The Great Gatsby Chapters 6-7

1)"Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace."

-What the author, F. Scotts Fitzgerald, is trying to persuade the reader of in this statement is that the character James Gatz is a fanciful man filled with whimsical ideas and has a big imagination that spins ideas from being overractive. He says that Gatz stays up until he can fall off into a oblivian filled slumber trying to live in a world of his own creation because he can't handle the world as it is at present.The author says the man needed an outlet for his corrupt mind that was fascinated with the horrible concepts of the world.(100)


2)"... the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing."

-What the author, F. Scotts Fitzgerald, is trying to persuade the reader of is that the basis of the world was founded on fanciful thoughts brought forth by different kind of men and women. He says that the thoughts that founded the world were about as solid as a fairy's wing. The author knew that this would not be a very solid example of personification because the fare folk are just made up creature which are born of myth and were created by someone with a hyperactive imagination that spend their down time filled with ridiculous thoughts and nothing else.(100)


3)"He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy."

-What the author, F. Scotts Fitzgerald, is trying to persuade the reader of in this statement is that the character Jay Gatsby is always speaking a lot of the past because he is so far stuck in it and he also wants to regain something that he had lost a while back when he had first fell in love with Daisy. The author believes that Gatsby wants to obtain something lost from his younger self that he had contained while he was with Daisy and that was misplaced when he threw himself into loving Daisy and now he is missing a huge chunk of himself.(105)


4)"Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something — an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago."

-What the author, F. Scotts Fitzgerald, is trying to persuade the reader of in this statement is that the narrator, Nick, had a spark of a vague memory of feelings and words of long ago that was triggered by the words that Gatsby was saying. He said it was just a fragmented sentence that he had heard somewhere in his past long ago that had a similiar meaning the same as what Gatsby was saying and that it was said with the same kind of emotion too that Gatsby used in his words.(93)

5)"There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together."

-What the author, F. Scotts Fitzgerald, is trying to persuade the reader of in this statement is that the narrator, Nick, feels that the characters Daisy and her husband Tom  look as though they are working together to come up with a plan. He says that there was a "air of natural intimacy" as they spoke and it gave the deceptive image that they were "conspiring together" to formulate a plan about what they should do. Nick says that although Daisy didn't look happy about what they were talking about she was still nodding along with Tom and agreeing with what he was saying.(103)