The Great Gatsby
Chapter Notes
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Chapter 1 Characters
Nick Caraway
• The narrator of the novel.
– Tolerant, but reserves judgment
– Is ambivalent towards Gatsby. While he hates
Gatsby’s gross and vulgar materialism, he also
admires
d i the
th man for
f his
hi dream.
d
His
Hi “extra“ t
ordinary gift for hope.”
– Nick hates the “Eastern
Eastern types
types” and their “foul
foul
dust;” so at the beginning of the novel, he has
moved back to the Midwest and removed
hi
himself
lf from
f
society.
i
– “Gatsby turned out alright in the end.”
Tom Buchanan
• The upper class brute of the novel
– He expects obedience from his
subjects especially his wife.
subjects,
wife
– Comes from “old money”.
– Social Darwinism: the theory that the
white race will prevail and overcome
other races.
– Is an adulterer, and is having an
affair with Myrtle
y
Wilson.
Daisy Buchanan
• The naïve and pure woman of
the novel.
– Sh
She ttoo comes from
f
“old
“ ld money”.
”
She often wears white.
– She is Nick’s
Nick s cousin and Tom
Tom’ss
wife.
– We see her pain and cynicism
through her daughter’s birth.
Daisyy hopes
p that she will become
“a beautiful little fool.”
Jordan Baker
•The typical 1920s woman of the
novel
– She is a professional golfer.
– Really, she serves no purpose in
the novel, other than to showcase
how a typical woman of the era
may act and react to the situations
of the novel.
– Friend to the Buchanan’s
Jay Gatsby
• The main character of the novel
– Our first glimpse of him is at the end of his
dock, arms stretched outward, trembling.
“Nothing except a single
green light, minute and
y that might
g have
far away,
been the end of a dock.”
Chapter 2 Characters
George Wilson
“a blond, spiritless man, anemic and faint less.”
i. Owns his own garage in the Valley of Ashes
andd embodies
b di all
ll that
h it
i entails;
il he
h is
i dead
d d
inside, like a living ghost.
ii Goes through the motions of life with no
ii.
spiritual center. He has no energy and no faith.
iii. He does not understand the ppower of Tom
and what he is dealing with when he tries to
make a deal with him.
iv. George will become very important at the
end of the novel.
Myrtle Wilson
George’s
G
’ wife
if and
d th
the one who
h challenges
h ll
the
th purity
it that
th t
is Daisy.
i
i.
A sensuous woman; middle 30s; has the energy
her husband lacks.
ii. She becomes drawn to Tom as a lover who can
take her away from the gray and empty prison of the
valley.
iii
iii.
Sh li
She
lives “violently
“ i l l affected,
ff
d
moment by moment” and allows
T
Tom
tto control
t l her
h violently.
i l tl
iv. In order to see Tom, she must
ride separate from the East Eggers.
Eggers
There is a façade of respectability between her and Tom.
The Symbols-Chapter 2
• The Valleyy of the Ashes,, is located between the
West Egg and New York City. It represents the
moral geography of the novel and the anxiety,
f
frustration,
i andd emptiness
i
off a post-war generation
i
cut-off from spiritual values by the shock of WWI.
The Valley is home to the poor victims of the
Eggs and New York City. The men are “ash” gray
and “move through
g the landscape
p dimly
y and
already crumbling through the powdery air.”
Doctor T. J Eckleberg.
g What is left of his faded sign
g
hangs over the Valley of the Ashes, watching over
p like the eyes
y of God. His eyes
y are blue
the ppeople
and gigantic; no face, but enormous yellow
p
over a non-existent nose. There is no
spectacles
known creator of the sign but suggests there is a
p
being
g who no longer
g cares about the ppathetic
superior
creatures below.
New York. It is the center for corruption,
where wealth and self
self-gratification
gratification openly
meet. Here, Tom can flaunt his
relationship with Myrtle.
Myrtle The apartment
scene represents how Fitzgerald felt about
N Y
New
York.
k E
Everyone tries
i to iimpress
everyone else, and the lies flow freely
.
The CharactersCharacters
Chapter 3: Jay Gatsby
Young, handsome, polite. He drifted “coolly out of nowhere
and bought a place on Long Island.” He lives on West Egg.
i
i.
He is a paradox: both “rough
rough-neck
neck” and one who
practices formal speech. His favorite saying is “old sport.” No one
really knows who he is, or has seen him; all they know is that night
after night, he throws elaborate parties.
ii. Our job as the reader is to search through the vulgar,
violent surface of this world to find the man beneath. Onlyy ggradually,
y,
do we get to know Gatsby at the beginning of the chapter through the
eyes of his guests at his parties.
iii Who is he? Did he go to Oxford? Is he a German spy? Or the
iii.
nephew of the Kaiser?
A.
Nick Caraway
aa.
Is “involved”
involved with Jordan
Jordan. He is attracted to
her free spirit. She is dishonest, careless, and the type of
woman Nick should not like. “Dishonestyy in a woman is
a thing you never blame deeply.”
i. We are led to believe that Nick is a hard
worker and of a good moral character. “Everyone
suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues,
and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I
have ever known.”
ii.. N
Nick
c w
will lead
e d us towards
ow ds uunderstanding
de s d g w
who
o
Gatsby truly is. While unearthing the immoral fibers of
the East Eggers.
Owl Eyes
a. A guest at one of Gatsby’s parties, his glasses make
his eyes seem bigger than they are. He notices the books
i the
in
th library,
lib
andd how
h Gatsby
G t b has
h nott cutt the
th pages.
i. He “sees” Gatsby for what he truly is and
recognizes the façade that Gatsby puts on for his guests.
guests
He recognizes the theatrical nature of Gatsby’s parties.
ii. References a man named “David Belasco”
who wanted everything to be perfect and spared no
expense to build on his materialism.
The Symbols-Chapter 3
W Egg:
West
E
An amusement park ride for
those with new money who try
to earn expensive prizes. It is a
world
ld off infinite
i fi it hope
h
andd
possibility. Young women with
laughter like gold wait for the
right man, and middle-aged
women, tired of their husbands,
search for lovers. Ambitious
young men search for the right
contract that
h will
ill bring
b i them
h
instant fame and fortune.
Gatsby’s Parties
They are filled with brightness, confusion,
magnificence,
g
, daring,
g, vulgarity,
g y, excess,, and excitement.
These are the years before the Great Depression, and his
guests use Gatsby for his lavish parties and amenities.
The bar is stocked with “cordials long forgotten that
most of his female guests were too young to know one
from the other
other.”
Chapter 4:
• The plot begins here in this chapter. We
have been introduced to all of the main
characters through three different parties.
In this chapter, we now come to understand
why they have all been brought together.
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The CharactersCharacters
Jay Gatsby
• Describes his life as a “young raja in all capitals of
Europe”, collecting jewels and hunting big game.
• i.
i
He claims
l i that
h he
h is
i from
f
the
h “Midwest”
id
or
San Francisco, which is a blatant lie. He states that
his family is dead and that he graduated from
Oxford. To prove himself, Gatsby shows Nick a
picture of himself standing in front of the
university,
i
it andd a medal
d l from
f
Madagascar.
M d
ii. Nick does not believe a word Gatsby says,
but respects his need to live the American Dream.
Dream
Nick also realizes how well New York City seems
to suit Gatsby and his unknown business.
Meyer
y Wolfsheim
• Is a model after the real-life bookie who helped fix
the 1919 World Series
Series.
• i. Through Meyer, we begin to understand
where Gatsby
Gatsby’ss money comes from. He describes
Gatsby as “the kind of man you’d like to take
home to introduce to your mother and sister.”
ii. Meyer is sentimental about friends, but not
business. He wears cufflinks made out of human
molars And is extremely uncultured due to his
molars.
need to speak about his boorish and ruthless battle
for money and power.
The Symbols
Symbols-Chapter
Chapter 4
The List
• Serves no other purpose than to show
who were at Gatsby’s parties. It is almost
a mockery of the lists ones would find in
great pieces of literature such as The
Ili d or The
Iliad
Th Odyssey
Od
where
h th
the various
i
great warriors are listed to show
importance All listed are self-made
importance.
self made men,
men
vast and vulgar, and all ultimately hungry
to obtain what the East Eggers have;
money.
The Tea:
• Jordan tells Nick the story of Gatsby and Daisy as if
it was a fairytale. Daisy Fay, an 18-year-old girl from
L i ill KY,
Louisville,
KY courts
t a then
th younger soldier,
ldi Jay
J
Gatsby. After Gatsby goes off to war, Daisy marries
Tom and continues her life of excess.
excess Tom proves
himself unfaithful, even on their honeymoon, when
he has an affair with the chambermaid in Santa
Barbara. Daisy does not think of Gatsby again until
Jordan mentions him the day Nick comes to visit.
• “Gatsby bought a house so that Daisy would be just
across the bay.”
--Jordan
The Tea
• • “Then it had not been merely the stars to which
he had aspired on that June night. He came alive
to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of hi
purposeless splendor.
splendor ” Nick responds.
responds
• • Nick realizes that Gatsby’s parties are not meant
to be ostentatious,, but are a means to the
fulfillment of his dream. Mainly, the need for the
green light and its youth, love, hope and beauty.
• At
A the
h end,
d JJordan
d asks
k Ni
Nick
k to allow
ll Gatsby
G b to
reunite with Daisy at his home. It is a day that
Gatsby has thought long and hard about.
Chapter 5
• Gatsby offers to help Nick make extra
mone on the side and Nick turns
money
t rns his down,
do n
showing the immoral side of Gatsby
The Day
• 1. This is when Gatsby and Daisy reunite. A day Gatsby has been
planning
l i in
i his
hi mind
i d for
f a very long
l
time.
i
It
I is
i rainy,
i yet stops raining
i i
just at the right moment for Daisy to enter. Nick’s grass has been cut,
and fresh flowers have been brought over by Gatsby to create the right
mood.
d
• a. Gatsby is a nervous as a schoolboy waiting for Daisy. When she
finallyy sees him , he knocks over the clock;; symbolically
y
y stopping
pp g
time.
• b. At first, Gatsby tries to make conversation, then tells Nick, “This
is a terrible mistake.
mistake ” Nick leaves to allow them time to reconnect,
reconnect
returning and find that this has, indeed, happened. Gatsby has
recovered his dream and seems “radiated” and full of exultation.
c The scene,
c.
scene overall,
overall has a sense of comedy to it; funny yet not
funny at the same time.
The Shirts
• The most tangible item Gatsby has to display his
wealth
l h to Daisy.
D i She
Sh sees them
h as a sign
i off
affection, showing her extreme materialism.
• a.
a Gatsby has symbolically worn the gold hat at
this moment. He bounced big, accumulating
possessions for this moment, so that when Daisy
sees them, she will cry out, “I must have you!”
b. “They’re such beautiful shirts…It makes me
sad because I’ve never seen such beautiful shirts.”
shirts ”
The princess is astounded for once in her life.
The Green Light
• The symbol for Gatsby’s dream at the end of
D i ’ ddock.
Daisy’s
k G
Gatsby
b tells
ll Daisy
D i how
h he
h has
h
watched the light as a symbol for his dream, and
now the light has become only a light and nothing
more. Sometimes dreams are better left
unfulfilled. There must have been moments, even
th t afternoon,
that
ft
when
h Daisy
D i tumbled
t bl d short
h t off his
hi
dreams. Not through her own fault, but because of
the colossal vitalityy of his illusion. It has ggone
beyond her; beyond everything.
Their Love
• It is more beautiful
beautiful, more
intense, and finally, more
painful. There is both joy
p
j y
and sadness in a love as
great as theirs. Klipspringer
plays “Ain’t We Got Fun!”
on the piano, creating
dramatic irony for the
moment, only because it is
so different from what is
actually happening.
Chapter 6
• Fitzgerald needs us,
us the
reader, to begin to feel a
connection to Gatsbyy in
this chapter, so he gives
us a glimpse into his
past. Up until this point,
Nick has only been able
to give us what he knows
as the narrator.
G b ’ P
Gatsby’s
Past
• He was born James Gatz to ppoor North Dakota farmers. In
order to receive an education, he had to become a janitor
and consequently, he quits school after two weeks.
• a. As a boy, Gatsby dreamed of a better life, where all
of his gaudy and bright fantasies would be fulfilled. He
wantedd to bbecome a self-made
lf
d man
Gatsby’s Past
• b. Enter Dan Cody. Only he meets Jay Gatsby, not James
Gatz. Immediately, Gatsby emerges as a liar and a fraud to
exude the image that he is someone else; someone
important. Gatsby leaves his family to serve Dan Cody.
Gatsby learns from Cody about the “the good life”, learns
to avoid liquor and use others for their money. Eventually,
Gatsby’s inheritance would be taken away from him by
Ella Kaye, one of Cody’s mistresses.
• c.
c Nick states,
states “The
The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West
Egg, Long Island, sprang from his own platonic conception
of himself. So, he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that
a 17 year old boy would like to invent,
invent and to this
conception, he was faithful to the end.
The Visit
• Nick finds Tom and the Sloan’s have dropped by to
see Gatsby. Tensions are high between Tom and
Gatsby and Gatsby tells Tom that he knows Daisy.
Gatsby,
Daisy
“Women run around too much these days to suit
me…theyy meet all kinds of crazy
y fish,” sates Tom.
• a. Mr. Sloan invites Gatsby to dinner out of respect,
but never assumes that he will accept. Not the proper
thi to
thing
t do
d in
i suchh high
hi h circles.
i l
• Tom discusses Gatsby’s lack of etiquette and poor
taste Simply,
taste.
Simply Gatsby would not know any
better not having grown up in that culture.
Quite representative of the West Egg Culture.
The Party
• Gatsby and Daisy have continued to see each other
in private, trying to recapture what was lost. As a
reader though,
reader,
though we know that the past can never be
recaptured, and we find ourselves not totally trusting
Daisy’s intentions.
a. Tom, Daisy, and Nick attend one of
Gatsby’s parties. The events of the
evening are told to us by Nick, but are
seen through Daisy’s eyes.
b. Tom and Daisy argue over where
Gatsby’s money comes from, and Daisy
defends him with a lie.
lie She captures
Gatsby’s essence more than Tom’s
merciless truth.
The Party
c. At the end of the evening, Gatsby
is saddened by the fact that he thinks
Daisy did not have a good time. Nick
states, “You can’t repeat the past.”
Gatsby becomes furious and recants,
recants
“Can’t repeat the past? Why of course
you can!” We hear the desperation in
his voice.
• Gatsby wants to ignore that life is a process of
change. If only Daisy would tell Tom she never
loved him, then time could stand still. Gatsby
wants Daisy to satisfy his platonic image of
hi
himself
lf andd the
th ideal
id l self,
lf which
hi h he
h associated
i t d
with his love for Daisy in Louisville in 1917.
Chapter 7
• This chapter joins all major characters and
geographical locations of the novel together
in a final catastrophe.
The Appointed Day
• Gatsby has fired all of his servants to prevent them
from gossiping about he and Daisy, and
consequently all parties have stopped because
Daisy is back in his life. His home is now filled
with Meyer
y Wolfshiem’s ppeople,
p , reinforcing
g his
career choice to the reader.
• Gatsby goes to lunch at Tom and Daisy’s where
h meets
he
t their
th i daughter
d ht andd th
the reality
lit off their
th i
marriage hits Gatsby hard. The lunch is also where
Tom sees the love between Daisyy and Gatsby
G
y
surface; tensions are high.
The Appointed Day
New Y
N
York
k sets
t the
th scene for
f the
th confrontation,
f t ti just
j t like
lik the
th
party in Chapter 2. Plus, the group must pass through the
Valley
V
y of Ashes to gget there,, ppassing
g by
y all of those they
y
have forgotten. The eyes of T.J.Eckleberg are “..keeping
vigil” as he mocks the characters feeble attempts to hide
f
from
th
the truth.
t th Th
The eyes alone
l
see the
th corruption
ti andd the
th
decadence beneath the gorgeous façade. Jordan, Tom, and
Nick ride in Gatsby’s
y car and stop
p at Wilson’s ggarage
g for
some gas. Myrtle is locked in her room and mistakes Jordan
for Daisy. George tells Tom that he has become aware what
his wife has been doing behind his back
back, and thus plans to
take them both out West. Tom’s world begins to collapse at
this point.
The Appointed Day
• They
y all meet at the Plaza Hotel where Tom
confronts Gatsby about his Oxford days.
y confronts Tom stating,
g “Your wife
Gatsby
doesn’t love you. She never loved you. She
loves me.”
The Appointed Day
• Gatsby and Tom both beg Daisy for her support.
support Gatsby
wants Daisy to tell Tom that she never loved him, and to
deny the past. Tom points out “why, they’re things
b
between
Daisy
i andd me that
h you’ll
’ll never know.
k
Things
hi
that neither of us can ever forget.” Daisy now finds
herself turning to Tom, while Tom begins to shred
Gatsby’s dream with the unveiling of his drug stores
and bootleg operations. Gatsby has officially lost Daisy
because the security of a husband, unfaithful as he may
be, means more than a romantic relationship with
Gatsby The party is over,
Gatsby.
over Tom has won,
won and Nick
realizes that it is his 30th birthday.
The Appointed Day
• While we identify with Gatsby, this is
Nick’s novel,, too. The novel of his ggrowing
g
up like Gatsby growing up on Dan Cody’s
yyacht. The summer events have taught
g him
about life in a way that no school book ever
could. The final p
phase of his education is
learning about death.
The Murder
Michaelis, the Greek restaurant owner, tell us
how Myrtle was killed.
• Locked in her room, she runs out in the street
y to be hit by
y a car comingg from New York.
only
We see her lying in the road, her mouth wide
p , her “…left breast swinging
g g loose like a
open,
flap.”
The M
Murder
rder
• Fitzgerald wants to emphasize
h extraordinary
her
di
vitality
i li at the
h
moment of her death and the
desperate agony with which she
tried to hold onto life.
• Tom arrives with Jordan and
Nick, sees Myrtle, and is just as
devastated as Wilson. Tom knows
that Wilson saw Gatsby’s yellow
car and cannot imagine
g that Daisy
y
might have been driving.
The Aftermath
• Nick has officially had it with the East and the
people who live there.
y waits in the bushes at the Buchanan’s
• a. Gatsby
home to see if Daisy is okay. He sends Nick over
to check on her, and he sees Tom and Daisy eating
together It is an ordinary domestic scene in sharp
together.
contrast to the drama that surrounds them usually.
Nick realizes they have accepted each other and
that Gatsby has lost Daisy forever.
• Nick goes home and leaves Gatsby “standing there
in the moonlight
moonlight, watching
atching over
o er nothing.”
nothing ” The
dream is over.
Chapter 8
• This chapter begins a few hours later. Nick
goes to Gatsby’s
G b ’ hhouse and
d li
listens to stories
i
about his youth, his courtship of Daisy, and
hi experiences
his
i
from
f
the
h war.
Gatsby’ss House
Gatsby
His memories of his ppast life with Daisyy are romanticized
and perfect.
a. Gatsby fell in love with Daisy, her house, and her
possessions.
i
Plus,
l the
h fact that
h everyone “wanted”
d her,
h
increased her worth in his eyes. Regardless, he was a
penniless man without a past,
past and so he “committed
committed
himself to the following of a grail,” and made marrying
Daisy his ultimate goal in life.
b.
Daisy promised to wait for Gatsby until the war was
over, but she knew nothing of his past and future plans.
Her need for love,
love attention,
attention and security drives her to
marry Tom.
The Autumn Change
g
The gardener informs Gatsby that he is going to drain the
pool and Gatsby
p
y asks him to wait one more day
y so that
he can use it at least one time.
• As Nick walks away, he yells to him “They’re a rotten
crowd. You’re worth the whole damn bunch put
together.” We realize that at this moment why the novel
is called The Great Gatsby.
Gatsby Nick disapproves of Gatsby
from beginning to end. Disapproves of his vulgar
materialism, his tasteless pink shirts, his connection
with
i h Meyer
M
W
Wolfseim,
lf i his
hi love
l
for
f a woman as shallow
h ll
as Daisy, and his pathetic efforts to win her back by
showing off what he has rather that who he is inside.
And yet, Gatsby is not part of the “foul dust” that is the
Buchanans.
The Autumn Change
g
• Hi
His incorruptible
i
tibl dream
d
has
h something
thi pure andd noble
bl
about it, which sets him apart from the others. Tom,
Daisy and Jordan belong to the “rotten
Daisy,
rotten crowd”
crowd because
they are selfish, materialistic, and cruel. They are
without spiritual
p
values or compassion.
p
Gatsby,
y on the
surface, seems just as far away from beauty and grace. In
reality, he is nothing more than a thug. And yet, in
Ni k’ eyes, andd perhaps
Nick’s
h
ours, he
h is
i worthh the
h whole
h l
damn bunch of them put together. If only because of his
total dedication to living out his dream
dream. When the dream
is gone, Gatsby has nothing else to live for.
The Murder Complete
Nick hears the story from Michaelis, the Greek
restaurant owner and the newspaper reports.
• Wilson was up all night with Michaelis as the eyes
of Dr. Eckleberg “had just emerged, pale and
enormous from the dissolving night into the
morning sun.
sun ” To Wilson,
Wilson these are the all-seeing,
all seeing
all-judging eyes of God.
The Murder Complete
• He decides to play God himself and avenge the
murder
d off his
hi wife,
if who
h he
h is
i convinced
i d was
killed by her lover.
• He
H goes tto Tom
T
andd asks
k who
h drives
di
a yellow
ll
coupe. Tom explains it was Gatsby. Wilson goes
to Gatsby
Gatsby’ss home
home, sees him lying in the pool on a
raft, and then shoots Gatsby, followed by himself.
The tragedy
g y is complete.
p
Final Thought
• “He must have looked up at an unfamiliar
sky
y through
g frightening
g
g leaves and shivered
as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is
an how raw the sunlight
g was upon
p the
scarcely created. A new world, material
without being
g real,, where poor
p
ghosts,
g
,
breathing dreams like air, drifted
fortuitously
y about…”
Final Thought
• For Gatsby, the world is material without
being
g real. It is somethingg he can touch and
see and feel, yet is completely without
g for him.
meaning
• Gatsby lived too long with a single dream.
Without it,
it life has become absurd.
absurd He was
already dead when Wilson shoots him,
because his dream had died
died.
Chapter 9
• This chapter covers the period of time from
Gatsby’ss death until Nick
Gatsby
Nick’ss departure to the
Midwest the next autumn. It allows
Fitzgerald to tie up any loose ends and sum
up the final significance of
the novel with a final poetic
passage that has become one
of the most famous in
American Literature.
The Funeral
• Nick tries to pull people together, but everyone has
conveniently disappeared.
disappeared Only Owl Eyes comes to the
funeral; the one man who “saw” Gatsby for what he was
from the beginning.
g
g
• a. Mr. Gatz appears at the funeral. Like unto Christ,
Gatsby has been scorned by the world and only his father
seems to
t care.
• Gatsby’s father has followed his career, and had a picture
of his house
house. Mr
Mr. Gatz shows Nick Gatsby
Gatsby’ss daily
schedule growing up. It reads like Ben Franklin’s almanac,
and reminds us how deeply, even as a boy, he believed in
the
h American
A
i
Dream off success. Gatsby
G b must hhave
believed that if you work hard, you can achieve all that
you want. Is this true?
Nick’s Departure
• Nick ends his affair with Jordan rather
apathetically because he cannot stand her Eastern
attitude nor does he shake Tom’s hand when they
attitude,
meet on 5th Ave. Tom explains that he was the one
who told Wilson that it was Gatsby’s
y car. Nick can
only turn and walk away. The Buchanans are
careless people who “smashed up things and
creatures and then retreated back into their
creatures,
money…and let other people clean up the mess
they made.” Nick does not want to become a
careless person, so he returns to the Midwest.
The Final Passage
• Nick’s final words transform the novel from the story of
a small group of people at a moment of time to a portrait of
an entire
ti nation.
ti
• Gatsby believed in the dream, and Nick will always love
him for it
it. But what Gatsby never understood is that the
dream was already behind him, “somewhere back in that
vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the
republic rolled on under the night.”
The Final Passage
• The Great Gatsby is not, then, just a book about the
1920s. It is a book about America, its promise, and the
betrayal of that promise.
promise Throughout the book,
book
Fitzgerald has contrasted Gatsby the dreamer with the
“foul
ou dus
dust” that
a ppreyed
eyed on
o hiss dream.
d ea . Thee tragedy
agedy of
o
Gatsby is that he still dreams the dream, but that he is not
wise enough or strong enough to see that Daisy is not
worthy of his devotion, of his sacrifice.
• Nick steps back to see where
Gatsby’s dream has gone wrong. And
so, his education completed, he returns
to the
h Midwest
Mid
to bbegin
i his
hi new adult
d l
life.