Sunday, May 17, 2009

39. The Party

What is Daisy's opinion of Gatsby's party? How does this affect him?What does Gatsby want from Daisy?
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  1. UnknownAugust 5, 2009 at 4:12 PM

    Daisy seemed excited about the party at Gatsby’s house and said it was fun. “These things excite me so” (Fitzgerald 111) she said. But in reality, she was not having a truly good time. “…the rest offended her…She was appalled by West Egg…appalled by its raw vigor... She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.”(Fitzgerald 113-4). She tried her best to like it. She only liked one girl who was sitting under a tree looking beautiful and probably the one dance with Gatsby but she didn’t like the party. Gatsby was devastated. “‘She didn’t like it,’ he insisted. ‘She didn’t have a good time.’ He was silent and I guessed at his unutterable depression. ‘I feel so far away from her,’ he said. ‘It’s hard to make her understand.’”(Fitzgerald 116) Gatsby wanted Daisy to see things the same way as they did before when Gatsby was still a poor man. Gatsby lives in the past and wants to relive with Daisy what they did when they had just fallen in love five years before. Nick tells him he can’t dwell in the past, “’Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!’”(Fitzgerald 116). “’I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before,’” (Fitzgerald 117).

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  2. MintiFreshAugust 7, 2009 at 2:31 PM

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  3. MintiFreshAugust 7, 2009 at 5:28 PM

    In Daisy’s opinion, “except for the half hour she’d been alone with Gatsby she wasn’t having a good time” (Fitzgerald 112). I agree with Xavier that Daisy was appalled by the party. Gatsby wanted to impress Daisy how successful, popular and rich he was. Daisy was impressed by his beautiful, enormous house and garden. However, she was disgusted with the people who were drunk and rude. After Daisy left, Gatsby realize that “she didn’t like it” (116). He realized that making a party with large amounts of people did not impress Daisy. All the people came because there was an advantage of free drinks, not because they came for Gatsby. They hardly knew Gatsby, even Tom asked, “‘who is this Gatsby anyhow? ... Some big bootlegger?’“ (114). Nevertheless, all what Gatsby wanted was that “she would go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you’“(116) and stay with Gatsby for their rest of their lives.

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