Length: 189 pages
Read: pgs. 6-55
Chapter 1
Gatsby is described as having an unaffected scorn, heightened sensitivity, and responsiveness. Gatsby closed out the narrator's interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men. Narrator comes from a prominent family from the middle-western city for three generations. Decided to move east with the help of his father. Quested to become a "well-rounded" man. Moved to Long Island Sore among millionaires.
The narrator (Nick Carraway) speaks of Chicago. He has dinner with Tom, Daisy (Nick's cousin), and Miss Baker.
"The Rise of the Coloured Empires" by Goddard is referenced by Tom. It's about the white race being submerged, how it is scientific, and it has been proven.
A phone rings and Tom and Daisy excuse themselves. Miss Baker reveals that Tom has "another woman" in New York.
As Nick is leaving, Tom and Daisy ask if he is engaged to a girl back West. He says it's a lie...he's too poor. The rumors were the reason he had moved east.
Chapter 2
Tom introduces Nick to his mistress, Myrtle Wilson. Nick had wanted to see her, but he had no intention of meeting her. They met as she was with her husband, George Wilson, who was to buy a car from Tom. They meet up and go up to her apartment.
That afternoon was only the second time Nick had ever been drunk in his life. Myrtle's sister, Catherine, went to visit the apartment, as well as Mr. McKee, a photographer who lived downstairs, with his wife.
Catherine had been to a party at Gatsby's and said there was a rumor he got his money as a nephew or cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm. Catherine said Tom and Myrtle couldn't stand their own spouses, but lied saying that they couldn't get a divorce because Daisy was Catholic. But once they did get married to each other, they would move to the West until it blew over.
Mrs. Wilson started saying "Daisy" and Tom broke her nose.
Nick agrees to meet up with Mr. McKee later on.
That afternoon was only the second time Nick had ever been drunk in his life. Myrtle's sister, Catherine, went to visit the apartment, as well as Mr. McKee, a photographer who lived downstairs, with his wife.
Catherine had been to a party at Gatsby's and said there was a rumor he got his money as a nephew or cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm. Catherine said Tom and Myrtle couldn't stand their own spouses, but lied saying that they couldn't get a divorce because Daisy was Catholic. But once they did get married to each other, they would move to the West until it blew over.
Mrs. Wilson started saying "Daisy" and Tom broke her nose.
Nick agrees to meet up with Mr. McKee later on.
Chapter 3
The first night Nick went to Gatsby's parties, he was one of the few who was actually invited. "People were not invited--they went there." Nick didn't want to be alone, when he bumped into Jordan Baker. At the party, someone says that Gatsby is really nice, another that he has killed a man, another that he was a German spy during the war, and yet another that he was in the American army during the war.
Nick meets someone at the party who was also in the same division in the army during the war, who turns out to be Gatsby! Mr. Gatsby requests that the orchestra play "Tostoff's History of the World." Gatsby called Jordan to speak with her privately, and Nick wandered himself inside the house.
Nick meets someone at the party who was also in the same division in the army during the war, who turns out to be Gatsby! Mr. Gatsby requests that the orchestra play "Tostoff's History of the World." Gatsby called Jordan to speak with her privately, and Nick wandered himself inside the house.
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