The Great Gatsby: Study Guide Name: Chapter V 1) What does Nick offer to do for Gatsby? What does Gatsby immediately offer to do for Nick? What is
Nick’s response?
2) How does Gatsby help prepare Nick’s house for tea? What does Gatsby wear on the day of the meeting?
What does this reveal about Gatsby’s tactics for winning Daisy back?
3) Describe the initial meeting between Gatsby and Daisy.
4) Explain Nick’s comment to Gatsby: “You’re acting like a little boy” (93). Do you agree or disagree?
Why or why not?
5) How does the shift in weather mirror a shift in mood when Nick returns to his house?
6) Why does Gatsby show Daisy his house? What does Nick mean when he says that Gatsby “revalued
everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from [Daisy]” (96-97)?
7) The green light resurfaces in this chapter. Nick reflects, “Possible it had occurred to [Gatsby] that the
colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever” (98). Why has the light symbolically vanished?
8) Do you think Daisy lived up to Gatsby’s expectations? Defend your answer.
9) This chapter should be titled _____________________________________________________ because…