Chapter 5

Personal Reflection

The following poem is about the meeting of Daisy and Gatsby, and the preparation that went into it. Nick was asked to do the favor of helping them to reunite with each other, after years of not being together.

Call up Daisy

day after tomorrow

grass cut

blazed

flowers

in a puddle of water

moment

with tense

calmness

glowed

filled the little room

enchanting

Daisy

with delight

began to cry

visibly

with a rush of emotion

possessed by intense life

Research Element

Vocab:

• Glints: small reflections of flashing light
• "Two o'clock and the whole corner of the peninsula was blazing with light, which fell unreal on the shrubbery and made thin elongating glints upon the roadside wires" (page 81). 
• Gaudily: brilliantly or excessively showy
• "So I don't know whether or not Gatsby went to coney Island, or for how many hours he "glanced into rooms" while his house blazed gaudily on" (page 83). 
• Harrowed: to disturb painfully; distress to feelings, emotions, etc
• "We both jumped up, and, a little harrowed myself, I went out into the yard" (page 85).

Literary Analysis

The purpose of this chapter is to reunite Daisy and Gatsby. They met many years before as teenagers, and eventually got before Gatsby was deployed for the war. After, they called off the wedding, and five years later they become reunited by Nick. Word came around that Nick was the neighbor of Gatsby and second cousin to Daisy. It was then that Gatsby wanted to be reunited with his former love, Daisy. The purpose is created through character development and descriptive writing. Nick is just starting to become familiar with everyone since he moved, and becomes aware that Gatsby wants to be reunited with Daisy. Nick does the favor out of pure generosity by explaining to Gatsby, "I called up Daisy from the office next morning, and invited her to come to tea" (page 83). The more the characters know about each other the more they realize how closely related they are to each other. The purpose is created through descriptive writing because the author provides a lot of detail of each part is specifically planned to ensure a good reunion. For example, Gatsby sends over flowers, accepted but puzzling to Nick, "The flowers were unnecessary, for at two o'clock a greenhouse arrived from Gatsby's with innumerable receptacles to contain it" (pg 84). This quote explains how a lot of flowers were sent trying to impress Daisy, and it the amount of detail that Gatsby put into this. Gatsby is described as wearing, "a white flannel suit, silver shirt, and gold-colored tie" (pg 84). The amount of detail through the writing and the interaction of the characters helps to create the purpose of the reintroduction of Gatsby and Daisy. Knowing that most of the other characters are having affairs, their true love shall be re-lived through the upcoming chapters. Therefore, the main purpose of this chapter was to introduce the interactions between Daisy and Gatsby as a foreshadow to what shall come in the rest of the story.