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understanding of the text and also use it to help list examples from the book so let's say I'm going to break it down just going to give you a few key details before I begin first of all the recipient to remember that the book has nine chapters however when F Scott Fitzgerald first wrote this book it didn't actually contain chapters the chapters were brought in later they were rather known as sections and while there are sections it's important to break them down as they are so you can establish the characters the themes and a few important quotations now in most chapters I'll be providing three key quotes maybe four I often go for quotes that are more more underrepresented and you don't see an awful lot of finally the book really revolves around this notion of parties the scenery or the kind of recurring image of parties so I'll be making a lot of that and establishing the importance of that as we go now chapter one in chapter one we get the established understanding of our protagonist Nick Carraway or rather our narrator excuse me he's from the Midwest and he's from an old money by that I mean an established wealth background he's also an unreliable narrator as I will allude to later on in the video firstly we get the first party now this is between the Buchanan's Tom and Daisy as well as Jordan and Nick Carraway Nick Carraway and Daisy Buchanan if you're not sure already are related they are distant cousins now the party here is one that's really formal and it's quite devoid of life and a very rigid tone there's not much enjoyment going on here between the characters in addition daisies interferes and feelings are revealed privately so there's an important point I think because Daisy is very rarely alone so when she talks to her distant relative in Nick Carraway and shows how sad and alone she is we really get a sense of the character for who she really is something that rarely comes across in the text now we also get an established understanding of Gatsby is almost an ethereal presence his first appearance is one which is almost otherworldly Nick notices him staring across the bay and then he vanishes there's almost this magical quality to cats be established in our first chapter bearing in mind Gatsby doesn't actually have any dialogue until chapter three some quotes I thought were quite key and worth looking over for a bit all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had this is derived from the first paragraph of the novel notice the phrase older people here Nick is very clearly establishing the fact that he is from a position of privilege and wealth which will be very important going forward for a number of the characters equally the quote two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face now eyes are a recurring image recurring symbol in this novel we see eyes of TJ eckelberg for example and here we get Nick describing Tom Buchanan's eyes husband of Daisy Buchanan is seen as quite a bolshe character and his physical brutish nature comes across here through his dominance and the Arrogant eyes equally Daisy's quote I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything reinforces the kind of boredom she feels as a character through this slight repetition here of tone and words continuing then we move into chapter two and in chapter two we get the Clash of societies we have the very downhill Valley Of Ashes the impoverished value of Ashes contrasting with New York City which is a place of escapism particularly for Tom Buchanan and his mistress Myrtle Tom's Affair here is made very explicit in contrast with David Daisy's private fears we get Tom very obviously not keeping his affair with murder Secret in New York City seen as a place of him being able to escape and indulge in his more carnal lusts also there's the rumor of Gatsby's identity persisting his name is mentioned and his identity is talked about in brief in the party and there is a second party here the party between Nick Tom Myrtle Catherine and Friends Catherine is the sister of Myrtle Wilson here the tone of the party is one that's rather uncomfortable then it turns violent with Thomas Alton Catherine excuse me Thomas halting Myrtle sorry At The Mention of Daisy Buchanan so some key quotes I thought were important here we get quote here from Nick on Tom's infidelities the fact that he had a mistress in Myrtle was insisted upon when wherever he was known this idea of it being a very prior um very public sorry fact that Tom is someone who is clearly cheating on his own wife equally I married him George Wilson because I thought he was a gentleman I thought he knew something about breeding notice Myrtle Wilson's comments on her husband here this had contrast of gentlemen and breeding that she feels hard done by because the man loves her is not from a specific class it's almost a parallel here with Jay Gatsby not in the sense of their emotions and feelings but more in the sense of their desires that they want to move up the social ladder and their current positions do not allow them to and lastly all I kept thinking about over and over was you can't live forever you can't live forever notice Myrtle in Tom's sees an opportunity of escapism from the drudgery of her life and it's always there when she recounts that first memory of him having met Tom 's chapter three one of the most important chapters in the novel this is where the third party takes place probably the most famous party in the novel at Gatsby's house and Gatsby's first physical introduction the tone here is jovial's upbeat it's your Classic Party it's this sense of escapism and revelry here Gatsby's first words and detailed description come up Jordan and Nick also become closer and they do become an item that's important to notice here that Jordan and Nick are a couple it's very overshadowed in the context of Daisy and Jay and Myrtle and Tom but there is that underlying third relationship there and this is kind of where it's Consolidated in brief the party also ends with a car accident but I think is quite interesting because while this one is seen with humor it's kind of foreshadowing for what happens later on in the events of chapter seven so some key quotes for you to know some important little bits the air is alive notice that Nick changes the tents when he starts to describe the party it makes it more vibrant and more kind of uh energetic the air is alive with chatter and laughter and Casual innuendo and introductions forgotten notice the synthetic listing of and repeated also builds pace so we get this frenetic energy kind of channeled through the party itself but this phrase also is really interesting I think never knew each other's names this idea that these people at the party the attendees they're very enthused but they're also more self-centered in a sense that they're more happy to just be seen there they don't actually know anyone there which kind of alludes to the theme of kind of loneliness that takes place in the novel it was one of those rare Smiles with a quality of Eternal reassurance in it here Nick Carraway is describing Jay Gatsby particularly this idea of him having an almost otherworldly religious dare I say Godly quality to him rare Smiles with a quality of Eternal reassurance and here even at the end even Jordan's party either people she came with will rent asunder by dissension here Nick is describing the guests falling apart at the end of the party decided at a party concluding means that they are um led to an unhappy conclusion which is a kind of good metaphor for the idea of the end of the novel as you'll see it and the sadness that comes despite the happiness and joy the party brings let me go to chapter four and we get Jay Gatsby being further established his character his identity his background and his claims are further elaborated upon we also have the fourth party now it's not a party in the sense of a birthday party or the party we've just seen but it's a group of individuals coming together here it's Gatsby Nick and principally Maya wolfsheim Tom also makes a brief appearance here it's more formal there's a slight tension because we see Gatsby trying to establish himself as an individual also Jordan reveals more about Gatsby and Daisy's past Gatsby also plans for Daisy to meet him by accident or rather an orchestrated accident and meeting to be it uh Nick's house and that's revealed so some key quotes here I think are really important even Gatsby could happen without any particular Wonder here Nick is describing New York City and this idea that even something like Gatsby a character a kind of figure like Gatsby is not beyond the Realms of impossibility it never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of 50 million people with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing us safe here Nick is describing what Maya wolfsheim and Maya wolfsheim is the character who is alleged to have fixed the 1919 World Series now you remember baseball here is the national sport of the time the national Pastime notice this contrast of one man 50 million people that Fantastical characters like Maya wolfsheim therefore like Jay Gatsby could happen and appear and the burglar blowing a safe this idea of it being loud and cross and and Brash almost this idea of identity being something that is very much seen and has to be seen unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs I know it's Nick here describing Gatsby and Tom Buchanan and has almost shared problems shared issues here that both of them are pursuing people that they otherwise would not have in their lives in the novels middle here as we get towards the middle we have the first direct meeting between Jay Gatsby and Daisy now here this is what I call the fifth party and it's almost a small Tea Party Nick concocts and orchestrates her small little gathering between Jay and Daisy which is initially tense but ends very positively we also get the first inclinations and hints at Gatsby's true self his anxieties come through here and also shown in a quote I'm going to provide for you Daisy's beautiful shirts come in here also at the end of chapter five I think is really important because we get that second inkling of this kind of private anxieties and her sadness come through um when her she almost breaks character in front of not just one person but two with Jay Gatsby there in Jay Gatsby's mansion now some quotes Gatsby says five years next November I think the exactitude notice the way he remembers five years next November was the last time he saw Daisy there's almost an obsessive quality to his love here that's important to note we also see how Gatsby and Daisy were seen as being described by Nick as being possessed by intense life that love for both of them or the love of seeing one another again almost has a a borderline spiritual quality intense and possessed that they become also Nick describes Gatsby as reclining against the mantle piece and you notice a strained counterfeit of perfect ease that Gatsby's facade that his outward appearance is really being tested by the anxieties and fears he holds in this encounter with Daisy for the first time in so long moving now on to chapter six and in chapter six we get the first revealing of James gatz the origin story of Jay Gatsby and where he came from equally we have the sixth party this is another one of Jay Gatsby's Big House parties and all the cast there Nick Tom Jordan and Daisy in various forms we also get Gatsby's fears of Daisy revealed where he privately reveals to Nick at the end of the party how he feels it was been a complete failure equally Tom and Gatsby have their first direct words to each other in a very tense episode in the chapter and a few key quotes notice here how Nick describes James or Jay he James gaps was a Son of God a phrase witch if it means anything means just that notice the phrase there a Son of God he means this in a literal sense that he believes James gatz the earlier James J Gatsby is someone who believes they always have a God complex I think is the simplest best way of saying it they believe they really have a a call to a kind of Destiny greater than many other people now equally the yacht represented all the beauty and glamor in the world Nick here is retelling gats finding Danko do you remember Dan Cody is the person who he learns a lot of his uh characteristics off of and this idea of living a greater more affluent life but notice how Beauty and glamor are both connected here that love is a pursuit of material wealth for Jay Gatsby as much as it is an intense kind of passionate personal love and notice at the end Gatsby says I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before she'll see this phrase fix everything as if Gatsby sees love as a pursuit of a problem and a solution rather than something more innate within the heart and also the tone of she'll see not only shows his determination but there I always think that there's almost a kind of borderline Sinister element to this that he's determined under any level to make Daisy Daisy love him despite the obstacles between them now chapter seven is where it all really kicks off this is what I think of as The Plaza Hotel confrontation chapter so The Plaza Hotel is where the big argument happens between Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan this is the kind of seventh party each chat chops now has a party and all characters bar the Wilsons are there though they make a brief appearance in the chapter itself they're not in the hotel Gatsby's Persona is here destroyed permanently this is the bit where he doesn't recover from uh not only for the fact that he shows himself in terms of a a light that frightens Daisy but the events at the end of the chapter leading into chapter eight also permanently ruin any chance he would have ever had of being near Daisy is the climax of the story in terms of the main events so that's important to note so some key quotes I've picked out here include how Nick describes Gatsby as saying afterward he kept looking at the child that's Pammy that's the daughter of Daisy and Tom with surprise there's this phrase here it shows how Gatsby is almost self-deluded himself into forgetting that Daisy is not just a wife but a mother that she has a history with Tom and a physical manifestation of that is her child so this adverbial phrase with surprise shows how Gatsby is having to face the reality of Daisy's own life here also Nick describing Myrtle as her eyes wide with jealous Terror fixed not on Tom but on Jordan Baker whom she took to be his wife notice the phrase wide with jealous Terror this sense of something being that the love has affected us so much or that the aspirational desire to be with Thomas affected us so much that she's she's she's in a state of mortal fear as it were and also here Nick describes Gatsby as walking at how Gatsby he walks away from Gatsby and leaves him standing there in the Moonlight watching over nothing they've got to remember Nick is recounting these events these take these events take place retrospectively so he's retelling them this idea of him watching over nothing I think he reinforces the kind of sad nature of Gatsby's clinging to a desperate love that's far eluded him already um and he paints that on even more here then we get to the penultimate chapter of the text here this is where Gatsby talks further about his past with Daisy in addition we get the final details of Gatsby from Nick before Gatsby's murder we also then get the deaths of both Gatsby and George at the very end of this chapter some quotes here he took what he could get ravenously and unscrupulously eventually he took Daisy here Gatsby is describing himself or rather Nick describes Gatsby's retelling of how he first meets Daisy I know Z phrases have took the repetition of took and the adverbs are ravenously and unscrupulously this idea that Gatsby is almost having to Feast on what he sees at Daisy's house when he was younger and it's it again reinforces this kind of dilemma in the novel that does he love Daisy for the herself and her innate qualities or her wealth and the quote here seems to suggest it's the latter equally Nick on Jay Gatsby says it was the only compliment I ever gave him because I disapproved of him from beginning to end I think this is a really important quote here because not anybody see the one element of kindness that Nick pays Gatsby but he says he disapproved of him from beginning to end which we know is patently untrue this is a demonstration I think a very clear demonstration of Nick being this unreliable narrator who changes events for his own ends and then we get this quote again the Holocaust was complete this is Nick describing the demise of Gatsby and George I think this quote is really important not only because it's the last sentence in chapter eight but this uses the word holocaust in a in a pre-World War II understanding and a pre-holocaust context as we would know it it means it in a sense as the word is still known as complete and utter destruction he uses this element of hyperbole here of exaggeration to demonstrate how significant it is that not just George but especially Gatsby has died and in the last chapter of the novel we get a sense here of Nick and Jordan separating remember their relationship is one in the novel even though it's something that's not often commented on equally all the other characters move away from the East the East is uh New York and Long Island West Egg East egg is somewhere that begins to haunt Nick and we get the final party as such a gathering of people in the funeral here however it's much more sad there's a great sense of misery and loneliness there's only Nick and Mr gats that's Jay Gatsby's father in attendance some key quotes here in this chapter would include Nick describing Gatsby's father how his eyes again notice the repetition of or rather the inclusion of the imagery of eyes seeing nothing move ceaselessly about the room in Gatsby's Mansion this idea of seeing nothing this idea that he's a character who is lost in his grief for his son which comes about quite evidently in the chapter Nick then describes his final passage with Jordan as angry and half in love with her and tremendously sorry I turned away there is this real confliction of this idea of separation the love that they had for each other creates a real confliction of emotions anger sorrow but still this sense of love that it's left very conflicted and awkward and uncomfortable and lastly towards the very end of the text Nick describes how Gatsby did not know that it I.E Gatsby's dream was already behind him here he leads one of the last sentiments about Gatsby to be something that comes across as very sad and very much something that creates cats being a pathetic light not in the insulting term I don't mean that in that regard I mean the sense of we feel pathos for him one can the reader can feel a sense of sympathy for Gatsby that he was chasing a dream that was never meant to be his or realized in the first place so that concludes my chat to our chapter and Analysis I hope you enjoyed that please drop a comment if you have any questions don't forget to like share and subscribe search quiglet across all the different social media platforms and until next time take care all the very best and bye bye