Notes on "The Great Gatsby" chapter 5.

plan involving Daisy coming round for tea. Gatsby is overjoyed when Nick agrees to help Gatsby out, but Nick is offended when Gatsby offers to pay him for arranging the meeting with Daisy. Nick shows tolerance as a main quality of his – the arrangement of the meeting brings his practise of tolerance to a level of complicity (tolerantly observes Tom’s affair and facilitates the commencement of an affair between Gatsby and Daisy, hoping to wreck her marriage) On the day that Daisy is coming to Nick’s for tea, Gatsby is nervous – shown by trying to make everything perfect to impress her (having Nick’s grass cut, flowers being delivered to Nick’s house) When Gatsby and Daisy reunite it is awkward – Gatsby knocks Nick’s clock on the floor and then reveals that the meeting was a mistake. This also symbolizes the clumsiness of his attempt to stop time and retrieve the past. However Nick leaves Gatsby and Daisy alone for two hours and returns to find them happy (Daisy is crying and Gatsby is glowing) When Gatsby and Daisy reunite, Gatsby’s character is at its purest and most revealing. – He forgets to play the role of the business man and Oxford man and shows himself as the lovesick solider. Gatsby invites Daisy and Nick over to his mansion for a tour – Daisy is overwhelmed by his luxurious lifestyle.Gatsby reveals to Daisy that he has spent many long nights, staring at the green light at her dock, dreaming about their future and happiness together. Chapter 5 seen as the turning point within the novel when Gatsby and Daisy reunite. It becomes clearer to the reader that Gatsby’s emotional frame is out of sync with the passage of time while the novel explores love, excess and the American Dream.