Mallory's Blog

1. I think Gatsby is an okay person. He has those secrets that make him a little bad, but his integrity isn't gone, he still has love to give and he is nice to the people who respect him. 2.Nick is not honest with himself. I think he hangs out with dishonest people because he himself is dishonest and he liked to know he's not the only one. He seeks relationships with them because he doesn't think they're bad people. 3.I think this means that Tom and Daisy have done so much together. But the only reason they stayed together was because she thought that the "Buchanan" name was too valuable. They were selfish and didn't care what so ever. They didn't know what consequences were. They did what they did and went back to their lavish lives and forgot about it. I agree. 4. I do understand Daisy's behavior. But I do not agree with her choices, she chooses wealth and materialism instead of life and love. She is not a person I would let my son/friend/brot

1. Gatsby tells Nick that Daisy will be leaving Tom. 2. Nick tells Gatsby to leave Long Island until the scandal of Myrtle's death has gone down. Gatsby didn't consider it because he couldn't leave Daisy until he knew what she was gonna do. 3. Gatsby left Daisy with her thinking that Gatsby was wealthy when in reality he was poor. 4. I think the author interrupted the tense relationship dialogue with a secondary character mention of the pool to let the readers know that throughout the drama people are still living their lives. I think it's important for Gatsby to swim at least once in his own pool to feel a little relived. 5. I think the action represents the whole idea of the novel, the climax and the resolution at the same time.

Guiding questions: 1. Gatsby stopped having parties because he has no purpose anymore. The only reason he threw them was to lure Daisy, but now that the have a relationship he doesn't need to throw anymore parties. 2. Gatsby fires his regular staff because they are locals and he fears that they will gossip. He hires new staff recommended by Meyer Wolfsheim. 3. Daisy seems laid back and chill and seems to have no interest in her child. In the other hand Gatsby is very surprised. His dream was to marry Daisy and have a family with her and now Daisy came out with Tom's child and is kind of heartbroken. 4. During the outing to New York Daisy decides that they all (Gatsby, Tom, Daisy, Jordan and Nick) should get together at the Biltmore Hotel. While there, Tom gets mad when Gatsby calls him "old sport" and Tom starts yelling out and reveals all of Gatsby's illegal life that Tom has been researching. 5. Daisy ran over Myrtle Wilson 6. At the end of the chapter Tom

Gatsby invited Nick to Coney Island and to swim in his pool. Gatsby wants to invite Daisy over for tea and Nick is going to help him.Gatsby also gives Nick the chance to make some money by joining him in some business he does on the side that involves Meyer Wolfshiem.

1. Tom and Nick got off the train on their way to New York so that Nick could meet who ? 2. When Myrtle mentioned Daisy's name, how did Tom react? 3. What's an adjective that describes Tom? 4. Where did Daisy meet Gatsby? 5.Who is Myrtle Wilson? 6. What's the narrators name? 7. Who wrote The Great Gatsby? 8. In what year is the novel set?

> Introducing Nick Carraway, Tom and Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Nick's mysterious neighbor, Jay Gatsby. >He is a young man in his late twenties who grew up in the Midwest in a prominent, respected middle class family. >He says he's a decent human being who was taught at an early age to reserve judgement. >He graduated from New Haven(Yale) in 1915, and then served in the military in world war 1.