Friday, December 4, 2015
The Great Gatsby Chapter 6 (my opinion, review/summary)
In this chapter you learn everything about Jay Gatsby. "James Gatz-that was really, or at least legally, his name." (104) He was playing around the beach when he was around seventeen and because of this he met Dan Cody. "He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career-" (104) "who borrowed a row-boat, pulled out to the Tuolomee and informed Cody that a wind might catch him and break him up in half an hour." (104) "The Truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself-his father's business, the service of vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty." Basically, James aka Jay saved Dan Cody and that James aka Jay is not really who he said he was. Dan Cody appreciated Gatsby very much because he employed Jay to many jobs. "He was employed in a vague personal capacity-while he remained with Cody he was in turn steward, mate, skipper, secretary, and even jailor- the arrangement lasted five years." (106) In the beginning Gatsby tells Nick he inherited money from his rich dead family. "My family all died and I came into a good deal of money" (70) but the truth is he inherited it from Dan Cody. "-it was Cody that he inherited money-a legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars"(107) But this only informed into the chapter 6 because "but I've put it down here with the idea of exploding those first wild rumors about his antecedents, which weren't even fairly true." (107) next after him explaining all of that, Nick went over to Gatsby's house and there were "They were a party of three on horseback-Tom and a man named Sloane and a pretty woman in a brown riding habit who had been there previously" (107)
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