Characters
Gatsby is hoping to relive the past with Daisy.
“‘Can’t repeat the past?’...’Why of course you can!’”(Fitzgerald 110)
Gatsby’s party in Ch.6 is less enjoyable than in previous chapters.
“Except I know for the half-hour she’d been alone with Gastby she wasn’t having a good time” (Fitzgerald 106)
You cannot escape where you came from/your past.
“The truth was that Jay Gastby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his platonic conception of himself… 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.” (Fitzgerald 98) (Accepting any quote from paragraph #2 on pp.98)
Fitzgerald using a metaphor to show that Gastby’s obsessed idealization of Daisy made him lose sight of reality.
“His life has been confused and disordered since then” (Fitzgerald 110)
Gatsby and Tom are newfound acquaintances.
“Tom remained ‘the polo player’ for the rest of the evening”(Fitzgerald 105)
Gatsby’s mansion reflects his internal emptiness, despite its grandeur.
“...the lights were extinguished in the guest rooms overhead.” (Fitzgerald 109)
Success is built on hiding the truth, rather than honesty.
“James Gatz - that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career…” (Fitzgerald 98)
Fitzgerald using verbal irony to show deliberate hypocrisy.
“By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me” (Fitzgerald 102)