Going to be honest, I cried at the end. This guys voice sets the mood of the story, and I felt like gatsby's voice was of comforting complexion. This story was narrated beautifully.
The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 Nick is the narrator, the story unfolds from his point of view. Nick is a veteran and is now going into the bond business(he comes from a good money family). He goes to live near New York, West egg is new money and East egg is old money. Nick lives next to a man named Gatsby, Nick lives in basically a shack compared to the mansions around him. Nick has a cousin Daisy who is married to Tom, they live in East egg. Tom is a Polo player and has a child with Daisy. Nick meets Jordan, a golf player and Daisy's friend. They have dinner, Tom leaves. Nick learns Tom is cheating on Daisy. The mistress is the one making the phone ring. Daisy is unhappy and disappointed with her life. We learn this when she talks with Nick. Nick goes on leave but is asked about a rumor that Tom and Daisy heard from people. They ask him if he is engaged, Nick says no. They don't believe him because they heard it from 3 other people. Nick is disgusted, he leaves. At home Nick looks out to the bay between West and East egg. On the dock he sees Gatsby looking over the bay reaching out. He is slightly shaking as he reaches out but the only thing you can see beyond the dock is a green light flickering in the distance. Credit: Dirt Sheep Chapter 2 Tom Buchanan and Nick (narrator) are together on a train and Tom really wants him to meet his mistress so he basically pulls him out of the train. Nick describes the town as really ashy, powdery, and kind of desolate. There's literally like 3 buildings there and Nick is dragged into one with Tom. It's a repair shop. There with Tom, they meet a guy named George Wilson who works there. Then, his wife Myrtle Wilson comes out and makes an excuse to make George leave (she tells him to go get chairs). She tells Tom, who she's having an affair with, to meet her somewhere later. Nick and Tom leave, remark on how ghetto the town is, and talk about how dumb George is for not realizing that his wife is actually cheating on him with Tom. George thinks that Myrtle is going to see her sister in New York, which is half true. Tom and Myrtle get into the train in different cars, to make people who know them less suspicious. Nick in there with Tom. When they get to New York Myrtle decides to get a dog. They go to a small apartment on the top floor and Myrtle calls up the McKees, a couple, and her sister Catherine to have a party. Nick gets drunk so he remembers everything in a haze. Mr. McKee is a photographer and Mrs. McKee keeps insisting that her husband take pictures of Myrtle in her dress. Mrs. McKee tells Nick how Tom and Myrtle actually hate their spouses. Everyone gets drunk except Catherine (Myrtle's sister). Myrtle annoys Tom by saying his wife's name like 6 times and he slaps her and breaks her nose. Then Nick goes down an elevator with Mr. McKee. His memory is bad since he's drunk, so all of a sudden he's standing next to Mr. Mckee who is in his underwear in bed. Then suddenly Nick is waiting for a train. The chapter ends. Credit: Amanda Chang Chapter 3 Brief description of lavish nature of Jay's parties; Nick gets invited to Jay's party; Nick meets Jordan there, they stick to each other during most of the party; Jordan wants Nick to leave with her to find Jay; they stumble upon the library, find some guy looking through books in amazement at the fact that the books are real; they get out and sit with a man (who they later realise is Jay Gatsby, the man himself) and some other "rowdy little girl"; Jay talks to Nick and Nick realises that he is none other than the man himself, Jay Gatsby. Later, Jordan is asked to talk to Jay alone, and Jay is left alone in the midst of the now-drunk crowd. Soon after, Jordan returns, then commotion involving a wheel getting detached from the car takes place at the front of the door, but it doesn't matter since Nick is now going back home next door. Nick then talks about his life experiences in New York and with Jordan, in which he realises that Jordan cannot stand being given the short end of the stick. He then calls himself "one of the few honest people that he has (I have) ever known" and the chapter closes. Credit: Sean He says he is honest because he wasn’t trying to have a fling with Jordan. Even though there was a seeming mutual attraction there. Nick also mentioned at the end of the chapter that he still had some attachment to a girl back home that he was writing letters to. He said that before he gets into anything he should get himself free from that connection first. That’s what he meant by being honest. It does contradict a little bit with something else within this chapter. Just a few pages earlier Nick mentions that he had a short affair with a girl from Jersey until her brother started giving him dirty looks. So go figure about the honesty😄🤷♂️ Credit: Alex Gordeev
Chapter 4 Nick lists all of the people who attended Gatsby’s parties that summer, a roll call of the nation’s most wealthy and powerful people. He then describes a trip that he took to New York with Gatsby to eat lunch. As they drive to the city, Gatsby tells Nick about his past, but his story seems highly improbable. He claims, for instance, to be the son of wealthy, deceased parents from the Midwest. When Nick asks which Midwestern city he is from, Gatsby replies, “San Francisco.” Gatsby then lists a long and preposterously detailed set of accomplishments: he claims to have been educated at Oxford, to have collected jewels in the capitals of Europe, to have hunted big game, and to have been awarded medals in World War I by multiple European countries. Seeing Nick’s skepticism, Gatsby produces a medal from Montenegro and a picture of himself playing cricket at Oxford. Gatsby’s car speeds through the valley of ashes and enters the city. When a policeman pulls Gatsby over for speeding, Gatsby shows him a white card and the policeman apologizes for bothering him. In the city, Gatsby takes Nick to lunch and introduces him to Meyer Wolfsheim, who, he claims, was responsible for fixing the 1919 World Series. Wolfsheim is a shady character with underground business connections. He gives Nick the impression that the source of Gatsby’s wealth might be unsavory, and that Gatsby may even have ties to the sort of organized crime with which Wolfsheim is associated. Credit: MPT.Flopper Summary of what Jordan told Nick about Daisy and Gatsby. What we found out was that Daisy knew Gatsby before she met Tom. Also a day before Daisy's wedding she received a letter that made her get drunk and cry and she almost called off the marriage. The day after however she stulls marries Tom like nothing happened the day before. Then Jordan talks about where Daisy and Tom lived and the places they visited. Then Jordan says that after Nick left the night that they all had dinner together, she asked "What Gatsby?" and Jordan described him to her and Daisy then says that he was the man she used to know. Jordan then reveals that Gatsby bought the house he lives in just so that Daisy would be just across the bay. After she tells Nick that Gatsby was wondering if Nick could invite Daisy to his house for tea one day and then let Gatsby come over. The reason being Gatsby wanting to see Daisy after 5 years and for her to see his house. Also the reason why Gatsby has been making many parties was because he was hoping that Daisy would come to one of them some day but she didn't. Then we find out the reason why Gatsby wanted to talk with Jordan in ch 3. Which was because Jordan knew Daisy and he wanted to see her next door but when Jordan mentioned that Nick was friends with Tom he started to abandon the whole idea. Then Jordan tells Nick that Gatsby doesn't want Daisy to know about this, only for Nick to invite her for tea. Then at the very end of the chapter Nick kisses Jordan. Credit: Joonie Chapter 5 Gatsby and Nick are planning their next meetup and, after some conflict, they decide on tea with Daisy. In return, Gatsby gets someone to cut Nick's grass and offers him a job. Fast forward a bit and it's the day of the meetup. It's been raining all day and Gatsby is quite nervous about it, believing the meetup was a mistake and terribly awkward. Nick reassures him before going outside for a half an hour. After coming back he finds that the two have gotten much more comfortable with each other and are goggling at each other on the couch. Credit: Emma Davis So basically, Gatsby takes them to his house and they go to his room. Nick wants to leave them alone, but they wont let him. Nick describes the house as luxurious. Daisy loves the house because she's a gold digger. She then cries about Gatsby’s silk shirts because she could’ve been with Gatsby the whole time instead of Tom. They have some good conversations. Gatsby forces someone to play the piano. Gatsby and Daisy started to hold hands and forgot Nick was there. Talk about third wheeling. Nick then leaves. Moral of the chapter: Gatsby’s a simp. Credit: Me :D (RUclips User)
Chapter 6 Gatsby was born James Gatz on a North Dakota farm, and though he attended college at St. Olaf’s in Minnesota, he dropped out after two weeks, loathing the humiliating janitorial work by means of which he paid his tuition. He worked on Lake Superior the next summer fishing for salmon and digging for clams. One day, he saw a yacht owned by Dan Cody, a wealthy copper mogul, and rowed out to warn him about an impending storm. The grateful Cody took young Gatz, who gave his name as Jay Gatsby, on board his yacht as his personal assistant. Traveling with Cody to the Barbary Coast and the West Indies, Gatsby fell in love with wealth and luxury. Cody was a heavy drinker, and one of Gatsby’s jobs was to look after him during his drunken binges. This gave Gatsby a healthy respect for the dangers of alcohol and convinced him not to become a drinker himself. When Cody died, he left Gatsby $25,000, but Cody’s mistress prevented him from claiming his inheritance. Gatsby then dedicated himself to becoming a wealthy and successful man. Nick sees neither Gatsby nor Daisy for several weeks after their reunion at Nick’s house. Stopping by Gatsby’s house one afternoon, he is alarmed to find Tom Buchanan there. Tom has stopped for a drink at Gatsby’s house with Mr. and Mrs. Sloane, with whom he has been out riding. Gatsby seems nervous and agitated, and tells Tom awkwardly that he knows Daisy. Gatsby invites Tom and the Sloanes to stay for dinner, but they refuse. To be polite, they invite Gatsby to dine with them, and he accepts, not realizing the insincerity of the invitation. Tom is contemptuous of Gatsby’s lack of social grace and highly critical of Daisy’s habit of visiting Gatsby’s house alone. He is suspicious, but he has not yet discovered Gatsby and Daisy’s love. The following Saturday night, Tom and Daisy go to a party at Gatsby’s house. Though Tom has no interest in the party, his dislike for Gatsby causes him to want to keep an eye on Daisy. Gatsby’s party strikes Nick much more unfavorably this time around-he finds the revelry oppressive and notices that even Daisy has a bad time. Tom upsets her by telling her that Gatsby’s fortune comes from bootlegging. She angrily replies that Gatsby’s wealth comes from a chain of drugstores that he owns. Gatsby seeks out Nick after Tom and Daisy leave the party; he is unhappy because Daisy has had such an unpleasant time. Gatsby wants things to be exactly the same as they were before he left Louisville: he wants Daisy to leave Tom so that he can be with her. Nick reminds Gatsby that he cannot re-create the past. Gatsby, distraught, protests that he can. He believes that his money can accomplish anything as far as Daisy is concerned. As he walks amid the debris from the party, Nick thinks about the first time Gatsby kissed Daisy, the moment when his dream of Daisy became the dominant force in his life. Now that he has her, Nick reflects, his dream is effectively over. Credit: Kenzie Winchester Chapter 7 Gatsby, Jordan and Nick are invited over to the Buchanan's. they decide to go to nyc and tom shows dislike for gatsby and knows at this point that daisy's having an affair with him. when they're driving to nyc, tom drives gatsby's yellow car w/ jordan and nick inside, and gatsby drives tom's blue coupe w/ daisy. On their way, Tom stops by Wilson's house where he finds out that Wilson has realized that his wife, Myrtle, is cheating on him. Wilson tells Tom that he plans to move in two days. at nyc, the group stays at a suite where tom starts to question gatsby. Gatsby ends up exploding on him and outs everything (oof). he forces Daisy to admit that she never loved Tom, and she does, only to take it back a few minutes later and claim that it's a lie to say she never loved tom. fighting proceeds, tom's throwing facts, and gatsby feels defeated. o and they've been drinking this whole time. Anyways, after the fight, Tom is relieved that he defeated gatsby, and makes gatsby and daisy head home early in the yellow car. Afterwards, Tom decides to drive back home as well. cut to wilson. Wilson states that he locked Myrtle in the house till they moved. He heads in, and has a fight w/ myrtle. she runs out in protest and bam she's hit by a car and now she's dead. Tom passes by the scene about an hour afterwards and realizes that it's his mistress who's on the floor dead and being inspected. Then this random dude comes in and tells the police that it was a yellow car that hit myrtle dead. yea it's gatsby's car. Wilson then remembers seeing Tom in the yellow car, but Tom lets him know that it wasn't actually his car. The chapter basically ends when tom arrives home and has a talk w/ daisy about the whole problem w/ gatsby, but they're not fighting or anything. oh and did i mention that it was daisy who was driving gatsby's car on their way back? lmao yea she killed myrtle Credit: Amy
Chapter 8 This one is long because I couldn't find a summary in the comment section so I used spark notes. After the day’s traumatic events, Nick passes a sleepless night. Before dawn, he rises restlessly and goes to visit Gatsby at his mansion. Gatsby tells him that he waited at Daisy’s until four o’clock in the morning and that nothing happened-Tom did not try to hurt her and Daisy did not come outside. Nick suggests that Gatsby forget about Daisy and leave Long Island, but Gatsby refuses to consider leaving Daisy behind. Gatsby, melancholy, tells Nick about courting Daisy in Louisville in 1917. He says that he loved her for her youth and vitality, and idolized her social position, wealth, and popularity. He adds that she was the first girl to whom he ever felt close and that he lied about his background to make her believe that he was worthy of her. Eventually, he continues, he and Daisy made love, and he felt as though he had married her. She promised to wait for him when he left for the war, but then she married Tom, whose social position was solid and who had the approval of her parents. Gatsby’s gardener interrupts the story to tell Gatsby that he plans to drain the pool. The previous day was the hottest of the summer, but autumn is in the air this morning, and the gardener worries that falling leaves will clog the pool drains. Gatsby tells the gardener to wait a day; he has never used the pool, he says, and wants to go for a swim. Nick has stayed so long talking to Gatsby that he is very late for work. He finally says goodbye to Gatsby. As he walks away, he turns back and shouts that Gatsby is worth more than the Buchanans and all of their friends. Nick goes to his office, but he feels too distracted to work, and even refuses to meet Jordan Baker for a date. The focus of his narrative then shifts to relate to the reader what happened at the garage after Myrtle was killed (the details of which Nick learns from Michaelis): George Wilson stays up all night talking to Michaelis about Myrtle. He tells him that before Myrtle died, he confronted her about her lover and told her that she could not hide her sin from the eyes of God. The morning after the accident, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, illuminated by the dawn, overwhelms Wilson. He believes they are the eyes of God and leaps to the conclusion that whoever was driving the car that killed Myrtle must have been her lover. He decides that God demands revenge and leaves to track down the owner of the car. He looks for Tom, because he knows that Tom is familiar with the car’s owner-he saw Tom driving the car earlier that day but knows Tom could not have been the driver since Tom arrived after the accident in a different car with Nick and Jordan. Wilson eventually goes to Gatsby’s house, where he finds Gatsby lying on an air mattress in the pool, floating in the water and looking up at the sky. Wilson shoots Gatsby, killing him instantly, then shoots himself. Nick hurries back to West Egg and finds Gatsby floating dead in his pool. Nick imagines Gatsby’s final thoughts, and pictures him disillusioned by the meaninglessness and emptiness of life without Daisy, without his dream. Chapter 9 Nobody came to his funeral except for photographers. Nick called everyone and no one would call. Nick realizes Gatsby was a great man. Summary: Me (RUclips User)
Gatsby deserved a lot better. I honestly assumed in the beginning he was going to go from a charismatic man to a man of corruption. Sure the guy was pretty suspicious but at the end of the day, characters like Tom and Daisy proved themselves to be much worse.
I was literally about to read it myself because I couldn't let that lady read it to me. AND YOU TRIED TO HIDE??!? You're so silly old sport, of course I'd find you.
“I wanted to get somebody for him. I wanted to go into the room where he lay and reassure him, ‘I’ll get somebody for you, Gatsby. Don’t worry. Just trust me, and I’ll get somebody for you.’ “ 2:46
everyone in the comments been through the same shit listening to every chapter then the heartbreak of hearing that lady on the last chapter
right
LMAO
EXACTLY I’m so greatful rn
BRUH FR
that lady is hitler but a little worse
I finally found you, old sport
LMAO
Yeah bro my class was freaking out because we couldn't find his reading of chapter 9
Found you, old nigga
Bro I've been looking for this man for 30 minutes
Love this
Rather listen to this bad audio than her
You talking about the other person then agreed.. she stutter so much I can’t understand what she’s reading
The fact that I think I know who your talking about 💀
we all do
Clicked out of her video SO FAST
@@its.esmiii exactly lol
I finally found him, the real Jake Gyllenhaal. It just didn’t sound right with other authors.
I’d rather suffer than have... *her* ...read it to me.
Who’s *her* ??
Why on earth did they change the damn voice
FR
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I didn't even know it was Jake Gyllenhaal until the reader switched up on this chapter
SAME
ME TOO
SAME
This is the voice we've all been waiting for
AHA I FOUND HIM AGAIN, *cries in happy student* we did it lads
bruh this is jake gyllenhaal
FR
Jake Gyllenhaal a perfect voice for this reading.
Going to be honest, I cried at the end. This guys voice sets the mood of the story, and I felt like gatsby's voice was of comforting complexion. This story was narrated beautifully.
Wow
crybaby
Tom can catch these hands honestly
What do you mean?
Mathew Wang have you not read the book?
Everyone is here from this playlist huh? So am I XD
Idc if this is worse quality I WANTED THE OLD VOICE BACK
lowkey wish nick would’ve told tom that daisy was the one that was driving the car 😐
Yeah same😑
Tom knows it was Daisy, thats why they ran
@@candezanotti4706 I don’t know about that
@@candezanotti4706 i agree
Thank you. You really saved the day, old sport.
We are all on the same narrator wavelength. This is awesome. One more freaking chapter
Found him.. I wasn’t comfortable with her voice
i’m glad im not the only one that needed jake 🙏
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 1
Nick is the narrator, the story unfolds from his point of view. Nick is a veteran and is now going into the bond business(he comes from a good money family). He goes to live near New York, West egg is new money and East egg is old money. Nick lives next to a man named Gatsby, Nick lives in basically a shack compared to the mansions around him. Nick has a cousin Daisy who is married to Tom, they live in East egg. Tom is a Polo player and has a child with Daisy. Nick meets Jordan, a golf player and Daisy's friend. They have dinner, Tom leaves. Nick learns Tom is cheating on Daisy. The mistress is the one making the phone ring. Daisy is unhappy and disappointed with her life. We learn this when she talks with Nick. Nick goes on leave but is asked about a rumor that Tom and Daisy heard from people. They ask him if he is engaged, Nick says no. They don't believe him because they heard it from 3 other people. Nick is disgusted, he leaves. At home Nick looks out to the bay between West and East egg. On the dock he sees Gatsby looking over the bay reaching out. He is slightly shaking as he reaches out but the only thing you can see beyond the dock is a green light flickering in the distance.
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Chapter 2
Tom Buchanan and Nick (narrator) are together on a train and Tom really wants him to meet his mistress so he basically pulls him out of the train. Nick describes the town as really ashy, powdery, and kind of desolate. There's literally like 3 buildings there and Nick is dragged into one with Tom. It's a repair shop. There with Tom, they meet a guy named George Wilson who works there. Then, his wife Myrtle Wilson comes out and makes an excuse to make George leave (she tells him to go get chairs). She tells Tom, who she's having an affair with, to meet her somewhere later. Nick and Tom leave, remark on how ghetto the town is, and talk about how dumb George is for not realizing that his wife is actually cheating on him with Tom. George thinks that Myrtle is going to see her sister in New York, which is half true. Tom and Myrtle get into the train in different cars, to make people who know them less suspicious. Nick in there with Tom. When they get to New York Myrtle decides to get a dog. They go to a small apartment on the top floor and Myrtle calls up the McKees, a couple, and her sister Catherine to have a party. Nick gets drunk so he remembers everything in a haze. Mr. McKee is a photographer and Mrs. McKee keeps insisting that her husband take pictures of Myrtle in her dress. Mrs. McKee tells Nick how Tom and Myrtle actually hate their spouses. Everyone gets drunk except Catherine (Myrtle's sister). Myrtle annoys Tom by saying his wife's name like 6 times and he slaps her and breaks her nose. Then Nick goes down an elevator with Mr. McKee. His memory is bad since he's drunk, so all of a sudden he's standing next to Mr. Mckee who is in his underwear in bed. Then suddenly Nick is waiting for a train. The chapter ends.
Credit: Amanda Chang
Chapter 3
Brief description of lavish nature of Jay's parties; Nick gets invited to Jay's party; Nick meets Jordan there, they stick to each other during most of the party; Jordan wants Nick to leave with her to find Jay; they stumble upon the library, find some guy looking through books in amazement at the fact that the books are real; they get out and sit with a man (who they later realise is Jay Gatsby, the man himself) and some other "rowdy little girl"; Jay talks to Nick and Nick realises that he is none other than the man himself, Jay Gatsby. Later, Jordan is asked to talk to Jay alone, and Jay is left alone in the midst of the now-drunk crowd. Soon after, Jordan returns, then commotion involving a wheel getting detached from the car takes place at the front of the door, but it doesn't matter since Nick is now going back home next door.
Nick then talks about his life experiences in New York and with Jordan, in which he realises that Jordan cannot stand being given the short end of the stick. He then calls himself "one of the few honest people that he has (I have) ever known" and the chapter closes.
Credit: Sean
He says he is honest because he wasn’t trying to have a fling with Jordan. Even though there was a seeming mutual attraction there. Nick also mentioned at the end of the chapter that he still had some attachment to a girl back home that he was writing letters to. He said that before he gets into anything he should get himself free from that connection first. That’s what he meant by being honest. It does contradict a little bit with something else within this chapter. Just a few pages earlier Nick mentions that he had a short affair with a girl from Jersey until her brother started giving him dirty looks. So go figure about the honesty😄🤷♂️
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Chapter 4
Nick lists all of the people who attended Gatsby’s parties that summer, a roll call of the nation’s most wealthy and powerful people. He then describes a trip that he took to New York with Gatsby to eat lunch. As they drive to the city, Gatsby tells Nick about his past, but his story seems highly improbable. He claims, for instance, to be the son of wealthy, deceased parents from the Midwest. When Nick asks which Midwestern city he is from, Gatsby replies, “San Francisco.” Gatsby then lists a long and preposterously detailed set of accomplishments: he claims to have been educated at Oxford, to have collected jewels in the capitals of Europe, to have hunted big game, and to have been awarded medals in World War I by multiple European countries. Seeing Nick’s skepticism, Gatsby produces a medal from Montenegro and a picture of himself playing cricket at Oxford.
Gatsby’s car speeds through the valley of ashes and enters the city. When a policeman pulls Gatsby over for speeding, Gatsby shows him a white card and the policeman apologizes for bothering him. In the city, Gatsby takes Nick to lunch and introduces him to Meyer Wolfsheim, who, he claims, was responsible for fixing the 1919 World Series. Wolfsheim is a shady character with underground business connections. He gives Nick the impression that the source of Gatsby’s wealth might be unsavory, and that Gatsby may even have ties to the sort of organized crime with which Wolfsheim is associated.
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Summary of what Jordan told Nick about Daisy and Gatsby. What we found out was that Daisy knew Gatsby before she met Tom. Also a day before Daisy's wedding she received a letter that made her get drunk and cry and she almost called off the marriage. The day after however she stulls marries Tom like nothing happened the day before. Then Jordan talks about where Daisy and Tom lived and the places they visited. Then Jordan says that after Nick left the night that they all had dinner together, she asked "What Gatsby?" and Jordan described him to her and Daisy then says that he was the man she used to know. Jordan then reveals that Gatsby bought the house he lives in just so that Daisy would be just across the bay. After she tells Nick that Gatsby was wondering if Nick could invite Daisy to his house for tea one day and then let Gatsby come over. The reason being Gatsby wanting to see Daisy after 5 years and for her to see his house. Also the reason why Gatsby has been making many parties was because he was hoping that Daisy would come to one of them some day but she didn't. Then we find out the reason why Gatsby wanted to talk with Jordan in ch 3. Which was because Jordan knew Daisy and he wanted to see her next door but when Jordan mentioned that Nick was friends with Tom he started to abandon the whole idea. Then Jordan tells Nick that Gatsby doesn't want Daisy to know about this, only for Nick to invite her for tea. Then at the very end of the chapter Nick kisses Jordan.
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Chapter 5
Gatsby and Nick are planning their next meetup and, after some conflict, they decide on tea with Daisy. In return, Gatsby gets someone to cut Nick's grass and offers him a job.
Fast forward a bit and it's the day of the meetup. It's been raining all day and Gatsby is quite nervous about it, believing the meetup was a mistake and terribly awkward. Nick reassures him before going outside for a half an hour. After coming back he finds that the two have gotten much more comfortable with each other and are goggling at each other on the couch.
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So basically, Gatsby takes them to his house and they go to his room. Nick wants to leave them alone, but they wont let him. Nick describes the house as luxurious. Daisy loves the house because she's a gold digger. She then cries about Gatsby’s silk shirts because she could’ve been with Gatsby the whole time instead of Tom. They have some good conversations. Gatsby forces someone to play the piano. Gatsby and Daisy started to hold hands and forgot Nick was there. Talk about third wheeling. Nick then leaves. Moral of the chapter: Gatsby’s a simp.
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Chapter 6
Gatsby was born James Gatz on a North Dakota farm, and though he attended college at St. Olaf’s in Minnesota, he dropped out after two weeks, loathing the humiliating janitorial work by means of which he paid his tuition. He worked on Lake Superior the next summer fishing for salmon and digging for clams. One day, he saw a yacht owned by Dan Cody, a wealthy copper mogul, and rowed out to warn him about an impending storm. The grateful Cody took young Gatz, who gave his name as Jay Gatsby, on board his yacht as his personal assistant. Traveling with Cody to the Barbary Coast and the West Indies, Gatsby fell in love with wealth and luxury. Cody was a heavy drinker, and one of Gatsby’s jobs was to look after him during his drunken binges. This gave Gatsby a healthy respect for the dangers of alcohol and convinced him not to become a drinker himself. When Cody died, he left Gatsby $25,000, but Cody’s mistress prevented him from claiming his inheritance. Gatsby then dedicated himself to becoming a wealthy and successful man.
Nick sees neither Gatsby nor Daisy for several weeks after their reunion at Nick’s house. Stopping by Gatsby’s house one afternoon, he is alarmed to find Tom Buchanan there. Tom has stopped for a drink at Gatsby’s house with Mr. and Mrs. Sloane, with whom he has been out riding. Gatsby seems nervous and agitated, and tells Tom awkwardly that he knows Daisy. Gatsby invites Tom and the Sloanes to stay for dinner, but they refuse. To be polite, they invite Gatsby to dine with them, and he accepts, not realizing the insincerity of the invitation. Tom is contemptuous of Gatsby’s lack of social grace and highly critical of Daisy’s habit of visiting Gatsby’s house alone. He is suspicious, but he has not yet discovered Gatsby and Daisy’s love.
The following Saturday night, Tom and Daisy go to a party at Gatsby’s house. Though Tom has no interest in the party, his dislike for Gatsby causes him to want to keep an eye on Daisy. Gatsby’s party strikes Nick much more unfavorably this time around-he finds the revelry oppressive and notices that even Daisy has a bad time. Tom upsets her by telling her that Gatsby’s fortune comes from bootlegging. She angrily replies that Gatsby’s wealth comes from a chain of drugstores that he owns.
Gatsby seeks out Nick after Tom and Daisy leave the party; he is unhappy because Daisy has had such an unpleasant time. Gatsby wants things to be exactly the same as they were before he left Louisville: he wants Daisy to leave Tom so that he can be with her. Nick reminds Gatsby that he cannot re-create the past. Gatsby, distraught, protests that he can. He believes that his money can accomplish anything as far as Daisy is concerned. As he walks amid the debris from the party, Nick thinks about the first time Gatsby kissed Daisy, the moment when his dream of Daisy became the dominant force in his life. Now that he has her, Nick reflects, his dream is effectively over.
Credit: Kenzie Winchester
Chapter 7
Gatsby, Jordan and Nick are invited over to the Buchanan's. they decide to go to nyc and tom shows dislike for gatsby and knows at this point that daisy's having an affair with him. when they're driving to nyc, tom drives gatsby's yellow car w/ jordan and nick inside, and gatsby drives tom's blue coupe w/ daisy. On their way, Tom stops by Wilson's house where he finds out that Wilson has realized that his wife, Myrtle, is cheating on him. Wilson tells Tom that he plans to move in two days. at nyc, the group stays at a suite where tom starts to question gatsby. Gatsby ends up exploding on him and outs everything (oof). he forces Daisy to admit that she never loved Tom, and she does, only to take it back a few minutes later and claim that it's a lie to say she never loved tom. fighting proceeds, tom's throwing facts, and gatsby feels defeated. o and they've been drinking this whole time. Anyways, after the fight, Tom is relieved that he defeated gatsby, and makes gatsby and daisy head home early in the yellow car. Afterwards, Tom decides to drive back home as well. cut to wilson. Wilson states that he locked Myrtle in the house till they moved. He heads in, and has a fight w/ myrtle. she runs out in protest and bam she's hit by a car and now she's dead. Tom passes by the scene about an hour afterwards and realizes that it's his mistress who's on the floor dead and being inspected. Then this random dude comes in and tells the police that it was a yellow car that hit myrtle dead. yea it's gatsby's car. Wilson then remembers seeing Tom in the yellow car, but Tom lets him know that it wasn't actually his car. The chapter basically ends when tom arrives home and has a talk w/ daisy about the whole problem w/ gatsby, but they're not fighting or anything. oh and did i mention that it was daisy who was driving gatsby's car on their way back? lmao yea she killed myrtle
Credit: Amy
Chapter 8
This one is long because I couldn't find a summary in the comment section so I used spark notes.
After the day’s traumatic events, Nick passes a sleepless night. Before dawn, he rises restlessly and goes to visit Gatsby at his mansion. Gatsby tells him that he waited at Daisy’s until four o’clock in the morning and that nothing happened-Tom did not try to hurt her and Daisy did not come outside. Nick suggests that Gatsby forget about Daisy and leave Long Island, but Gatsby refuses to consider leaving Daisy behind. Gatsby, melancholy, tells Nick about courting Daisy in Louisville in 1917. He says that he loved her for her youth and vitality, and idolized her social position, wealth, and popularity. He adds that she was the first girl to whom he ever felt close and that he lied about his background to make her believe that he was worthy of her. Eventually, he continues, he and Daisy made love, and he felt as though he had married her. She promised to wait for him when he left for the war, but then she married Tom, whose social position was solid and who had the approval of her parents.
Gatsby’s gardener interrupts the story to tell Gatsby that he plans to drain the pool. The previous day was the hottest of the summer, but autumn is in the air this morning, and the gardener worries that falling leaves will clog the pool drains. Gatsby tells the gardener to wait a day; he has never used the pool, he says, and wants to go for a swim. Nick has stayed so long talking to Gatsby that he is very late for work. He finally says goodbye to Gatsby. As he walks away, he turns back and shouts that Gatsby is worth more than the Buchanans and all of their friends.
Nick goes to his office, but he feels too distracted to work, and even refuses to meet Jordan Baker for a date. The focus of his narrative then shifts to relate to the reader what happened at the garage after Myrtle was killed (the details of which Nick learns from Michaelis): George Wilson stays up all night talking to Michaelis about Myrtle. He tells him that before Myrtle died, he confronted her about her lover and told her that she could not hide her sin from the eyes of God. The morning after the accident, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, illuminated by the dawn, overwhelms Wilson. He believes they are the eyes of God and leaps to the conclusion that whoever was driving the car that killed Myrtle must have been her lover. He decides that God demands revenge and leaves to track down the owner of the car. He looks for Tom, because he knows that Tom is familiar with the car’s owner-he saw Tom driving the car earlier that day but knows Tom could not have been the driver since Tom arrived after the accident in a different car with Nick and Jordan. Wilson eventually goes to Gatsby’s house, where he finds Gatsby lying on an air mattress in the pool, floating in the water and looking up at the sky. Wilson shoots Gatsby, killing him instantly, then shoots himself.
Nick hurries back to West Egg and finds Gatsby floating dead in his pool. Nick imagines Gatsby’s final thoughts, and pictures him disillusioned by the meaninglessness and emptiness of life without Daisy, without his dream.
Chapter 9
Nobody came to his funeral except for photographers. Nick called everyone and no one would call. Nick realizes Gatsby was a great man.
Summary: Me (RUclips User)
Omfg tysm :D
bro wrote a whole essay in a youtube comment....
Noted: Don’t ever follow the green light unless you want to end up like Gatsby
Actually sobbing finding this chapter
I’ glad to have found you, old sport.
I loved the way the ending played out. The last sentence and then the piano. Anyone know what the music is?
Ron!!! Guess you are really jake? Idk but the audio might be stolen lol but honestly idc that much as long as I’ve got the same voice!
Was this recorded on your stomach?
EXACTLY I FEEL LIKE IM IN THE BELLY OF A WHALE
I really hated this book, at least I had Jake Gyllenhaal to read it to me. Because if I had to read this book alone, I wouldn't have passed English 😅
Taylor pls forgive me pls I just needed the audiobook pls😔
Don't worry about it lol. I used this one too as a Swiftie.
Dam piano solo at the last line he cooked
I FOUND YOU OMG😭 YES I WAS ABOUT TO READ IT MYSELF 😭💗💗
Yoongiii
im back.. even if the audio isn't as good, better than the other one sorry not sorry
After eons of searching, I've found you . Thank you gorgeous soul for aiding me through out this journey, old sport 😉
So mad they changed the voice, so glad i found this
THAAANK YOUUU i couldnt continue with the one womans voice, the words almost seemed negligible
This is what the chip in my tummy hears as I’m in class listening to jake tell me about this book
Gatsby deserved a lot better. I honestly assumed in the beginning he was going to go from a charismatic man to a man of corruption. Sure the guy was pretty suspicious but at the end of the day, characters like Tom and Daisy proved themselves to be much worse.
Other people being worse than him doesn’t make him a good person he was superficial, the whole point of the book was that no one is a good person
you are a saint, thank you
the ending with the dramatic music is crazy it makes me wanna cey
cry
Who else came from the video with the girl reading?
Thank god, the green light.
@Abigail Littrell Daisy's dock.
I've never clicked on a video so quick
Hold on lemme cry
Doin gods work fr
5:45 The warbles... eeughh
JAKE! ITS YOU!!
The audio is SHIT! I guess it gets better later on.
In spirit, we are all the same.
Anyone honestly wonder what happened to Daisy?
she dipped
@@aparajitabhagat8156 this but with a lot of hate. I hate daisy almost as much as tom
The piano at 31:57 name ?
I think its the piano version / riff in Lana Dels reys "Young and Beautiful"
pleASE I NEED TO KNOW THE SONG!
I FOUND HIM 🤧🤧
I was literally about to read it myself because I couldn't let that lady read it to me. AND YOU TRIED TO HIDE??!? You're so silly old sport, of course I'd find you.
Someone is still digesting I can see
ahhhh I have found you old sport
YESSS THIS IS THE VOICE 🙏🙏
The man the legend is right here
Tom has every right to cheat on daisy and hit Myrtle tbh
it really is him...
So where’s the part 2?
This is a terrible recording.
Yessssss
In the end, the great gatsby was pretty boring
true . dont see whats the big deal about it
You must not be a romantic person!
all about pacing. to be honest it was a slower pace book until Fitzgerald remembered murder exists but still a good book nonetheless.
“I wanted to get somebody for him. I wanted to go into the room where he lay and reassure him, ‘I’ll get somebody for you, Gatsby. Don’t worry. Just trust me, and I’ll get somebody for you.’ “ 2:46
thank GOD
Wait so you're telling me this is the same jake Gyllenhaal from brokeback mountain and Donnie Darko? It doesn't like him to me
It's him..
It’s no Ron but it will do
omg ts is putting me to sleep🫤
summary??
10:12 nice
4:32
I found you
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