Nick is trying to restrain himself from laughter because he knows that there is something wrong with what Gatsby is saying because Jordan looks like she knows he is lying when Nick looks at her. This is when Gatsby is telling Nick about his life in first person. The very phrases were worn so threadbare that evoked no image except that of a turbaned 'character' leaking sawdust at every pore as he pursued a tiger through the Bois de Boulogne" (66). "With an effort I managed to restrain my incredulous laughter. He realizes that Gatsby is a real person, and that he seems like a genuine, nice man. His quote is important because Nick finally meets the real Gatsby. When monday rolls in, the image of the enchanting house is seen by the external world for an instant. In the beginning of Chapter 3, Gatsby's house parties are described as enchanting and magical-as if they were unreal. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before"(39). "On week-ends Rolls-Royce became an omnious, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. He has no friends and feels lonely because the people he was with did not offer the guidance and support needed in his life. The significance of the quote is that the fact everyone are very wealthy and has enormous mansions Nick feels he does not belong with them, so he decided to leave town to travel to a more suited area. Everyone at the party were drunk and acted crazy. This happened when Nick left Tom's party in New York due to the fact that he cannot handle all these dramas. Then I was lying half asleep in the cold lower level of the Pennsylvania Station, staring at the morning TRIBUNE, and waiting for the four o'clock train. This also suggests that Tom is paying Myrtle in gifts to be with him and to be as his mistress.' This quotation also shows dominance and sexist part of Tom's charatcer. He also enjoys bossing people around and talking down to him.
He thinks he is always right no matter what. 'Tom is very aggressive verbally and nonverbally. The contrast between Daisy and Myrtle also shows another side of Tom because of his relationships with these two drastically different woman.
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Daisy is straight laced, boring, absence of colour, and absent of thought, whereas Myrtle is lively, full of colour, outgoing and outspoken. This quote is significant because it shows contrast between Daisy and Myrtle. ".there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her, as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering." (28) '' This quote is describing Doctor T.J.Eckleburg as god, with his huge eyes looking down on the valley of ashes. But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground"(23-24). Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens, and then sank down himself into external blindness, or forgot them and moved away. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a non-existent nose. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic - their retinas are one yard high. "But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak rust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T.J. Since people can change, you should give them a chance and not judge them right away.
This is saying that you should reserve judgement.
" Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope." (7) This quotation is basically saying that you should do what ever you need to do to get the girl, even if you have to impress her materialistically: show of your bling. Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her: if you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted lover, I must have you!" - Thomas Parke D' Invillers