know each other. The fact that they used to be together before Gatsby went off to war and then she married Tom. She practically break Gatsby's heart. I think it was a mutual break Gatsby was leaving for the war and then she went and got married to Tom.


Pg. 79...   "She's not to know about it. Gatsby doesn't want her to know. You're just supposed to invite her to tea."

Gatsby wants to see Daisy again after all of this time. This is just going to be so great. This is the favor that Gatsby asked Jordan to ask Nick. Gatsby know that the only person who can get Daisy to his house would be Nick. I can't wait to see what happens when Nick actually does get her over there and they see each other for the first time in a long time.

Chapter Three

Pg. 48 "He's just a man named Gatsby."
Everyone thinks that just because he has so much money that he is better than everyone else and that he never associates with anyone except at his parties. He is out there but he is just the type of person who keeps to himself unless he is having a party. I also feel like he has these parties because he is alone.


Pg. 57 "I wasn't actually in love, but i felt a sort of tender curiosity."
With feelings you never know what is going to make you feel or how strong. Nick isn't in love but it could be the start of a love that is growing for Jordan. He doesn't just like her because of her status, but because he likes her as a person and that's the best way to like someone because of their personalities not by the money they have, the car they drive, or what they wear.

Pg. 58 "it take two to make an accident."
I feel like Fitzgerald put this quote in the book for a lot of reasons. Not just because of reckless driving. There is a lot of "accidents" in this book and he had to put this quote in there because they is an underlying meaning to it. There is going to be stuff later on in the book that we may not even see coming and we really can't judge it yet. I feel like this is a little bit of foreshadowing on his part as an author.

Pg. 59 "I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."
Nick says he's honest, but do we really know if he is telling all of the parts of the story. He could be leaving parts out and not telling us what is completely going on. If he only tells us what he wants us to know and then forgetting the rest is just not being honest. We don't know if he is keeping anything from us. We have to trust that he is being honest with us. He feels like everyone around him could be lying too. We don't know that for sure.