Chapter 7 - TGG
The Great Gastby – Chapter 7
Summary
• Daisy’s been visiting Gatsby regularly – he’s dismissed servant to stop gossip from spreading.
• On the hottest day of summer, Nick and Gatsby have lunch with the Buchanans. They meet Pammy, Daisy’s daughter. Tom notices that Daisy and Gatsby are in love.
• They drive to New York: Tom takes Nick and Jordan, Gatsby travels with Daisy
• Tom stops for petrol at George Wilson’s garage and is startles to discover that the Wilsons plan to travel west.
• Tom, Daisy, Jordan, Nick and Gatsby take a room at the Plaza Hotel. Gatsby asserts that he’s the only man Daisy ever really loved. Tom scornfully alludes to Gatsby’s links with the criminal underworld.
• The narrative cuts to an inquest where Michaelis (the Wilson’s neighbour) is a witness
• Myrtle Wilson’s killed by a hit and run driver. A bystander says the ‘death car’ was a big, yellow vehicle.
• In the Buchanan’s home garden, Gatsby tells Nick that Daisy was driving the vehicle – he intends to take the blame for Myrtle’s death.
Form (Voices)
• Tension added to the novel through Nick’s narrative, when Tom discovers that “Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world, and the shock made him physically sick”
• Reader reflects on Tom as a character – his dominating, controlling side has been exposed. How will he react to Daisy’s affair?
• Reader begins to expect confrontation between Tom and Gatsby, so voices in the chapter dramatically raise the tension, as Tom had earlier accused Gatsby of lying about attending Oxford University.
• Selective detail used: George’s face is “green” in the sunlight. Throughout the novel, this colour represents growth and freshness, but here it symbolises envy or sickness. This alternative symbolism suggests that it’s unfair that George’s dream of a fresh start is overlooked because he’s old and worn out whereas the entire novel focuses on young Gatsby’s identical dream. This adds tension between Tom, George and Gatsby.
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Summary
• Daisy’s been visiting Gatsby regularly – he’s dismissed servant to stop gossip from spreading.
• On the hottest day of summer, Nick and Gatsby have lunch with the Buchanans. They meet Pammy, Daisy’s daughter. Tom notices that Daisy and Gatsby are in love.
• They drive to New York: Tom takes Nick and Jordan, Gatsby travels with Daisy
• Tom stops for petrol at George Wilson’s garage and is startles to discover that the Wilsons plan to travel west.
• Tom, Daisy, Jordan, Nick and Gatsby take a room at the Plaza Hotel. Gatsby asserts that he’s the only man Daisy ever really loved. Tom scornfully alludes to Gatsby’s links with the criminal underworld.
• The narrative cuts to an inquest where Michaelis (the Wilson’s neighbour) is a witness
• Myrtle Wilson’s killed by a hit and run driver. A bystander says the ‘death car’ was a big, yellow vehicle.
• In the Buchanan’s home garden, Gatsby tells Nick that Daisy was driving the vehicle – he intends to take the blame for Myrtle’s death.
Form (Voices)
• Tension added to the novel through Nick’s narrative, when Tom discovers that “Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world, and the shock made him physically sick”
• Reader reflects on Tom as a character – his dominating, controlling side has been exposed. How will he react to Daisy’s affair?
• Reader begins to expect confrontation between Tom and Gatsby, so voices in the chapter dramatically raise the tension, as Tom had earlier accused Gatsby of lying about attending Oxford University.
• Selective detail used: George’s face is “green” in the sunlight. Throughout the novel, this colour represents growth and freshness, but here it symbolises envy or sickness. This alternative symbolism suggests that it’s unfair that George’s dream of a fresh start is overlooked because he’s old and worn out whereas the entire novel focuses on young Gatsby’s identical dream. This adds tension between Tom, George and Gatsby.
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