What does Nick tell Gatsby he should do?

What does Nick tell Gatsby he needs to do? Why? He needs to leave because his car can be traced, and he could be blamed for the hit and run, even though Daisy was driving.
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What does Nick tell Gatsby he will do for him the day after tomorrow?

Nick declines the invitations but tells Gatsby what he really wants to hear. He will invite Daisy over the day after tomorrow.
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What advice does Nick give Gatsby why doesn't Gatsby take it?

Nick felt that he had to tell him something important. Nick felt if he waited to long he would be too late. What advice does Nick give to Gatsby, and why doesn't Gatsby take it? Nick tells Gatsby to get out of town for a while, but Gatsby says he wants to stay and wait to see if Daisy is going to be with him.
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What advice does Nick give Gatsby and how does Gatsby respond?

-Nick suggests that Gatsby forget about Daisy and leave Long Island, but Gatsby refuses to consider leaving Daisy behind.
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What were Nick's final words to Gatsby?

What were Nick's final significant words to Gatsby? Nick said, "They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
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The Great Gatsby- How Nick Changes



What does Nick say to Gatsby before he leaves?

As he leaves, Nick reveals his feelings for Gatsby when he says, "They're a rotten crowd […]. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." And YET, Nick reminds us that he "disapproved" of Gatsby "from beginning to end."
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What does Nick tell Gatsby before leaving him why is it good that he chose this moment?

Why is it good that he chose this moment to say this to Gatsby? Nick says this to Gatsby at a low moment for Gatsby because it will make him feel better. Gatsby has been trying all along to show them that he is their equal. Nick goes further by saying he is better than all of them.
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What advice does Nick give Gatsby about the past Chapter 6?

Nick cautions Gatsby that he can't repeat the past. Gatsby isn't buying it. Nick imagines Gatsby as a younger man courting the eighteen-year-old Daisy. Gatsby wanted to "gulp" down everything that surrounded her – her life, the culture of the wealthy, the wonder.
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WHO calls Gatsby before he died?

In both book and movie, Gatsby is waiting for a phone call from Daisy, but in the film, Nick calls, and Gatsby gets out of the pool when he hears the phone ring. He's then shot, and he dies believing that Daisy was going to ditch Tom and go way with him.
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What does Nick say about Gatsby's dream at the end of the chapter?

Nick puts the matter thus: “[Gatsby] had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.
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Does Gatsby sleep with Daisy?

She does have sex with Gatsby in 1917 (and, it is implied, during her affair with him in 1922), but the social norms are reversed in that it is Gatsby who 'felt married to her' and was the one 'betrayed' whilst Daisy: vanished into her rich house, into her rich, full life, leaving Gatsby – nothing.
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What does Gatsby tell Nick he wants Daisy to do?

Gatsby wants things to be exactly the same as they were before he left Louisville: he wants Daisy to leave Tom so that he can be with her. Nick reminds Gatsby that he cannot re-create the past. Gatsby, distraught, protests that he can. He believes that his money can accomplish anything as far as Daisy is concerned.
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Who killed Gatsby?

The most famous murder in American literature is that of the titular hero in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, published in 1925. Jay Gatsby is shot to death in the swimming pool of his mansion by George Wilson, a gas-station owner who believes Gatsby to be the hit-and-run driver who killed his wife, Myrtle.
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What does Nick do for Jay Gatsby as a favor?

What does Nick do for Jay Gatsby as a favor? He was going to invite Daisy over to Tea so that Gatsby could see her.
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Who dies in Great Gatsby chapter 7?

Gatsby and Daisy drive home together. On the way, with Daisy driving the car, they hit and kill Myrtle, who is trying to escape being imprisoned in her house by Wilson.
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What does Gatsby say when Nick asks him how he makes his money?

Why does Nick find this significant? Gatsby at first tells Nick he inherited his money. Later, when Gatsby mentions to Nick that "it took me just three years to earn the money" to finance his mansion, Nick questions this, saying he thought Gatsby had inherited his fortune.
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Was Nick Carraway mentally ill?

Also, it should be noted that though Nick was in a sanitarium, he wasn't "crazy." He was diagnosed with things such as anxiety and depression. Speaking of which, The diagnostics list and suggestion by the doctor to "write it all down" was wildly historically inaccurate for the '20s or '30s.
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Is The Great Gatsby on Netflix?

Watch The Great Gatsby | Netflix.
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How old is Gatsby when he dies?

Tom tells George that the car belongs to Jay Gatsby who lives in West Egg. George walks to West Egg where he shoots Gatsby in his pool, killing him instantly, before taking his own life. Gatsby is 32 years old. Of all Gatsby's high society friends, only one, Owl-Eyes attends Gatsby's funeral.
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What does Nick tell Gatsby about the past?

What does Gatsby tell Nick about his past? Is it true? He tells about the relationship he and Daisy had, the actual time spent together and how he had to go off to war, and Daisy was supposed to wait for him to return.
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When did Nick told Gatsby?

When Nick told Gatsby that "you can't repeat the past", Gatsby replied, "Why of course you can!" Do you agree with Nick or Gatsby? I think that you cant really repeat the past exactly but somethings you might be able to.
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Does Gatsby kiss Daisy in Chapter 6?

It was encapsulated in the moment of Gatsby and Daisy's first kiss. As soon as Gatsby kissed Daisy, all of his fantasies about himself and his future fixated solely on her.
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What is Nick's advice to Gatsby The day after the accident?

What advice does Nick give to Gatsby? That he should leave town ("go away") before the police trace back his car from the accident.
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Is Gatsby a true story?

The novel is set in the fictional town of West Egg on Long Island in the early 1920s. Indeed, Fitzgerald was inspired to write the book by the grand parties he attended on prosperous Long Island, where he got a front-row view of the elite, moneyed class of the 1920s, a culture he longed to join but never could.
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Why is it good that he chose this moment to say this to Gatsby?

Why is it good that he chose this moment to say this to Gatsby? Nick says this to Gatsby at a low moment for Gatsby because it will make him feel better. Gatsby has been trying all along to show them that he is their equal. Nick goes further by saying he is better than all of them.
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