Great Gatsby Dialectical Journal
1. Nick thinks Gatsby's house looks as though it is on fire. The house was lit by an intense light, "
the whole corner of the peninsula was blazing with light...Turning a corner I saw that it was Gatsby's house, lit from tower to cellar", described Nick.
2. Gatsby offers to have someone cut Nick's grass. In addition, he offers him the chance to make some money by joining him in some business he does on the side business that does not involve Meyer Wolfshiem. Gatsby explains, "It wouldn't take up much of your time and you might pick up a nice bit of money. It happens to be a rather confidential sort of thing".
3. Gatsby's character throughout his meeting with Daisy is a contradiction of the self he normally displays. It appears as though …show more content…
Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry saying in a muffled voice, "It makes me sad because I've never seen such such beautiful shirts before". Daisy was overwhelmed by the array of beautiful shirts in all colours, textures, patterns, and …show more content…
To be disillusioned is to be free from illusion or enchantment. In Gatsby's case, every aspect of himself was engaged in his vision for his meeting with Daisy which became such an anticipated climax, that what was once seen as significant or impressive was gradually fading from his conscious mind. Nick believes that perhaps even Daisy cannot truly live up to Gatsby's vision of her that he had obsessively contemplated for so long. The following quotations show Gatsby's disillusionment:
" he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real."
"He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an over wound clock."
"Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one."
"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. He has thrown himself into it with creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather hat drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart."
6. Quotations describing the weather:
"The day agreed upon was pouring
2. Gatsby offers to have someone cut Nick's grass. In addition, he offers him the chance to make some money by joining him in some business he does on the side business that does not involve Meyer Wolfshiem. Gatsby explains, "It wouldn't take up much of your time and you might pick up a nice bit of money. It happens to be a rather confidential sort of thing".
3. Gatsby's character throughout his meeting with Daisy is a contradiction of the self he normally displays. It appears as though …show more content…
Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry saying in a muffled voice, "It makes me sad because I've never seen such such beautiful shirts before". Daisy was overwhelmed by the array of beautiful shirts in all colours, textures, patterns, and …show more content…
To be disillusioned is to be free from illusion or enchantment. In Gatsby's case, every aspect of himself was engaged in his vision for his meeting with Daisy which became such an anticipated climax, that what was once seen as significant or impressive was gradually fading from his conscious mind. Nick believes that perhaps even Daisy cannot truly live up to Gatsby's vision of her that he had obsessively contemplated for so long. The following quotations show Gatsby's disillusionment:
" he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real."
"He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an over wound clock."
"Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one."
"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. He has thrown himself into it with creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather hat drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart."
6. Quotations describing the weather:
"The day agreed upon was pouring