It happened.
This house was "lit from tower to cellar".
Gatby's house
Nick instructs Daisy to NOT do what, regarding her future visit to Nick's home?
Don't bring Tom.
invited to tea
Daisy
"Five years next November" tells us what?
Gatsby has been keeping close track of how long he and Daisy have been apart.
"...a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness."
Gatsby isn't as happy with Daisy, at this moment, as he had dreamed he would be.
Gatsby asked Nick to "take a plunge in the swimming pool" because...
He hadn't made use of it all summer.
Gatby is pale and has dark circles under his eyes. Nick assumes this to be due to what?
Gatsby's sleeplessness
apologizes for the clock that doesn't work
Gatsby
"Who is Tom?" Daisy says. Explain the deeper meaning.
Daisy doesn't care about Tom and wants Nick to know that she can easily forget who he is.
"No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart."
The reality that Gatsby now sees, after being with Daisy again, has fallen short of the fantasy he has built over the past five years.
Nick says he is going to call this person soon.
Daisy
Gatsby is visibly upset, and wants to leave Nick's house. Why?
Time has passed and Daisy has not shown up.
invites two people to his home
Gatsby
"You're acting like a little boy...Not only that...you're rude."
Nick tells Gatsby that he is ridiculous for wanting to leave and is being rude for leaving Daisy all alone in the next room.
"Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever."
His hope has turned into reality; he no longer has to look at it and yearn for Daisy. His dream had become reality.
the reason Nick is going to "call someone up".
to invite her to tea, per Gatsby's invitation, through Jordan
Gatsby's main goal during the "tea" is to show Daisy what?
his house and his wealth
hosts Gatsby and Daisy, for tea
Nick
Cite the lie that Gatsby tells Daisy on Page 53, top.
"His count of enchanged objects had diminished by one."
Gatsby's world is only magical (enchanted) as long as he is longing for something he does not have. The very act of achieving his dream inevitably strips it of its enchantment. He is no longer enchanted by the thought of meeting her; this is a reality among humans. Sadly.
Gatsby wants to (and ultimately has this done), do what to Nick's property?
get the grass cut
Gatsby does not remain in the living room, waiting for Daisy's arrival. Instead he does what?
Gatsby goes outside, in the rain, and knocks on the front door.
the green light at the end of Daisy's dock
"Americans, while willing, even eager, to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry."
They will endure "serfdom"—working tirelessly to build someone else's wealth, becoming wage laborers, or trapping themselves in debt—because they believe the system offers the potential for upward mobility. What Americans fiercely reject is the rigid, inherited, and permanent class structure of "Peasantry", which implies a fixed social identity, an acceptance of an inferior status that you are born into and can never escape.
"There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colosssal vitality of his illusion."
Daisy is simply a woman, no longer an esteemed illusion. Reality has set in for Gatsby. Maybe at this point he can finally see her faults, unlike when he was a young man who didn't think someone like Daisy could ever love someone like him.