1. Chapter 6 pages 97-111
2. Chapter 6 Summary
The chapter starts off with a reporter showing up at Gatsby's front door who questions him about rumors. We find out that Gatsby's real name is James Gatz. He is from North Dakota and one day meets a man named Dan Cody on lake superior. Gatsby was amazed by the wealth and richness that Cody's yacht embodied. After he met Cody, Gatsby was later assigned to be his assistant. Cody then dressed him up in fancy clothes, gave him everything he needed, and served as a role model. Cody gave Gatsby his present name.(Gatsby) After many years Cody died. His wife received all of the money, but Gatsby had received Cody's teachings. The the story shifts to the present and Nick goes to Gatsby's house for a drink. As he is there Tom arrives with Mr. and Mrs. Sloane. They talk and then decide to go to for dinner, but Nick goes home instead. Before they leave Gatsby invites Tom and his wife Daisy to come to his next party. He agrees. When Tom is at the party he thinks of Gatsby as a "bootlegger." This is very significant because he is the only one is the book so far to think of him like that. As Tom breaks off to go for the women, Gatsby and Daisy spend time together alone. But when the night ends Gatsby doesn't think Daisy had a good time and is worried about their relationship. Nick in a way is disgusted by how worried Gatsby is about the past.
3. Dan Cody
b. " He was fifty years old then, a product of the Nevada silver fields, of the Yukon, of every rush for metal since seventy five. The transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionaire found him physically robust but on the verge of soft-mindedness, and, suspecting this, an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money." (page 99)
b. "...a gray, florid man with a hard, empty face - the pioneer debauchee, who during one phase of American life brought back to the Eastern seaboard the violence of the frontier brothel and saloon."
c. Violent, alcoholic, rich, famous in a way, gray. He acted as a role model/dad to Gatsby.
d. Dan Cody's life led Gatsby's life. He taught him all about the richness, the trust, and the money. He taught Gatsby everything. He took him from of the shore and turned him into a millionaire. Gatsby would not have been successful without the help of Cody. The picture of him in Gatsby's room is so big because he represents a good chunk of Gatsby. At 18 Gatsby's life was turned around because of Cody, without him he would be nothing.
4. "You can't repeat the past." "Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"
(Gatsby 111)
This quote shows that Gatsby is not thinking realistically He believes he can change everything in the present to how it was in the past. He thinks as if life is a fairytale. He thinks money can buy everything. This quote stuck out to me because of the absurd way Gatsby is thinking, it shocked me. He also thinks of life as a clock. He thinks that the life goes in circles and will repeat itself. He doesn't think anything will change. Realistically though, Daisy is not the right match for Gatsby. He has wasted all of his life for his lover, he is completely crazy. It seems he only focuses on the past and the future. His life would be perfect with a time machine.
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