Elements Of Dialectical Journal For The Great Gatsby

1. There is not anything I find crucial in the plot in chapter 1.

2. Nick Carraway describes himself as being a very honest person, a non-judgemental person, and he is tolerant. Nick mentions in the beginning that in his younger and vulnerable years his father give him some advice that he has revolving over in his mind forever. Nick’s father told him, “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told him, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” After that Nick’s father did not say any more, but Nick comprehended that his father meant a great aim more than that. In Nick’s outcome, he is inclined to maintain all judgements, that is a pattern that unlocked various interested natures to

Nick and made him the victim of not a insufficient veteran bores.

3. Nick describes Tom Buchanan as now having a well built straw-haired, he is thirty years of age with a hard mouth and a superior manner. Tom has two arrogant eyes had established power over his face and gave him the impression of constantly leaning aggressively forward. Nick also describes Tom Buchanan’s speaking voice, it was a gruff husky tenor, increased to the sense of fractiousness he transported. Nick mentions that there was a tap of paternal scorn in his impression and it was toward folks he like- and that there males at New Haven who did not really like him.

4. Jordan Baker is Daisy’s friend and a golf player. Nick found Miss Baker slender body, small breast, gracefulness, and being upright appealing , which she emphasized by throwing her body rearward at her shoulders like a young trainee. Nick also found her gray sun- strained eyes appealing that looked back at him with nice mutual curiosity out of a wan, glamouring, displeased face.

5. When Gatsby first see Nick he expanded out his arms towards the dark water in a inquisitive way, and far as Nick was from him. Nick thought he was shaking, Nick involuntarily took a peek at seaward and prominented nothing that might be the end of a dock.

6. The tone of Nick’s description of Tom reveals that Tom is being violent, and aggressive while talking. Nick mentions how Tom is speaking for example “Civilization’s going to pieces,” broke out Tom violently. “I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read “The Rise of the Colored Empires’ by this man Goddard?” “Why no I answered, rather surprised by his tone.”

Chapter 2
1.

I find most crucial in the plot in Chapter 2 is that Nick meet Tom’s mistress on the train because of the long wait. Another crucial part in the plot is when Tom hit Myrtle (George Wilson’s wife) in the nose because she was chanting Daisy’s name out loud. In chapter 1 it does say Tom aggressive and with a hard mouth but he did not have to put his hands on Myrtle. He should of talked to her in private instead.

2. Nick meet Tom’s mistress on the train on a Sunday afternoon both were traveling into the city. Nick mentions that the train got stuck because of where the train was at and everyone had to wait for as long as half an hour because of the long wait that is where Nick first meets Tom’s mistress. Nick had no desire to meet and greet Tom’s mistress but he did, and when they discontinued by the ashheaps he leaped his feet and taking Nick by his elbow, forced him to the car. Tom tells Nick “We’re getting off,” he insisted. “I want you to meet my girl.”

3. The first time Tom and Nick arrive at Wilson’s garage, Myrtle came downstairs very eager to see Tom she was very sensual and excited. She smiled slowly and walked right pass her husband like if he never exist Myrtle kindly shook hands with Tom, looking him directly in his eyes. After that she turned around speaking to her husband in soft voice asking him to get some chairs for everyone to sit down

on.

4.

George Wilson has blond hair with light blue eyes, he is a spiritless male, he is very pale, and is slightly handsome. George reacts happy on Tom’s arrival the because he was hoping Tom was going to sell him a automobile.

5. The valley of the ashes is bounded on one side by a little foul river. The aspects Valley of the ashes represent a low dirty washed up setting. In the text it says Nick followed Tom over a low whitewashed railroad barricade, and they walked back a hundred yards along the road beneath Doctor Eckleburg’s determine stare. Those aspects symbolize “The only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick sitting on the edge of the waste land, a sort of compact Main Street ministering to it, and contiguous to absolutely nothing.”

6. Tom attacks Myrtle at the end of the party because Myrtle was chanting Tom’s wife name (Daisy) out loud with confidence. Tom broke her nose with his unsecured hand. There was bloody towels on the bathroom floor, and the females voices scolding, and high over the uncertainty a long broken howl of

pain.

Chapter 3
1. I find crucial in the plot in chapter 3 is that everyone at Gatsby’s party is doing whatever they want to do. Everyone was slopping drunks, partying like animals, having no self control, and were not even invited. Unlike Nick everyone was drunk and out of control, another crucial part I found in the plot is when Nick found out Jordan is a cheater in golf and she is not a honest female.

2. Nick was different from the other guests at Gatsby’s party he was actually invited and he was behaving appropriately, Nick came dressed up in white flannels. Nick came to the party and was not drinking hard like everyone else.

3. When Nick first met Gatsby he thought he would be a corpulent businessman but Gatsby was a friendly person. Nick was looking for the host at the party but he was not in sight, Gatsby went up to Nick introducing himself kindly and smiling friendly. Nick had no idea Gatsby was the host of the party, after Gatsby introduced himself he had to excuse himself because a butler came to him with information that Chicago was calling him. Gatsby told Nick if he wants anything kindly request for it. Nick mentions in the text that “When he was gone I turned immediately to Jordan- constrained to assure her of my surprise. I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be florid and corpulent person in his middle years.”

4. After spending with Jordan Nick learns that she is a dishonest woman. Jordan was not able to undergo being at a disadvantage and given this resistance. Nick saw that Jordan cheated in her golf tournament, he then realizes for a moment that he thought he loved her.

5. Nick characterize the guests at Gatsby’s party as everyone acting bizarre as if they are at an amusement park, they just came with no invite. Everyone there was doing whatever they wanted to do, no one had control of themselves. Nick also characterize the guests at Gatsby’s party as everyone had full of laughter, being very jolly, and how they danced very weird and overwhelming.

6. The sense I am getting from Nick’s description of the party is Nick was not expecting this type of activity to go on at the Jazz Age. Nick turned around and saw females being out of control going at it with their husbands and not conducting themselves. In the text Nick says “The large room was full of people. One of the girls in yellow was playing the piano, and beside her stood a tall, red-haired young lady from a famous chorus, engaged in song. She had drunk a quantity of champagne, and during the course of her song she had decided, inceptly, that everything was very sad- she was not only singing she was weeping too. Whenever there was a pause in the song she filled it with gasoline, broken, sobs, and then took up the lyric again in a quavering soprano.” Nick also mentions “She had a fight with a man who says he’s her husband,” explained a girl at my elbow.” “I looked around most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands.”

Chapter 4
1. I find most crucial in the plot in chapter 4 is that Daisy is dating military and non-military men, becoming gay, becoming engage to a man from New Orleans one month then five months later she married Tom Buchanan. All of that to squash her feelings for Gatsby which I think is pathetic. I think she should talk to Gatsby face-to-face like he wanted and squash feelings like that.

2. Gatsby tells Nick he is the son of a few wealthy folks in the Middle West and that they all are deceased now. Gatsby says he was brought up in America but was taught at Oxford, because all of his progenitors have been taught at Oxford for decades. Gatsby also told Nick going to Oxford was a family tradition, Nick ask Gatsby what part of the Middle West he was from Gatsby told him San Francisco. Gatsby also tells Nick that all of his progenitors are deceased and he came into a good deal of cash.

3. On the day of Daisy’s wedding Nick found her laying on her bed in her flowered dress and was very wasted. Daisy had a bottle of Sauterne in one hand and a note in the other hand. Daisy yanked the string from the pearls and said take them back to whoever they belong to, and she also said tell everyone she changed her mind about the wedding. Daisy did all of that because of a letter she received from Gatsby.

4. Gatsby wants to have tea in Nick’s house with Daisy because he wants to see her again and show her his mansion it has been forever since they seen each other in Chicago. Gatsby does not Nick very well and he ask if anyone knew her and Nick was one of the people. Gatsby ask Jordan to invite Daisy over to Nick’s house to sit down and have tea.

5. When Gatsby goes overseas Daisy began to pack a bag to go to New York to her goodbyes to a soldier she was dating the soldier was going overseas. Daisy did not speak to her family for several weeks, she dated other soldiers but not long. Daisy dated a few flat-footed, short-sighted young males in town who could not get into the army at all. Daisy’s behavior shows that she is still in love with Gatsby but to squash her feelings for Gatsby she began dating military and non-military men, she became gay, becomes engage to a man from New Orleans in February, gets married to Tom Buchanan in June. “By the next autumn she was gay again, gay as ever. She had a debut after the Armistice, and in February she was presumably engaged to a man from New Orleans. In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago, with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before.”

Chapter 5
1. I do not find anything crucial in the plot in chapter 5.

2. The meeting between Gatsby and Daisy at first was awkward he barely spoke to her, Gatsby and Daisy was saying little words to each other. Gatsby caught the clock that almost fell to the ground and put it back in its place, he got so nervous he went into a shadow. Nick began to conversate with Daisy then he decides to excuse himself to go to the kitchen, Gatsby then follows Nick into the kitchen wanting to talk to him saying the meeting is a terrible mistake. Nick says Gatsby is just embarrassed and so is Daisy he also says Gatsby is acting like a little boy and he is being rude, Gatsby then raised his hands to stop him from talking. After that Gatsby went back to the room to sit and chat with Daisy while Nick left from the back way to leave the two alone.

3. When Nick returns to the house after a half an hour Daisy and Gatsby were sitting on the couch and the two had different energy this time. Nick saw Daisy’s face filled with tears she got up and wiped them with her handkerchief. Gatsby was glowing he was filled with joy without saying a word or giving a signal.

4. Gatsby’s feelings at the end of this chapter is happy because his relationship with Daisy is back on track. At first he was very nervous reuniting with her but after spending time with her his feelings alternated Daisy bought old memories of the two from five years ago that led him to getting back on track. Gatsby was so happy he holds her hands, she said something low in his ear he revolved toward her with a rush of emotion, both of them forgot all about Nick both of them looked back at him, remotely, possessed by extreme life.

5. All of Gatsby’s shirts were colorful with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, and monograms of Indian blue. Daisy bent her dome into the shirts and began to cry intensely. Daisy says to Gatsby sobbing, “They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such — such beautiful shirts before.”

6. The weather in the chapter is heavy rain a few times it rained heavy a few times it did not rain but it mostly rained. This reflect the emotional climate of Gatsby and Daisy is that they nervous, gloomy in the beginning, and at the end happy at first they both are at an awkward stage in the beginning of the chapter. Later on in the chapter they finally are jolly and filled with joy “I walked out the back way — just as Gatsby had when he had made his nervous circuit of the house half an hour before — and ran for a huge black knotted tree, whose massed leaves made a fabric against the rain. Once more it was pouring, and my irregular lawn, well-shaved by Gatsby’s gardener, abounded in small, muddy swamps and prehistoric marshes.”

Chapter 6
1. I find crucial in this plot in chapter 6 is Gatsby wanting Daisy to go to Tom and tell him him she never loved him. Gatsby did not want anything less of Daisy he just wanted Daisy to deliver that message.

2. James Gatz changed his name when he was seventeen. James changed his name because his parents were unsuccessful and shiftless farm folks. His vision had not accepted them as his parents at all, he did not want to think of himself as a poor male, James wanted to visualize himself as a rich person.

3. Daisy’s real response to the party is that she was offended according to Nick. Daisy was offended by the party because she thinks it was not a gesture but an emotion, she did not have that of much fun at the party. Only time she enjoyed the party is when she was dancing and spending alone time with Gatsby, Daisy only wanted to be alone with Gatsby all night but that did not happen.

4. Gatsby told Nick he wants Daisy to tell Tom she never loved him. Gatsby wants Daisy to tell Tom she never loved him is so they can start fresh of their relationship , Gatsby wanted nothing less of Daisy but to just blatantly inform Tom the message without hesitation.

5. Nick tells Gatsby you cannot repeat the past, Gatsby did not believe what Nick just told him. Gatsby wants to fix everything just the way it was five years ago with Daisy. “I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” I ventured. “You can’t repeat the past.”
“Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!” “I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before,” he said, nodding determinedly. “She’ll see.”
Chapter 7
1. I find crucial in the plot of this chapter is Tom witnessing that Daisy told Gatsby she loves him he also witnessed that the both of them could not keep their eyes off each other. Another part I find crucial part is when George locks his wife in the bedroom because he feels she is having an affair and he is not letting her out until the day after tomorrow.

2. Gatsby stopped giving parties is so he can get nearer to Daisy. Now that Gatsby and Daisy reunited at Nick’s house he wants to get closer with her again, Gatsby fired every servant in his house he mentions Daisy comes over often in the afternoons. Gatsby obviously just want to be alone with Daisy and she loves that idea a lot, she is the reason he stopped giving parties because she hated them.

3. Tom first realize that Daisy loves is when the two stares at each other very sensual in the eyes. Both of them staring at each other lonely in space, then Tom witnessed that Daisy told Gatsby she loves him. Tom was dazed his mouth opened, he glanced at Gatsby and back at Daisy as if he had just remembered her as someone he saw a long time ago.

4. When Myrtle Wilson is in her car she looks out the window and see Tom and Jordan together she then gets upset because she thought Tom’s wife is Daisy not Jordan. Myrtle is jealous of Daisy, “Her expression was curiously familiar — it was an expression I had often seen on women’s faces, but on Myrtle Wilson’s face it seemed purposeless and inexplicable until I realized that her eyes, wide with jealous terror, were fixed not on Tom, but on Jordan Baker, whom she took to be his wife.

5. George locks Myrtle in the bedroom is because he feels that she is having an affair. George says he going to leave her locked up in the bedroom until the day after tomorrow and then they will be moving away.
Gatsby does that standing alone outside of the Buchanan’s house first time he sees Nick stretching out his hands. Now at the end of this chapter Gatsby is standing alone outside again looking out at Daisy’s house with his hands in his pocket. “He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight — watching over nothing.”

Chapter 8
1. I find crucial in the plot of chapter 8 is when George talks to his neighbor Michaelis about how Myrtle got murdered by a car by a man that was the driver. I also find crucial in the plot of chapter 8 is when George found evidence that Myrtle was an affair he found a dog leash wrapped in tissue paper on her bureau.

2. On the night of the accident Gatsby tells Nick the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody. Gatsby also tells Nick the first time he met Daisy in Louisville in 1917 when he was based at Camp Taylor. Gatsby tells Nick his stories because he is now comfortable around Nick and he feels that he can trust Nick with telling his stories without telling anyone else.

3. George spend the rest of the night talking to Michaelis about his love life with Myrtle. Michaelis was asking George some personal questions about his love life. They even talked about how Myrtle got murdered by a car by the driver she went to go speak to him but he would not stop.

4. The evidence Wilson found that Myrtle was having an affair is when he found a dog leash wrapped in tissue paper on her bureau. Wilson could not figure out why Myrtle had a brand new dog leash because they did not have a dog. Wilson remembered when he told Myrtle that God is always watching everything that she does and that she cannot fool him.

5. To George the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg symbolizes God. Wilson recalls telling Myrtle she may not trick him, but she cannot fool god and that he knows everything she has been doing. The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg was standing behind Michaelis saw eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg with a shocked look on his face, George then repeats “God sees everything,”repeated Wilson.”

Chapter 9
1. I find crucial in the plot of chapter 9 is George Wilson going crazy and killing himself and Gatsby with a gun. Another crucial part I found in the plot of chapter 9 is Nick describing Tom and Daisy as careless and how they make a mess and have someone else clean it up for them. A last crucial part I found in the plot of chapter 9 is when Nick found out Gatsby was passed away from a man name Slage that called from Chicago.

2. The motive publicly given for George’s murder of Gatsby is that George was a madman. A detective, utilized the tone madman as George went crazy when he looked over George’s body that day in the afternoon. The random authority of his expression set the clue for the newspaper reports the next morning.

3. The phone call from Chicago tell us that Mr. Gatsby is dead. A guy’s voice was on the phone when Nick picked it up the guy said that Slage was talking he was speaking real fast saying Mr. Gatsby is dead. Then there was a long quietness on the other end of the wire, followed by an interjection.

4. Gatsby’s father Henry Gatz is proud of him because he raised a fine-appearing, gentlemanly young man. Gatsby’s father is also proud of him because he had a schedule of his day written down in his book nice and neat and put together . Gatsby’s father did not want to close Gatsby’s book he read each schedule out loud to Nick with excitement.

5. Nick characterize Tom and Daisy as careless people. Nick says that made they made folks clean up whatever mess they had made. “ They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . .”
6. The green light symbolizes Gatsby’s dreams. Nick sat down, he then saw the green light the first time Gatsby stretched his arms towards it and picked it out at the end of Daisy’s dock and thought of Gatsby. “And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.” Another evidence from the text is “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . .”

Final Question
The elements of the Jazz Age that Fitzgerald includes in the Great Gatsby is everyone dresses up classy, adults only because it is at night, everyone dances, and be full of laughter. The other elements of the Jazz Age is to also have fun, dance to the slow music, have drinks, a cocktail floats around hourly, and have a band with instruments. Other elements of the Jazz Age is a woman sings in Jazz so people can get together and slowly dance, someone in the back plays a piano, and the violin. Last elements of the Jazz Age Fitzgerald includes is everyone having healthy conversations, a bass , drum, a voice of orchestra, saxophones, trombones, cornets, piccolos, and low and high drums.