Thursday

 Today we will work on dialectical journals and begin chapter 8. We will also look at some of the documentary below. Trip work: Finish chapter 8.

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Gatsby Chapter 7 – NOTES

 

“His career as Trimalchio was over” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimalchio

 

Gatsby has replaced all his servants with a group of people who “Wolfsheim” wanted to do something for. They don’t behave like servants and Gatsby says that they are a family who used to own a hotel.

 

Daisy invites Gatsby and Nick over for lunch.

 

“You resemble the advertisement of the man” – Daisy talking of Gatsby

 

“Her voice is full of money” – Gatsby talking about Daisy

 

Tom, Nick, Gatsby, Jordan and Daisy go to town. Tom drives Gatsby’s car with Jordan and Nick. Daisy and Gatsby go in Tom’s car.

 

George Wilson has just discovered that his wife is cheating on him

 

They rent a hotel room at the Plaza Hotel to get out of the heat and to have a drink.

 

There is a wedding going on downstairs. There is a discussion of a man named Biloxi who came out of nowhere and attended Daisy and Tom’s wedding. Biloxi is a ghost like character. Angel of Death? Biloxi like Gatsby came from nowhere and are like ghosts. They have no past.

 

Gatsby confronts Tom about Daisy leaving him and tells Daisy to tell Tom that she never loved him. Daisy responds, “Oh, you want too much! I love you now—isn’t that enough?”

 

“Do you know why we left Chicago? I’m surprised that they didn’t treat you to the story of that little spree.” – Daisy

 

Tom tells Daisy about his investigation into Gatsby and how Gatsby makes his money and Daisy becomes afraid. Tom orders her and Gatsby to go home in Gatsby’s car.

 

Nick remembers that he is 30.

 

On the way back to Long Island Daisy runs over Myrtle on accident. She doesn’t stop. Cars and car accidents are a recurring motif.

 

Back in Long Island, Nick has had enough and decides not to come in and visit with Jordan or Tom, but stand outside and wait for a taxi. Outside he sees Gatsby who is waiting to make sure Daisy is okay.

 

“They weren’t happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale—and yet they weren’t unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.” – Nick after looking in the window to see Tom and Daisy at the kitchen table.

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