https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av PLOT EVENTS: minimum 4 substantive sentences of context/summary per plot point. /// QUOTE ANALYSIS: include quote, pg. #, and minimum 5 substantive sentences of textual analysis per quote /// PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR NAME AT TOP OF POST en-us 2022-09-12 15:17:24 UTC 2025-12-23 21:25:19 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292648656 A huge argument erupted between Tom and Gatsby, Tom suspecting of an affair between Gatsby and Daisy. Daisy panics and leaves with Gatsby.  As she’s driving, popping out of the darkness, Myrtle appears running out into the street. As Daisy is in an extreme state of panic, going at high speeds barely paying attention, resulting in Myrtle getting ran over, killing her instantly. So now Myrtle is dead. ]]> 2022-09-12 15:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292648656 jhebert24 https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292650032 Tensions between Tom and Gatsby have been rising the entire book, and it comes to a head in Chapter 7. After everyone goes to New York and go in a hotel room, Tom and Gatsby have a confrontation with Daisy in the room. Gatsby yells that Daisy does not love Tom, and never did, while Tom argues that Gatsby is some frivolous boy who Daisy never loved. Daisy says she loves both of them but appears to like Gatsby more, then Daisy and Gatsby leave in Tom’s car. ]]> 2022-09-12 15:56:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292650032 mwarner241 https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292653222 One of the main key points was that Daisy and Gatsby met up again. Their interaction was awkward at first but after a while of talking they were very comfortable and it seemed as if they had been together for a long time. ]]> 2022-09-12 15:58:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292653222 srhodes241 https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292653760 -Finding out how Gatspy got his money, inherited it from his dead family p. 42
-Meeting Mr. Wolfshie, (Gatsby bussiness partner). Fixed the world series. p.44-47
-Daisy tells Nick about Gatsby's past with Daisy and how Daisy married Tom. p.48
-Jordan tells Nick to invite Gatsby and Daisy to tea. p.50 ]]> 2022-09-12 15:58:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292653760 https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292657322 Fitzgerald writes, “For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing.” (Fitzgerald pg 99). Fitzgerald has used diction to depict how nothing in life is secure, even what we find most routine and common in our every day lives can disappear in an instant. Additionally, the author’s use of diction shows that the balance of our lives are delicate. ]]> 2022-09-12 16:00:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292657322 nleeflang24 https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292664523 ¨Daisy put her arm through his abruptly, but he seemed absorbed in what he had said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of the light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon Now it was again a green light on a dock."(Fitzgerald 59)

The green light represents Gatsbys hope, love and yearning for Daisy, and now that he is with her, what gave his life meaning is gone because he has accomplished his goal. Fitzgerald uses the words colossal significance to show how important it was to Gatsby. Fitzgerald also hints that the green light might not be all about Daisy, because even though it was very near to her, it is just a green light on a dock in the end.]]> 2022-09-12 16:04:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292664523 cappelbaum24 https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292666262 -Nick learns about Mr. Gatsby's background learning that he changes his name from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby. Mr. Gatsby's first grant of money and his experience of a rich working life style came from Dan Cody. (He inherited money from Cody.) 

- Tom becomes suspicious about Daisy and Gatsby's relationship. Tom goes to the party with Daisy. This prevents Daisy from spending time with Gatsby. Gatsby is upset afterwards.

- Nick attempts to convince Gatsby that he cannot recreate the relationship he had with Daisy in the past. Gatsby remembers a time 5 years ago when he kissed Daisy and they were deeply in love with each other. ]]> 2022-09-12 16:05:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292666262 https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292666539 This quote reveals that Gatsby doesn’t have good social skills, because of how he acts around daisy. He was really anxious to meet her, but he finally dose he acts very nonchalant. His mannerisms indicate that he doesn’t really want to be there, even tho he has been interested in her for five years. He bought the house across the river from her because of his fondness for her. This ties into the theme of Gatsby not fitting the norms of what a rich American is, because most rich people are very confident in themselves. Fitzgerald keeps trying to show this side of Gatsby to the reader. ]]> 2022-09-12 16:05:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292666539 https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292666602

Another key point was how Gatsby was offering to send people to Nick’s house to cut his grass, and to bring flowers, and these gestures suggests that Gatsby needed Nick’s help to invite Daisy, and it suggests how much he cares for her]]> 2022-09-12 16:05:51 UTC https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292666602 https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292673246 Nick went back to his house after a date with Jordan and then sees Mr Gatsbys house all lit up but it is eerie silent

-Kene ]]> 2022-09-12 16:09:31 UTC https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292673246 https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292676314 "[Gatsby] hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real." (p. 55)
In this quote we can see that Gatsby values Daisy so much that he measured the worth of all his possessions according to how much Daisy liked them. It shows us how much he cares for her. We can see this in Fitzgerald's choice of words like "dazed" and "astounding." We also see this when Gatsby thinks that his possessions were "any longer real" when Daisy was with him.]]> 2022-09-12 16:11:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292676314 kgaffagan24 https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292678503 "At this point Jordan and I tried to go but Tom and Gatsby insisted with competitive firmness that we remain--As though neither of them had anything to conceal and it would be a privilege to partake vicariously of their emotions." (Fitzgerald 81)

This quote shows Gatsby's controlling nature through the diction in which the author used.  Phrase choices like "competitive firmness" begin to reveal Gatsby's controlling nature over other characters in the book. The word "competitive" implies that Gatsby and Tom are in competition with one another for attention of the other party. ]]> 2022-09-12 16:12:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292678503 https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292678578 “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay" (Fitzgerald 78) The secret history of these loyal partners is revealed in this chapter. Gatsby bought this expensive property with the intention of running into Daisy again because he was aware that she lived only across the harbor. Gatsby makes a plan to see Daisy and make an effort to restart their romance after waiting five years for her to show up at one of his parties. ]]> 2022-09-12 16:12:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292678578 https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292680037 “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.” 

In this chapter Nick finally describes Gatsby’s early history, he uses intense diction and an interesting comparison between Gatsby and Jesus to show Gatsby’s process of creating his own identity. The author describes Jesus who is faithful to his his own self-created dreams but blinded to the factual truth that finally crushes him and his dream which is a very appropriate description of Gatsby. Even though the similarities between Gatsby and Jesus aren’t a key theme throughout the story the fact that Gatsby remodels himself into the ideals that he envisioned for himself and remains committed to that despite the societal norms of the society he lives in directly relates to Jesus. 


]]> 2022-09-12 16:13:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292680037 ajajosenixon24 https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292680724 "He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American—that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work or rigid sitting in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games" (p.64).
F. Scott Fitzgerald uses magniloquent diction to portray Gatsby's mystery. The word "peculiarly" wasn't vital to the sentence, but by inserting it a mood of obscurity is given to the reader.]]> 2022-09-12 16:13:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292680724 https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292683172 Gatsby's background is revealed but he seems extremely hesitant to talk about it. "He hurried the phrase "educated at Oxford," or swallowed it, or choked on it, as though it had bothered him before. And with this doubt, his whole statement fell to pieces, and I wondered if there wasn't something a little sinister about him, after all" (Fitzgerald, 42). Gatsby's questionable mannerism slightly proves the rumors circulating about his mysterious persona. This quote also shows how Nick is becoming aware of Gatsby's strange characteristics and how his view of Gatsby may change. ]]> 2022-09-12 16:14:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292683172 https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292684562 "He wouldn't say another word. His correctness grew on him as we neared the city. We passed Port Roosevelt, where there was a glimpse of red-belted oceangoing ships, and sped along a cobbled slum lined with the dark, undeserted saloons of the faded-gilt nineteen-hundreds" (Fitzgerald 44).
This quote is showing that there is a reason Gatsby is so silent on the matter or tea. Gatsby can not bring himself to be straight-forward here. Instead he has to subtly hint to Nick that there is a reason he wants to have tea with him. Gatsby may just be using Nick to get to Daisy, but he might also care about him at this point. This may be the reason Gatsby will not just tell Nick the reason, because he is starting to respect their relationship.]]> 2022-09-12 16:15:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292684562 scuesta24 https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292696054 "Her voice is full of money," he said suddenly. "That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money---that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it. . . High in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl. . ." (Fitzgerald 75). 
In this quote, Daisy's voice is described as being full of money; that one thing that people will do anything for, even to the point of promising empty promises. As Nick has talked about before in the book, Daisy has an alluring but dangerous voice full of indiscreetness that tends to bring people in. ]]> 2022-09-12 16:21:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292696054 https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292702118 “ I feel far away from her,” he said “ It’s hard to make her understand” 


Gatsby feels like its hard to get through to daisy. He felt jealous of the love daisy had for Tom as shown by him wishing she would go to Tom and say “ I never loved you”. He then goes on to say that he would want to go back to Louisville where they would get married like five years ago where she would be able to understand what he’s trying to convey to her.]]> 2022-09-12 16:25:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kmosby2/fwry2mgv0dbfi5av/wish/2292702118