Chapter 6

This picture is significant because it symbolizes wealth and wealth is what Gatsby has always wanted. When Gatsby was a 17 year old boy he changed his nam from James Gatz to Jay Gatz. Jay Gatz is the one who like money and has a lot of expensive ting and extravagent parties. James Gatz on the other hand is the one who just loves the country and the quiet and the one who is always dreaming about wealth and wishes that he too could be rich. After meeting Dan Cody he gets to experience the finer things of life by goin on Dan's yacht and travelling over seas to many places. James Gatz parents were farm people. " James Gatz worked as a clam digger and a salmon fisher as well. He also had a lot of relationships with women.

The main oint of this chapter has to dow ith rumors and affairs. At Gatsby's party there are a lot of rumors that were said about him. Some say that he was a murderer. Others said that he earned his money from his dead family, but in fact no one even tried to talk to him to find out what he was really about. There are also a lot of affairs that occur throughout this chapter and the novel as well. the first affair that occurs is with Tom. He's having an affair with a mistress in New York that Daisy knows well about. Myrtle which is the name of Tom's mistress is in fact married. When Tom goes to meet with Myrtle he brings Nick along, knowing that him and Daisy are second cousins. Myrtle is also at fault as well becaus e Myrtle meets Tom and NIck at her house and introduces Tom to her husband, George Wilson. Another affair that occurs during the book is the affair that Daisy has with Gatsby. They end up meeting together at Nick's house, both knowing that Daisy is married to Tom.

"His imagination of his parents had never really accaepted them as his parentss at all" (pg. 104). This is significant because it shows that Gatsby was in fact ashamed of his parents and didn't like how they lived their lives and what they did to earn their money: they weren't "rich enough." They were farmers and it just didn't suit Gatsby enough to apprecaiate them.

"It was James Gatz who had been loafing alone the beach that afternoon in a torn green jersey and a pair of canvas pants but it was already Jay Gatsby who borrowed a row boat" (104). The significance of this is that James Gatz was to afraid to live the free life and was afraid of money and having fun and kept himself. But Jay Gatsby was the one who wanted to have fun and experiment with money and live free.

"...From Gatsby's parties this summer. There were the same people, or at least the same sort of people..." (110).

Everyone at the party ahd the same characteristics. They were all rich, gossiped and, they only cared about themselves.

"As though they cared" (108). This is signifiacnt because people make it seem like they care about what other people have to say or what they are talking about, but in reality, they only care abouth themselves and their own opinions and no one elses.