Gatsby Notes #2 (1/31/19)

Gatsby Chapter 4

Gatsby tells Nick that when he meets with Jordan she will tell him something that happened to him but he won’t tell Nick what that is. Nick later when Nick meets with Jordan she tells him that Gatsby wants to see Daisy and that all those parties he threw were in hopes of seeing her again.

Gatsby Chapter 5 and 6 Notes

What’s so Great About Gatsby

           Gatsby is a good person he isn’t the greatest person nor the worst.  In my opinion he’s a good person because in the book we never saw him doing anything out of character and he didn’t drink because he saw Cody, but he was trying to hard to get Daisy to be in love with him again. Gatsby was thinking about the past and how he felt then with Daisy then and wanted to feel that again and wanted Daisy to be his again. I think Nick thinks of himself as an honest person because he doesn’t lie when givohisbopinion or when he is asked things. He isn’t completely honest because he doesn’t say or tell anyone how he really feels towards them or thinks about them. He is around them because he doesn’t want to be left out he wants to be involved in a way with people. Daisy and Tom left after Daisy killed Myrtle because she wanted to run away and let Gatsby take the blame for what she had done. Tom left with her because Myrtle was his mistress and they both didn’t care about the mess they had both caused and without a consideration to anyone they both left leaving everyone else to clean up what they had created. I don’t understand Daisy’s behavior she should have left her husband if she didn’t love him and had feelings toward Gatsby and if she actually loved him she wouldn’t have left after Myrtle had died she would have stayed by her side. Her choices I don’t agree with either if she had a feeling or knew her husband cheated on her she should have divorced him. She is t a person I would let my brother/ son/ or friend date because of how she acted and she didn’t seem to care when Gatsby took the blame for her or when he died. The last line of the book to me means that we move even if we don’t want to because of what we have been through in the past.

Great Gatsby notes 1

Down the Rabbit Hole

I chose the link timeless advice on falling in love. I chose this because I wanted to see what John Steinbeck had to say about love. He wrote back to the letter he got by telling the person that love is a great thing once you have it but there are 2 types of love a selfish one in which you care about yourself and the second type is the one that brings the good out of you. He says that girls can return the feeling but need to be reminded of how the other person feels too. He tells Thom that having that feeling is great and a wonderful sensation. This interested me because Steinbeck has good things to say about love and expressed it very well while writing the letter an giving the reader advice on how to act on it.

How to Get to Graceland

   There are certain things I like to do alone and others I like to work with a partner or my group. Reading I like to do alone because I can go at my pace and take notes if there’s something I may not understand and it helps me concentrate because I know what I’m doing. Something I rather do with someone else is math because at times it gets too difficult to do alone and if you do do it alone you don’t have much help and you get stuck. Working with others can help in certain things that you have a hard time doing.in Paul Simon’s Graceland they all worked together to crate unique music which made them all happy and in the video they all enjoyed each other’s company and working together. They enjoyed working together because they needed each other to create what they wanted and get the most out of it.