Ironically in this chapter, Tom Buchanan begins to suspect that Daisy Buchanan, his wife, is having an affair and he also finds out that his mistress is moving away with her own husband. So it is okay for Tom to have a mistress but gets mad for Daisy having an affair? But it makes more sense now because Tom is losing both sides where as the girls are just losing one. Still pretty stupid. Anyways, scene shifts to Gatsby because Gatsby is apparently no longer hosting his immense parties that everyone in the city went to. In fact, he got rid of a lot of his employees working at the mansion and kept only a few loyal servants. The majority of the time however, is spent with Gatsby and Daisy having their affair in the big mansion. As Tom begins to suspect more and more, he decides to invite Gatsby and Nick for lunch at Tom's large mansion. The point of this is to setup the big confrontation between Tom and Gatsby. Because Tom's mistress is leaving, he needs to at least keep hold of his wife. This was the point. In a plan made by Gatsby, Daisy was supposed to tell Tom that she never loved him and that she wanted to be with Gatsby. This did not work. She was conflicted, because she loved both. The situation does not get better when Gatsby and Tom begin to actually fight figuratively and somewhat literally each other over this girl that they both want. The "lunch" ends, Daisy runs out screaming, and Gatsby drives away in his yellow car. Oddly enough, during the night, Gatsby drives into the industrial wasteland and, without seeing in front of him, runs over Myrtle! Myrtle dies and the problem influxes. Gatsby speeds off without checking on Myrtle. Later on, Tom, Nick, and Jordan drive through this part of town and see a big commotion in the middle of the street, and to Tom's anguish, he finds out it is the body of his mistress. Witnesses tell him that the car that hit her is yellow, and inferring largely, Tom figures it must be Gatsby who ran her over. Back at the house, Nick finds Gatsby and Gatsby tells Nick his truth that Daisy was with him and that she was the one who ran Myrtle over. But because Gatsby cares about Daisy so much, he decides that he will take the blame. Uh oh. To me, the point here is to setup a foreshadowing of the last chapters unfortunately. What comes up, must go down.
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AuthorJustin Lavergne Archives
May 2015
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