Chapter 4

The major event that happens in this chapter is us finding out that Gatsby likes Daisy. We learned that they met years ago during the war. Jordan said that Gatsby “looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in the way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometimes, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remember the incident ever since.”(80) Gatsby seemed to make quit an impression on just Jordan alone, you can only imagine the impression that he made on Daisy all those years ago. We do not really know what else happened between them, but I assume that they had gotten to know each other better before he had to leave to go overseas. Daisy’s family did not let her say goodbye. I believe that what her family did to her she was very hurt and did not want to go through with anything like that again. Gatsby is now back and is obviously still interested in Daisy. He bought the house that he lives in “so that Daisy would be just across the bay,” (83) Jordan had told Nick. We see that Gatsby want to meet Daisy again after all of those years, but that he is also nerves and does not know what to do and asks for help.  Now we have to wait and see what Nick decides to do, and if he will help even though he will be caught up in yet another complicated relationship. We learned a little about Gatsby’s past and we also see another side of him, but he still seems just as mysterious as in the beginning. I think that later the relationship between Daisy and Gatsby is going to play a big part in the story.

Chapter 1

Nick makes the perfect narrator for the story because he is a non-judgmental person. Having the story told through his eyes gives us a non- biased prospective of the characters and the events that happen. This helps us to choose what we think of everything instead of the author. The major event in the first chapter is Nick going to Tom and Daisy’s house. We meet officially meet four of the character in this chapter. The people that live in west egg live a very luxurious life. They have enough money to the point where they do not have to even work, and they can just lunge around the house all day. We meet Tom and Daisy, and learn that Tom is cheating on Daisy. I expect this to play a big part in the story. They don’t seem to really get along very well, are arguing a lot, and Tom cuts Daisy off when she is talking quite a bit. The last person that we meet is Jordan. She plays golf. I also believe that she is Nicks love interest in the story. Jordan tells Nick that Tom has a mistress and everyone know but it is that kind of things that you just do not talk about. Daisy does know about his mistress but she acts oblivious to the fact that her husband is cheating on her. I believe that she is trying to hide the fact that her husband is cheating on her, and does not want her life of money and riches to end so she acts like nothing is happening.  It was mentioned that Daisy and Tom have a two year old girl. Daisy later tells Nick about when she saw her baby for the first time. She told him that she said, “I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”(21)  I think that Daisy said that because the less about the world that we know the more enjoyable our little world can be. At the end of the chapter we get a short glimpse of Gatsby, though we have not officially met him yet. I wonder who this Gatsby person is and what part he is going to play.