Hearkening back to my previous comment in the last chapter, it seems that Daisy has seen this as well. As someone who is so in touch with old wealth, she just wanted to get into this novelty of being with the new wealthy. it was her greatest escape and feat from being a captor to family wealth. Now she is just back to her old life.

Gatsby begins to notice that he doesn't have much to offer Daisy, either. He gave her this impression that he was this worldly and cultured, oxford bred man, but it was really just to get her under the guise of his primal desires for love. And now he's ended up with murder because of it. He is beginning to notice, that not only was this act of getting Daisy overtly goal oriented, but also pretty malicious and pathetic.

This was one of the things that i saw as kind of dual purposed when we did the deep reading of this passage (I did it twice as it was coincidentally the passage I chose initially on my own, as well). Anyways, when Daisy is stressing out about the heat and the windows it is not only literal, but the heat is also this conflict in the room. On the other hand you have Tom Buchanan, who doesn't want them to open the window, because he feels it is a rite of passage to Daisy and Gatsby's relationship. He doesn't want them to escape his grasp.

It's kind of cool how this narrative is surrounding and encompassing itself like an ouroborous. The book started off with Nick being this socially lost (and monetarily lower person) trying to find themselves in West Egg. The first part of the book was just kind of a memoir and collection of stories that happened in his first summer there. Now it's interesting to see how he has this whole group of people and how they are so connected in their behavior at this point in the book.

This is an interesting dialogue became it is a meeting place between two big thematic forces within the book. Throughout the book, there is this discussion between old rich and new rich with the geographic boundaries present between east and west egg harbor. Another force is this infidelity going on between couples. It's cool to see how this intersects and how they are using it as a jealous way to scorn the other party.

This is kind of going into his roots as the proprieteur of new wealth. Unlike the other people, he associates with, he had to make himself something. He came from an utterly different background which was that of blue collar origin. His end goal was to escape this reality and to give him this mysterious persona, so all of this back story would diminish and fade away.

I just felt I needed to return to this part. Though this part is a bit saccharine and not the greatest array of honeyed words, the sound of the words and the context is absolutely gorgeous. It is a very ambiguous line in that it has positive and sad leanings, based on how you look at it. For one you could say, Gatsby and Daisy are finally together and thus this is a positive end to that light across the bay. At the same time, you could say it's negative because they see each other for their true colours and the love is not as true or picturesque as they hoped. Perhaps the genuine nature of it is not their at all. Gatsby has had all these elaborate parties at his palace and has probably flaunted light shows of his own, but he's been keeping tabs on this tiny light for years. In fact he moved just to get a view of her house.

This kind of introduces the group that the gatsby is hanging around. As we find later in the book there is a murder plot and he is convincing his love interest Daisy to be an infidel to her husband, Tom. I thought early on that the Gatsby knew some big figures, but I did not figure that they would be as sketchy as they turned out to be. This is a nice foreshadowing, I guess.

I found it rather jarring the first time that I read it. i thought it would be some major plot point, but it was still Nick wandering blindly through this social void. The car crash just adds to the chaos of this. No one knows each other. A car crash is something very person; often associating with causing empathy. However, Nick is just this random guy in a party full of stranger. No one seems to care too much about the crash and that really shows the social bubble that Nick and Gatsby are living in.

I feel like before the murder takes place and Nick finds that Gatsby is simply using him as a pawn to lure over his love interest Daisy, the book is really about Nick trying to find his way socially. Everything is very hazy such as in this package. They are random summer anecdotes. Though, they don't have deep meaning for the plot, they really present Nick's character and the fact that he rides around with people as opposed to leading.

It's really interesting how this character is kind of leeching off the rich. They came from what seems to have been a pretty well of family in the Midwest (as they went to Yale) but they are now seeking this comfort of dependency. They are living this rather unluxurious life style, though they are surrounded by rich people. It seems that a lot of people in their life come and go. As they said somewhere in this passage, they barely knew this person of whom was their first cousin once removed and their egotistical husband, but to feel some kind of comfort in their desolate, rather uninteresting post graduate life style they surround themselves with these glamorous people. However, it seems he finds that they are just the same as him. Uncultured and uninformed though privileged.