The Great Gatsby weekend project

For my weekend project I decided to do a poem since I think it would fit best with the book. Some of this poem was made already but I added in my own parts too:

Daisy and Tom look at each other for a moment in silence.
They say Tom's got some woman in New YorkBut you shouldn't believe everything you hear.She smiles slowly andwalking through her husband as if he is a ghostshakes hands with Tomlooking him flush in the eye.Wilson thinks she goes to see her sister in New York.Tom's the first sweetie she ever had.They stand face to faceDiscussing in impassioned voicesWhether Mrs. Wilson has any rightTo mention Daisy's name.Daisy!Daisy!Daisy!Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan breaks her nose with his open hand.Daisy glances up and holds out her handHer eyes fasten with an awed expression on her little finger;The knuckle is black and blue.A brute of a manA greatBigHulkingPhysical specimen of a—You must know Gatsby.The officer looked at DaisyIn a way that every young girl wants to be looked at some time.His name was Jay Gatsby.It's a strange coincidence.But it's not a coincidence at all.He wants her to see his house.He's afraid, he's waited so long.He's waited five years.The exhilarating ripple of her voice is a wild tonic in the rain.We haven't met for many years.Five years.You can't repeat the past.He kissed her.She blossomed for him like a flowerOne autumn nightFive years ago.You can't repeat the past.Daisy and Tom sit opposite each other at the kitchen table.They're not happyAnd yet they're not unhappy.No telephone message arrivedGatsby didn't believe it would come.He no longer cares.He has paid a high priceFor living too long with a single dream.Five years next November.Mr. Gatsby is dead.

The End of Gatsby

In the end of the book I was a little stunned at how Gatsby does end up dying. Although I still don't really understand the book, I think I will have to reread it to understand the real meaning but I still have trouble with it.

It was an interesting book but it feels like it had ended too abruptly, almost like I was missing something that I couldn't quite find.

Chapter 8 Active Reading Notes

So far, everyone, especially Wilson are in shock that his wife had died but nobody except Nick, Gatsby, and Daisy know how she died.

Nick meets with Gatsby and Gatsby tells him how he and Daisy met a while back while he was still and Officer in the Army. Nick learns about how Daisy found Gatsby interesting because he new different things than her because of the difference between their lifestyles.

Meanwhile, Wilson admits that he has a way of finding things out and he goes looking for the owner of the yellow car that didn't stop for Myrtle and asks directions to Gatsby's house.

Gatsby tells his staff that the car is not to be brought out under any circumstances and although it was Daisy's fault for killing Myrtle he would take the blame.

The ending of the chapter really confused me: Nick and Gatsby's staff go looking for Gatsby and they talk about a red ring in the pool as well as a mattress in the pool and then suddenly they are talking about Wilson's body and the ending of the holocaust?

Chapter 7 Active Reading Notes

Daisy, Tom, Nick, and Gatsby are all having tea at Gatsby's house during the hot weather.

Daisy starts asking everyone if they want to go into town for a drink so after a little more talking they all decide to go.

As they are all about to leave for town, Daisy says that she wants to ride in the coupe with Gatsby instead of the other car with Tom.

Tom stops for gas on the way down into town and feels a little guilty for ruining the gas station owner's life by having an affair with his wife.

At the end of the chapter all of the guests are in a room that they rented and are about to make mint juleps when everything explodes and Gatsby argues with Tom that he loves Daisy and that Daisy never loved Tom.

Chapter 6 Active Reading Notes

Gatsby had invited Daisy and Tom over for a party and Nick arrives as well. This is the first time Tom meets Gatsby face to face.

Eventually Gatsby and Daisy begin dancing while Tom walks around the party and talks to other women.

During this time Nick is sitting at a table with some guests that are "tipsy" as he calls them and he listens to their conversation.

Later on in the party Gatsby asks Nick to stay and he tells him about how it used to be with Daisy and that he wants it to be that way again.

Chapter 5 active reading notes

I couldn't find the outline on how to do these so I am going to just go with the flow.

When Daisy comes over to the house to have tea with Nick and Gatsby, I don't really understand why Gatsby says that it was a bad idea to set up the meeting, that is what he wanted wasn't it?

It seems as though Gatsby is trying to impress Daisy by showing off his house and all of his nice clothes along with his swimming pool and hydroplane.

Lastly, I hope we can discuss the ending of this chapter, it seems that Gatsby and Daisy forgot that Nick was there yet Daisy knew but Nick left them alone in the house together and walked back out into the rain alone.

April 8th homework

I think that I was able to do decently on my essay today, although it would not have hurt to study the end of the book more to really get a grasp on how it ended. I hope that we can have a discussion in class on how Brave New World ended so I can better understand it.