Gatsby Shows Daisy His Mansion, Explained：If it wasn't for

What's really going on

The tour is Gatsby's love letter, staged in objects. He doesn't say he's in love; he shows a young woman a life so complete that she only has to step into it. "He used to be my best friend many years ago," he says of the photo of Dan Cody — a hint that everything on display is a piece of a self he built. Daisy's collapse in the shirts is the scene's turn: "Because I've never seen such beautiful shirts before." It reads as delight, but it's grief — five lost years colliding with the wealth he assembled to win her back. Outside, the green light across the bay loses its magic: "And his count of enchanted objects had diminished by one." The dream shrinks back to a lamp.

Theme

このチャプターで学べること

• Use old sport as a warm nickname
• Hear the shirt tears as irony
• Use I wish for regret and hope
• Catch of no use as worthless

発音のポイント

• brought in from — liaison
• makes me sad — weak form
• on earth — liaison