“Nick’s cottage becomes the site of Gatsby’s reunion with Daisy. The material world seems to re-cede as Gatsby “revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.” The once cavernous mansion, familiar only when filled with strangers...
After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy reconnect, and they begin an affair. Shortly after, Daisy and Tom attend one of Gatsby's parties, where Tom grows increasingly suspicious of his wife's relationship with Gatsby. Throughout a luncheon at the Buchanans' house, Gatsby stares at...
Within the first hours of being reunited with his former love, Gatsby begins to suspect that the situation will not fall perfectly into place the way he imagined. Nick, after attending this awkward reunion, reflects, “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short ...
At first, Gatsby’s reunion with Daisy is terribly awkward. Gatsby knocks Nick’s clock over and tells Nick sorrowfully that the meeting was a mistake. After he leaves the two alone for half an hour, however, Nick returns to find them radiantly happy—Daisy shedding tears of joy and ...
We know Redford has range enough to have played the scene in several better ways. And then the actual reunion between Gatsby and Daisy — the moment on which the rest of the movie is going to depend — gives us Gatsby’s toothpaste grin and Daisy’s stunned reaction and holds both for ...
Luhrmann’s 180° critical and cultural re-appraisal is odd as Elvis and The Great Gatsby share a multitude of similarities – most crucially a switch up of tempos. This is perfectly illustrated by the build up and then flirtation of Gatsby’s reunion with Daisy. The pent up anxiety of Gat...
Did Daisy truly love Gatsby? Although Daisy seems to have found love in her reunion with Gatsby, closer examination revealsthat is not at all the case. ... She doesn't cry because she has been reunited with Gatsby, she cries because of the pure satisfaction all his material wealth brings...
“There must have been,” Nick surmises: this is his interpretation of, his insistence on, the meaning for Gatsby of the reunion with Daisy. Nick says that Gatsby’s dream about her and about himself and her as one, his “illusion,” was so immense that, surely, she must have fallen...
After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy reconnect, and they begin an affair. Shortly after, Daisy and Tom attend one of Gatsby's parties, where Tom grows increasingly suspicious of his wife's relationship with Gatsby. Throughout a luncheon at the Buchanans' house, Gatsby stares at...
CLIMAX· There are two possible climaxes: Gatsby’s reunion with Daisy in Chapters 5–6; the confrontation between Gatsby and Tom in the Plaza Hotel in Chapter 7. FALLING ACTION· Daisy’s rejection of Gatsby, Myrtle’s death, Gatsby’s murder THEMES· The decline of the American dream, ...