Home Work #1
Nick Carraway is walking up the Buchanan’s front steps while tom waits on the porch of his huge house.
Tom: Now, don’t think my opinion on these matters in final, just because I’m stronger and more of man than you are. I’ve got a nice place here. It belonged to Demaine the oilman. We’ll go inside.
Tom and nick enter the living room where they see daisy and Jordan baker siting on the big couch. Daisy: I’m paralyzed with happiness.
Excitedly do they miss me?
Nick: the whole town is desolate; all the cars have left the rear wheel painted black as a mourning
Wreath and there’s a persistent wail all night along the North shore.
Daisy: How gorgeous!! Let’s go tomorrow, tom. Tomorrow! Pauses you have to see the baby
Nick: I’d like to.
Daisy: She’s asleep. She’s two years old. Haven’t you ever seen her?
Nick: never
Daisy: You ought to sometime. She’s---------
Tom puts his hand on Nick’s shoulder
Tom: What you doing, Nick?
Nick: I’m a bondman
Tom: who with?
Nick: tells him
Tom: never heard of them
Nick: Gets annoyed You will if you stay in the east.
Tom: Looks at Daisy and back at nick Oh, I’ll stay in the east, don’t worry.
Miss Baker: I’m stiff I’ve been lying on that sofa for as long as I can
remember.
Daisy: don’t look at me. I’ve been trying to get you to NY all afternoon.
Ms. Baker: no Thanx. I’m in training.
Tom: you are!!!!
Miss Baker: you live in west egg. I know someone their.
Nick: I don’t know a single—------
Miss Baker: you must know Gatsby.
Daisy: suddenly Gatsby? What Gatsby?
Dinner is announced and they all go out sidein the back where teheir dinner table is. Daisy blows out the candles.In two weeks it’ll be the longest day of the year. Do
you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it?
Miss Baker: yawning we ought to plan something
Daisy: what do we plan? She complains about her knuckle which is now black and
Blue you did it tom, I know you didn’t mean to but you did. That’s what I get for marring a
great big hulking physical specimen of a--------
Tom: angry voice I hate it when you use that word hulking
Daisy: hulking
Nick: you make me feel uncivilized, daisy. Can’t you talk about crops or something?
Tom: violently Civilization’s going to pieces. I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things.
Have you read “the rise of the Coloured empires” by this man Goddard?
Nick: no
Tom: well, it’s a fine book and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don’t look out the white
Race will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.
Daisy: Tom’s getting very profound. He reads deep books with long words in them what was that
Word we—
Tom: well, these books are all scientific. This fellow has worked out the whole thing. It’s up to us
Who are the dominant race to watch out or the other races will have control of things.
Daisy: looking at the sun, blinking. We’ve got to beat them down.
Ms. Baker: You ought to live in California---
Tom: this idea is that we’re Nordics. I am and you are and you are and---
--And we’ve produced all the things that go to make civilizations—oh, science and art. And all that. Do you see?
Daisy: whispers I’ll tell you a family secret. It’s about the butler’s nose. Do you want to hear?
About the butler’s nose?
Nick: That’s why I came over tonight.
Daisy: Well, he wasn’t always a butler; he used to be the silver polisher for some people in New
York that had a silver service from the morning till night until finally it began to affect his
Nose—
Miss Baker: Things went from bad to worse.
Daisy: Yes. Things went from bad to worse until finally he had to give up his position.
A servant comes and whispers something to Tom. Tom gets up and leaves without saying anything.
Daisy: I love to see you at my table, Nick. You remind me of a- a rose. Turns to Jordan. Doesn’t he?
She puts down her napkin and goes into the hosue.
Ms.Baker: Sh! I want to hear what happens.
Nick: Is something happening?
Baker: You mean you don’t know?
Nick: I don’t.
Baker: Tom’s got some woman in New York. She might have the decency not to telephone him at
Dinnertime. Don’t you think?
Daisy enters and so does Tom
Tom: If it’s light enough, after dinner I want to take you down to the stables.
The telephone rings and daisy shook her head at tom, and then, Ms. Baker and tom went into
The library. Nick follows Daisy to the porch in front of the house.
Daisy: we don’t know each other very well, Nick. Even if we are cousins. You didn’t come to my wedding.
Nick: I wasn’t back from war yet.
Daisy: that’s true. Well, I’ve had a very bad time, Nick, and I’m pretty cynical about everything.
Nick: Nick starts to go into a onversation about daisy’s daughter.I suppose she talks and eats, and everything.
Daisy: Oh yes. Listen Nick; let me tell you what I said when she was born. Would you like to hear?
Nick: very much.
Daisy: It’ll show you how I’ve gotten to feel about—things. Well, she was less than an hour old and tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. All right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. You see I think everything’s terrible anyhow. Everybody thinks so—the most advanced people. And I know. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything. She laughed sophisticated—God I am so sophisticated!
Nick and Daisy go into the house Miss baker is reading a newspaper and puts it aside.
Miss Baker: ten o’clock, time for this good girl to go to bed.
Daisy: Jordan’s going to play in the tournament tomorrow over at Westchester
Nick: oh your Jordan baker.
Jordan: Goodnight, wake me up at eight, won’t you.
Nick: If you’ll get up.
Jordan: I will. Good night, Mr. Carraway. See you anon.
Daisy: Of course you will. In fact I think I’ll arrange a marriage. Come over often, Nick, and I’ll sort of—oh—fling you together. You know – lock you up accidentally in linen closets and push you to sea in a boat and all that sort of thing—
Jordan: good night. I haven’t heard a word. Walks up the stairs
Tom: she’s a nice girl; they oughtn’t to let her run around the country this way.
Daisy: who oughtn’t to?
Tom: her family
Daisy: her family is one aunt about a thousand years old. Besides, Nick going to look after her, aren’t you, Nick? She’s going to spend lots of weekends out here this summer. I think the home influence will be very good for her.
Tom and Daisy look at each other
Nick: is she from New York.
Daisy: from Louisville. Our white girlhood was passed together there. Our beautiful white—
Tom: did you give Nick a little heart to heart talk on the veranda?
Daisy: did I? I can’t seem to remember, but I think we talked about the Nordic race. Yes, I’m sure we did. It sort of crept up on us and first thing you know------
Tom: don’t believe everything you hear, nick
Nick gets up to go home and tom and daisy see him to the door. Nick is about to turn on the machine when daisy yelled wait
Daisy: I forgot to ask you something, and it’s important. We heard you were engaged to a girl out west.
Tom: that’s right we heard you were engaged.
Nick: it’s a libel. I’m too poor.
Daisy: but we heard it. We heard it from three people so it must be true.
Nick says good-bye and they leave. He goes home and sees Gatsby standing on the top of his mansion. He looks across at the green light and back at Gatsby but he had already disappeared.
.
So
daisy is really the murderer of tom’s other lover, whom she didn’t to kill
because she didn’t even know that was tom’s other lover.