the great gatsby

Analytical Outline of The Great Gatsby, Chapter 8

Statement of the Whole: Some people have their own single dream to pursue.

Ⅰ. It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody – told it to me because “Jay Gatsby” had broken up like glass against Tom’s hard malice, and the long secret extravaganza was played out.
A. Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor.
B. While he did extraordinarily well in the war, she was feeling the pressure of the world outside, and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
C. Marrying Tom Buchanan gave her a certain struggle and a certain relief.
D. “I don’t think she ever loved him.”
Ⅱ. Now I want to go back a little and tell what happened at the garage after we left there the night before.
A. “He murdered her.”…… “It was the man in that car. She ran out to speak to him and he wouldn’t stop.”
B. “I told her she might fool me but she couldn’t fool God.”
C. Wilson was quieter now, and Michaelis went home to sleep; when he awoke four hours later and hurried back to the garage, Wilson was gone.
Ⅲ. Gatsby mush have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too along with a single dream.
A. Nick has an idea that Gatsby no longer waited a call from Daisy, and perhaps he no longer cared.
B. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about … like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.
C. The chauffeur – he was one of Wolfshiem’s protégés – heard the shots …
D. The gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was compete.

Concluding statement: When the dream shatters, they do so as well.