The Great Gatsby: Blog 9

F. Scott Fitzgerald

     Some of the details from Chapter five reminded me of my favorite book as a child, The Velvet Room By Zilpha Keatley Snyder. This book takes place during the great depression and is about a little girl who adores to read. Her family moves from place to place because of her father's jobs. At one house she lived in, there was an abandoned house nearby with a red velvet room she often went to as a quiet place to read. In this chapter of The Great Gatsby, Gatsby finally meets Daisy over tea at Carraway's house. Gatsby takes Daisy to show her around his house. Carraway describes their visit saying, "We went upstairs, through period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk and vivid with new glowers, through dressing-rooms and poolrooms, and bathrooms, with sunken baths" (Gatsby, 91). The description of the period-style house reminds me of the descriptions of the house in The Velvet Room. The book often went into great detail of every room because the main character, Robin, was so enthralled in the beauty and decoration of the vacant house. I absolutely loved that book and reading this chapter of The Great Gatsby brought back many memories of the story.