In the beginning of chapter 7, NIck notices Gatsby has no parties going on and learns that Gatsby doesn't need the parties to attract Daisy. On the hottest of the summer Tom, Daisy, Gatsby, Nick, Jordan go to the buchanan’s house for lunch. As the afternoon goes on Tom realises that Daisy and Gatsby are having an affair. Tom sets out to win her back. Daisy asks if they can all go to NYC for the rest of the day.
The reunion of Daisy and Gatsby sets all the following events into inevitable motion. Chapter seven reveals that the story of their romance reaches its climax and its tragic conclusion. The fact that Daisy invites Gatsby to her house, considering the fact that Tom is also there, was a very foolish move. The confrontation between Gatsby and Tom serves to reveal the major flaws and motivations of both characters. Tom’s conceitedness causes him to believe that his wife will never leave him because of his wealth and high social status.
Gatsby began talking about how he had met Daisy, and how when he first kissed her he knew he had wanted to be with this girl forever…”He knew when he had kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.” Tom realises he is beginning to slip away from both of the women in his life. He is losing both of them. Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, Jordan, and Nick all go to Tom and Daisy’s house where Daisy was supposed to confess her feelings for Gatsby. But instead they then take a ride to a Plaza hotel where things become very violent and Daisy says she loves Gatsby
Nick and Gatsby are outside the Buchanan’s’ house. Nick looks through a window and sees Daisy and Tom having a conversation at the kitchen table with a plate of cold fried chicken and two bottles of ale between them. "They weren’t happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale—and yet they weren’t unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together." Nick is wondering what they could be talking about.
When Gatsby’s name is brought up Daisy becomes uncharacteristically outspoken, “‘Gatsby?’ demanded Daisy. ‘What Gatsby?’”(page 14) this is foreshadowing of a preexisting relationship between Daisy and Gatsby. Furthermore, When the four sit down to dinner their conversation shows how prejudice and hypocritical Tom is. First, get a phone call that he answers from his mistress.
1. What do you find is the most crucial in the plot in Chapter 1? I found the most crucial part in the plot in chapter 1 is when Nick comments about himself and how he reserves judgment about other people. he mentions Gatsby and says that Gatsby represents everything he scorns but Gatsby's personality was gorgeous! At the end of chapter 1 when Nick arrives home and he sees the great handsome Gatsby with his arms reaching towards the dark water, nixies nothing except a distant greenlight marking the end of the dock.
They get bored at Daisy and Tom’s, so they decide to go into town. After they pull up into town, they end up in a suite at the Plaza hotel in an attempt to cool off a little. The tensions between Gatsby and Tom begin to rise even more than they already had when Tom accuses Gatsby of lying about being an Oxford man. Gatsby defends himself and declares that he was at Oxford, but only for a few months. Later, Gatsby starts to force Daisy to choose between himself and Tom.
One day when Nick, Jordan, Tom, Gatsby and her were bored at home, she suggested that they go to New York. They ended up going and getting a hotel suite to have a small party. There, Tom and Gatsby confronted each other, much to Daisy’s discomfort. “They talk about the possibility of her [Daisy] leaving her brutish beau Tom” (Baker) and Daisy burst into tears and claimed she loved them both, at least at one point in her life. She ran out of the room and got back in the car, Gatsby joining her.
Tom has suspected that an affair is going on between Gatsby and Daisy. Tom also talks about Gatsby’s illegal life where Daisy is then surprised by what she is finding out. Gatsby also gets heated to the point where he wants Daisy to tell Tom that she
This shows that Tom has no sympathy for Gatsby and no regret over causing his death. In addition, this shows that Daisy did not tell Tom that she was the one driving the car, showcasing her selfishness. Fitzgerald also uses pathos to appeal to the readers emotions. After Tom tells Nick what he said to Wilson, Nick thinks, “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” Nick directly relates Tom and Daisy’s carelessness to their wealth while simultaneously making the reader feel sympathy for the victims of their carelessness.
Tom sparks conflict when the group go into town, causing Gatsby’s past to be revealed and an argument with Tom over Daisy. “I suppose the latest thing to do is to let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.” “I found out what your ‘drug stores’ were.” As Gatsby tries to persuade Daisy to tell Tom she never loved him, Tom reveals some information about Gatsby’s past.
Likewise, Fitzgerald demonstrates the romance when Nick prepares for lunch with Daisy, Gatsby, and Tom and the weather grows increasingly hot outside revealing the worsening tension between Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom. Especially, during the hot day when Nick proceeds to oversee the relationship between Gatsby and Daisy when both of the character's eyes meet and Daisy reveals that she loves Gatsby (Fitzgerald 116). Gatsby and Daisy's love is becoming more revealing to Tom which makes Tom more uneasy about Gatsby as a whole. Nick then proceeds to hear Tom talking about how he is aware of the affair from Gatsby and Daisy when he mentions how he saw that and they think “You think I’m pretty dumb, don’t you?”(Fitzgerald 121).
Tom and Gatsby began to fight over Daisy’s affection when Gatsby pressures Daisy into admitting her love for him, “There, Jay,” said--but her hand as she tried to light a cigarette was trembling.” (132) Gatsby raises his voice and targets the person he loves. He is no longer the kind man she knew. Later, Tom tries to discredit Gatsby’s name and brings up Gatsby’s bootlegging business and secrets which are threatening. Tom noted, “That drug-store business was just small change,” continued Tom slowly, “but you have something on now that Walter’s afraid to tell me about.”
Tom’s envy spikes when he realizes that Daisy is still in love with Gatsby. While arguing over Daisy at dinner one night, Tom says to Gatsby, “Who are you, anyhow? You’re one of that bunch that hangs around with Meyer Wolfsheim—that much I happen to know. I’ve made a little investigation into your affairs—and I’ll carry it further tomorrow” (Fitzgerald 123).
During the party, in an expensive hotel suite, the casual conversation evolved into a confrontation between Daisy, Gatsby, and Tom. In a fit of anger, Gatsby insisted that Daisy loved him, not Tom, and that she only married Tom for his money. Daisy ended up admitting that she loved both Tom and Gatsby. The party then broke up, with Daisy driving Gatsby out of New York City in the yellow Rolls Royce and Tom, Jordan, and I leaving in Tom's car. From her upstairs room at the gas station, Myrtle saw an approaching car.
