The Great Gatsby Chapter V

Summary In chapter 5 of The Great Gatsby, Gatsby tells Nick to invite Daisy over for tea. The tea party took place at Nick’s house for common ground, except Gatsby took it upon himself to prepare Nick’s house for Daisy’s standards. When it started out, Gatsby was very nervous to try and converse with Daisy, so Nick gives him a quick pep-talk and tells him to go in there and talk to her. When he starts talking, he does not stop, and they are flirting and chatting up a storm. It was almost like Nick wasn’t even there, he left so that they could be alone. Being alone inspired them, so they packed everything up, and headed next door to Gatsby’s house. When they got there, Gatsby was playfully throwing shirts at Daisy, and it says “Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.” Daisy then said that with, “They’re such beautiful shirts, it makes me sad because I’ve never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.”

Syntax -Page 96 “I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn't be over-dreamed - that voice was a deathless song.” Fitzgerald makes another reference to Daisy’s voice, emphasizing the importance of it. He used the metaphor comparing it to a “deathless song,” to show how entrancing her voice can be. The syntax of this sentence is very flowy and pretty, his word choice flows effortlessly. “feverish” shoes that she is animated and warm around Gatsby, she seems truly happy.

Syntax - Page 92 “They're such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.” The syntax shows Daisy’s cover-up of her emotion. Her stutter lets the reader know that she's upset about something- something that's not the shirts. In this case, it would be her rush of emotion that she received, while reconnecting with her love.

Syntax -Page 89 “He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well- being radiated from him and filled the little room.” This shows how happy and excited that Gatsby was. He is finally reconnected with the love of his life, and the word choice of “glowed” and “radiated” both make this apparent. His relief is apparent as well, “a new well-being” alludes to the fact that his old being was unwell; meaning he was nervous or anxious before being with her.

Diction -word choice so find adjectives in chapter 5 (PG. 81) “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.” This is a formal description of something simple and beautiful. It makes street lights sound so magical and wonder struck.

Figurative Language 1.“ran for a huge black knotted tree, whose massed leaves made a fabric against the rain.” -Metaphor: Fitzgerald is using figurative language to compare the tree’s leaves to a fabric. He is adding detail and adding imagery. 2.“it had seemed as close as a star to the moon.” -Simile: Gatsby had always felt like the light was a star and he was on earth and the light represented Daisy but now he is with her and she doesn’t seem that far away anymore. 3.“His hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets.” -Simile: Using “like” he compared his hands to weights to add dramatic effect and to show the nervousness.

Figurative Language Cont. 4. “I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn't be over-dreamed-voice was a deathless song.”- Personification: the voice doesn't actually physically hold him. It is giving the voice the human quality of holding him. 5. “Your house looks like the world fair.”- Simile:using “like he compared the house to the world fair, by doing this he is giving imagery to to book to make the reader see in their minds what the house may look like.