Robyn’s Secret Hideout!

American Dream

“He come out to see me two years ago and bought me the house I live in now. Of course we was broke up when he run off from home, but I see now there was a reason for it. He knew he had a big future in front of him. And ever since he made a success he was very generous with me.” He seemed reluctant to put away the picture, held it for another minute, lingeringly, before my eyes.”

– Mr. Gatz described his son as the ultimate son that a father could ask for. Smart, generous, and ambitious- which is a facter of the American Dream. However Mr. Gatz didn’t have the chance to get to know his son very well.

Character Development

“When I had finished she told me without comment that she was engaged to another man. I doubted that, though there were several she could have married at a nod of her head, but I pretended to be surprised.”

– This shows Jordan was a little bit more promiscuous than Nick might have believed, but he’s pretty sure she’s lying. Which shows that she’s insecure about being dumped and trying to make an image of not caring. Also, she acts immature.

“I couldn’t get to the house,” he remarked.

“Neither could anybody else.”

“Go on!” He started. “Why, my God! they used to go there by the hundreds.” He took off his glasses and wiped them again, outside and in.”

– Gatsby was a truly lonely man who didn’t take time out of his life to make a lot of friends. He was too busy with his obsession of Daisy to do so. This develops Gatsby as a sad pitied figure, but it also develops all of his uninvited party guests as moochers.

“I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation. But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them.”

– When Gatsby needed Daisy the most she decided to get up and leave. She didn’t say goodbye or even tell anyone where she was going. This makes her seem like a coward because she was running away.

Color

“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—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning——”

– The light is green because it resembles new life and a chance to change. All Gatsby ever wanted was to change life and go back in time so he could have Daisy. The light is a reaccuring symbol that resembles Gatsby’s will to start over.

–This was the first compliment Nick ever gave Gatsby. I think it really sums up Gatsby well; he was a good an with a good heart, but he let the thing he wanted most control his life, and he ended up landing with the wrong crowd. This statement shows that Nick is also respectful in a way because he knew that he needed to say something like that and he did.

“He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.”

– Gatsby was finally able to see the world as what it was and it wasn’t as beautiful as he thought it was. Love had blinded him, and now that Daisy was out of his life he was able to see clearly. Gatsby may have been foolish for letting himself be blinded for so long, but at his end he began to become true to himsel- which is part of the American Dream.

“A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about . . . like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.”

– Murderous Wilson was described as an ashen figure. Ashes are grey, and grey resembles the end of somthing. Unlike green which is a new beginning. Gatsby is about to have his life ended and Wilson is about to end his own, so it fits the scene to use grey to descirbe Wilson.

American Dream

“With a reluctant backward glance the well-disciplined child held to her nurse’s hand and was pulled out the door, just as Tom came back, preceding four gin rickeys that clicked full of ice.”

– Daisy’s daughter makes an apperance for the first time in the book. This mark proves her existence, but it also shows that Daisy would have had to love Tom in order to “make love” with him. She she couldn’t have loved only Gatsby. The child is extremely well-behaved and her parents are rich. Having good children and being well off is part of the American Dream.

Character Development

“As he left the room again she got up and went over to Gatsby and pulled his face down, kissing him on the mouth.”

– This is the first time we see Daisy’s affections for Gatsby. She openly goes up to hi and kisses him on the mouth- without thinking twice about the fact that she has a husband. This shows that she too is just as vulgar in her affairs as Tom is. Plus, she does it in front of company which gives off a bad image.

Color

“She’s got an indiscreet voice,” I remarked. “It’s full of——” I hesitated.

“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. . . .”

– Nick finally figured out why Daisy seemed so precious or the “golden girl”. It was because money made her charming. Since gold is referred to as old money it’s easy to see how golden girl Daisy revolves around money. Like oney, she can make situations better or worse.

American Dream

“The transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionaire found him physically robust but on the verge of soft-mindedness, and, suspecting this, an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money.

– Dan Cody was able to become a millionare over and over because he was invloved with certain transactions pertaining to mining. He had alot of women chasing after him because they wanted his money. Making alot and having an abundance of ladies is part of the American Dream (for men).

Character Development

“It was James Gatz who had been loafing along the beach that afternoon in a torn green jersey and a pair of canvas pants, but it was already Jay Gatsby who borrowed a rowboat, pulled out to the TUOLOMEE, and informed Cody that a wind might catch him and break him up in half an hour.”

–This is where we figure out that Gatsby isn’t what he seems. He used to be a normal teenage boy who wore ratty play-clothes instead of suits. He made it seem like he was born into a well off family, but in all actuality he was born into a family that was below the average standard.

Color

“It was James Gatz who had been loafing along the beach that afternoon in a torn green jersey and a pair of canvas pants, but it was already Jay Gatsby who borrowed a rowboat, pulled out to the TUOLOMEE, and informed Cody that a wind might catch him and break him up in half an hour.”

–The significance of Gatsby wearing a green jersey is that green resembles new life; a fresh beginning. It was James Gatz that was wearing the green and he started new by becoming Jay Gatzby.