The Great Gatsby- Chapter 5

Location

- The chapter begins between Gatsby and Nick's houses when Nick is explaining to Gatsby that he has spoken to Jordan and understands what he wants him to do for him and that he has agreed to do it. 

- The next location is at Nick's house when Daisy comes round for tea and Gatsby comes round for the chance meeting

- Gatsby takes Daisy to his house so that he can show off and show her all of his wealth intending to show her how he has built himself up and can look after now.

Themes

- The themes in this chapter are secrecy, love and wealth.

         - Secrecy is introduced when it becomes clear that Nick has agreed to pretend to Daisy that he wants her to come over for tea when actually it was a ploy for Gatsby and Daisy to meet again after years of planning for this to happen. Daisy has no idea that this is why she's going round and it surprised to meet him again. Daisy also keeps the meeting of her and Nick's a secret from Tom so he doesn't realise that this meeting is happening. It makes it seem as if something that's going on, shouldn't be and she finally realises why she probably lied to Tom.

         - Love is prominent in this chapter because Gatsby has loved Daisy for years and has created his wealth and social class all for her and has basically built his life around her love and finally the moment comes when he can show her everything that he's done for her and that moment is set up by Nick, this is the first time that we see some bias because if he was such a good friend to Tom, he wouldn't be helping his wife to cheat with Gatsby. This shows that he is better friends with Gatsby, someone that he has known for a shorter time than he has know Tom, someone we would expect him to be better friends with as it has been a longer friendship.

          -Wealth is shown heavily in this chapter because it's Gatsby's wealth that was created solely for this chapter. He created his wealth for Daisy and so he shows it off to her throughout the chapter. He seems proud of his accomplishments even though we are now aware that they weren't made in the most legitimate way.

Characters

- This is the first time that we see Gatsby uneasy and completely out of his comfort zone. He's always been at ease and quite a laid back character until we realise his real motive. He uses a fake motif of 'old sport' which is British and links in with the 'idea' that he went to Oxford University but he's actually American so it's fake. It also seems as if he only really used Nick and Nick's house to get to Daisy. 

- Nick doesn't really seem to mind when he realises that Gatsby really has only been using him and still allows him to use his house, this may be because he cares for Daisy's happiness. The first time that we really see Nick say what he really thinks is when him and Gatsby are in the kitchen while Daisy is in the living room, he says 'You're acting like a little boy. Not only that, but you're rude. Daisy's sitting in there all alone.' At the end of the chapter, he decides to leave them at Gatsby's on their own because he feels that he's done what he set out to do. 'I went out of the room and down the the marble steps into the rain, leaving them there together.'

- Daisy seems surprised when she first meets Gatsby but goes with the idea of going round to his house. When she see's his shirts, she does something odd and starts crying. It's clear that she's not actually crying at how beautiful the shirts actually are but because she knows that he's got all of his fortune for her but at this point, I don't think that she really thinks that she'll ever leave Tom for him. 

Narrative Elements

Metaphors
- In Nick's house, Gatsby leans on the clock and ends up tipping it over and catches it. This could be metaphorical for him catching time in his hands and turning back time so that he can be with Daisy.

Imagery

- Gatsby is referred to as a weatherman, this could mean that he's the giver of good news or it could mean that he's putting on a show in front of Daisy who would be the camera's.

- The use of colours of his shirts show his wealth. 'coral', 'apple-green', 'lavender' and 'faint orange' are used to represent his wealth as these are all rich colours.

- There is a lot of narrative space as when Nick isn't in the room, we don't know what is being said by Daisy or Gatsby so this could be him giving them privacy not just from himself but also the readers.