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Analysis. Chapter 5 is the pivotal chapter of The Great Gatsby, as Gatsby’s reunion with Daisy is the hinge on which the novel swings. Before this event, the story of their relationship exists only in prospect, as Gatsby moves toward a dream that no one else can discern. Afterward, the plot shifts its focus to the romance between Gatsby and ...
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Gatsby is nervous on the day of the meeting. Though it's raining he sends a man to cut Nick's grass, and also makes sure Nick's house is full of flowers. Gatsby disappears just as Daisy arrives. When Gatsby arrives at Nick's front door, he looks pale and deathlike, and knocks over a clock by mistake. Gatsby's blunder with the clock is symbolic.
In chapter five of The Great Gastby, Nick's home is described as modest and ordinary. A hallway leads from the front door to the living room. There is a kitchen, a pantry, and a back door out. The ...
Nick is insulted by Gatsby's attempt to bribe him, but they keep talking about the plans for the meeting. Gatsby is anxious on the day of his reunion with Daisy. Despite the rain, he arranges for someone to cut Nick's lawn and fills his house with flowers. Just after Daisy arrives, Gatsby vanishes. Nick lets him in again by the front door.
Chapter 5 Summary and Analysis. PDF Cite. Daisy agrees to come to tea, curious as to why Nick told her not to bring Tom. Gatsby has had the grass cut and sent over a greenhouse worth of flowers ...
It makes Gatsby seem an extraordinary figure, with an almost god-like capacity to dispense light or restore sunshine after the rain. Earlier, on a more mundane level, we have witnessed Gatsby’s extravagant use of electric lighting in his house and at his parties. Nick compares Gatsby’s mansion, ablaze with light, with the World’s Fair ...
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Chapter 5. Previous Next. When I came home to West Egg that night I was afraid for a moment that my house was on fire. Two o'clock and the whole corner of the peninsula was blazing with light which fell unreal on the shrubbery and made thin elongating glints upon the roadside wires.
