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Relationship Between Daisy And Tom In The Great Gatsby

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Nick attends another one of Gatsby’s parties in Chapter Six, but this time he goes with Daisy and Tom and he feels quite different about it. He says, “Tom was evidently perturbed at Daisy's running around alone, for on the following Saturday night he came with her to Gatsby's party. Perhaps his presence gave the evening its peculiar quality of oppressiveness-it stands out in my memory from Gatsby's other parties that summer. There were the same people, or at least the same sort of people, the same profusion of champagne, the same many-colored, many-keyed commotion, but I felt an unpleasantness in the air, a pervading harshness that hadn't been there before. Or perhaps I had merely grown used to it, grown to accept West Egg as a world complete …show more content…

He says that one of the things that are different is “a pervading harshness that hadn't been there before” (Fitzgerald, 104). Since the only changing factor between this party and the rest is that Daisy and Tom were in attendance, it would not be unreasonably to assume that they’re the cause of this harshness and Nick’s new feelings. One way that they could’ve done this is because of the love triangle element between the three. Daisy, who is married to Tom and has a strong romantic history with Gatsby, undoubtedly caused tension while the anger between Gatsby and Tom, Tom disliking Gatsby because he didn’t trust him around Daisy and Gatsby hating Tom for being married to the woman he loves, had its own hostility. The incessant drama and stress of the whole ordeal could have easily ruined the party for Nick. This shows that Nick is affects by the affairs of others and the emotions that they give off if tension between his two friends and his cousin managed to spoil the whole …show more content…

Daisy, in particular, seemed to have an effect on him. She disliked mostly the whole evening and at dinner, when they were sitting next to people who Nick was amused by last time he was them, he became embarrassed and ashamed of them around her. He states, “We were at a particularly tipsy table. That was my fault-Gatsby had been called to the phone, and I'd enjoyed these same people only two weeks before. But what had amused me then turned septic on the air now.” (Fitzgerald, 106). He later comments that Daisy hated the party and he says, “But the rest offended her-and inarguably, because it wasn't a gesture but an emotion. She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented "place" that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village-appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing. She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.” (Fitzgerald, 107). He’s commenting on the differences between East Egg, where she lives and the people there are proper and do things that are deemed socially acceptable, and West Egg, where Gatsby and Nick live where they don’t worry about social boundaries and are free to do as they please for the most part since they aren’t confined by only doing what is ‘proper’. This shows the differences between

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