Chapter 6 focuses on Jay Gatsby, legally known as James Gatz’s childhood and clears out certain rumours we have heard about him throughout the novel. It clarifies possible question marks in the readers mind thus showing the truth about what he faced as a child and also gives insight about his hopes and dreams. We learn that his wealth is not inheritance but he earns all this money and wealth by setting up goals for himself and trying very hard to get away as far as he can from poverty. We also learn that he is inspired by Dan Cody, a former rich man who takes Jay out in his yacht so Jay can help him around.
What this chapter seeks on telling the reader is that Gatsby got everything he dreamt of in his life. He went from being a janitor in College of St Olaf’s in Minnesota to a rich bootlegger. He fell in love with the money and the luxury as a child and knew that he wanted a life surrounded by the two. Dreaming about this made him work hard and he made his dream partially true. We as the reader know that he almost got everything he ever dreamt of except for one thing, that being the love and marriage with Daisy.
During this chapter Nick is surprised to see Tom, Daisy’s husband in Gatsby’s house. I think Gatsby likes spending time with tom and tries to learn more about him to understand what Tom has that he doesn’t have, which makes Daisy love Tom. He is curious to learn about their family. At this time, Gatsby finds the courage to ask Daisy and Tom to come over for a party he is hosting. Tom and Daisy kindly accept his invitation and come to the next party together.
This chapter also showed the insecurities of Tom because he gets very paranoid about Gatsby knowing Daisy and spending time with her. He also doesn’t want to loose his modern view so he tells people they shouldn’t leave their wife’s wonder around freely too much. He is afraid of loosing Daisy and afraid she might do the same thing she has been doing to her for sometime now. We can understand how jealous he is of Gatsby by the way he tries to bring him down by his weaknesses like what kind of job he does and how boring his parties are. This creates a lot of tension between many characters with in the book, which makes the book even more interesting.
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