Gatsby
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- The Heat was Intense
- Tom, Daisy, Jordan, Gatsby, and Nick choose Cars
- "Come on, Daisy, I'll take you in this circus wagon" (Fitzgerald 116).
- Wilson sees Gatsby driving the Yellow Car
- "How do you like this one? I bought it last week" (Fitzgerald 147).
- It was the hottest day of the summer, and everyone was perspiring and not thinking straight. This calls into question Nick’s narration. This is also used as a symbol to represent the building of tension throughout the chapter. Later, the heat causes characters to be more irritated with each other and make more rash decisions.
- Tom and Gatsby argue over Daisy
- "I never loved him" (Fitzgerald 258).
- Tom wanted to take Gatsby's car, and he took it with Jordan and Nick. Gatsby takes Tom's car with Daisy. Tom taking Gatsby's car helps the story to progress to the climax, when Myrtle gets hit by the yellow car that Tom was originally driving. Tom rudely requesting to drive Gatsby's cars begins the tension between Gatsby and Tom.
- Daisy hits Myrtle with Gatsby's car
- Tom fills up gas at George's gas station, where Tom discovers that George and Myrtle are moving west. George does not know that it was Tom, Myrtle had an affair with, but it makes Tom frantic, and he doesn't even finish filling up the car. Here George sees that Tom was driving the yellow car.
- Gatsby watches to make sure Tom does not do anything to Daisy
- "I want to wait here till Daisy goes to bed. Good night, old sport" (Fitzgerald 415).
- Once they get to the suite, Gatsby and Tom start quarreling over Daisy. The tension that has been rising between Tom and Gatsby is let out in an angry argument, in which Gatsby gets Daisy to tell Tom she never loved him. Eventually, Daisy decides to go home with Tom, even though she originally had thought she was going to leave him for Gatsby.
- Daisy drives home with Gatsby, and she strikes Myrtle with Gatsby's car, while Myrtle is attempting to cross the street. This is an example of dramatic irony, because Daisy does not know that she is actually hitting the woman that her husband is having an affair with.
- After the Daisy hit Myrtle with Gatsby's car, Gatsby worries that Tom will do something bad to Daisy. Even when Nick assures him that he will not, Gatsby still watches in their house. Gatsby is not giving up on his dream, and he is ensuring nothing bad happens to Daisy. Gatsby strays from sanity, when he nonchalantly talks to Nick about Daisy hitting Myrtle.
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