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    1) Gatsby's house is blazing with light as Nick arrives home one night. 2) Gatsby offers Nick some part-time work and sends over an abundance of food and cakes to prepare for meeting Daisy. 3) When Daisy sees Gatsby at Nick's house, she does not remember him at first. Gatsby is nervous and almost breaks an antique clock, revealing his intense feelings for Daisy.

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    1) Gatsby's house is blazing with light as Nick arrives home one night. 2) Gatsby offers Nick some part-time work and sends over an abundance of food and cakes to prepare for meeting Daisy. 3) When Daisy sees Gatsby at Nick's house, she does not remember him at first. Gatsby is nervous and almost breaks an antique clock, revealing his intense feelings for Daisy.

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    Chapter FIVE

    Vocabulary
    Defunct
    Muster
    What happens in Chapter 5?
    Ecstatic
    Nick gets home one night to find Gatsby’s house blazing
    with light. Nebulous
    Nick, while reluctant, accepts Gatsby’s offer for some
    part-time work. Render
    In order to prepare for the meeting with Daisy, Gatsby Obstinate
    sends over an abundance of food and cakes.
    Daisy does not remember Gatsby when she sees him at
    Discuss
    Nick’s house.
    Gatsby almost breaks an antique clock on Nick’s
    mantle-piece.
    the SYMBOLISM intheeach of
    following:
    We learn that Gatsby bought the house, and
    everything in it purely to impress Daisy.
    Gatsby has an overwhelming supply of handmade
    suit jackets, which makes Daisy cry.
    At the end of the chapter Nick leaves the two lovers alone
    as they seem absorbed with each other.

    INDIRECT
    CHARACTERIZATION

    ?
    * You may need to
    look it up!

    How does Fitzgerald use indirect characterization to illustrate


    Gatsby’s nervousness in this chapter?
    * Give three examples

    Does Gatsby’s behavior in this chapter endear him more, or less to you?

    Explain:

    Find three examples of the humor in this chapter:

    If you were to give this chapter a TITLE, it would be:

    If you were to give this chapter a COLOR, it would be:


    DREAMS, GOALS, DESIRE
    5

    and/or desire.
    of this chapter relate to ideas of dreams, hopes, goals, fulfillment,
    Mindmap, list, write questions, or doodle about how events
    “He hadn’t once ceased
    looking at Daisy and I think
    he revalued everything

    3.

    2.

    1.

    Questions you have about the characters or plot at this stage:


    in his house according
    to the measure of
    response it drew from her
    well-loved eyes.
    ”
    What’s the most important word
    in the quotation above?

    Paraphrase this quotation in your


    own words:

    Three quotations about Daisy’s voice in this chapter:

    What does this tell us about


    Gatsby?

    Why might Fitzgerald focus in on her voice as part of her characterization?


    What might it illustrate about her?

    READ THIS EXTRACT BELOW, AND THEN ANNOTATE CLOSELY (Anything which stands out to you; anything which you make
    connections to, or between; words you think are notable or interesting; imagery or language which is interesting; etc.)

    “As I went over to say good-by I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as

    though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years! There must

    have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — not through her own fault, but

    because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself

    into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way.

    No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

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