Gatsby Notes And Thoughts: Chapter 6

• A reporter shows up in Gatsby's home
• Gatsby is being well known to the public now
• Rumors are now crazier about Jay Gatsby 
• Gatsby's actual parents were  shiftless/ unsuccessful farmers
• He real didn't accepted them as his parents
• James Gatz became Jay Gatsby on the fateful day when, on the shores of Lake Superior, he saw Dan Cody drop anchor on his yacht
• Cody is the one who gave Gatsby the opportunity to hone the fiction that would define his life
• Tom Buchanan and two others out for a horseback ride show up for a drink
• After exchanging social small talk wherein Gatsby is invited to dine with the group, the three riders abruptly leave without him, somewhat taken aback that he accepted what they deem to be a purely rhetorical invitation
•  "You can't repeat the past," Gatsby idealistically answers "Why of course you can!


• Not acceptance that the past is over
• Learn to move forward

Fitzgerald creates a protagonist who is unable to function in the present. He must continually return to the past, revising it and modifying it until it takes on epic qualities which, sadly, can never be realized in the everyday world. Gatsby, just as he is at his parties and with the social elite, is once again marginalized, forced to the fringes by the vivacity of his dream.


Analyze:

• Gatsby's POV on love towards Daisy- No real life relationship could ever live up to Gatsby’s unrealistic, stylized, ultra-romantic, and absolutist conception of love in general, and his love of Daisy, in particular. Not only that, but he demands nothing less of Daisy as well. His condition for her to be with him is to entirely disavow Tom and any feelings she may have ever had for him.
• Gatsby was hoping that Daisy would fall in love with him again from the amount of how wealthy he is
• Ended up not being what he thought of (Since that Daisy has a child with Tom)
• Daisy' Motivations-  Daisy’s reaction to Gatsby’s party is fascinating - especially if we think that Gatsby has been trying to be the "gold-hatted bouncing lover" for her. She is appalled by the empty, meaningless circus of luxury. Daisy enjoyed being alone in his mansion with him, but the more he displays what he has attained, the more she is repelled.