Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Gatsby Notes and Thoughts Chapter/ Pgs.103-119

  • An ambitious young reporter from New York shows up at Gadsby's door one morning.
  • Legends say that Gatsby has a connection to " underground pipe-line".
  • Gatsby doesn't really live in his big mansion, but in a boat like a house that was moved secretly up and down the Long Island shore.
  • James Gatz is Gatsby's real name before he changed it at the age f 17 when he witnesses the beginning of his career.
  • Gatsby's parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people.
  • Gatsby sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.
  • Gatsby for over a year was a clam digger and a salmon fisher to buy himself food and bed.
  • I don't find it nice that Gatsby describes virgins as ignorant.
  • Gatsby thinks low of women and finds them easy.
  • Gatsby was on five year trip on the boat of Dan Cody.
  •  Dan Cody inhospitably died one week later after Ella Kaye came on board on the boat from Boston.
  • I think Ella Kaye was able to separate Dan from his money ( She killed him " most likely") 
  • Gatsby inherited money from Dan Cody ( 25,000 dollar legacy)
  • The millions that remain of Dan Cody's money went to Ella Kaye ( " Of course it would have")
  • Nick visits Gatsby's home after not being there for a while.
  • Gatsby, Nick e, Mr. Solgan, and Tome are having dinner together.
  • Tom is known as the "Polo Player" to Gatsby and not Mr. Buchanan.
  • Tom describes Gatsby as a " Big Bootleggers"
  • Gatsby wants to marry Daisy back in Louisville. and make everything like it was 5 years ago.
  • Gatsby tinks you can change the past but Nick doesn't.

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