1. What does Nick mean when he says, “I realize now that under different circumstances that conversation might have been one of the crises of my life?” And then he concludes, “But because the offer was obviously and tactlessly for a service to be rendered, I had no choice except to cut him off there.”

     答：盖茨比之前并没有说过要帮助Nick赚点儿钱介绍点儿秘密的事儿给他之类的，但是当Nick说要约daisy和他见面时，他就这么赤裸裸的提出来要帮Nick了，有点儿礼尚往来的意思

     2. In this chapter, what three stages does Gatsby go through as he waits for and then meets with Daisy?

       答：daisy没来之前，他刚到Nick家时很紧张焦虑，东扯西拉的，等了一会人还没来，坐立不安

 Gatsby looked with vacant eyes through a copy of Clay’s ‘Economics,’ starting at the Finnish tread that shook the kitchen floor and peering toward the bleared windows from time to time as if a series of invisible but alarming happenings were taking place outside. 

     daisy到了Nick家后，刚开始他不敢直接和daisy相见，但是看到daisy和Nick讲话他又嫉妒的不行，在Nick家他和daisy的相见让他惊慌失措，行为不受控制，内心的期盼成为现实后让他手脚哪里放都不知道了，说话都打结，不知如何和daisy交谈，很是尴尬

Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes.

This is a terrible mistake,’ he said, shaking his head from side to side, ‘a terrible, terrible mistake.

    到他的家后他明显的恢复了常态，当他清楚的意识到daisy 在参观他的房子时，他充满了快乐以及自豪，开始对人发号施令了，甚至有些疯狂的炫耀起来

He had passed visibly through two states and was entering upon a third. After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence.这算是总结么

         3. How does Daisy react to the meeting? Try to point out several specifics throughout the chapter.

        答：从最开始的害怕冷淡尴尬到能和盖茨比共忆往事，慢慢的开始享受这次见面，在见识到盖茨比的豪宅后，对她见到的什么东西都是赞不绝口，已经表现出很喜欢盖茨比的样子，重陷爱河

his distraught eyes stared down at Daisy who was sitting frightened but graceful on the edge of a stiff chair.

They were sitting at either end of the couch looking at each other as if some question had been asked or was in the air, and every vestige of embarrassment was gone. Daisy’s face was smeared with tears

Daisy admired this aspect or that of the feudal silhouette against the sky, admired the gardens, the sparkling odor of jonquils and the frothy odor of hawthorn and plum blossoms and the pale gold odor of kiss-me-atthe- gate.

‘They’re such beautiful shirts,’ she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. ‘It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before.’

‘I adore it!’ exclaimed Daisy. ‘The pompadour! You never told me you had a pompadour—or a yacht.’

      4. When Nick asks Gatsby what business he is in, Gatsby responds, “That’s my affair,” before he realized that it wasn’t an appropriate reply. Why does Gatsby give that answer, and why isn’t it an appropriate reply?

     答：因为他当时的心思全在daisy上，他在想自己的房子是不是足够好，能够让daisy也看得上，当得到肯定回答时，他是很自豪很喜悦的，心情极度放松，放松戒备了，不自然的就顺着将心里的成就感说出来，当问及他靠什么赚钱时，他很清楚自己的赚钱方式不合法，不能说出来，因此就直接回答这是我的事儿，之所以说这是一个很不合适不礼貌的回答，因为他正在和Nick这个谁促成他和daisy梦寐以求的见面的人说话，而不是一个毫不相干的陌生人

‘My house looks well, doesn’t it?’ he demanded. ‘See how the whole front of it catches the light.’

I agreed that it was splendid.

‘Yes.’ His eyes went over it, every arched door and square tower. ‘It took me just three years to earn the money that bought it.’

‘I thought you inherited your money.’

‘I did, old sport,’ he said automatically, ‘but I lost most of it in the big panic—the panic of the war.’

I think he hardly knew what he was saying, for when I asked him what business he was in he answered ‘That’s my affair,’ before he realized that it wasn’t the appropriate reply.

‘Oh, I’ve been in several things,’ he corrected himself. ‘I was in the drug business and then I was in the oil business. But I’m not in either one now.’ He looked at me with more attention. ‘Do you mean you’ve been thinking over what I proposed the other night?’

     5. Why does Gatsby throw all his shirts on the table?

      答：他们正在参观他的卧室，而卧室里能显示他财富的除了豪华的梳妆台黄金马桶，就是他那两大柜子的各式各样的衣服了，这个时候的盖茨比有些疯狂了，完全不能克制自己的情感，想要像daisy证明自己的欲望太过强烈，而各种各样的高级衬衣再合适不过了

He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

Recovering himself in a minute he opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing-gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high.

     6. Obviously, Daisy, with all her money, is not going to cry over some shirts, so why does she cry?

    答：应该是有些后悔了吧，盖茨比现在是如此的富有，而当初他们也确实相爱过，要是能和盖茨比结婚，那么她也会拥有这样的财富了

      7. As the three of them look across the bay toward Daisy’s house, the narrator states, “Possibly it occurred to Gatsby that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy, it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.” What does he mean by:

A. “Compared to the great distance between them”?

B. “Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had  diminished by one”?

       答：A 他俩之间最大的障碍距离就是daisy和Tom结婚了

              B之前那盏绿灯对他来说意义重大，是他和daisy之间的纽带，看到那盏灯就会想到daisy，是他的梦想之光，但是现在对他来说，那盏绿灯再也不复当初的意义

     8. In the third to last paragraph of this chapter what does Nick mean when he says, “even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams, not through her own fault...”

       答：相见不如怀念，怀念不如相忘于江湖。在时间的长河里，无数个白天黑夜的渴望，让盖茨比将daisy已经美化到了完美程度，这是他自己幻想加工过后的完美，而不是真实的daisy，不是因为daisy本身发生了改变 才导致这次相见的某些东西的破灭

       每次都不怎么爱回答问题，因为被问题难住了

     @TS 打卡第五章的第二部分