“1.) He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray. 2.)While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher — shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, and monograms of Indian blue. 3.) Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.”

1. This quote represents Gatsby clothes as the new life he has, he starts throwing them at Daisy to show her the new life he has, he is desperate to impress Daisy with his materialism and wealth to win her over. Gatsby shirts symbolically represent the superficial nature of his appearance, his shirts represent his true character on material wealth.
2. In this passage he is describing about how fine and expensive these tops are. He is trying to show Daisy what kind of life she could have had with him and what she is missing out on. It also shows how boring Tom must look, and how boring an bleak her life is now. They also hide his true self because if he wear such nice clothes people will be distracted by his “Beautiful shirts” to see his true self.
3. After the shorts had all fallen Daisy begins to cry, this could have been because she has just remembered the past and realizes that she has chosen the wrong person. The word “Stormily” is an adverb to describe Daisy response to Gatsby’s new life (symboled through his fine and elegant shirts). Being reunited with him made her feel a “storm of emotions” which made her cry.

In this text, Nick is conveying the idea of Gatsby trying to impress Daisy with his wealth during their reunion. This passage of text is a metaphor as he is comparing Gatsby’s fine shirts too, unimaginable and impressive objects. He is trying to show Daisy what kind of life she could have had with him and what she is missing out on. It conveys to the reader how boring Tom looks compared to Gatsby, and how bleak and plain Daisy life has been. This develops a wider idea throughout the novel as it shows how Gatsby is constantly trying to keep up with toms status because he knows if he is as wealthy as Tom, then Daisy will be attracted to him and everything in the past will be forgotten. This passage also represents Gatsby’s superficial nature of his appearance and what length he would go to achive Daisys love.

“1.) He’s a bootlegger,” said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers. “ 2.) One time he killed a man who had found out that he was a nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil. 3.) Reach me a rose, honey, and pour me a last drop into that their crystal glass.”

1. “He’s a bootlegger” this is how Gatsby’s guests are describing him to Nick. The term bootlegger was someone who sold alcohol illegally in the 20’s, they get the impression from Gatsby that he is a bootlegger as he has “fresh and new money”, and it is very unikey he made it not doing illegal things. “Moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers” suggest how they are only here for the party, and are getting very comfortable in his home.
2. This passage is telling the reader what he is thought out to be. “One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg” makes him out to be powerful and violent but as we read on we see how wild this assuming is as the “young ladies” continue on to say “second cousin to the devil”
3. The women describe Gatsby to Nick as if they are to good for him, yet they are still at his party drinking all hso alcohol and enjoying the entertainment.

Allusions:

F Scott.Fitzgerald uses allusions in the novel as a figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or something that has happened. It also refers to the past famous events and people. An allusion doesn’t give much detail or reference.

“The rise of the coloured empires’ by this man Godard?”

In the first chapter of the novel, Nick gets invited round to his cousin Daisy’s for dinner while they are at the dinner table tom asks Nick if he had ever read the book “The rise of the coloured empires’ by this man Godard?”. Straight away this changes our opinion of Tom as states to Nick that he fears the human civilization will be overrun by the darker-skinned hordes. Daisy dismisses this, and continues on as if its normal dinner table “talk”. Tom’s Racism is part and parcel of his polo- pony, old money elitism.

“That’s the secret of Castle Rackrent”

When Daisy arrives to Nick’s cottage she walks into the room and asks Nick,  “Are you in love with me,’ she says low in my ear, or why did I have to come alone?’ ‘That’s the secret of Castle Rackrent. Tell your chauffeur to go far away and spend an hour.” Nick replied.

Nicks

Nick refers to Castle rock  illusion is originated from an Irish novel that the family who owns it (Castle Rackrent) is being assumed and speculated upon. . Nick is conveying to daisy, that she couldn’t solve the mystery of why she was asked to come to Nick’s alone in the middle of the afternoon.

David belasco was a theatrical director, producer and playwright in the early 1900’s. He is very well known for the realistic set designs and attention to life-like detail

‘This fella’s a regular Belasco. It’s a triumph.”

In the library, owl eyes can’t believe that the ,iavry cingains real books. He’s surprised because people used cardboard cutouts to imitate big quatiates of library books. By saying that Gatsby is a “regular Belasco”, we are alerted to the effort he put in to making his life + home appear realistic, even though it may not be “real”.

It is a “triumph” because with an illusion so realistic, Gatsby can fool people into thinking he is someone that he is perhaps not.