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Daisy arrives, but when Nick brings her into the house, he finds that Gatsby has suddenly disappeared. There is a knock at the door. Gatsby enters, having returned from a walk around the house in the rain. At first, Gatsby’s reunion with Daisy is terribly awkward. Gatsby knocks Nick’s clock over and tells Nick sorrowfully that the meeting ...
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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 ...
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.
Oct 3, 2024 · Daisy comes in, she's a bit wet, Gatsby wants to make an entrance so he stands outside in the puddles and rings the doorbell, Nick tries to leave them alone and runs out into the rain for a while ...
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When back in West Egg the same evening, Nick notices that Gatsby’s house is lit up, but without a party. Gatsby walks over to Nick. Nick assures him that he will phone Daisy the next day and invite her round. Gatsby proposes a vague but lucrative business opportunity, likely illegal. Nick declines. The next day, Nick phones Daisy and invites her ov...
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. Turning a corner I saw that it was Gatsby’s house, lit from tower to cellar. At first I thou...
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Let there be light. Nick describes Gatsby, glowing after his conversation with Daisy, as ‘an ecstatic patron of recurrent light’ (p. 86). This is poetic language, rich with potential meaning. It makes Gatsby seem an extraordinary figure, with an almost god-like capacity to dispense light or restore sunshine after the rain.
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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.
