Chapter Two

Lonely Day
Such a lonely day And it's mine The most loneliest day in my life Such a lonely day Should be banned It's a day that I can't stand The most loneliest day of my life The most loneliest day of my life Such a lonely day Shouldn't exist It's a day that I'll never miss Such a lonely day And it's mine The most loneliest day of my life And if you go, I wanna go with you And if you die, I wanna die with you Take your hand and walk away The most loneliest day of my life The most loneliest day of my life The most loneliest day of my life. such a lonely day And it's mine It's a day that I'm glad I survived. -System of A Down

The lyrics to the song Lonely Day by system of a down relates to chapter two because the song describes depression, loneliness, and surving it. In chapter two the introduce the valley of ashes which is the same description of this song. The reason they even went to that part of "the egg" is because Tom wanted to show Nick his mistress. As you can see the valley of ashes branches off more important event that go one through out chapter two and this song describes the feeling, sight, and smell when you are in the valley of ashes.

Quotes:

1. "the valley of ashes is bounded on one side by as small foul river, and the drawbridge is up to let barges" (28). This is aid by Nick and it describes how it smells and it's location is right where Tom's mistress lives. This is important to the chapter because now you know that Tom is seeing someone other than Daisy.


2. "occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track,gives out a ghostly creak and comes to rest..." (27). This describes how depressing the valley of ashes are and why it's called that because it is gray, lonely, dusty, and abandoned like daisy felt with Tom.


3. ".... immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight" (27). This relates to the chapter because it describes how scummy it is and this is a perfect place where organized crime takes place.


4. "about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land" (27). This is said by Nick and it shows the description of the valley of ashes and where it is located between west egg and motor-road. It is like Nick's relation with Gatsby and Daisy relationship he is placed in the middle of it.

Summary:

The theme of chapter two is color and friendship. The reason i felt that was because everywhere they went or were was described with color. When Nick was in the valley of ashes it describes how dusty and the look of it. They introduce the valley of ashes in this chapter which is a very sketchy place. Also Nick is introduced to Tom's mistress which is a big part of the chapter. This shows that even though Nick is cousins with Daisy he still trust him. Trust in a relationship is a big thing so as they grow on each other so does their friendship. This shows that Nick is becoming more of a friend than before. tom and the rest treated Nick as someone to show their possessions to. But now they accepted him as a friend again and found more along the way. Out of friendship also comes love. Nick has gained a girlfriend named Jordan out of a simple relationship.

Chapter One

This picture shows a picture of a Yale University Football player. Both Nick, the narrator the the book and Tom, his cousins husband went to school together at Yale and were very great athletes. In the chapter they describe how great of football players they were. This is all described in the second chapter of The Great Gatsby.



Quotes: Chapter 1



"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that not all people in this world have not had the advantages that you had" (5).



"reserving judgement is a matter of infinite hope" (7). This quote is said by our narrator Nick Caraway. In this quote he is telling the reader that you can try to refrain from judging people but it is unlikely that you will not do this.



"I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." This quote is said by Daisy this quote explains how she hopes her infant daughter will be. She is speaking this to Daisy and Jordan. This gives us an idea of Daisy's personality"(17).



"I know, Ive been everywhere and Ive seen everything and done everything...sophisticated. God im sophisticated" (22). This quote is said by Daisy as her child was just brought into the world. This again shows how Daisy's personality is. She appear to be very self absorbed.



Symbolism- In the first chapter in the book we see that there come about many differ ant references to color from the very beginning. It seems to be very confusing why he author, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses these color terms. As we read more toward the end of the chapter we can see that he uses these color references for differ ant characters in the novel. For example we learn that Toms color is red. Red can symbolize many different things. One thing that we came to a conclusion about is red is a very bold color. The color red relates to Toms personality, Toms has a very bold personality. Daisy seems to have differ ant colors that are used for her like white and blue. White seems to symbolize softness and elegance, and blue symbolizes sadness, depression and loneliness. Both colors symbolize Daisy's character. Gatsby's color in the chapter is gold and silver. Gold symbolizes wealth, power and dominance. These are all things that Gatsby has in his life. Silver represents boldness, weatlh, classiness and again power. Again things that his character portrays. The author does a great job using the symbolism of color to represent different main characters in the chapter. You will see many more references thoughthe course of this novel.