Journal/ notes for Chapter 5

Summary: When nick finally comes home, at about 2 am, it looks like his house is on fire but it is only that Gatsby has all of the lights turned on in his house. As his taxi pulls up, Gatsby is coming to met him at first Gatsby is trying to get Nickto come and hangout wiht him but Nick rejects the offers becasue it is so late, then they talk about when Daisy's will come to visit. During their talk Gatsby also asks nick if he would want to work an off to the side job to make a little extra cash, Nick also rejects this idea. Then Nick goes home. The next morning Nick calls Daisy and invites her over for tea. A few days later/Day daisy was to come over, Gatsby has Nicks lawn mowed, and flower brought over. Gatsby comes over about two hours early and nervously waits for Daisy to arrive. about to minutes before 4, gatsby almost chickens out but Nick convinces him to stay and a few minutes later Daisy arrives. As Nick brings her in, Gatsby snuck out the back door and comes around to the front, making Nick invite him in, and so Daisy and Gatsby met again.
finally together again, they sat in akwardness for awhile, talking about this and that but both uneasy, Nick just tries to stay out of the way for the most part. Gatsby tries to chicken out once more telling Nick he had made a horrible mistake but Nick just told him to man up, he did and went back into the room to talk more to Daisy. As the night goes on, the tension in the room eases up and Daisy and Gatsby talk a little more. Then Gatsby invites them over to his house to show Daisy around. He shows off his house to Daisy and values his house to how much Daisy likes it. They go all through the house, the Marie Antoinette music-rooms, Restoration salons, and the library. They go upstairs and through the bedrooms, running into the "border", until finally the come to Gatsby's room. Gatsby shows them all of his dress shirts neatly stacked and starts pulling them out. This action makes Gatsby more real to Daisy and so she starts crying. After seeing the house, they were going to see the grounds, pool and hydroplane but it began to rain and so they were stuck inside. Gatsby points out the green light that burns on Daisy's dock only to realize that now it is just a light. Then someone calls Gatsby on the phone, but Gatsby quickly ends the conversation and Daisy calls him over to look at come pink clouds outside.. Then Gatsby calls Klipspringer to come and play the piano, he plays The Love Nest. Nick being forgotten quietly leaves Gatsby and Daisy to eachother.
Beginning- There is no party it is quiet, but Gatsby house looks like the world fair. Gatsby is a perfectionist, wants everything to be perfect for Daisy to see

Immanuel Kant- known for staring at a steeple while thinking"liberated science from religion and religion from science" "terminated one sided thinking". people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/kantbio.html

website for allusions in the Great Gatsby: www.fcps.edu/westspringfieldhs/academic/english/1project/99gg/99gg2/allusion.htm

symbols: shirts: they make Gatsby more real to Daisy, which is why she cries over them; Green light: goes away when Daisy and Gatsby get together, now it is just a light at the end of the dock. Pink and gold clouds. Rain. Time- clock, five years next Novemeber; falling of the clock-time has stopped

Daisy's voice is the only thing that cannot be imagined, it is so enchanting

foreshadow: "Daisy tumbled Short of his Dreams", Daisy: Gatsby had made up an ideal of her, a statue of perfection but no one can live up to that. Dan Cody; the man in Detroit


Characters: Ewing Klipspringer "the border"- basically lives at Gatsby's, Gatsby has him play the piano while Daisy is over. Owl eyes, Gatsby, Nick, Daisy Fay(fairy)

Allusion: The Love Nest; Marie Antoinette, Kant