The Great Gatsby Chapter 6 Analysis

How does Fitzgerald tell the story in chapter 6 of ‘The Great Gatsby?’
There are many ways that Fitzgerald tells the story but these can be categorised into 3 main parts: structure, form and language.
The first of these is structure. When looking at the chapter vaguely you can see that it is the shortest chapter in the book, yet it manages to reveal the most information about Gatsby than any other chapter. This can be symbolic for Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship. We as the reader can see that Gatsby and Daisy have had few moments, short moments, yet these moments tell us so much about them as characters. This can be linked to the chapter in the sense that so little means so much more.
Secondly, the structure is non-chronological. The
The narration of Gatsby is key in chapter 6. Up until this chapter, our focus stays on Nick and how Nick sees the world, this is because we see the book through Nick’s eyes and so we form the same opinions as Nick does. However the last line of the last quote in chapter 6 changes this. “What I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever”, just from this we can see that Nick’s opinion, our opinion, no longer matters, only the facts revealed. The reason why is because Gatsby has what he wants, Daisy, and so anything Nick says or thinks or what we think doesn’t matter to him. We have no control over Gatsby, more importantly Nick has no control anymore, Gatsby has made a decision and for the first time we’re not a part of
When looking at Tom we know that he cheated on Daisy and so we expect him not to care for her, which is true up until this chapter. When tom sees that Daisy has a thing for Gatsby and vice versa he realises that he does have feelings for Daisy, and more importantly that he has the one thing Gatsby doesn’t; a past with her. When comparing Tom to Gatsby we see that Gatsby wants Daisy to himself and wants her to admit that she never loved Tom when the reality is that she did and still does. When Gatsby sees this we see a change is his attitude. He will do anything to have her because he wants her even more so. If we now look at Daisy we see how well suited to Tom she is; she doesn’t think before she acts, is careless and only thinks of herself. This makes us sympathise with Gatsby and makes us dislike Daisy but at the same time we sympathise with Tom, in a weird way. Even though Tom’s qualities are dislikeable, Fitzgerald manages to manipulate our feelings based on Daisy’s actions, and so we feel sorry for Tom for having to put up with Daisy’s