The Great Gatsby Chapter 7

1. The Great Gatsby: Chapter 7(pg 113-145)

2. It was one of the hottest days of the summer and Nick learns that Gatsby had fired all his servants and hired half a dozen more and that Gatsby had stopped having parties in his mansion. Nick and Gatsby are invited to lunch at Daisy's house and Gatsby is stunned when he sees Daisy's daughter. Daisy suggests they go to town and they rented a suite in the Plaza hotel where Tom and Gatsby have an argument. Tom reveals that he had investigated into Gatsby's past saying that Gatsby had sold alcohol over the counter in drug stores and that he was right in calling Gatsby a bootlegger. They argue with each other over who Daisy loves and eventually Tom realizes that he had won and tells Daisy to return home with Gatsby in Gatsby's car. When Tom, Jordan, and Nick are driving to West Egg they learn that Myrtle Wilson had been run over by a yellow car and Tom believes it was Gatsby. Nick waits for a taxi home but meets Gatsby who tells him that it was Daisy who was driving but Gatsby says he will take the blame. Nick offers to check on Daisy and Tom and sees that they are neither happy nor unhappy.

3. Tom Buchanan

" Tom flung open the door, blocked out its space for a moment with his thick body, and hurried into the room." (Gatsby 116)

Qualities:

" And Mr. Thomas Buchanan, the athlete?' I inquired. Simultaneously I heard his voice, gruff, muffled, husky, at the hall telephone." (Gatsby 116)

" She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. He was astounded. His mouth opened a little, and he recognized her as someone he knew a long time ago."(Gatsby 119)

" You think I'm pretty dumb, don't you?' he suggested. 'Perhaps I am, but I have a-almost a second sight, sometimes, that tells me what to do. Maybe you don't believe that, but science-" (Gatsby 121)

" I stared at him and then at Tom, who had made a parallel discovery less than an hour before-and it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. (Gatsby 124)

" Several times he turned his head and looked back for their car, and if the traffic delayed them he slowed up until they came into sight. I think he was afraid they would dart down a side street and out of his life forever." (Gatsby 126)

" I know I'm not very popular. I don't give big parties." (Gatsby 130)

" In a little while I heard a low husky sob, and saw that the tears were overflowing down his face." (Gatsby 141)

" A change had come over him, and he spoke gravely, and with decision." (Gatsby 142)

Tom is already realizing that he is losing his grip on Myrtle and Daisy. He has already revealed what Gatsby does and shows that he is intent on continuing his investigations into Gatsby. When Myrtle was killed, Tom showed that he cared for her a lot and I thought that maybe Tom might kill Gatsby or try to take revenge on him later on in the novel since he learns that it was a yellow car that hit Myrtle and Gatsby owns a yellow car. I think Tom might have regained control with Daisy in the end when Nick describes them as if they were "conspiring together".

4. " Yes,' he said after a moment, ' but of course I'll say I was."

This quote stood out to me because even though Gatsby was not able to fulfill his fantasy where Daisy would tell Tom she never loved him and Gatsby and Daisy would be together, Gatsby still shows he loves Daisy by saying that he will take the fall for the hit and run of Myrtle. I think that Gatsby will continue to love Daisy until the end and that he might have a new fantasy or dream that has him and Daisy together.