Kyle Mac’s Blog

I’ve made up my mind- I very much pity Gatsby. The social class theme is abundent throughout this chapter. It’s clear that Gatsby doesn’t know about the edicit of the upper class. An invitation to go horse back riding is an invitation, not a show of politness. Gatsby just wants to be accepted but his “peers” clearly will not do that, showing that “rich” and “upper class” are two different things.

Gatsby’s character comes fully to light here. His past is all laid out, finally and we see how “Jay Gatsby” came to be. Gatsby is shown as having a dark and unhappy past, in contrast to his col colected and smooth present self.

Gold is present again; this time with pink beside it, in the clouds. The pink, perhaps, represents Daisy’s life and the gold represents the money she has with Tom.

“Look at that,” she whispered, and then after a moment: “I’d like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.”

Perhaps this symbolizes how Daisy wants to put Gatzby into her life and keep him there. But that might be a stretch.