Journal #37: Summary, Great Gatsby – Chapters 4-7, Major Points of Plot(Quiz #2, Chs. 5-7 Wednesday; Quiz #3, Chs. 8-9 Friday)
Reminder – for the Literary Analysis Notebook:
8 topics to underline/highlight in your novel (for “quotes”):
- settingf. symbolism
- point of viewg. flashback
- characterh. allusion
- themei. irony
- conflictj. tragedy
Write down main ideas...
(p. #’s from Scribner edition)
Chapter 4
(p. 61) Many famous people come to Gatsby’s ______, though people are still trying to figure out the identity/background of ______.
(p. 65, 67) Gatsby finally tells Nick his background, though Nick doesn’t believe him—until Gatsby shows him a ______and a ______.
(p. 67) Gatsby tells Nick he has a “big request,” and that ______will explain the details.
(p. 69) At a lunch with Gatsby, Nick meets Meyer ______, an older man with a “large head” and “tiny eyes,” who apparently has a business “gonnegtion” with Gatsby.
(p. 72) Wolfsheim says that Gatsby would “never so much as look at a friend’s ______.”
(p. 74) After lunch, Nick introduces Gatsby to ______.
(p. 75, 77) Later that day, Jordan explains to Nick how Daisy had been romantically involved with ______before the war, and also some of the ______Daisy had had in her marriage to Tom.
(p. 78) Jordan then tells Nick that Gatsby wants him to invite Daisy to ______at Nick’s house.
(p. 80) Nick and ______are now becoming romantically involved as well...
Chapter 5
(p. 83) Nick calls Daisy and invites her over to tea, without______.
(p. 86, 87) A couple days later, at Nick’s house, Gatsby and Daisy are reunited in a rather ______way, after nearly ______years.
(p. 90) Daisy and Gatsby go over to Gatsby’s mansion (that “huge place”); Daisy, crying, says that she’s “never seen . . . such beautiful shirts before.”
(p. 96) Nick walks out, in the rain, to leave them alone in Gatsby’s house.
Chapter 6
(p. 97) A ______then comes to interview Gatsby.
(p. 98, 99) Gatby’s real name—as he explained later to Nick—was ______, his parents were ______, and he worked at times as a clam-digger, fisherman, and ______. Later, a man named Dan ______, a multi-millionaire from the Nevada silver fields as well as the Yukon gold rush, was to drop anchor with his yacht in Little Girl Bay, and meet James Gatz. Gatz was later to inherit ______from him, as well as an education in riches.
(p. 101) Several weeks later, Tom, a lady, and a man named Sloane, come to Gatsby’s mansion on horseback for a visit.
(p. 103) To Tom’s astonishment, Gatsby accepts an invitation to ______from the lady; Tom says, “By God, I may be ______in my ideas, but ______run around too much these days to suit me.”
(p. 104, 105) Tom comes back the following Saturday night to one of Gatsby’s parties; Daisy and ______dance the fox-trot while Tom is visiting with other ladies.
(p. 107, 108) Tom wants to know who about this fellow Gatsby, one of the “newly rich,” someone who has created a “menagerie”; he makes it a point of finding out.
(p. 110) Gatsby also tells his goal: he wants to “repeat the ______.”
Chapter 7
(p. 117) Nick has been invited to Daisy’s for lunch, as well as Jordan, and Gatsby; Gatsby meets Daisy’s ______.
(p. 119) At the luncheon, ______implies (or says?) to ______that she loves him, and ______sees it.
(p. 120) Gatsby later remarks to Nick that ______voice is “full of money.”
(p. 121) They all decide to go into town, but Daisy wants to ride alone with ______in Tom’s car.
(p. 123) On the way, Tom, Jordan, and Nick, in Gatsby’s coupe, stop for gas at Wilson’s garage, and Wilson asks about Tom’s other ______, as he needs money to move himself and ______out West.
(p. 129) While they are seeking to escape the heat in a Plaza Hotel suite, Tom finally confronts ______: “‘What kind of a row are you trying to cause in my house anyhow?’”
(p. 132) What is Daisy’s response to it all? (Whom does Daisy love?) ______
(p. 133) Tom reveals what he learned about Gatsby: Gatsby is a friend of ______, and sold ______in side-street drug-stores.
(p. 137) What is the “‘death car’” about?(What happens?) ______