Chapter+8

=__Chapter 8:__ = ===Chapter 8 starts off with Nick waking up nedding to find Gatsby to tell him something, something Nick himself does not yet know. Gatsby has returned from the Buchanans and plainly says, "Nothing happened". They search for cigareetes around the house and while smoking, Gatsby begins to tell Nick the story of his youth. As Gatsby and Nick finish breakfast, the gardener comes up to them and states that he will be draining the pool. However, Gatsby asks him not to because he hasn't used it all year. As Nick departs for his train he remarks, "They're a rotten crowd, You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." Nick receives a phone call from Jordan but he cuts her off to try and phone Gatsby. The time shifts to the previous night where George Wilson and Michaelis are having a conversation. Wilson goes to Gatsby's house and shoots him while he is on the air mattress in the pool. The chauffeur, the butler, the gardner and Nick go down to find Gatsby's body floating in the pool. The gardener then finds Wilson's dead body lying farther off in the grass. ===

__﻿Vocabulary:__
__Humidor-__ a container or storage room for cigars or other preparations of tobacco, fitted with means for keeping [|the] tobacco suitably moist. __ Settee- __ a seat for two or more persons __ Redolent- __ having a pleasant odor; fragrant.

__Colors:__
"filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. (Fitzgerald 152)" Silver is said to have a soothing or calming effect while gold causes relaxation or enjoyment of life. Nick has opened the curtains and the light is flowing in. The colors of the light could indicate that Nick is relaxed or calm.

**__Common Themes:__**
Love: "He was worried now — there was a quality of nervous despair in Daisy’s letters. She didn’t see why he couldn’t come." After the war, there was a confusion and Gatsby was sent to Oxford. He tried very hard to get home to Daisy and she couldn't see why he couldn't make it back. Gatsby was very much in love with Daisy but unfortunately they drifted apart and went their seperate ways.

__﻿Marxist:__
"She had caught a cold, and it made her voice huskier and more charming than ever, and Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor. (Fitzgerald 150)" - Gatsby describes Daisy in such a manner that he thinks her better and above the poorer people despite the fact that she has a cold.

__Feminist:__
"he let her believe that he was a person from much the same stratum as herself — that he was fully able to take care of her. (Fitzgerald 149)" Around the 1920's women had very little privelages and freedoms. Gatsby believes that he could take care of her and fully intends to. Despite the goodness behind that he is implying that Daisy cannot take care of herself.

__Reflection of Time Period:__
" He did extraordinarily well in the war. He was a captain before he went to the front, and following the Argonne battles he got his majority and the command of the divisional machine-guns. (Fitzgerald 150)" This section reflects the time period by describing Gatsby's success during World War I.

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