GATSBY NOTES PART 1

FROM THE PREFACE TO 1992 EDITION

BY MATTHEW BRUCCOLI

X: AN ESSENTIAL ASPECT OF THE AMERICAN-NESS AND THE HISTORICITY OF <THE GREAT GATSBY> IS THAT IT IS ABOUT MONEY.

XI: THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY PROMISED THE CHANCE FOR FINANCIAL SUCCESS.

•GATSBY ... DOES NOT UNDERSTAND HOW MONEY WORKS IN THIS SOCIETY.

•HE INNOCENTLY EXPECTS THAT HE CAN BUY ANYTHING -- ESPECIALLY DAISY.

•GATSBY IS THE AMERICAN SELF-MADE -- INDEED SELF-INVENTED -- MAN.

•HE BELIEVES IN THE AMERICAN DREAM OF SUCCESS; HE FULFILLS IT; HE CONFUSES IT WITH DAISY; HE IS BETRAYED BY IT.

•THE APPELLATION <NAME> “GREAT” AS APPLIED TO GATSBY REVERBERATES WITH IRONY.

•HE IS TRULY GREAT BY VIRTUE OF HIS CAPACITY TO COMMIT HIMSELF TO HIS ASPIRATIONS.

•YET AT THE SAME TIME THE ADJECTIVE INDICATES THE TAWDRY AND EXAGGERATED ASPECTS OF HIS LIFE: HURRY, HURRY, HURRY! STEP RIGHT UP AND SEE THE GREAT GATSBY!! <LIKE A CIRCUS SIDESHOW ACT.>

•IT IS CRUCIAL TO DIFFERENTIATE IN MEANING THE OSTENTATIOUS GATSBY FROM THE ADMIRABLE GATSBY.

•REFERS TO WHAT NICK SAYS OF GATSBY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE NOVEL: “... IF PERSONALITY ...”

XII: GATSBY IS THE HERO, BUT NICK CARRAWAY IS THE CENTRAL FIGURE.

XV: THE TIME THEME ENCOMPASSES THE RELATED THEMES OF MUTABILITY AND LOSS.

•FITZ WROTE: “THAT’S THE WHOLE BURDEN OF THIS NOVEL -- THE LOSS OF THE ILLUSIONS THAT GIVE SUCH COLOR TO THE WORLD SO THAT YOU DON’T CARE WHETHER THINGS ARE TRUE OR FALSE AS LONG AS THEY PARTAKE IN THE MAGICAL GLORY.”

•GATSBY DOES NOT ACCEPT THE PROCESS OF TIME <IN OTHER WORDS, HE DOES NOT ACCEPT DECAY, LOSS, DEFEAT, DEATH -- OR “THE TRUTH”> HIS MOST MEMORABLE STATEMENT IS: “CAN’T REPEAT THE PAST? ... WHY OF COURSE YOU CAN!”

SUMMARY

•OUTLINE part 1

9 CHAPTERS

184 PAGES

DATE PUBLISHED: 1925

TIME OF ACTION OF THE NOVEL: JUNE TO SEPT. 1922. DAISY FIRST MEETS GATSBY IN 1917.

SETTING OF NOVEL: LONG ISLAND/QUEENS, MANHATTAN

AUDIENCE: UPPER MIDDLE CLASS PROFESSIONAL

PLOT LINES

•DAISY-GATSBY

•MYRTLE-TOM

•NICK-GATSBY

<NICK-JORDAN>

<NICK-READER>

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CHAP. 1 <5-26> = 21

•NICK CARRAWAY INTRODUCES HIMSELF AS AN <OBJECTIVE> NARRATOR. HE RESERVES JUDGMENT.

•HE IS SELF-CONSCIOUSLY WRITING THE BOOK.

•GATSBY PRESENTS A DILEMMA OF SORTS. ON THE ONE HAND, HE REPRESENTED <EVERYTHING FOR WHICH [NICK] HAS AN UNAFFECTED SCORN.>

•ON THE OTHER HAND, <IF PERSONALITY IS AN UNBROKEN SERIES OF SUCCESSFUL GESTURES, THEN THERE WAS SOMETHING GORGEOUS ABOUT HIM, SOME HEIGHTENED SENSITIVITY TO THE PROMISES OF LIFE -- IT WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY GIFT FOR HOPE, A ROMANTIC READINESS SUCH AS I HAVE NEVER FOUND IN ANY OTHER PERSON -- NO GATSBY TURNED OUT ALL RIGHT IN THE END ...>

•NICK THEN INTRODUCES HIS FAMILY BACKGROUND -- FROM PROMINENT, WELL-TO-DO PEOPLE IN THE MID WEST.

•HE GRADUATED FROM YALE <NEW HAVEN> IN 1915 AND THEN FOUGHT IN WW1.

•HIS FATHER FINANCED HIM FOR A YEAR WHILE HE TRIED TO GET INTO THE BOND BUSINESS -- SPRING 1922.

•HE SETTLES IN WEST EGG. READS BOOKS ON MAKING MONEY-- HE SHOWS HIS IRONY. HE SAID HE INTENDED TO BECOME A <WELL-ROUNDED MAN> -- WHAT HE CALLS THE MOST LIMITED OF ALL SPECIALISTS.

•<LIFE IS MUCH MORE SUCCESSFULLY LOOKED AT FROM A SINGLE WINDOW, AFTER ALL.>

•HE DESCRIBES WEST EGG AND EAST EGG, THE MORE FASHIONABLE AREA ON LONG ISLAND SOUND.

•HE LIVES IN WEST EGG NEXT TO G’S MANSION.

•THE TOM BUCHANAN’S LIVE IN EAST EGG. DAISY B WAS HIS SECOND COUSIN ONCE REMOVED. HE KNEW TOM AT YALE.

•HE DESCRIBES TOM -- PHYSICALLY POWERFUL, ENORMOUSLY WEALTHY.

•NICK DOESN’T KNOW WHY THEY CAME EAST. HE DESCRIBES TOM AS TURBULENT AND RESTLESS.

•THEY LIVED IN A RED AND WHITE GEORGIAN COLONIAL MANSION.

•DESCRIBES TOM. 30 -- <WITH A RATHER HARD MOUTH AND A SUPERCILIOUS MANNER.> HAD TWO ARROGANT EYES AND A VERY POWERFUL BODY. <IT WAS A BODY CAPABLE OF ENORMOUS LEVERAGE -- A CRUEL BODY.>

•A TOUCH OF PATERNAL CONTEMPT IN HIS VOICE --

•HE WAS NOT A MAN WHO LIKED TO LISTEN TO THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS -- NICK SAYS IRONICALLY <NOW, DON’T THINK MY OPINION ON THESE MATTERS IS FINAL,” HE SEEMED TO SAY, JUST BECAUSE I’M STRONGER AND MORE OF A MAN THAN YOU ARE.”

•NICK SAYS HE LOOKS DEFIANT AND RESTLESS.

•TOM SAYS THEIR MANSION USED TO BELONG TO DEMAINE, THE OIL MAN. <REF. TO THE TEA POT DOME SCANDAL.>

•NICK MEETS DAISY AND JORDAN BAKER -- BOTH DRESSED IN WHITE.

•DESCRIBES DAISY'S VOICE. THEY HAVE A BABY GIRL, WHO IS THREE.

•JORDAN ASKS NICK IF HE KNOWS GATSBY. DAISY IS SURPRISED. <GATSBY? WHAT GATSBY?> TOM MOVES NICK AWAY.

•DAISY AND J TALK ABOUT NOTHING. THEY HAVE NO GOALS, NO PURPOSE IN LIFE. THEIR EYES SHOW THE ABSENCE OF ALL DESIRE.

•SHE CALLS TOM <HULKING>. HE BECOMES VERY ANGRY AT THE USE OF THAT WORD.

•OVER DINNER, TOM STARTS MAKING REMARKS ABOUT THE WHITE RACE AND THE DECAY OF CIVILIZATION. HE REFERS TO IT AS <ALL SCIENTIFIC STUFF; IT’S BEEN PROVED.”

•SAYS WHITES HAVE TO WATCH OUT OR THESE <OTHER RACES WILL HAVE CONTROL OVER THINGS.>

•DAISY MAKES FUN OF TOM. NICK SAYS THERE <WAS SOMETHING PATHETIC IN HIS CONCENTRATION, AS IF HIS COMPLACENCY, MORE ACUTE THAN OF OLD, WAS NOT ENOUGH FOR HIM ANY MORE.”

•THE PHONE RINGS. TOM LEAVES. THEN DAISY LEAVES. JORDAN EXPLAINS TO NICK THAT TOM HAS A MISTRESS IN NEW YORK.

•THE REST OF THE MEAL IS VERY TENSE. JORDAN AND TOM GO FOR A WALK. DAISY CONFIDES IN NICK. SHE SAYS <WELL, I’VE HAD A BAD TIME, NICK, AND I’M PRETTY CYNICAL ABOUT EVERYTHING.”

•DAISY SAYS TOM WAS RUNNING AROUND WHEN THEIR DAUGHTER WAS BORN. SHE SAYS SHE HOPED THE GIRL WILL <BE A FOOL -- THAT’S THE BEST THING A GIRL CAN BE IN THIS WORLD, A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOL.>

•THEN SHE STARTS TO SOUND EXACTLY LIKE TOM. SHE SAYS EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE. <AND I KNOW. I’VE BEEN EVERYWHERE AND SEEN EVERYTHING AND DONE EVERYTHING. ... SOPHISTICATED--GOD, I’M SOPHISTICATED!>

•NICK SAYS: <THE INSTANT HER VOICE BROKE OFF, CEASING TO COMPEL MY ATTENTION, MY BELIEF, I FELT THE BASIC INSINCERITY OF WHAT SHE HAD SAID. IT MADE ME UNEASY -- I WAITED, AND SURE ENOUGH, IN A MOMENT SHE LOOKED AT ME WITH AN ABSOLUTE SMIRK ON HER LOVELY FACE, AS IF SHE HAD ASSERTED HER MEMBERSHIP IN A RATHER DISTINGUISHED SECRET SOCIETY TO WHICH SHE AND TOM BELONGED.>

NICK RECOGNIZES JORDAN. HE HAD SEEN HER FACE IN MAGAZINES -- THERE WAS A STORY ABOUT HER BUT HE COULDN’T REMEMBER.

•DAISY AND JORDAN WERE BOTH FROM LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

•DAISY ASKS NICK IF HE WAS ENGAGED BACK HOME. NICK SAYS HE WASN’T BECAUSE HE IS TOO POOR TO MARRY.

•DAISY SAYS <WE HEARD IT FROM THREE PEOPLE, SO IT MUST BE TRUE.>

•NICK SAYS HE WAS CONFUSED AND A LITTLE DISGUSTED AS HE DROVE AWAY. DAISY SHOULD GET HER CHILD AND LEAVE TOM, BUT <APPARENTLY THERE WERE NO SUCH INTENTIONS IN HER HEAD.>

•AS FOR TOM, THE FACT THAT HE <HAD SOME WOMAN IN NEW YORK” WAS REALLY LESS SURPRISING THAN THAT HE HAD BEEN DEPRESSED BY A BOOK.>

•WHEN NICK COMES HOME, HE SEES GATSBY STANDING IN THE DARK -- STRETCHING OUT HIS ARMS TOWARDS THE WATER AND THE GREEN LIGHT AT THE END OF A DOCK.

CHAP. 2 <27-42> = 15

•IN CONTRAST TO EAST EGG, NICK DESCRIBES THE BOROUGH OF QUEENS -- IT IS A VALLEY OF ASHES -- PRESIDED OVER BY THE EYES OF DR. T.J. ECKLEBURG -- A BILL BOARD FOR AN OCULIST NO LONGER IN BUSINESS.

•INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION.

•THEY ARE GOING BY TRAIN TO NEW YORK AND TOM MAKES NICK GET OFF TO MEET MYRTLE WILSON.

•TOM WAS DRUNK AND NICK SAYS HE WAS ALMOST VIOLENT. WANTS TO SHOW HER OFF.

•SITTING ON THE EDGE OF THE WASTE LAND WAS A GARAGE -- BELONGING TO GEORGE B. WILSON -- <CARS BOUGHT AND SOLD>.

•WHEN GEORGE SEES THEM <A GLEAM OF HOPE SPRANG INTO HIS LIGHT BLUE EYES.> HE WANTS TO BUY TOM’S CAR.

•NICK DESCRIBES MYRTLE AS BEING IN HER <MIDDLE THIRTIES, AND FAINTLY STOUT, BUT SHE CARRIED HER SURPLUS FLESH SENSUOUSLY AS SOME WOMEN CAN. HER FACE ... CONTAINED NO FACET OR GLEAM OF BEAUTY, BUT THERE WAS AN IMMEDIATELY PERCEPTIBLE VITALITY ABOUT HER AS IF THE NERVES OF HER BODY WERE CONTINUALLY SMOLDERING.

•TOM TELLS HER TO MEET THEM AND SHE OBEYS. <CONTRAST TO DAISY>

•NICK SAYS: <IT WAS A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE FOURTH OF JULY, AND A GRAY SCRAWNY ITALIAN CHILD WAS SETTING TORPEDOES IN A ROW ALONG THE RAILROAD TRACK. <TERRIBLE PLACE, ISN’T IT, SAID TOM.>

•THEY GO IN SEPARATE CARS. WHEN THEY GET TO NY, MYRTLE STARTS TO BUY THINGS. SHE IS PICKY ABOUT HER TAXI. SHE WANTS TO BUY A DOG.

•SHE TRIES TO CHANGE HER LANGUAGE -- ASKING IF THE DOG IS A BOY OR A GIRL. TOM CALLS IT A BITCH.

•NICK DESCRIBES HER ATTITUDE AS <HAUGHTY> AS SHE GOES TO HER APARTMENT. HE DESCRIBES THE CHEAP LITERATURE THEY HAVE -- TOWN TATTLE, SCANDAL MAGAZINES AND A TRASH NOVEL, SIMON CALLED PETER. TOM STARTS TO DRINK AGAIN.

•NICK SAYS HE GOT DRUNK FOR JUST THE SECOND TIME IN HIS LIFE.

•MYRTLE SITS ON T’S LAP AS SHE CALLS SOME FRIENDS FOR A PARTY. THEY GO INTO THE BEDROOM.

•N DESCRIBES THE GUESTS -- MYRTLE’S RELATIVES. MYRTLE HAS ALSO CHANGED HER DRESS.

•HE SAYS: <WITH THE INFLUENCE OF THE CHANGE OF DRESS HER PERSONALITY HAD ALSO UNDERGONE A CHANGE. THE INTENSE VITALITY THAT HAD BEEN SO REMARKABLE IN THE GARAGE WAS CONVERTED INTO IMPRESSIVE HAUTEUR.

•<HER LAUGHTER, HER GESTURES, HER ASSERTIONS BECAME MORE VIOLENTLY AFFECTED MOMENT BY MOMENT -->

•THEY TALK ABOUT HER DRESS AND MCKEE’S PHOTOGRAPHY.

•MYRTLE COMPLAINS ABOUT THE HELP.

•CATHERINE SAYS SHE WENT TO A PARTY AT GATSBY’S.

•TOM MAKES FUN OF MYRTLE TO HER FACE.

•CATHERINE EXPLAINS THAT TOM WOULD MARRY MYRTLE IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE FACT THAT DAISY IS A CATHOLIC.

•NICK SAYS HE IS SHOCKED AT THE ELABORATENESS OF THE LIE TOM HAS TOLD MYRTLE. <WHEN THEY DO GET MARRIED, CONTINUED CATHERINE, THEY’RE GOING WEST TO LIVE FOR A WHILE -->

•MRS MCKEE THEN STARTS TALKING: <I ALMOST MADE A MISTAKE TOO. I ALMOST MARRIED A LITTLE KIKE WHO’D BEEN AFTER ME FOR YEARS. I KNEW HE WAS BELOW ME.> [KIKE IS AN INSULTING TERM FOR A JEWISH PERSON.]

•MYRTLE EXPLAINS WHY SHE MARRIED GEORGE: <I THOUGHT HE WAS A GENTLEMAN. I THOUGHT HE KNEW SOMETHING ABOUT BREEDING, BUT HE WASN’T FIT TO LICK MY SHOE.>

•THEY CONTINUE DRINKING. MYRTLE EXPLAINS TO NICK HOW SHE MET TOM.

•SHE THEN PROMISES TO GIVE MRS. MCKEE HER DRESS. ,I’VE GOT TO GET A LIST OF ALL THE THINGS I’VE GOT TO GET.> SHE BUYS THINGS.

•SOME TIME AROUND MIDNIGHT TOM AND M STOOD FACE TO FACE DISCUSSING WHETHER MYRTLE HAD THE RIGHT TO USE DAISY’S NAME. SHE SAYS HER NAME. TOM BREAKS HER NOSE WITH HIS OPEN HAND.

•NICK GETS OUT OF THERE -- TAKES THE ELEVATOR WITH MCKEE -- WHO HAS A PORTFOLIO OF PHOTOGRAPHS.

CHAP. 3 <43-64> = 21

•NICK DESCRIBES THE EXTRAVAGANCE OF GATSBY’S BIG PARTIES.

•<I BELIEVE ON THE FIRST NIGHT I WEN TO G’S HOUSE I WAS ONE OF THE FEW GUESTS WHO HAD ACTUALLY BEEN INVITED. PEOPLE WERE NOT INVITED -- THEY WENT THERE.

•MENTIONS THE NUMBER OF YOUNG ENGLISHMEN WHO WERE IN THE CROWD SELLING THINGS.

•HE MEETS JORDAN -- MENTIONS SHE IS A GOLFER. THEY TALK ABOUT GATSBY WITH OTHER GUESTS. HE IS MYSTERIOUS. NO ONE SEEMS TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HIM BUT GOSSIP.

•TALKS ABOUT G’S LIBRARY WITH OWL EYES. HE NOTES THAT THE BOOKS ARE REAL BUT THE PAGES UNCUT. MARVELS AT THE THOROUGHNESS OF THE CHARADE.

•AFTER A LONG WHILE, A MAN APPROACHES NICK AND ASKS HIM ABOUT THE WAR. THE MAN ASKS NICK TO GO FOR A HYDROPLANE RIDE -- NICK AGREES BEFORE HE FINDS OUT HE IS TALKING TO GT.

•NICK EXPLAINS G’S CHARM AND CHARISMA. AT THE SAME TIME, THERE WAS SOMETHING FALSE ABOUT HIM. <-- I WAS LOOKING AT AN ELEGANT YOUNG REDNECK, A YEAR OR TWO OVER THIRTY, WHOSE FORMALITY OF SPEECH JUST MISSED BEING ABSURD.

•G LEAVES AND NICK TRIES TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HIM -- THEY SAY HE WENT TO OXFORD AND THAT HE KILLED A MAN.

•THE ORCHESTRA PLAYS <THE JAZZ HISTORY OF THE WORLD> WHILE G JUST STANDS AND LOOKS AROUND. HE NEVER DRINKS.

•GATBY’S BUTLER COMES FOR JORDAN BAKER. THEY TALK FOR AN HOUR.

•AFTER THE PARTY, EVERYONE IS DRUNK AND FIGHTING. OWL EYES DRIVES INTO A DITCH.

•NICK SEES G STANDING ON HIS PORCH IN THE SHADOWS.

•••••••••

•NICK SWITCHES THEMES AND DESCRIBES HIS DAILY ROUTINE IN NEW YORK CITY.

•HE FELT BOTH EXCITED AND LONELY.

•HE PICKS UP WITH JORDAN. SAYS HE WAS FLATTERED TO BE WITH HER BECAUSE SHE WAS A GOLF CHAMPION AND EVERYONE KNEW HER. HE SAID HE WASN’T ACTUALLY IN LOVE BUT FELT SORT OF A TENDER CURIOSITY.

•HE SAYS THE BORED HAUGHTY FACE SHE TURNED TO THE WORLD CONCEALED SOMETHING -- AND ONE DAY HE FOUND OUT WHAT IT WAS.

•SHE LEFT A BORROWED CAR OUT IN THE RAIN WITH THE TOP DOWN AND LIED ABOUT IT.

•THEN HE REMEMBER THAT SHE HAD BEEN ACCUSED OF CHEATING AT GOLF.

•HE SAYS SHE IS INCURABLY DISHONEST. “SHE WASN’T ABLE TO ENDURE BEING AT A DISADVANTAGE ...”

•NICK SAYS: “IT MADE NO DIFFERENCE TO ME. DISHONESTY IN A WOMAN IS SOMETHING YOU NEVER BLAME DEEPLY -- I WAS CASUALLY SORRY AND THEN I FORGOT.

•HE CRITICIZES HER DRIVING. SHE IS CARELESS BUT SHE EXPECTS OTHERS TO BE CAREFUL. THAT’S WHY SHE SAYS SHE LIKES NICK.

•HE SAYS “HE THOUGHT HE LOVED HER.” BUT THEN HE REMEMBERED HE HAD TO BREAK OFF HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GIRL BACK HOME BEFORE HE COULD DO ANYTHING WITH JORDAN.

•THE CHAPTER ENDS WITH THE IRONIC STATEMENT: I AM ONE OF THE FEW HONEST PEOPLE THAT I HAVE EVER KNOWN.

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CHAP. 4 <66-85> = 17

•NICK WROTE DOWN THE NAMES OF THE PEOPLE HE KNEW WHO CAME TO G’S PARTIES WITHOUT KNOWING ANYTHING ABOUT HIM.

•THE LIST IS A MIXTURE OF THOSE FROM EAST EGG AS WELL AS THOSE FROM WEST EGG. THE NAMES FROM WEST EGG WERE JEWISH, ITALIAN, IRISH -- THEY WERE IN FILM OR ENTERTAINMENT.

•G COMES TO PICK HIM UP -- HE SAYS HE HAD DONE STUFF WITH HIM BEFORE --

•G TAKES NICK IN HIS CAR AND TELLS HIM <THE STORY OR HIS LIFE.>

•NICK REALIZES HE IS HEARING A FANTASY WHEN G TELLS HIM HE WAS THE SON OF WEALTHY PEOPLE FROM THE MIDWEST -- AND THEN TELLS NICK THEY ARE FROM SAN FRANCISCO.

•HE SHOWS NICK HIS MEDAL AND THE PICTURE FROM HIS OXFORD DAYS -- NICK BELIEVES HE IS TELLING THE TRUTH.

•GATSBY SAYS HE HAS A REQUEST TO MAKE THOUGH JORDAN. NICK IS ANNOYED.

•THEY PASS WILSON’S GARAGE AND SEE MYRTLE.

•THEY ARE STOPPED BY A TRAFFIC COP. G USES A CARD FROM THE POLICE COMMISSIONER TO GET OFF.

•NICK DESCRIBES NEW YORK CITY-- IT RISES UP <IN GREAT WHITE LUMPS AND SUGAR LUMPS ALL BUILT WITH A WISH OUT OF NON-OLFACTORY MONEY. THE CITY SEEN FROM THE QUEENSBOROUGH BRIDGE IS ALWAYS THE CITY SEEN FOR THE FIRST TIME, IN ITS FIRST WILD PROMISE OF ALL THE MYSTERY AND BEAUTY IN THE WORLD.>

•THEY PASS AN EASTERN EUROPEAN FUNERAL PROCESSION.

•THREE BLACKS PASS IN A LIMO DRIVEN BY A WHITE CHAUFFEUR.

•<ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN ONCE WE CROSS OVER THIS BRIDGE, I THOUGHT, ANYTHING.>

•EVEN A GATSBY COULD HAPPEN.

•HE MEETS GATSBY FOR LUNCH. MEET MEYER WOLFSHEIM, A JEWISH GAMBLER.

•WOLFSHEIM TELLS THE STORY OF ROSY ROSENTHAL.

•WOLFSHEIM FIXED THE 1919 WORLD SERIES.

•GATSBY APOLOGIZES FOR ANNOYING NICK EARLIER. SAYS JORDAN IS A GREAT SPORTSWOMAN -- AND WOULD NEVER DO ANYTHING THAT WASN’T RIGHT.

•THEY MEET TOM AS THEY ARE LEAVING. G DISAPPEARS.

•NICK IS WITH JORDAN AT THE PLAZA HOTEL -- SHE IS TELLING NICK ABOUT GATSBY AND DAISY. <SHE IS TWO YEARS OLDER THAN NICK -- DAISY FAY FROM LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY -- ALSO OLDER THAN JORDAN.>

•JORDAN SAYS SHE MET GATSBY WITH DAISY. HE WENT OFF TO WAR. THEN SHE MARRIED TOM.

ON THE NIGHT OF HER BRIDAL DINNER, JORDAN FOUND DAISY DRUNK WITH A LETTER FROM GATSBY. SHE SAID SHE WAS BREAKING OFF THE MARRIAGE TO TOM. THEN THE NEXT DAY SHE MARRIED HIM <WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A SHIVER>.

•JORDAN MET THEM IN SANTA BARBARA. DAISY SEEMED VERY MUCH IN LOVE. BUT THEN TOM GOT INTO AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT WITH ONE OF THE MAIDS FROM THE MOTEL. IT WAS IN ALL THE PAPERS.

•THE NEXT APRIL SHE HAD HER GIRL AND THEY WEN TO FRANCE FOR A YEAR.

•THEN DAISY WENT BACK TO CHICAGO WITH TOM -- THEY RAN WITH <A FAST CROWD, ALL OF THEM YOUNG AND RICH AND WILD.> DAISY WAS NOT LIKE THE REST BECAUSE SHE DID NOT DRINK.

•JORDAN SAYS THAT DAISY REMEMBERED GATSBY WHEN SHE MENTIONED HIM THE FIRST TIME NICK CAME TO VISIT.

•JORDAN SAYS <GATSBY BOUGHT THE HOUSE SO DAISY WOULD BE JUST ACROSS THE BAY.>

•NICK SAYS: <HE CAME ALIVE TO ME, DELIVERED SUDDENLY FROM THE WOMB OF HIS PURPOSELESS SPLENDOR.

•GATSBY WANTS NICK TO INVITE JORDAN OVER FOR TEA SO THAT THEY CAN MEET. HE HAS WAITED FOR FIVE YEARS. NICK AGREES.

•JORDAN SAYS HE EXPECTED DAISY TO COME TO ONE OF HIS PARTIES BUT SHE NEVER DID.

•NICK INVITES JORDAN TO DINNER.

•<THERE ARE ONLY THE PURSUED AND THE PURSUING, THE BUSY AND THE TIRED.>

CHAP. 5 <86-102> = 16

CHAP. 6 <103-118> = 15

CHAP. 7 <119-153> = 34

CHAP. 8 <154-170> = 16

CHAP. 9 <170-189> = 19