The Love Nest

The Great Gatsby

By F. Scott Fitzgerald

chap V, pgs 90-96

"They had forgotten me, but Daisy glanced up and held our her hand; Gatsby didn't know me at all.  I looked once more at them and they looked back at me, remotely, possessed by intense life.  Then I went out of the room and down the marble steps into the rain, leaving them there together" (Fitzgerald, 96).

The end of chapter five involves rising action and possibly the turning point of the novel.  Gatsby and Daisy are spending a lot of time together, and end up snuggling and holding hands in a dark corner in Gatsby’s house listening to the piano.  Gatsby had been wishing for this for five years, and even though she was there with him, she was not his.  No amount of love and hoping could wish away the fact that Daisy was married.  This chapter is the rising action because Gatsby keeps trying to impress Daisy and get her to stay with him.  The quote shows that the two were in their own little world and had close to forgotten all outside of it.  That is why I also believe that it might also be the beginning of the turning point, because Daisy seems very happy and wishes to stay with Gatsby, which might lead to her leaving Tom (which I hope it does).

When reading the last pages of the chapter, I felt like I was in the scene with the character.  You know that inner voice you hear when you read to yourself?  How it gets loud when things are in all caps or something?  Well my inner voice was reading in a very hushed tone, as not to disturb the sound of the piano or the soundless connection between Gatsby and Daisy.  I felt like Daisy might have, looking deeply into the eyes of someone who loves you and forgetting everything else in the world, wanting to stay there forever.