Alliteration creates flow and rhythm to describe scenes that engage and draw the reader in; for example one of Gatsby’s parties that features a ‘corps of caterers’. To create humor, Fitzgerald uses alliteration when describing three nondescript individuals at a party by calling them all ‘Mr. Mumble’.

Scott Fitzgerald uses literary devices such as personification, hyperbole, oxymoron, imagery, and simile to convey the tone and mood of The Great Gatsby.

In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby repeats the phrase “old sport” 42 times: “Want to go with me, old sport?” “I thought you knew, old sport.” “If you want anything, just ask for it, old sport.”

This quote contains several allusions: The name Midas is an allusion to the Greek god Midas, who turned everything he touched to gold, and “Morgan and Mæcenas” are allusions to the financier J. P. Morgan and the wealthy Roman patron Mæcenas.

One of the impacts that Cody had was that he, indirectly, made Gatsby not want to drink much. So I guess the answer would be that Gatsby doesn’t want to drink too much because he doesn’t want to be like Cody was when he drank. The book says that Gatsby had had to be Cody’s “jailer” at times.

Nick Carraway

Yes, he killed many. There is an irony in Gatsby’s story, since his bravado, willingness to risk his life and to take many others is rewarded.

To make matters worse, one even senses that Daisy, in fact, tried to kill Myrtle. Gatsby has a hard time admitting that the object of his love has, in fact, not merely hit and killed another person, but has fled the scene as well. Myrtle’s death by Gatsby’s great car is certainly no accident.

Does Daisy love Gatsby or Tom? Although Daisy may have loved Gatsby once, she does not love him more than the wealth, status, and freedom that she has with Tom.

Tom’s is cheating on Daisy. Daisy knows that he is cheating because Tom has done it before and it’s made obvious because she calls at dinner time and Tom leaves the table to go talk to her. Daisy is very upset because she knows that she is being cheated on by her husband.

Gatsby’s love for Daisy is doomed because he is primarily in love with his dream of being with Daisy. In reality, Daisy is a flawed person who has moved on and isn’t willing to give up her privileged and comfortable lifestyle to be with Gatsby.

Daisy Buchanan
Spouse	Tom Buchanan
Significant other	Jay Gatsby
Children	Pammy Buchanan
Relatives	Nick Carraway (cousin)

Gatsby is killed by George Wilson. He believed that Gatsby was having an affair with Myrtle Wilson and that he was driving the car that hit and killed her.

But, you might protest, a lot has happened to Daisy over the course of the show. She gets married, her husband dies, she falls in love with just about every new footman who comes to the abbey, she’s promoted to assistant cook, she learns arithmetic, she gets a chic new bob, etc.

Although Pammy is rarely referenced in the novel, Daisy recounts that when Pammy was born and was told the baby was a girl she said: “All right… I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

Upon learning that the child was a girl, Daisy began to cry. She may have felt that her daughter would have a similar fate; that she would grow up, marry a brute like Tom who cheats on her, and be pressured to simply accept this role.

A beautiful little fool

The name of Daisy and Tom Buchanan’s baby is Pammy. I suppose her real name must be Pamela, but in the only place that I can remember seeing her named, she is called Pammy. The place where this happens is in Chapter 7, kind of early on. Gatsby and Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker are at Daisy’s house.

There’s no need to be unsure, Gatsby is not the father of Daisy’s daughter in The Great Gatsby. The daughter has nothing to do with Gatsby. The scene outlines Daisy’s predicament–indeed, almost any female’s predicament in 1920’s America. Daisy tells Nick how crushed she was when she found out her baby was a girl.

When he phones Daisy to tell her of Gatsby’s death, he learns she and Tom have left on a trip, leaving no itinerary. Nick, with increasing frustration, feels he must “get somebody” for Gatsby. In his mind, Gatsby did not deserve to be alone. Upon telling the speaker that Gatsby is dead, the speaker hangs up.

In chapter 5 of The Great Gatsby, Daisy cries “stormily” over Gatsby’s shirts because his wardrobe proves his wealth, and she recognizes that she missed out on the opportunity to marry him and likely regrets settling for Tom.

In a straight reading of the novel, Nick is merely an interested observer who helps facilitate Gatsby’s mad dream to rekindle his love affair with Daisy, now unhappily married to Tom Buchanan. In a queer reading of Gatsby, Nick doesn’t just love Gatsby, he’s in love with him.

Obviously, Daisy, with all her money, is not going to cry over some shirts; why does she cry? She cries because she regrets not waiting for Gatsby because she could have been happy and rich. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her.

Chapter 5 has the most obvious references to time and clocks as symbols in The Great Gatsby. When Gatsby leans against this broken clock while he talks to Daisy, it symbolizes the distance between them that can never be mended. He wishes he could repeat the past, and this proves an impossible for him.

Nick sees his 30th birthday as a significant entrance into a world of “loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”

Nick’s Mantle Clock When Nick invites Daisy and Gatsby to tea at his house, the clock is a focal point during the interaction. Because Gatsby and Daisy had not seen each other for five years, the clock symbolizes the passage of time.

When Gatsby, Daisy and Nick are all awkwardly sitting in the living room of Nick’s home, Gatsby knocks the clock off the mantle and then catches it. – This clock and Gatsby catching after almost dropping it in front of Daisy represents time lost with Daisy and his now finally making it up or “catching it”.

The moment in which you are describing is when Jay Gatsby, later identified as Jay Gatz, almost breaks an antique clock in the home of the narrator Nick Carraway. This is the first scene that we see Gatsby in a most vulnerable state.

James Gatz

‘I’m sorry about the clock,’ he said. ‘Its an old clock,’ I told them idiotically. I think we all believed for a moment that it had smashed in pieces on the floor” (86). This is symbolic of Gatsby not letting go of his relationship with Daisy.