Summary for Chapters 5-6:

          In the fifth chapter of the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F.Scott Fitzgerald (1925), the speaker, Nick, discovers that between Gatsby and her cousin, Daisy, there was a romance back when Gatsby was a poor lieutenant and now Gatsby wishes to reunite with Daisy once again. Told in third person point-of-view, relying heavily on Nick's perspective, the author supports his theme by describing the setting of Nick's small cottage home where Gatsby's date with Daisy would take place, establishing the major conflict of confrontation of the past between Gatsby and Daisy since they have not seen each other for five years, and incorporating the literary devices of imagery because it gives a very detailed image of Nick's place filled with all the flowers that Gatsby sent to please Daisy, and also the use of archaic language since the setting does invlove in the 1920s.

          In the sixth chapter of the novel, The Great Gatsby, by  F.Scott Fitzgerald (1925), the speaker, Nick, discovers the true identity of Great Gatsy, born as James Gatz, and his background as a poor man who then became a wealthy man as a cause of his great efforts for success rather than for the wealthy man, Dan Cody, he saved at sea. Told in first person point-of-view from Nick's perspective, the authour supports his theme by describing the setting of the past back in North Dakota where Gatsby was born to a poor family, but then transitioning to the wealthy mansion in which he lives now where he throws parties every weekend, establishing the major conflict of his noncomformity, as a teen, of the social status he was, so he ran away, but in the present, the major conflict is the fact that Gatsby is determined to win Daisy's heart although she is married to Tom Buchannan, and incorpaorating the literary device of imagery to give a clear vision of Gatsby's extravagent parties.