Chapter 7: Great Gastby
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- Lunch at Tom's house
- The Cars
- Hotel Drama
- Nick goes to Tom and Daisy Buchanan's House where he finds Gatsby and Jordan. Everyone is hot because of the heat wave outside. Tom is on the phone with Myrtle who is in an abnormal mood. Gatsby faces a surprise when he meets Daisy’s daughter, It’s almost as if he can’t believe she exists.
- Daisy Commits Vehicular Manslaughter
- The five of them decide to go to New York. Gatsby and Daisy take Tom's car, and Tom, Nick, and Jordan go in Gatsby’s yellow car. This odd arrangement happens after Tom attempts to prevent Gatsby and Daisy from being close to each other, which ultimately fails.
- Toms Discovery
- Sitting in a hotel, the five start to sweat, and drink. Tom starts to fight with Gatsby about his verifiability after the investigation he had into him. This results in Gatsby telling Tom, “Your wife doesn’t love you… she’s never loved you. She loves me”(137). This results in Tom telling Daisy to leave with Gatsby to show his confidence in this not affecting his marriage. Nick realises it’s his birthday.
- Gatsby in the Bushes
- Plowing through town in Gatsby's yellow car, Daisy accidentally hits Myrtle and kills her. Mr. Wilson had licked her in his house, so when she escaped in her blind hysteria and rage, she ran to the middle of the road. Where Daisy accidentally hits her and drives off.
- Tom and Nick leave only to discover the accident. They stop to inspect and find Myrtle wrapped in blankets laid on the table dead. Tom identifies the car that hit her as Gatsby's. He is upset at this and says “the God Damn coward… He didn’t even stop his car”(149). His devastation is evident, but he has done a good job at hiding it so far.
- After Nick leaves Tom, he is called by Gatsby who was hiding in the bushes to keep and eye on Daisy. He explains that it was Daisy driving, not him, but he took over after the accident. This is why Gatsby waits for Daisy to go to bed before he leaves, for her safety. However, it is in vain because she has already returned to Tom. Relaxed,”Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table with a plate of cold fried chicken between them and two bottles of ale… There was an unmistakable air of intimacy”(152-153). This contrast between the situation Gatsby thinks shes in, and the one she is actually in, prove that Gatsby's expectations of Daisy are wrong.
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