1.What does Gatsby offer Nick in return for Nick’s cooperation in inviting Daisy to his house?
2.What is the meeting between Gatsby and Daisy like initially?
3.How are Daisy and Gatsby different when Nick returns to the house after a half anhour?
4.What are Gatsby’s feelings by the end of the chapter?
5.What does Gatsby reply when Nick asks him how he makes his money?
6.Why does Nick find that significant?
7.Why do you think Daisy sobs when Gatsby shows her his shirts?
8.What is the weather like in this chapter?
9.How does it reflect the emotional climate of Gatsby and Daisy?
10. In this chapter, Gatsby’s dream seems to be fulfilled. What indications are there, though, that reality cannot satisfy his dream?
1.When does James Gatz change his name?
2.Why does he make this change?
3.What is Daisy’s real response to the party, according to Nick?
4.What does Gatsby tell Nick he wants Daisy to do?
5.How is the comparison of Gatsby with Christ (“he was a son of God…and he must be about his Father’s business’) ironic?
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