Jennifer Hong
Nov. 30, 2011
Since we're halfway through the book, I thought we should discuss the theme of it. I think the themes of this book are romance, mystery, the lifestyle of upper-class people, and affairs. There are clearly many affairs as I've stated before. In this chapter, chapter 5, Daisy, who has a husband named Tom who has an affair with another woman named Mildred, reunites with Gatsby, the rich guy, who Nick hooked her up with (pg. 95-96). Kind of complicated, I know. Daisy and Gatsby apparently used to have an affair anyway which was stated in the last chapter. This shows romance and affairs. Gatsby and Daisy even "forgot that Nick was there," (pg. 103) and started getting all mushy lovey-dovey with each other. What shows mystery is Gatsby's life. Up until now, we don't really know who he is or what he wants; how he gets all this money. He's just super rich and doesn't seem to be a bad guy since Nick is hanging out with him. But mysteries tend to surprise the audience so maybe he is up to something very suspicious but we don't know it yet. Maybe he's some kind of creep. My prediction is that either this book will get super interesting or super boring. If it stays as it is now, it'll probably be boring, but if something eventful like death or something surprising like a new character being involved, than it will be exciting. This book was like the book Frankenstein in the beginning; we don't know if it'll get better and have new aspects and mysteries to it, or if it'll stay the way it is and get boring. What do you think will happen next, Jordan?
Oh, and something I'd like to point out is that it is super sweet and cute how Gatsby was totally freaking out and nervous to meet Daisy again and how they have this whole past to their relationship (pg. 95-96, 103). It's like they're teenagers falling in love all over again.
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