On and On...
- James Gatz: Gatsby's legal name (changed @17)
- Gatsby Background: parents were unsuccessful farmers, worked as a janitor/personal assistant, made his own success
- JG: "Platonic conception of himself"-was imaginative about his life
- "He was a son of God"- inventor
- Contemptuous of women
- Party w/ TB and JG present= TENSION
- JG: "I know your wide" -THE IRONY
- "She didn't have a good time"- proves Gatsby does all these parties for Daisy
- "...she would go up to Tom and say: 'I never loved you'. After had obliterated that three sentence....she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house-just as it was five years ago"
- "You can't repeat the past" -ouch
- "I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before...she'll see" -The longing and even desperation
- Beautiful descriptive details about D and JG's first kiss
-This chapter was pure background. The interviewer served as the sneaky opener to Gatsby's true past. We learn about how hard this man worked to become who he is his character is shown to be determined and creative to say the least. As for his relationship with Daisy. Is beyond measure he wants her. He needs her.
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