Nicole McGahey 12/14

12/14/16

At the beginning of class, Mr. Rivers showed us a very creative blog post that was made by a student in his 6th period class yesterday, and we talked about it a little bit.

After that, we discussed Chapter 5 of The Great Gatsby. Symbols were very prevalent in this chapter, so we examined a few of them.

In the beginning of the chapter, there was pouring rain. During the rain, Gatsby was very nervous about meeting with Daisy. He was so nervous that he couldn’t think about anything else, which is shown in this passage: “An hour later the front door opened nervously, and Gatsby in a white flannel suit, silver shirt and gold-colored tie hurried in. He was pale and there were dark signs of sleeplessness beneath his eyes.

"Is everything all right?" he asked immediately.

"The grass looks fine, if that's what you mean."

"What grass?" he inquired blankly. "Oh, the grass in the yard." He looked out the window at it, but judging from his expression I don't believe he saw a thing.” (Fitzgerald 84).

Throughout the chapter, the weather changed as the moods of the characters changed.

Another important symbol in this chapter was when Gatsby knocked over the broken clock, and nervously put it back, apologizing to Daisy, “I’m sorry about the clock.” (Fitzgerald 86). The clock symbolizes his attempt to go back in time and recreate his time with Daisy five years ago. The fact that the clock was already broken represents the fact that it is not possible to go back to the past.

While we were talking about this, the bell abruptly rang.

This video shows the scene where Gatsby knocks the clock off the mantle.