CRQs Gatsby chapter5

English 11
Gatsby ch. 5

While working on Gatsby in 1924, Fitzgerald wrote, “That’s the whole burden of this novel—the loss of illusions that give such color to the world so that you don’t care whether things are true or false as long as the partake of the magical glory.”


1) Describe Gatsby’s plan to finally meet Daisy. What does Gatsby offer in exchange for his participation? How does Nick feel about this?

2)“He had passed visibly through two states and was entering upon a third” (97). Who is described here? What two states? What is the third?

3)What is up with the shirts? Why is Daisy crying?

4) “His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one” (98). At what point does Nick make this judgement? Why? What does this mean? Is this a happy moment or sad?

5) Who is Ewing Klipspringer? What’s he doing here? What song does he play?

6) “ . . . not through her own fault . . . . It had gone beyond her, beyond everything”(101). What is not her own fault? What is this passage about? What is the antecedent for the pronount “It”? Is this related to question #4? If so, how?