Chapter 6

Chapter 6
Pages 97-111

Summary- In chapter six, news reporters start showing up at Gatsby's house to try and get an interview from him, which is when we learn all about his past. We find out he was born as Jay Gatz on a farm in North Dakota. He meets Dan Cody while fishing on Lake Superior one day and he ends up being his assistant for five years on his yacht. When Dan dies he leaves Gatsby money but he isn't able to claim it. Nick doesn't see Gatsby or Daisy for a while, until they all attend Gatsby's next big party he threw. Daisy seems to be having a bad time and this makes Gatsby upset. Nick brings up a story about the first time Daisy and Gatsby kissed and how he revolves everything around her. He tells Gatsby that the past is impossible to repeat, but Gatsby disagrees.

Dan Cody- A gray, florid man with a hard, empty face, the pioneer debauchee,, who during one phase of American life brought back to the eastern seaboard the savage violence of the frontier brothel and saloon"(100).
-Dan Cody is a rich, kind, fifty-year old man. He loved to explore on his yacht and became great friends with Gatsby.
-Chapter six is the first time we meet Dan Cody. He was Gatsby's first mentor and gave him his first big job. When Dan died he left Gatsby a ton of money and even though Gatsby was never able to receive it, he vowed from then on to become successful. 

Quote- “For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing” (99).
-This quote is significant to this chapter because it shows how Gatsby is living in this dream that he believes to be reality. With Daisy, he feels they can pick up where they left off and fall back in love. This quote really shows how Gatsby views the world.