Why The Great Gatsby Drink Me
Drink me. That’s all the instructions the vial containing a lime green substance told him to do. Slivers of information about this mysterious vial. That’s the only information Gatsby gave me, causing me to question the veracity of his story. The story Gatsby told me one day after we returned from the city after a day of cruising in his yellow Duesenberg.
“You know old pal, I was there the day of Daisy and Tom’s wedding,” remarked Gatsby, out of the blue as we walked across his flower dusted lawn. “What?” I retort in shock. “Yeah, it's a long story, one of those stories that requires a cigarette…..or two,” he replies matter-of-factly. I prompt him and he spills. It all began one day, after a long day of training, Gatsby sluggishly enters his tent and is surprised to find a box on his cot. Unwrapping the box with a trembling caution, inside there was a clear vial, around the size of his palm. Confused as to what the substance was, he observed the contents and discovered the label. “Drink …show more content…
Mr.Buchanan, who in the world is that? Gatsby ponders, then asks, “What do you want?” “I just came by to deliver a message to you from Ms. Daisy, she says she loves you and can’t wait to marry you today and that she wants you down stairs by 12,” the man answers, turns to leave, glances back and says, “You sure are one lucky fellow, Ms.Daisy is a wonderful woman,” then escapes down the hallway. Daisy, Daisy, Daisy, it can’t be her. It can’t be. Gatsby begins thinking and then it all clicks. Buchanan, as in Tom Buchanan, the man who Daisy said she was going to marry. The next question is how he got in Tom’s body. It must have been that green stuff he resolves. Looking at the clock he notices that it is already 11:30, giving him 30 minutes before he had to be downstairs. Looking around the room, Gatsby finds a black suit, freshly ironed and pressed. He slides into the suit and heads
“You know old pal, I was there the day of Daisy and Tom’s wedding,” remarked Gatsby, out of the blue as we walked across his flower dusted lawn. “What?” I retort in shock. “Yeah, it's a long story, one of those stories that requires a cigarette…..or two,” he replies matter-of-factly. I prompt him and he spills. It all began one day, after a long day of training, Gatsby sluggishly enters his tent and is surprised to find a box on his cot. Unwrapping the box with a trembling caution, inside there was a clear vial, around the size of his palm. Confused as to what the substance was, he observed the contents and discovered the label. “Drink …show more content…
Mr.Buchanan, who in the world is that? Gatsby ponders, then asks, “What do you want?” “I just came by to deliver a message to you from Ms. Daisy, she says she loves you and can’t wait to marry you today and that she wants you down stairs by 12,” the man answers, turns to leave, glances back and says, “You sure are one lucky fellow, Ms.Daisy is a wonderful woman,” then escapes down the hallway. Daisy, Daisy, Daisy, it can’t be her. It can’t be. Gatsby begins thinking and then it all clicks. Buchanan, as in Tom Buchanan, the man who Daisy said she was going to marry. The next question is how he got in Tom’s body. It must have been that green stuff he resolves. Looking at the clock he notices that it is already 11:30, giving him 30 minutes before he had to be downstairs. Looking around the room, Gatsby finds a black suit, freshly ironed and pressed. He slides into the suit and heads