Daisy seems flighty and struggling for attention at the beginning of the dinner, however there’s a painful awkwardness that sets in after the phone call when she and Tom disappear into the house. Nick thinks that, given the state of their marriage, Daisy should leave Tom, but it isclear to him that she has no intention of doing so.
Tom says that he will be better to Daisy from now on, that he will take better care of her. Do you think he will? Support your answer with information from the book. Shortly after he says this, Tom knows that Daisy isn't going to leave him, yet he makes her take a humiliating ride home with Gatsby instead of letting her ride home with him.
Both Gatsby and Nick and Tom merely facilitate their self indulgences. Discuss Fitzgerald’s use of the automobile in this novel. What do you think mighthave made the automobile an appealing symbol to Fitzgerald in the early 1920s?
Nick knows that Daisy will never be the woman Gatsby has wanted all the years because he’s made he so big and so perfect in his mind. The passion and love of the dream will not long extend itself to the reality.
Tom confesses to Nick that he told Wilson that Gatsby ran over Myrtle.
Why do Tom and Daisy leave? They run away to escape responsibility, just as they left Chicago to escape some unspecified scandal. They are "careless" people who take no notice of the harm they have caused.
Tom admits that it was he who sent Wilson to Gatsby's; he shows no remorse, however, and says that Gatsby deserved to die. Nick reflects that Tom and Daisy are capable only of cruelty and destruction; they are kept safe from the consequences of their actions by their fortress of wealth and privilege.
Nick suddenly sees him as a criminal. As they discuss what happened, Nick realizes that it was actually Daisy who was driving the car, meaning that it was Daisy who killed Myrtle.
Daisy proves her real nature when she chooses Tom over Gatsby in Chapter 7, then allows Gatsby to take the blame for killing Myrtle Wilson even though she herself was driving the car. Finally, rather than attend Gatsby's funeral, Daisy and Tom move away, leaving no forwarding address.
Myrtle believes that the only reason Tom will not divorce Daisy is because Daisy is Catholic. But we learn that Tom's feelings for Myrtle are far less intense than he has led her to believe and that social pressure prevents him from ever leaving Daisy, who comes from a similar upper-class background.
Nick comes to the conclusion that Tom and Daisy are careless and uncaring people and that they destroy people and things, knowing that their money will shield them from ever having to face any negative consequences.
In the course of their short discussion, Nick learns Tom had a role in Gatsby's death — George Wilson worked his way to the Buchanan house in East Egg and Tom told him who owned the car that struck Myrtle. When Nick leaves, he shakes Tom's hand because he "felt suddenly as though [he] were talking to a child."
Before we jump into our analysis, let's take a minute to review that oft-quoted last line, which is delivered by the story's narrator, Nick Carraway. The last line of Gatsby reads: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
Daisy tells Tom he's "revolting" and asks how she could possibly love him now. She has a really hard time saying she never loved him, but she does eventually, after much internal deliberation.
What rumor had Daisy heard about Nick? That he was engaged. Describe Tom and Daisy's relationship?
Here we finally get a glimpse at Daisy's real feelings—she loved Gatsby, but also Tom, and to her those were equal loves. She hasn't put that initial love with Gatsby on a pedestal the way Gatsby has.
This phrase is said with such intense passion in her voice and look that Tom is all of a sudden aware that something has been going on. Describe what's going on with George Wilson.
Nick is tired of all the secrecy and lies that is going on around him and he is refreshed to discover that Gatsby was, after all, being honest about who he was. He now has someone with whom he can identify, someone with integrity, and he likes the way that Gatsby gracefully cuts Tom short.
He left home in search of the 'American Dream' and while he does earn the material success , he doesn't let it ruin him like so many others do.
He met a rich sailor and adventurer named Dan Cody who helped out on his yacht. Cody was very wealthy and tried to leave his money to Gatsby, but a woman (Ella Kaye, also the woman who may be responsible for Cody's death), somehow took all of the money and left Gatsby with nothing of his miraculous inheritance.
Daisy is so happy, yet has apparently been crying as her face is smeared with tears. Gatsby was so absolutely happy that Nick describes him as glowing and displaying a feeling of "new well being" which "filled the room.". They're both giddy and exude joy.
This phrase is said with such intense passion in her voice and look that Tom is all of a sudden aware that something has been going on. Describe what's going on with George Wilson.
Nick is tired of all the secrecy and lies that is going on around him and he is refreshed to discover that Gatsby was, after all, being honest about who he was. He now has someone with whom he can identify, someone with integrity, and he likes the way that Gatsby gracefully cuts Tom short.
He left home in search of the 'American Dream' and while he does earn the material success , he doesn't let it ruin him like so many others do.
He met a rich sailor and adventurer named Dan Cody who helped out on his yacht. Cody was very wealthy and tried to leave his money to Gatsby, but a woman (Ella Kaye, also the woman who may be responsible for Cody's death), somehow took all of the money and left Gatsby with nothing of his miraculous inheritance.
Daisy is so happy, yet has apparently been crying as her face is smeared with tears. Gatsby was so absolutely happy that Nick describes him as glowing and displaying a feeling of "new well being" which "filled the room.". They're both giddy and exude joy.