# data[].attributes.body
Before the valley of ashes, there was just "green, empty land." Just like before Daisy got married with a kid, she and Gatsby were supposed to be together. Now that he is all of a sudden back didn't mean that things would go back to the way it was. What they had was destroyed by time that passed by when he was gone.

# data[].attributes.body
Tom and Daisy left which proved that money can't buy you love. Just because Gatsby got rich and even moved right next door to the women she loved, or as I would say the girl he was infatuated with, he still ended up without her in the end.

# data[].attributes.body
"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"

At first I thought this had a different meaning having to do with the Holocaust from WW2 but after researching further, this book was two decades before that. Although, the mention of the word "holocaust" I think does have a significant meaning or deeper meaning. The word actually means "mass destruction" which could suggest that the "American Dream" was also destroyed at this time.

# data[].attributes.body
"They're a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."

Even though Tom and Daisy were born with money, they weren't "worth" anything but Nick wants us to think that even though Gatsby didn't inherit the money, he was worth something to him at least.

# data[].attributes.body
"I heard a car stop and then the sound of someone splashing after us over the soggy ground. I looked around. It was the man with owl-eyed glasses whom I had found marveling over Gatsby’s books
in the library one night three months before."

The owl-eyed man came to Gatsby funeral when hardly no one else did

# data[].attributes.body
"What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?" cried Daisy, "and the day after that, and the next thirty years?"

"Don't be morbid," Jordan said. "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."

Daisy might be trying to ask who will she end up with after all this, Tom or Gatsby. Also for Daisy life is meaningless and boring while Jordan sees life as

# data[].attributes.body
"Yes," he said after a moment, "but of course I'll say I was."

Nick for sure is wanting us to like Gatsby. The fact that he owned up and takes the blame shows that he is a good person.

# data[].attributes.body
"Gatsby and I in turn leaned down and took the small, reluctant hand. Afterward he kept looking at the child with surprise. I don't think he had ever really believed in its existence before."

Gatsby is once again thinking about his past because he is now seeing Daisy's child that is not his. While Gatsby was busy living in the past, Daisy was busy focusing on the future.

# data[].attributes.body
"next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white."

When Tom says this, it shows a little more about his character. Not only is he having a bad temper but he is also being racist.

# data[].attributes.body
"He nodded sagely. "And what's more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time."

Tom makes it seem like it was okay for him to cheat because he actually loves Daisy.

# data[].attributes.body
Myrtle was hit by a yellow car, and was dead on instant.

# data[].attributes.body
Daisy doesn't love Tom anymore, and Gatsby tells Tom that he won't be caring for her any longer.

# data[].attributes.body
"He got up, his eyes still flashing between Gatsby and his wife. No one moved."
He had told them that they were all going to town, but they just were staring at each other not making a move.

# data[].attributes.body
'You know I love you, she murmured.'
-Daisy to Gatsby

# data[].attributes.body
They would put water in the alcohol to sell it in larger quantities. "Smoke", made of pure wood alcohol, killed or maimed thousands of drinkers. To hide the taste of poorly distilled whiskey and “bathtub” gin, speakeasies offered to combine alcohol with ginger ale, Coca-Cola, sugar, mint, lemon, fruit juices and other flavorings, creating the “cocktail” in the process.

# data[].attributes.body
AKA "Tin Lizzie"
The Model T was an automobile built by the Ford Motor Company from 1908 until 1927. Between 1913 and 1927, Ford factories produced more than 15 million Model Ts.

# data[].attributes.body
Jazz music exploded as popular entertainment in the 1920s and brought African-American culture to the white middle class.

# data[].attributes.body
Soldiers who fought in the First World War, then called "The Great War" survived and came home with injuries to the mind and body.

# data[].attributes.body
a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled.

# data[].attributes.body
the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West

# data[].attributes.body
an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s.

# data[].attributes.body
He prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, especially in the US between 1920 and 1933.

# data[].attributes.body
a post-World War I movement in the 1920s from which jazz music and dance emerged.

# data[].attributes.body
The founder of the Ford Motor Company.

# data[].attributes.body
in 1920, Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight boxing champion opened the club then in 1923, Owney Madden took over operations and renamed it "Cotton Club."

# data[].attributes.body
a record player.

# data[].attributes.body
The people who illegally made, imported, or sold alcohol while it banned

# data[].attributes.body
(during Prohibition) an illicit liquor store or nightclub.

# data[].attributes.body
(I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people
lean toward her)

Daisy had a way with words and charm to control you.

# data[].attributes.body
"I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."

He had finally started living, and he wasn't lonely anymore as he was talking and helping this guy.

# data[].attributes.body
"..as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
This quote is referring to how Gatsby is registered to the promises of life.

# data[].attributes.body
"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."

# data[].attributes.body
"No—Gatsby turned
out all right at the end..."
Mysterious