Great Gatsby: Chapters 8-9

                               "She was the first “nice” girl he had ever known."
       In this quote Gatsby is implying that daisy was the nicest girl he had ever known, ultimately because she was his first love, and he completely adored her. He had gone to the military after he met daisy and fell in love with her and he told her to wait till he came back, but she had different plans and married Tom. This proves that daisy is not as loyal as Gatsby pictures her and it will eventually end his relationship with her in its entirety.  Towards the end of the chapter daisy makes a choice between Gatsby and Tom, and he chooses Tom, which is ironic because he is cheating on her and he does not love her near as much as Gatsby does.
                              "We hunted through the great room for cigarettes."

       In this quote, Nick is hunting through what he claims to be the "great" rooms of Gatsby's house. This is not a normal site for him because Gatsby has been in hiding, partly from the police and partly in mourning because of Daisy’s decision to stay with Tom, and he looks through all these amazing rooms and they are all full of dust. This is partly ironic because after all the lavish parties and outings that Gatsby has had he finally closes his doors to the society and stops contacting the outside world, this only stops when Nick goes inside and finds Gatsby sulking on his porch. The author wants his readers to feel sympathy for Gatsby through this seemingly insignificant sentence and by achieving this he gets his readers to continue on reading throughout the chapter.

                    “Her porch was bright with the bought luxury of star-shine”

       Here the author is saying that Daisy bought all of her luxury, which comes across as weird because he has not talked much about Daisy’s actual job, just about her and Tom. This is very vague and leaves the readers confused as to where or how she acquired all of her lavish property. Therefore, by assumption we can conclude Daisy is just gold digger getting all of her money and gifts from her extremely well off husband, Tom.

                “She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand.”

       In this quote Daisy has to make a significant decision, yet she bases it off of insignificant subjects. She must figure out how to live her life without Gatsby by her side, frequently dating interchangeable men this ordeal cannot last very long. So she chooses money over happiness. The author is trying to persuade his readers that this is how real life situations are dealt with, when in the long run this can have major downfalls, like being cheated on, being constantly depressed, and ultimately committing suicide because you are living a lie.

                         “If he’d of lived, he’d of been a great man”

     Here the author writes about everyone still in mourning almost two years after the incident ending with Gatsby’s close friend dying.  Gatsby’s is asked where he would like to take the body and when someone addresses him as “Gatsby” he corrects them with his real name: Gatz, his original name from before he began his great fake life.