Gatsby Central Idea

The central idea that i think the great gatsby is trying to teach us is not to hold on to things from the past that affect your life so much it might even mean that your life gets taken.

Gatsby tried to get Daisy to love hom again even though she was married to Tom and had a child with him.

Chapter 7 notes

Gatsby stopped having partiea so people wouldnt find out about him and Daisy. Gatsby also fires his old staff because he thinks that they gossip to much and replaces them with wolfsheims people and unlike gatsbys previous servants they are rude.

The difference

Chapter 8 notes and thoughts

Gatsby told nick that he waited for daisy to give him the signal that she was ok and then he went to sleep. Gatsby says that nothing happened last night. Nick suggest that gatsby go away for sometime but he declines this because he needed to know what Daisy was going to fo now beforw he left. When Gatsby went to war he describes that he and daisy spemt the afternoon as to give them a deep memory for both of them as he was about to go away for a while. In the story the author inturrupts the story by the gardner asking to clean the pools because he is inferring that it is fall when things are dying like the leaves and of course Murtle.

Notes and Thoughts on Gatsby Chapter 5

In chapter 5 Gatsby and Daisy met at Nicks House and from there they went to Gatsby's house and he showed them shirts which made Daisy think I could have had this for 5 years of i was with Gatsby. When Gatsby was about to meet Daisy he was pale from nervousness.

Chapter 1-4 Quiz Questions

1.In chapter 3 how did nick think gatsby looked like?

2.What characters do we meet in the first chapter other than the narrator?

3.In Chapter 1 why do you think the author goes into detail?

4.In chapter 2 who did we meet when Tom and nick went to new york?

5.Why did myrtle marry her husband in chapter 2?

6.In chapter 3 why did the author put all the names in?

7.In chapter 4 what did we find out about gatsby?

8.What did we learn about Tom buccan in chapter 4?

The Great Gatsby

Pg. 1- 11
The beginning of the book is background of the characters and as the author gives background he puts in a detail about the narrator having a dog and he put that in order for the reader to connect more to the character and to keep them wanting to find out what will happen to him next.

Last Centuaries Writing styles

Naturalism: When something is bigger than oneself
Ex: Nature vs man


Realism:when you can relate to it

Modernism:  liminal: a state of being
what you are when you are no longer what you used to be but know what your going to be.