This happened...
invited to tea at Nick's house
Daisy
What is The Sound?
the water way between East Egg and West Egg
Nick insisted that Daisy NOT do what when she comes to tea?
bring Tom (invite Tom) along
"...a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness."
Daisy isn't as great, to Gatsby, as he thought she would be. Maybe she can't make him the happy that he imagined.
"Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an over-wound clock."
Gatsby had been waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting; now that Daisy was there, it was sort of a slowing down, an unwinding of tension.
Gatsby wants this maintenance to be completed at Nick's house.
the color of Gatsby's car
cream / yellowish
He was looking at Daisy, and nothing else.
"There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams ... because of the colossal vitality of his illusion."
Gatsby dreamed of Daisy being something much more; she is not living up to his illusion of her.
"No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart."
The fresh "sight" of Daisy, after all these years, can't live up to the image and excitement he had stored in his heart as he waited and hoped.
Gatsby is angry over what, at Nick's house, which causes him to want to leave?
Daisy has not yet shown up.
What might the rain symbolize?
sadness, tears, unhappiness (just around the corner)
Gatsby does this, at Nick's house, rather than waiting inside for Daisy's arrival. Be specific.
"His count of enchanted objects had been diminished by one."
The green light became just a green light because he no longer holds onto the HOPE of meeting with Daisy; she has become reality.
"Five years next November."
Gatsby has been keeping close track of the time he and Daisy have been apart.
Gatsby apologizes that WHAT doesn't work, at Nick's house?
This formerly important symbol, which held hope for
Gatsby, doesn't seem to hold its enchantment after he finally meets with Daisy.
the green light
Gatsby wants Nick and Daisy to do what?
go see his house / mansion
"...he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes."
Gatsby is valuing his possessions by the responses Daisy gives them. If she likes them, so does he; if she doesn't, netiher does he.
"Who is 'Tom'?"
Daisy is letting Nick know that Tom is easily left out of her plans. She doesn't care about bringing him along, and this "tea" will be a secret between her and Nick.
Daisy likely annoyed Gatsby by crying over what?
his shirts
1. He has been keeping newspaper clippings about her (which means he has kept track of her).
2. He knows that there is a green light at the end of her dock (which means he knows where she lives).
Gatsby sent over many, many WHAT, to Nick's house, and why?
flowers...to impress Daisy
"Americans, while willing, even eager, to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry."
Americans are willing to work hard for other people, earning their money, but they are opposed to being labeled "peasants", which puts them into the lowest social class.
"He was pale, and there were dark signs of sleeplessness beneath his eyes."
Gatsby has been so nervous about his meeting with Daisy that he has not been sleeping.