The Great Gatsby Chapter 7 Analysis

When Tom uncovers Gatsby’s secret,which is hidden by him for so many years,everything is ruined by time. His status,money,business and all the things which he works hard for to become an uptown man are all be founded. So he is angry to death and even want to kill him. In that moment,he thoroughly exposes his essence. When Daisy eventually know the real Gatsby,the poor man,she is back to the rich Tom again and asks him to take her home. With a wealthy and having high status gentleman is more safe and happy life,which always can be this rich girl’s choice.

In the final few chapters we finally get to see Gatsby’s true colors. We see that Gatsby is expressing love towards Daisy when they all decide to go to New York for the day. Tom becomes suspicious and accuses Gatsby of having an affair with his wife and also being a bootlegger. Gatsby tells Tom that he and Daisy love one another and that they are going to be together like they once were in the past. Gatsby was wrong and Daisy ends up staying with Tom. Myrtle Wilson is then ran over by Daisy but Gatsby says that he will take the blame and ends up getting shot. At the beginning of this novel we thought that Gatsby was a well liked, popular guy, but it turns out that no one shows up to attend his funeral.

Tom attends the party in many ways to try and ruin Gatsby he is critical about everything like also the decorations the people that are there, the way Gatsby behaves. Anything he can criticize of he does so also he attempts to make a rumor that Gatsby is a bootlegger. And decides after the party that he will really get into Gatsby’s past and try to harm him. And this starts to take a path of destruction. It starts becoming clear that Daisy’s love for Gatsby is false just like the love for Tom and there sadly Gatsby’s love that he thought to find when he asks Daisy to abandon Tom and be at his side. So Tom wants to ruin Gatsby and Gatsby wants Daisy which is a pretty big difference and he is not looking for any paypack like Tom is.

The plot of The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is driven by Jay Gatsby's

As I sat there in the hotel, all was well until Tom accuses Gatsby of being a murderer and Gatsby lost his temper. I could tell Gatsby was furious at Tom and after he over reacted he tried to calm Daisy down but she just didn't feel the same way about Gatsby after this incident. After witnessing the fighting and constant arguing between Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby. Tom eventually sent Daisy off with Gatsby and I watched them as they awkwardly walk out to the car.

The passage I have chosen for this close reading begins on page 151 with “ He was worried now”, and it ends on page 152 with “Daisy was flattered.” In chapter 8 we hear about beginning of Gatsby and Daisy’s love story. They met, and Gatsby was in awe. They continued seeing each other till Gatsby left for war. Daisy was apart from Gatsby longer than she expected and began to feel upset. Fitzgerald writes “She was feeling the pressure of the world outside her.” In my honest opinion, I think Daisy didn’t know what to do with herself without a man to guide her. The next paragraph revolves around her being filled with “sadness”, I think she was just sad with how boring her life is. That is why Daisy begins going out with multiple men a day. It’s as if she needs the attention to survive. I know that sounds harsh, but this passage made be so angry with Daisy as a character. If she truly loved Gatsby she would have just waited for him and continued writing him letters.

     From this point on, Gatsby’s American Dream begins to unravel. Tom, suspecting Daisy of cheating on him with Gatsby, makes some investigation of his affairs and begins to

Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, Nick and Jordan have gone out to the city for the day. Gatsby and Daisy are all over each other, when Gatsby finally reveals to Tom that him and Daisy have loved each other for five years. Tom responds to Gatsby stating, “And what’s more I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.’ ‘You’re revolting,’ said Daisy” (131). This shows that Tom thinks he can do whatever he would like, and Daisy will still love him after he goes on cheating sprees. Daisy proves him wrong. Tom says he loves Daisy, yet he continues to cheat on her because he knows from past experiences that she will just continue to stay with him, until now, he wants Daisy back because he realizes that she now loves another man. Tom thought that he could do as he pleased, and not stay faithful to Daisy and she would take that, but Daisy ended up finding another man, and loving him, and becomes further disgusted with Tom, something Tom never thought would happen. As Tom, Nick and Jordan are driving back home they realize that there has been a crash. Tom sees that Myrtle is dead and he overhears that she has been hit by what he believes is Gatsby’s car. Nick reveals Tom’s reaction as they drive home:“In a little while I heard a low husky sob, and saw that the tears were

Tom, Mr. Gatsby and even Daisy seem to be simultaneously blinded and driven by their greed, though much of it is in an unusual form. Tom’s lust for another woman causes him to cheat Daisy, the love of his life, and not only jeopardize his marriage, but also takes the chance of his child growing up with divorced parents. Mr. Gatsby and his desperate obsession with Daisy worms his way between the already unstable couple (though not because of Tom’s affair), damaging their marriage and almost convincing Daisy to renounce her love for Tom even saying on page 132 that she doesn’t love him, and divorce him, despite Tom’s misdeeds and his affair, which is currently unknown to them, he still loves Daisy and she still loves him causing an exceptional clash of interests. Finally Daisy’s love for both Tom and Gatsby causes plenty of indecision and her eventual compliance with Gatsby nearly results in a divorce with Tom which would have been disastrous for their

Once Gatsby re-establishes relations with Daisy the rain fades away. When Jay’s eyes meet Daisy’s he accidentally knocks the clock off Nicks mantle, its like time being stopped in time and that he now has a chance to sweep daisy off her feet like he saved the clock. In chapter 6 the differences in the classes are seen, but it’s split in the upper class, Gatsby is looked down on by Tom as a bootlegger. Tom is from an aristocratic family and was born into wealth, while Gatsby had to build his wealth on his own. The difference can also be seen when Gatsby is asked to attend dinner with them as they quickly leave. Every one is not what they seem as Gatsby reveals his true past identity showing his life of rags to riches. Gatsby thinks everything will play out like he’d planned over the past 5 years, but it seems it will be much more of a struggle after Daisy leaves his party unimpressed. For Daisy the yellow cocktail music and new money people isn’t her thing, this deeply affects Gatsby since the sole purpose of the parties were in hopes she would come and realize he was a different

Ever since Gatsby met Daisy 5 years ago in Louisville, he has been trying to earn her back. His first attempt at this is when he convinces Nick to “Invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let [Gatsby] come over”. Fitzgerald is trying to set up the book for the let down that is inevitable, he wants the readers hopes up before he ends them all. As the story advances the readers sees signs of Daisy choosing Tom over Gatsby. But the reader really understands it when “Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table, with a plate of cold fried chicken between them” (144-145). This is a pivotal moment in the story because it's obvious she chooses Tom over Gatsby by the way she is so compliant towards Tom. This moment makes the novel a tragedy because Gatsby has had one single mission: to get Daisy back. With this moment the reader knows it will never happen. An additional somber moment that happens to Gatsby is the attendance to his funeral. After Gatsby is killed by George, Nick plans a funeral. But the sad truth is all of Gatsby's “friends” could not attend. His so called “best-friend” Meyer Wolfsheim was one who could not attend the funeral because he could not “get mixed up in it” (171). With no one attending Gatsby's funeral the reader feels remorse for Gatsby. Fitzgerald does this to further illustrate the tragic backbone of the The Great Gatsby. With many awful

Gatsby replies that Daisy loves him and had never loved Tom to which Tom hastily objects. They begin arguing about who Daisy truly loves and whether she has ever loved Tom. In return he accused Gatsby of bootlegging and other criminal activities. At this point Daisy starts siding with Tom and Gatsby realises that he has been defeated. Gatsby had tried to lay out and create the perfect future but Tom had controlled the past by bringing back intimate memories. This is a very significant part of the book as this is when Gatsby’s dream, which parallels with the American dream shatters. Everything that he had worked for, the dream he had bound himself to was destroyed in that moment and that was what broke Gatsby and made him not so ‘great’ any more. “…Only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.”

Chapter three provides essential background, especially on Gatsby. The intrigue surrounding him is still kept though, as throughout the chapter, in the party presented, rumors are spread, and people are unsure of who he is. Though, his low profile seems out of place with all of his lavish expenditures. After Jordan Baker returns from her meet with him, what they discuss is not revealed, but Jordan passes along that it is “the most amazing thing”, the mystery still being kept. In the chapter, Nicks own views on Gatsby are presented and have been shown as acceptable by him and his high end taste. Jay Gatsby’s speech is elaborate and formal, having a habit of calling everyone “old sport”, which Nick appreciates. The views which the people of Nicks

Not long after this revelation, Nick travels to New York City with Tom and Myrtle. At a vulgar, gaudy party in the apartment that Tom keeps for the affair, Myrtle begins to taunt Tom about Daisy, and Tom responds by breaking her nose. As the summer progresses, Nick eventually garners an invitation to one of Gatsby’s legendary parties. He encounters Jordan Baker at the party, and they meet Gatsby himself, a surprisingly young man who affects an English accent, has a remarkable smile, and calls everyone “old sport.” Gatsby asks to speak to Jordan alone, and, through Jordan, Nick later learns more about his mysterious neighbor. Gatsby tells Jordan that he knew Daisy in Louisville in 1917 and is deeply in love with her. He spends many nights staring at the green light at the end of her dock, across the bay from his mansion. Gatsby’s extravagant lifestyle and wild parties are simply an attempt to impress Daisy. Gatsby now wants Nick to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy, but he is afraid that Daisy will refuse to see him if she knows that he still loves her. Nick invites Daisy to have tea at his house, without telling her that Gatsby will also be there. After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy reestablish their connection. Their love rekindled, they begin an affair. After a short time,

After reading the first few chapters, I felt like certain predictions would seem logical. Daisy and Gatsby will meet again and resume their relationship. Gatsby has spent the last five years dreaming of this, and Daisy had missed Gatsby terribly when he left for the war. She had wanted to go to New York to see Gatsby before he went overseas. She got drunk before her wedding to Tom and cried, a letter from Gatsby in her hands. Also, Tom and Daisy's marriage has never been a strong and loving one; Tom's infidelities show this. Tom won't take Daisy and Gatsby's relationship well. Tom is very arrogant and possessive. He is used to having his way. He won't give up Daisy easily. She is one of his possessions. Gatsby's dreams will not turn out well. Whatever happens, based on what is known in the first four chapters, will be serious enough that it makes Nick go back home where he continues to think about Gatsby long after the summer of 1922. Gatsby will somehow be hurt or even destroyed by getting involved with Tom and Daisy. Nick says in Chapter I that something "preyed" on Gatsby and that "foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams."