Homework for Lesson #17, The Great Gatsby

James' Homework:

Though at last Tom Buchanan arrived at Gatsby’s house and attended his party, it is obvious that Tom didn't like, or say, to some degrees, he even looked down on Gatsby a little bit. In the book, “he wears pink suit”, which was said by Tom revealed that Tom judged people by their appearance.

I think that this had some reason, and we know that both Tom and Gatsby were very rich person, and the difference between them caused Tom’s bias.

Firstly, Tom lived in the East Egg and he came from a wealthy family, though he didn't know Gatsby was born poor and earned money by himself, he showed his skeptical idea while hearing Gatsby came from the Oxford. Tom did this was just because Gatsby lived in the West Egg, where was full of men who came to rich overnight and didn't have good manners. From the very beginning, Tom put Gatsby into the circle of people who belongs to a lower level of the society.

Secondly, Tom and Daisy always wore white clothes and drove cars in dark color, while Gatsby liked dressing in gold and pink or other colorful suits, and he drove a car in yellow, which all are bright and shiny colors. (I knew this from the movie) Certainly, white and black represented civility and serious, and the confliction on the colors revealed that Gatsby liked showing off, just like those who got to be rich overnight did. Tom treated Gatsby like a stranger and didn't looked up on him like many other people did maybe is because these reason.

And I believe that Tom was right, because he is the man who in the high level of the society and he was the Roman who took the lead while Gatsby was just doing like Romans.

Sally's Homework:

The relationship between Daisy and Gatsby is very complex. 

In the previous chapters, we know that they used to be together but was separated by the war. Before the wedding, Daisy changed her mind because of a letter from Gatsby, but at last she married Tom. At first, I think she did not. At Gatsby’s party, when Tom wanted to eat with others, Daisy said “go ahead” genially and even gave him a little golden pencil in case he wants to take down any addresses. She’s not the one who will say “where’s Tom gone” if he left the room for a minute any more. Nick wrote he knew that except for the half-hour she’d been alone with Gatsby she was not having a good time. Also, she admitted that she loves Gatsby and is leaving Tom although she did love him once. So I thought that Gatsby’s back made her happy, and she must be still in love with Gatsby. 

For Gatsby, he is really spoony. For me, he is doing every thing for Daisy. He became rich and bought the villa facing Tom’s is just showing Daisy that he is rich now, same with Tom. He holds parties a lot hoping to see her but not because he likes parties. He wanted nothing more from Daisy than she could go to Tom and say she never loved him.

But I realized I am completely wrong about Daisy when I reached the end of chapter 7. The sentence “there was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together”. There might truly be some disagreement between Daisy and Tom but it’s impossible for them not to love each other. Looking back, if Daisy really give up Tom and loves Gatsby, she would not said “I never loved him” with perceptible reluctance. Daisy already shouted out the answer why she let Gatsby believed she loves him, because she knew Tom betrayed her. I am not saying that there’s completely no love between, but Daisy takes it as a comfort. She discovered that her husband has mistress outside, so this relation is a kind of stimulate. Like what Gatsby has said, “her voice is full of money”, Daisy has been changed by money.