The Great Gatsby: Chapter 6-Pg. 97-111

Summary

• In the beginning of this chapter, we learn that Gatsby's hype is sky high through a reporter who shows up at his house because the reporter heard Gatsby's name in his office and that Gatsby threw crazy parties that everyone knows about.  We are then introduced to James Gatz (Jay Gatsby back in the day) and how his life was as a young adult before and after he met Dan Cody, the man who made Gatsby.  Dan Cody basically took Gatsby in and bought him new clothes and took him around the world in his yacht. After Dan died, James Gatz decided to start his new life as Jay Gatsby.  Tom and Daisy attend one of Gatsby's house parties and after the party, Gatsby tells Nick that Daisy did not like the party and Nick tells us how Gatsby is always talking about the past and how Gatsby is trying to re-make the past.
• James Gatz 
• Quote: "He knew women early, and since they spoiled him he became contemptuous of them, of young virgins because they were ignorant, of the others because they were hysterical about things which in his overwhelming self-absorbed he took for granted."
• Description:  Dark skinned, very short neat hair, romantic, stalker, rich, the smile that everyone loves, restless, acts like a little boy when he first meets Daisy after five years, wants to be known by everyone, lives his life in the past, obsessive, thinks in imagination, all he does is hope, does anything that might please Daisy or win her
• Gatsby is a person in the novel that the author wants us to like.  The author has made Gatsby seem like a nice, giving man.  However, after we have read some of the novel, we find out that Gatsby is really a stalker.  He is in this novel because he is Daisy's lover even though she is married.  He will do anything to have her.  He does not care about any of his material possessions because he only has them so he can impress Daisy.  He built his name and wealth up so he can come back into the game and win Daisy.  
• Quote that stands out: "He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy."  
• This quote stood out because there is this reoccurring theme of Gatsby living his life or talking about the past throughout the novel.  It seems like Gatsby is stuck in time when he was with Daisy and that he cannot pass that period in his life when he lost her.  It is also important for us to know that even Nick states that Gatsby is talking way to much about the past.  The author wants us to like Nick, and has made us believe that Nick is trustworthy.  This allows us to see that Gatsby is obsessive.