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We Are the Best. Lauren: song and (creative drama thing) Jon: Wanted poster and silent film Nate: Parody Caitlin: website? we'll talk... Pauline: Creative Art poemy thing Here's the book online. Check it. http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/gatsby/
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 * CHAPTER 7 NOTES**

//· Heat// o “The next day was broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the summer” (114) o At the Buchanan’s the conversation is quite “heated” and continues in its intensity in the city. Everyone is irritable and futile attempts are made to cool off the hot situation with drinks and ice (129). o “The thing to do is to forget about the heat,” said Tom impatiently. “You make it ten times worse by crabbing about it” (126). Tom wants life to go back to how it was before Gatsby. //· Familiar Scene - same as beginning// o Jordan and Daisy dressed in white on the couch, Tom leaves for a phone call (116). o Nothing has changed – they continue to lead their same meaningless lives: “What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon?” cried Daisy, “and the day after that, and the next thirty years?” (118) o Near the last day of summer § The story has come full circle and now with the end of the summer comes the end of Gatsby and effort to win Daisy. · //“Golden Girl” - Daisy// o “Her voice is full of money” (120). “High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl…” àshe’s just shallow and rich · //Gatsby’s Yellow Car// o Black was the uniform color of cars for the time, but Gatsby in his materialistic pursuit of Daisy bought a flashy //yellow// car. o His car leads to the death of Myrtle and eventually his own: materialism àdestructive · //Colors// o Yellow: continues to be wealth and corruption – Gatsby’s car o White: “We’re all white here” (130). Fitzgerald secretly slips this line in by Jordan on the talk of race, but its double meaning echoes the characterization of nearly everyone in the room. § Carelessness and shallowness · //Nick turns 30!// o “Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. But there was Jordan beside me, who, unlike Daisy, was too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age” (135). o Turning point – he fully recognizes the foolishness of the other characters and that he should be moving on with his own life. § Also a turning point in novel · //Doctor T.J. Eckleburg’s faded eyes// o God and Nick are growing tired of watching the meaninglessness of the other character’s lives (122).
 * Symbolism**

Chapter 7 (Lauren Lynch)
 * Plot**

Jay Gatsby fires all of his servants and hires inept servants. He found new servants that are not as eligible, but he feels that they will not gossip. This is especially important because Daisy is over most afternoons, and he does not want anyone finding out about their affair. When Gatsby gets rid of his best servants and the new ones do not do a good job, he sacrifices his reputation as a wealthy and put together man so that he can have a relationship with Daisy. "The grocery boy reported that the kitchen looked like a pigsty and the general opinion in the village was that the new people weren't servants at all," (120). Gatsby also puts his parties on hold so that he can spend more time with Daisy and make her happy. These actions show that Gatsby is willing to sacrifice his wealthy and glamorous lifestyle for his relationship with Daisy. Gatsby's dream was once to be a successful and rich man, but once he achieved that goal he found himself more lonely and miserable than ever. Nick has lunch at Daisy's house with Jordan, Tom, and Gatsby. During the conversation at lunch, Tom notices the way Tom looks at Daisy and assumes that she is being unfaithful to him. This is the first time that Tom recognizes a connection between Gatsby and Daisy, but he is positive that she is having an affair with him. The five of them drive to New York City. They stop at Wilson's gas station, where Wilson tells Tom that he thinks Myrtle is cheating on him, and Tom can tell that this news has hit Wilson hard. Tom feels guilty and notices the consequences of his actions. At the Plaza hotel, a confrontation between Tom and Gatsby occurs. We find out about Gatsby's illegal activities as well. Gatsby defends the love between himself and Daisy, but Tom tells Gatsby that Daisy loves him. He gets Daisy to admit this and then sends her home. When Tom, Jordan, and Nick arrive at Wilson's gas station on the way home from New York, they learn that Myrtle Wilson was struck by a car, and killed. Nick thinks that it was Daisy and Gatsby that hit Myrtle. Daisy is unable to stand up for herself and what she wants. "He was talking intently across the table at her and in his earnestness his hand had fallen upon and covered her own. Once in a while she looked up and nodded in agreement. They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or ale-yet they weren't unhappy either" (152). Gatsby is left alone at the end of the chapter. "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,"(153).

ThEmEs This chapter displays the most passionate and fragile version of Gatsby we have seen thus far. While he stands alone in the garden, concerned for Daisy’s health, the reader witnesses the most noble and chivalrous act of any character. //“So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight-watching over nothing.” (145)// Acceptable “High Society”, represented by Daisy and Tom, is revealed to have shallow views. Both characters are susceptible to the pressures of staying consistently glamorous and respectable. Their actions seem weak and petty in comparison to Gatsby’s dramatic humbleness. Daisy drops a new found love in a heartbeat after her husband spends a minute accusing him of illegal behavior. //“..and he began to talk excitedly to Daisy, denying everything, defending his name against accusations that had not been made. But with every word, she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up,..” (134)//
 * 1. Society disregards the true character of an individual. Breeding is key.**

Another case of a man’s life being shattered by the unsuccessful pursuit of a woman. It happens so often in novels that one begins to believe women are in fact the root of all evil, or truly the inventors of original sin. Daisy represented everything Gatsby wanted to achieve. Her money dripping voice and white cocktail dresses are so tempting that it destroys his sense of reality and self-awareness. //“I’d be damned if I’d go in; I’d had enough of all them for one day, and suddenly that included Jordan too.” (142)// We learn the American Dream is impossible, because of the setting. Gatsby is finally standing where the green light shines at Daisy’s backyard, yet he has not fulfilled his hopes and dreams. //“‘What are you doing?’, I inquired. ‘Just standing here, old sport.’ Somehow, that seemed a despicable occupation. For all I knew he was going to rob the house in a moment; I wouldn’t have been surprised to see sinister faces, the faces of ‘Wolfsheim’s people,’ behind him in the dark shrubbery.” (143)//
 * 2. Women are not worth it. Sexism….. and The American Dream is unattainable.**

//“There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.”(145)// In this line Fitzgerald exposes the largest barrier between new money and old money. By displaying their intimacy and bonds, the reader realizes that Gatsby was never close to achieving his goals. This is a microcosm for all socio economic issues of the 1920s. Not only can Gatsby never penetrate the cliques of high society, neither can the new money populations that were sprouting up in that era. It is this divine feeling of justified glory. We see this idea of supremacy repeated constantly throughout history. (Hitler, imperialism, slavery, segregation and so on.
 * 3. The shallow wealthy whites deserve each other. It’s us versus them.**

//“’No, I just remembered that today’s my birthday.’” (135)//
 * 4. One forgets themselves when tied up in the insignificant affairs of others.**

Fitzgerald is bestowing advice to the reader through Nick’s fazed comment. He seems to say, “Don’t you get it, these quarrels between socialites are so ridiculous and irrelevant to anything purposeful.” Nick’s line reminds me of the tourists from The Old Man and the Sea, with their reactions to the shark bones. It puts the whole ordeal into a perspective that wants the reader to reconsider the value of the issues at hand.
 * Character || Notes || Quotes ||
 * Gatsby || Dismisses servants
 * Wants to appear mysterious
 * Wants to keep affair unknown
 * //Betrayal// = everyone knows but those involved are ignorant to their obviousnessTrue feelings about Daisy are revealed
 * Daisy was an illusion, a dream he chased for 5 years
 * He loves the idea of Daisy || 114: “I wanted somebody who wouldn’t gossip. Daisy comes over quite often – in the afternoons.”

120: “Her voice is full of money.” ||
 * Nick || Suddenly siding with Tom
 * Jumps to Tom’s defense with Daisy while Tom is on the phone
 * Although he seems to be friends with Gatsby, Tom suddenly decides to defend Tom
 * Again comes to Tom’s side at Myrtle’s death, pointing out Gatsby’s car and ultimately revealing Gatsby to WilsonSick vs well
 * Nick goes on and on about Wilson’s physical state
 * Wait, Nick doesn’t pass judgment? This looks a little judgmental to me.Thirtieth Birthday
 * Nick begins to realize his own mortality and the way his life will pan out in the next decadeHe begins to rationalize his current lifestyle and how/if it will endure in the future || 140: “He says he knows the car that did it...It was a yellow car.”

124: “It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.”

135: “a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair.” ||
 * Daisy || We see her daughter for the first time
 * Awkward mother/daughter interaction in front of guests
 * Daughter is a showpiece
 * Goes back to original “a beautiful little fool” remarkConstantly flirts with Gatsby, even in front of Tom
 * Feels invisible to her husbandBreaks up the constant Gatsby/Tom fighting || 117: “That’s because your mother wanted to show you off.” Her face bent into the single wrinkle of the small white neck. “You dream, you. You absolute little dream.”

116: “You know I love you.” She murmured.

133: “I won’t stand this!” || Constantly feels the need to justify that he better than Gatsby Brings out the truth ||
 * Tom || Knows about the affair, //Betrayal// style
 * 122: “Oxford, New Mexico”

131: “And what’s more I love Daisy too.” ||
 * Myrtle || Dies || Doesn't say much ||