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Hi everyone. Finally, I was reading chapter 4,5,6. So happy. The story is going smoothly. I found some interesting facts in these stories. I want to record it and share it.
Fact 1 – Gatsby’s background
Mr. Gatsby’s identity appeared first. Mr. Gatsby first told Nick about his background and background for his first time. It’s just so curious about me. Mr. Gatsby said he came from a wealthy family and inherited the family’s legacy. He also studied at Oxford University. Moreover, he won a medal in World War I. It is incredible that someone should have such a perfect background.
I can’t believe it, but I want to believe that maybe there are such people in the world. Nike clearly had an attitude and expression of shock but did not question Mr. Gatsby because he lived in West Egg’s huge house. So it’s obviously not surprising to have such an identity. But is Gatsby really like that? Maybe, maybe not.
However, in chapter 6, Mr. Gatsby’s early life is mentioned.
1)Gatsby was born James Gatz on a North Dakota farm
2) He attended college at St. Olaf’s in Minnesota, but he dropped out after two weeks.
3) He worked on Lake Superior.
4) Follow the rich man, Dan Cody because of the storm.
Mr. Gatsby’s identity is slowly emerging. From his information, I can tell that Mr. Gatsby is a very smart, gentleman, hard-working man. Although I don’t know if his money is illegal, I think he has experienced a lot and it is not easy. There is a hard struggle behind the success.
Fact 2 – Car
“I’d seen it. Everybody had seen it. It was a rich cream colour, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns. Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory, we started to town.”
Do you know Mr. Gatsby’s car? The car that appeared in the novel. I don’t know anything about cars, but I have the Internet so I can find information. The yellow car shocked Nike. It must be a luxury car. According to my investigation, the name of the car is Duesenberg. The model of the yellow car is Model J. It claimed at the time that “this is the best car in the world.”
The chassis of the Dusenberg Model J cost $8500 and the finished car sold for $13000 to $19000. At the time, the average annual salary of American physicians was less than $3000, and it was conceivably more expensive for Dusenberg cars exported to Europe at the time. For a time, Model J was used as a status symbol in Europe and the United States, and many celebrities prided themselves on owning a Model J.
In this day and age, the car is worth about $3 million. I think this must be a car that someone with status and status can afford. A lot of people can’t make so much money in their lives. Here is a link where you can learn more about the car if you are interested. https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2018/07/03/duesenberg-model-j-greatest-car-of-1920s
Fact 3 – Daisy’s crying for shirts
‘They’re such beautiful shirts,’ she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. ‘It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before.”
In the sixth chapter of the novel, there is a scene that is very interesting, but it makes me sad. Mr. Gatsby threw his shirt at Daisy one by one. But in the end, Daisy began to cry. When I first felt like I saw this, I was confused. I was thinking, how beautiful are these shirts? Beautiful enough to cry at a glance? These shirts may have magic. Anyway, I haven’t cried about which clothes are beautiful. But, I think, in this world, different people have different feelings, maybe have someone like Daisy.
But I thought about it again. Daisy didn’t cry because the shirt was too beautiful. It was just an excuse. The gorgeous soft shirt is a metaphor for Gatsby’s feelings for Daisy. This emotion is obsessive. He threw his shirts in front of Daisy one by one, eager to show off his present wealth and achievements. What he wanted to say to Daisy was that he was now fully capable of giving her the best in the world, as long as she wanted it. And these “shirts” piled higher and higher, causing people to gradually produce fear and depression-so many expensive shirts, such passionate and crazy love, how will she bear it?
In my opinion, Daisy was happy when Gatsby threw her clothes, Nick motioned to her when she had something to say to Gatsby, and she thought of her husband. There was a contrast in Daisy’s mind. Daisy’s not crying because of her clothes. But the heart is sad and happy contradictory emotion catharsis.
In my opinion, Daisy was happy when Gatsby threw her clothes, Nick motioned to her when she had something to say to Gatsby, and she thought of her husband. There was a contrast in Daisy’s mind. Daisy’s not crying because of her clothes. But the heart is sad and happy contradictory emotion catharsis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rCp34iBVT8 I found the video of this scene. If you are interested, please click to view it. Thank you for your reading! : )
Work site:
Newton, A. (2019). Duesenberg Model J: Greatest car of the 1920s | Hagerty Articles. [online] Hagerty.com. Available at: https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2018/07/03/duesenberg-model-j-greatest-car-of-1920s [Accessed 18 Jul. 2019].
Wellwhat. YouTube, YouTube, 26 Feb. 2015, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rCp34iBVT8.
Yoona Zhang 