Day 16!

Yeah for getting to best parts of the book (even though it's all so awesome), and yay for Friday!

Today will be a relaxing reading day (after you turn in your writing assignment from yesterday, that is). You will read chapters 6 & 7 for Monday. Not a spoiler alert: you're going to love it. It's about to get more awesome!

Once you have finished, please answer the focus questions:

Chapter 6

1. What was Gatsby’s real name? Why and when had he changed it?

2. In what way was Dan Cody involved in Gatsby’s destiny?

3. Why does Tom attend Gatsby’s party? How does this scene reveal the contrast between Gatsby and Tom?

4. What is deeply ironic in Tom’s statement, “…I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me”?

5. Note the reactions of Tom and Daisy at different times during Gatsby’s part. Did they enjoy themselves? Explain.

6. What suspicions does Tom have about Gatsby? What does he vow to do?

7. What do Nick and Gatsby talk about after the party?

8. What is Gatsby expecting of Daisy that prompts Nick to warn him, “I wouldn’t ask too much of her… You can’t repeat the past”?

Chapter 7

1. Analyze Daisy’s attitude toward her child as evidenced in this chapter and in chapter 1. Is she a good mother? Explain why Gatsby looked “at the child

with surprise.”

2. With whom does Tom talk on the telephone early in the chapter? About what?

3. What does Gatsby mean when he says that Daisy’s voice is “full of money”? Why does Fitzgerald put those words in Gatsby’s mouth and not Nick’s?

4. What arrangements are made regarding the passengers of each car on the trip to the city? Why?

5. What does Gatsby do that makes Nick want “to get up and slap him on the back”? Why does Nick feel this way?

6. Does Daisy know what love is? Whom does she really love?

7. Is there any significance in the fact that the day is Nick’s birthday?

8. At the end of Chapter 7 Nick observes Gatsby, Tom, and Daisy after the accident. What conclusions does he reach?

9. Explain the last paragraph of Chapter 7.