Chapter+8

= Chapter 8 =

Summary After the previous terrible events, Nick cannot sleep. He goes to visit Gatsby who had waited for Daisy who never left her house. Nick even tells Gatsby that he shoukd just leave The island and Daisy, but Jay cannot leave his Daisy. Gatsby then tells Nick of how he loved Daisy years ago, and the two of them had a very intimate relationship. After speaking to Nick, Gatsby's gardener says that he wants to drain the pool, but Gatsby wants to swim in it first. Nick goes to work. George Wilson tries to think of who could have killed his wife, and he thiks that Tom did it, for his family had a car like the one that she was in. He then realizes that Tome was with Nick and the others and could have not been in that car, so he goes to Gatsby's, shotts him and himself. Nick hear of this and rushes to the house.

Reflect Parts of Fitzgeralds life seem to relate in this chapter. Even after everything that has happened with Daisy, Gatsby is still not willing to let her go. Fitzgerald was like this with the woman he loved. Even though she turned him down, and said they couldn't be together he never gave up. Everything he did in life was for her, much like the way everything Gatsby did was for Daisy.

Comon themes At the beginning of chapter eight, Nick is describing Gatsby's house. Could it be that the house represents Gatsby? He is so obsessed with wanted to be with Daisy that he seems to forget who he is. All he cares about is getting money and being successful so that Daisy will want him. On the outside, he seems perfect, but on the inside, everything has been neglected. "His house had never seemed so enormous to me as it did that night when we hunted through the great rooms for cigarettes...tumbled with a sort of splash upon the keys of a ghostly piano. There was an inexplicable amount of dust everywhere, and the rooms were musty, as though they hadn't been aired for many days" (Fitzgerald 147-148). The way Nick was surprised that Gatsby's house seemed so empty and abandoned is how Gatsby is.

"However glorious might be his future as Jay Gatsby, he was at present a penniless young man without a past, and at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his shoulders" (Fitzgerald 149). Gatsby is a nobody. Even if he will be successful in the future, he will still be just a man who came from a poor past and not much else to say. In a way, that means that Gatsby is isolated. Or, at least, he will be later on in life. When among those who have known nothing but having money, Gatsby may feel like an outsider. No one forgets their past, no matter how hard one may try! So, even though people see Gatsby as he is at that moment, Gatsby is set apart by his past.

Marxist/ Feminist Lens Marxist: The Marxist view exists in Chapter 8 of //The Great Gatsby//. “If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose ins and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass” (Fitzgerald 161). That quote shows that Gatsby has lost himself in the wealth to look good.

Feminist: The feminist view in this chapter is mostly seen through things that Gatsby has said such as "Her voice is full of money” (Fitzgerald 120). It shows a great amount of respect for women. The chapter, through things that Gatsby says about Daisy, shows the importance of women and what they can bring to the table. Chapter 8 would most likely make any feminist happy and allow them to be proud of the lilttle bit of recognition women are receiving. Women are being treated with respect.

How does color function as a symbol? "...Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor" (Fitzgerald P. 150). To Gatsby Daisy is perfection and silver represents maturity, intelligence, reliability, and security which is what most people want in a lover. "..Ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves" (Fitzgerald Pg. 152). The mood of the book is getting more peaceful and blue is a calming color.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. //The Great Gatsby//. New York: Scribner, 2004. Print.