Brandon McClung, Ian Edmiston, Luke Lish, Cole Haynes
Symbols
•An
important symbol in this chapter is Gatsby’s wealth and material possessions.
They symbolize the American Dream of the 1920’s and everyone wanted to be like
Gatsby.
• pg 49- “Anyhow, he gives large parties,” said Jordan. “And I like large parties.
They’re so intimate.”
•The idea of East Egg vs. West Egg is also a symbol in chapter 3. Eggs are white on
the outside, representing purity and honesty. Both Eggs act as if they are the perfect.
Then the inside of an egg is yellow, that no one can see, representing corruption and
deceit between the two eggs. East Egg thinks they’re better than west, but they both
secretly have their issues.
•Pg 44- “Instead of rambling, this part had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and
assumed itself to the function of representing the staid nobility of the countryside –
East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its
spectroscopic gayety. “
Plot
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Nick gets invited and goes to Gatsby’s party
Sees all of the rumors and gossiping people were doing
He meets Jordan Baker
Having curiosity about who Gatsby was, Jordan and Nick set out to find
him
They run into a middle-aged man sitting in the library
Then they go outside to see the entertainment and sit down at a table
with a nice young man
The young man turns out to be Gatsby who Nick had served in the war
with
Jordan has a meeting with Gatsby and comes out saying he had told
her something extraordinary
The party then ends and Nick starts walking home when he sees the
man from the library outside his car which he ran into a ditch
Him and the man talk about their lives to each other
Nick tells him how he does more with his time then attend parties and
that he is starting to see Jordan Baker but doesn’t like the type of
person she is because she is dishonest but he is attracted to her
Character Development
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Gatsby-
He finally meets Nick at one of this huge
parties that he hosts
People speculate about how he has made
all his money
Nick learns that Gatsby is an oxford man
He tells Jordan something amazing but
doesn’t talk about it
Nick observes that he seems detached and
far away from most people.
Character Development
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 NickFinally gets to meet Gatsby, although unaware of it at the
beginning, at the party he was invited to
Finds out he has seen Gatsby before when they were in
the War
Starts spending much time with Jordan and wants to end
his commitments at home so he can start a relationship
with her.
“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in
others - poor young clerks who loitered in front of
windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant
dinner - young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most
poignant moments of night and life.” --Nick
Character Development
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 JordanGatsby tells her something very interesting but
we don’t know what it is yet.
She starts spending a lot of time with Nick and
enjoys the time she has with him.
Jordan is very good at golf.
“Sorry you didn’t win.” “That was for the golf
tournament. She had lost in the finals the week
before.”
Theme
A theme
in this chapter is the extensively rich sometimes
exaggerate their wealth to an unreasonable level. Nick tells the
reader that Gatsby has 2 motor boats, a Rolls Royce, eight
servants, a huge mansion, a personal gardener, and a
chauffeur. At the party he is throwing, he has an orchestra
playing, an unending supply of liquor, tons of snacks, and
buffets. No regular weekend party needs all of this stuff.
On pg. 39, Nick tells the reader of the extravagance of
Gatsby’s wealth. “There was a machine in the kitchen which
could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour
if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler’s
thumb.” I’ve never heard of such a device, and it seems a little
unnecessary. Also, having a butler doing this is also a bit
extreme.