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Great Gatsby, Chapter 7

Great Gatsby, Chapter 7. By Simon and Ee Kien. Summary. Gatsby calls off his parties, which were primarily a means to lure Daisy. Nick takes the train to East Egg for lunch at the house of Tom and Daisy. He finds Gatsby and Jordan Baker there as well.

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Great Gatsby, Chapter 7

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  1. Great Gatsby, Chapter 7 By Simon and EeKien

  2. Summary • Gatsby calls off his parties, which were primarily a means to lure Daisy. • Nick takes the train to East Egg for lunch at the house of Tom and Daisy. He finds Gatsby and Jordan Baker there as well. • Daisy asks Gatsby if he wants to go into the city. • Tom seizes upon Daisy’s suggestion that they should all go to New York together.the group decides to take a suite at the Plaza Hotel. • Tom confronts Gatsby and this leads to an argument. • Tom sends Daisy back to Long Island with Gatsby • Nick, Tom, and Jordan discover a frightening scene on the border of the valley of ashes. Someone has been fatally hit by an automobile. • Nick’s parting from Gatsby at the end of this chapter parallels his first sighting of Gatsby at the end of Chapter 1. In both cases, Gatsby stands alone in moonlight pining for Daisy. In earlier instance, he stretches his water, optimistic about the future. In this instance, he has made it past the green light, onto the lawn of Daisy’s house, but his dream is gone forever.

  3. Qualities of individual characters • Daisy: “Her voice is full of money.” • the source of Daisy’s allure • Gatsby: “She never loved you, do you hear? She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me!” • The reason Gatsby did all he did, the truest thing he believed

  4. Qualities of individual characters • Jordan: “Don’t be morbid, Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” • Jordan’s mentality • Tom: “Tears were overflowing down his face” • He’s not the hard, emotionless man he was portrayed to be • Wilson: “I’ve got my wife locked in up there,” explained Wilson calmly. “She’s going to stay there till the day after tomorrow, and then we’re going to move away.” • Very unexpected of Wilson • “Wilson had never seemed faintly capable of such a statement.” “He was his wife’s man and not his own.”

  5. Themes • Conflict - Gatsby and Tom’s argument • Loss of Hope - the dream that Gatsby has been chasing during the entire novel begins to dissolve in front of his eyes • The Past - “I did love him once” “Someone he knew a long time ago”

  6. Three Quotes 1. “ Oh, you want too much!” she cried to Gatsby. “I love you now- isn’t that enough? I cont help what’s past.” She began to sob helplessly. “I did love him once- but I loved you too.” - Daisy addresses the problem with Gatsby’s love: it demands everything - “I did love him once” Destroys Gatsby’s belief that “in her heart she never loved anyone except him”

  7. 2. “She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. He was astounded. His mouth opened a little, and he looked at Gatsby, and then back at Daisy as if he had just recognized her as someone he knew a long time ago.” - Where Tom first discovers the affair Daisy was having with Gatsby - “Someone he knew a long time ago,” may refer to the early days of their marriage or before, where Daisy was still in love with Gatsby

  8. 3. “He had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world, and the shock had made him physically sick.” “His wife and mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control.” - Tom’s possessions are falling from his grasp - This builds to his argument with Gatsby, as attempts to fight for control over his wife.

  9. Thoughts • I feel this chapter is pretty important in the book, because it’s like a turning point, where Gatsby loses his purpose. It also makes Tom seem more vulnerable, and more of a hypocrite, switching between Myrtle and Daisy, yet reacting so strongly about Daisy’s affair with Gatsby.

  10. Thoughts • From this chapter, I learned and know how much love can do to a person like what Gatsby did for example the part when Gatsby takes blame on Myrtle’s death instead of Daisy. And also, I learned that people cheats in their marriages like how Daisy treating to both Gatsby and Tom. And is the same time Tom cheating on Daisy with Myrtle. Lastly, I know that how people cannot be trustable sometimes and how people can mistreat people just like that.

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