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.