Great Gatsby Ch 5

1.       Chapter 5

Pages 81-96

2.       Nick comes home from a night out to find that Gatsby’s house is completely light up and he describes it to look like the “World Fair”.  Gatsby suggests to Nick that they do something together but Nick says he must go to bed, Gatsby requests that Nick invite Daisy over for tea sometime soon so he can formally meet her.  Gatsby also attempts to interest Nick to join Gatsby’s “little business” that he “has on the side” but Nick does not have any time for it.  Nick invites Daisy to come over for tea in a few days without Tom and she accepts. Gatsby wants to impress Daisy so he send flowers over to Nick’s house and has a man cut Nick’s grass for him as well to assure that everything if perfect when Daisy arrives.  The day that Daisy gets there, Gatsby is very nervous and in the house there is a large sense of nervousness and embarrassment from both Gatsby and Daisy. Nick leaves the room to go make tea and when he comes back everything is completely different.  Gatsby invites the two of them, mainly Daisy, to go see him mansion and to show them around.  Daisy is very impressed with everything and comes to tears at one point when she sees how nice Gatsby’s shirts from England.  Later in the night, Nick leaves to go back home and leave Gatsby and Daisy alone. 

3.       A) Daisy Buchanan

B) “They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such-such beautiful shirts before.”

C) Daisy is a very charming, innocent and emotional young woman.  Nick and Gatsby both enjoy being around her very much and she is able to get much of what she wants because she has a way of manipulating people, especially Nick and Gatsby because they like her so much. 

D) Daisy is an extremely important character in the novel.  She is the husband of Tom who is cheating on her and she knows it, as well as many others.  Gatsby says he loves her and is using Nick and Jordan as a gateway to her and she is one of the most talked about characters in the novel.

4.       “Daisy put her arm through his abruptly, but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said.  Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.  Compared to the great distance that has separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. “

I think this quote is very significant because Gatsby has been wishing to become closer to Daisy because she is all the way across the water in East Egg but now, he is so close to her that the gap between them is almost gone.