Discuss the following questions for the rest of the novel.
1. Why does Gatsby want Daisy to see his house?
2. At the very end of chapter V Nick observes that “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart”. What does he mean? Please interpret the statement according to the context it was uttered.
3. Why does Gatsby want Daisy to tell Tom that she had never loved him? What does he want to achieve by that?
4. Chapter 7 ends as “So I walked away and left ..[Gatsby] standing there in the moonlight – watching nothing”. Please interpret the sentence by taking its context into consideration.
5. Is the title The Great Gatsby ironic or does Nick really believe that Gatsby is great?
Discuss in relation to the American Dream.
6. Daisy kills Myrtle, her husband’s lover/mistress, in a car accident. Is this too big a coincidence? Does the novel suffer from lack of plausibility? Please discuss in detail.