V: I liked the way Gatsby decides to get Jay's grass cut. It's a good portrayal of his awkwardness.
VI: When Gatsby and Tom meet for the second time, you really get the feeling that two massive forces are about to collide.
VII: Fitzgerald makes sure the reader never gets too comfortable with this chapter, smoothly moving from the tense garage scene to the heated argument between Jay and Tom to finding out that Myrtle's been killed-- and how.
VIII: This chapter's closing paragraph is true poetry: "It was after we startrd with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson's body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete."
IX: Nick states something here that summons sympathy for Gatsby. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: Chapter 5 and Beyond
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