盖茨比终于开始正式进入他的回忆阶段。之前的回忆都断断续续，类似于插叙性质，而这章中的回忆相对的完整。

尤其是盖茨比与DAISY的爱情。

"I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a while that she'd throw me over, but she didn't, because she was in love with me too. She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her.... Well, there I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care. What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?"

Now and then she moved and he changed his arm a little and once he kissed her dark shining hair. The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised. They had never been closer in their month of love nor communicated more profoundly one with another than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.

（这样的爱情，在盖茨比眼中是非常的纯粹的，类似于柏拉图式的爱情）

盖茨比这个原本是在这个爱情中占主动地位的人，渐渐真的假戏真做起来，选入到了爱情中，无法自拔，并且他并没有真正的看清楚DAISY的为人和性格，一头扎进了这个自我陶醉的爱情中。这就真的奠定了他悲剧的基础。为了爱情，为了能够有和DAISY相匹配的背景，他奋不顾身。他去参加了战争。

He did extraordinarily well in the war. He was a captain before he went to the front and following the Argonne battles he got his majority and the command of the divisional machine guns. After the Armistice he tried frantically to get home but some complication or misunderstanding sent him to Oxford instead.

(所以命运总归是阴差阳错的，他努力的参加战争，在战争中获取自己的身份地位，但是却去了OXFORD)

He was worried now--there was a quality of nervous despair in Daisy's letters. She didn't see why he couldn't come. She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.

Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men and drowsing asleep at dawn with the beads and chiffon of an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed. And all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately--and the decision must be made by some force--of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality--that was close at hand.

（或许对于当时的DAISY来说，很多时候她做的决定也是由很大部分当时的社会所迫使的，所以总归这个两个人是错过了。但是DAISY究竟是真心爱GATSBY吗？）

1. ****Gatsby tells Nick, “I don’t think she ever loved [Tom].”  Do you think she ever did?  Explain using your knowledge and understanding of her and Tom’s relationship.

在这个问题上应该说DAISY的虚荣心大过对TOM的爱。或许当最初TOM接近她，和她结婚的时候她真的有点点心动，但那也只是心动而已。不过，随着时间的流逝，两人朝夕相处这么多年，总归也有感情，更何况还有孩子呢。

I didn't want to go to the city. I wasn't worth a decent stroke of work but it was more than that--I didn't want to leave Gatsby. I missed that train, and then another, before I could get myself away.

We shook hands and I started away. Just before I reached the hedge I remembered something and turned around.

"They're a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."

I've always been glad I said that. It was the only compliment I ever gave him, because I disapproved of him from beginning to end. First he nodded politely, and then his face broke into that radiant and understanding smile, as if we'd been in ecstatic cahoots on that fact all the time.

（在NICK和GATSBY两人的关系上，很多时候NICK都是被动，但是从这里不难看出，NICK是很同情GATSBY的，即使有时候NICK在说GATSBY不好，那也是爱之深责之切的啊，而GATSBY其实在DAISY等，甚至那些无名的却常常去他房子那些人中是根本找不到认同感的，但是GATSBY却很渴望NICK的认同，因此，在这个时候NICK说出这些话来，让GATSBY应该是莫名感动的 事实上，对于GATSBY来说其实根本与TOM DAISY等人是不同的世界的人）