The Great Gatsby Ch 5 pg 86-102

The chapter begins when Nick sees Gatsby’s house completely lit up. He goes over and he can tell that Gatsby is nervous about Daisy coming over to West Egg. Gatsby offers Nick a secret job and Nick wants nothing to do with it, so he declines. Daisy arrives at Nick’s and things are awkward between Gatsby, Daisy, and Nick.  Nick leaves the room and when he comes back, the awkwardness fades away because Gatsby and Daisy talked about something unknown. Gatsby invites Nick and Daisy over to his house and he tries to impress Daisy the whole time. The chapter ends with Nick walking out into the pouring rain, leaving Gatsby and Daisy together at Gatsby’s house.

Mr. Klipspringer

“’I was asleep,’ cried Mr. Klipspringer, in a spasm of embarrassment. ‘That is, I’d been asleep. Then I got up…’ ‘Klipspringer plays the piano,’ said Gatsby, cutting him off. ‘Don’t you, Ewing, old sport?’ ‘I don’t play well. I don’t—I hardly play at all. I’m all out of prac----.’ ‘We’ll go downstairs,’ interrupted Gatsby.” Pg 100

Mr. Klipspringer is an embarrassed, slightly worn young man. He has shell-rimmed glasses and scanty blonde hair. He wears odd clothes.

Mr. Klipspringer is a “boarder” at Gatsby’s house. I feel that he was thrown into the scene to show a controlling side of Gatsby. He is so willing to impress Daisy that he is rude to someone in his home. Mr. Klipspringer willingly does as he’s told and I’m not sure why he doesn’t put up a fight when Gatsby pushes him to play the piano.

“Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it seemed very near to her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.” Pg 98

This quote stood out to me because it showed how Gatsby didn’t have to long after Daisy anymore. He finally got a chance to see her and talk with her. The light that once represented her, something so far away but constantly there is now just an object because the real girl is near. The light is now something that is just at the end of her dock and does not represent her anymore.