Up to this point, these two chapters
are the most intense ones; and maybe they will be the most intense chapters of
the whole book. Chapter 4 gives us plenty of information about Gatsby. Here we
find out that Gatsby and Daisy were deeply in love before he left for the war.
This was a total surprise! There were foreshadows before but you would never
relate Daisy to Gatsby. Then, Nick and Gatsby made “secret arrangements”. In
chapter 5, Nick invites Daisy to his house for some tea and tells her to come
without her husband. Once she comes, Gatsby suddenly appears, just as it was a
simple coincidence for them to meet; however, Gatsby has dreamed about it and
planned it in his head for many years.
Finally in these two chapters we learn
more about Daisy. When she was 18 years old she was the most popular of all
young girls in Louisville, “and all day long the telephone rang in her house
and excited young officers from Camp Taylor demanded the privilege of
monopolizing her that night. Anyways, for an hour!” and that is when Gatsby and
Daisy met, but when they were together time did not exist. Everything ended
when he left for the war and Daisy’s parents did not let her go to say good
bye. Then she got married to Tom Buchanan, half without wanting it but just to
keep going with her life. When she sees Gatsby after such a long time, she does
not know (nor him) how to react. She is embarrassed but sweet at the same time,
says to him “I certainly am awfully glad to see you again”. Later she cries but
then they both forget the whole world and talk happily.
Picture: when Daisy and Gatsby meet at Nick's house. Gatsby arranged all the flowers and also made his gardener cut Nick's grass.
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