The Great Gatsby Chapter 6

Mandy Holcomb

Mr. Copeland

English 11 CP

26 January 2010

1. I think that a good title for chapter 6 would be "Two Truths and a Lie." I think it suites this chapter because the reader learns that many of the rumors or stories about Gatsby are not true. The reader learns the truth. ANother truth is that Gatsby's company that he keeps is not very pleasant. This is proven through Daisy and Nick at Gatsby's party. Neither of them have a good time and both are mostly repulsed in the people there. I think that Gatsby is aware of this discomfort. He notices that Daisy had a bad time. The reader sees a lie at the end of the chapter when the narrator, or Nick, tells the reader that all of Gatsby's dreams of Daisy from his earlier thoughts and life have now simmered down to something simple and not as enchanting as before. All of his visions were a lie it seems. They were all fiction versus reality, where reality is the prominant one.

2. The reader learns that Gatsby's original named was James Gatz, which was changed to Jay Gatsby by Dan Cody while working on a yacht with him. Gatsby learns a lot and inherits 25,000 after Dan dies, at this point Gatsby has chosen to go out and make lots of money and be a sucessful man. One day Nick travels over to Gatsby's where he finds Tom with Mr. and Mrs. Sloane after having taken a horseback ride. That night Gatsby has another party in which Daisy and Tom attend and they four, Nick, Gatsby, Daisy and Tom all have a bad time because Nick doesn't like the company, nor do Daisy and Tom, and Gatsby is upset because Daisy had a poor time and his vision of her isn't as extravegant as it was before that night.

3. "Can't repeat the past?...... Why of course you can!" Gatsby says this in response to Nick. I think that it is very important because this quote explains everything that he wants to do with Daisy. He wants to go back to how things used to be before he left for war and Tom came around. He also wants that strong emotion of picture of Daisy that he loved so much. Gatsby felt as if he lost that but if he could just repeat the past it would all be ok.

A. I see Tom progress as a character in Chapter 6. Tom now knows, upon visiting Gatsby one evening with the Sloanes, that Daisy has been conversing with Gatsby. He also doesn't seem to really Gatsby. At Gatsby's party Tom keeps after Daisy more than he usually does because he is suspitious of her. It's as if he can dish it out, but he can't take it. Tom cheats on his wife all the time, but then Tom gets suspicious when it seems as if Daisy was reconecting with Gatsby.