Sizzling Summers; Heated Tentions

Chapter seven starts out with Nick going to Gatsby’s and realizes that he has all new staff. Gatsby tells Nick it is because he has been seeing Daisy almost every afternoon and he doesn’t want people to gossip about it. After that Nick and Gatsby get invited to Daisy’s house. Like in the last chapter the weather is portending to some event. It is the hottest day of the year! It definitely parallels the friction between Tom and Gatsby. The whole time Tom, Daisy, Gatsby, Nick, and Jordan are together Tom hast to be to alpha male. At one point in the chapter Daisy decides they should all go into town and Tom tell Gatsby that he is taking Gatsby’s car and Gatsby can take his into the city. This is a clear sign of alpha male-ism. Gatsby is perfectly fine with it because he gets to spend more alone time with Daisy. Yet again when they are out Tom tries to go at it with Gatsby, and Gatsby snaps and fights back. Tom tries to reveal the “true” Gatsby in attempts to take control over the situation…which leads us to the conclusion that Gatsby made his money bootlegging. Finally Gatsby brings up his crazy notions; he had to balls to tell Tom that Daisy never loved him, she was in love with the Great Gatsby himself instead. “’Your wife doesn’t love you,’ said Gatsby. ‘She’s never loved you. She loves me.’” (130). This is where the fight for alpha male gets to be serious; Gatsby now wants to take role of alpha and take back what is his, Daisy. Sadly for the Gatsby Daisy isn’t willing to lie about her true feelings, she did in fact love Gatsby, but she also loves Tom, “I did love him once—but I loved you too.” (132). This rocked Gatsby to his core, he was extremely unprepared to hear this news, all along he thought she would admit to never loving Tom and leave him to go live with Gatsby. Tom was thrilled with this information though because once again was he in control, the true alpha male. After all of that they all left; Tom with Nick and Jordan, and Gatsby with Daisy. This is where the chapter had come to an almost unexpected halt, Tome passes by Wilson’s garage to discover his mistress, Myrtle, had been hit by a car and killed, he was devastated to say the least. To him both of his live had come crashing down, Daisy didn’t really want him, and his fantasy life with the mistress vanished. Too bad for Tom, Daisy was the driver who killed Myrtle on accident. I’m not quite sure what might happen next but I’m sure it will involve the cops, and an arrest of someone. Maybe the weather might be foggy/rainy and mysterious while the cops come to get the person who killed Mrs. Wilson. Maybe Gatsby will take the bullet for his beloved Daisy.