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The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby. Chapter 8. The morning after. Nick has been kept up by “savage, frightening dreams” The idealised dreams of earlier are now nightmares The house, once the home of laughter and joy is now intimidatingly “ enormous”, “dark” and “musty”. Dark? Musty?. ‘Jay Gatsby’.

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The Great Gatsby

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  1. The Great Gatsby Chapter 8

  2. The morning after • Nick has been kept up by “savage, frightening dreams” • The idealised dreams of earlier are now nightmares • The house, once the home of laughter and joy • is now intimidatingly “enormous”, “dark” and “musty”. • Dark? Musty?

  3. ‘Jay Gatsby’ • “’Jay Gatsby’ had broken up like glass against Tom’s hard malice.” • Analyse- punctuation, imagery… • He fell in love with Daisy because of the possibilities she promised (page 154): • “romances…redolent of this year’s shining motor cars” • His uniform acted almost as a disguise

  4. Daisy: “A grail” • Page 155: which symbols and motifs recur here? • Page 156: Daisy “gleaming like silver” • Daisy’s life becomes aimless while Gatsby is in Europe (page 157): “drifted…drowsing” • The war’s “misunderstanding” means they become separated. • Tom supplies the “force” which her life required.

  5. Endings • There are repeated mentions of things which are “ghostly” such as the birds on page 158 • The gardener comments that “Leaves’ll start falling pretty soon” • Nick pleases Gatsby by saying: “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together”. • The final visual image of him is “a bright spot of colour against the white steps”. • Nick’s relationship with Jordan also ends.

  6. “After we left” • Nick relates conversations and events which took place at the garage after he left. • Wilson rants that “you can’t fool God” • He is looking at “the eyes of Dr TJ Eckleburg…pale and enormous”

  7. Gatsby’s Death • Gatsby goes to the pool to try to capture the last opportunity of summer. • Things now look “frightening” and “unfamiliar” to him (page 168) • Why is a rose “a grotesque thing”? • There is an inevitability about Gatsby’s death: “they knew then”. • “the holocaust was complete”.

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