Chapter+7

=__ Chapter 7: __ = The normal Saturday parties have stopped after the suspicions about Gatsby have increased. Gatsby called Nick to invite him to Daisy's lunch and Gatsby told him about how he fired all of his servants to prevent them from gossiping about him and Daisy since she comes over quite often in the afternoons. The day was extremely hot and when Nick arrived at the Buchanan's he found Daisy and Jordan lying on the couch fanning themselves.Then they hear Tom talking on the phone about a car deal, and Daisy believes that he isn't really talking to someone about a car, but instead was talking to his mistress. When Tom enters, he greets Gatsby and Nick and then Daisy asked him to make drinks. When he left, Daisy stood up and kissed Gatsby, and told him, "You know I love you." Daisy's daughter entered the room, and Gatsby had a look of surprise on his face, as if he never really thought that she, in fact, had a child. Later, Daisy suggests that they go to town for something to do. Gatsby and Daisy's eyes met, and Tom noticed. Tom insisted that he drive Gatsby's car and that Gatsby drive his coupe, and then Daisy refused to ride with Tom, but instead to ride with Gatsby. Once in the car, Tom expresses his suspicions about Gatsby to Jordan and Nick about how he doesn't really think he's an Oxford man and how he knows there's something between him and Daisy. After getting a suite at the Plaza Hotel, Tom asks Gatsby about being an "Oxford man" and Gatsby responds that he only went there for five months and doesn't consider himself one. Daisy tells Tom to open the whiskey and have a drink, but he says he wants to ask Gatsby one more question. He says, "What kind of a row are you trying to cause in my house anyhow?" and he knows that Daisy is having an affair with him. Gatsby proceeds to tell him that Daisy never actually loved him and only married him because she was tired of waiting. After a quarrel over Daisy, she tells Tom that she is leaving him and then Tom accuses Gatsby of boot-legging to make money and Daisy begs to leave. They finally leave, Gatsby and Daisy in his car, and Tom, Nick, and Jordan and Tom's. They discover that Myrtle has been hit by Gatsby's car on the way back. Nick discovers Gatsby hiding in the bushes to make sure Tom doesn't hurt Daisy, and Gatsby tells Nick that Daisy was driving the car that struck Myrtle, but he'll take the blame.

__ Vocabulary: __
__portentous__ - ominously significant or indicative

__Colors:__
 **Yellow** - Gatsby's car is yellow, which could represent how his money has bought him happiness, a meaning of yellow. The luxurious car is a materialistic object, and Gatsby thought that by buying nice things it would make him happy, and could be why he chose a yellow car. Yellow is also said to attract attention due to it's bright color, and that fits Gatsby pretty well.



__ Reflection of Time Period: __
Kapiolani which is mentioned in the chapter is a reference to a cricket club in Hawaii, and exclusively includes only very wealthy people, such as Tom Buchanan. This reflects the time period because people were extremely materialistic and you could be excluded from things such as clubs if you weren't "fit" for it, in other, if you didn't have the money. This is supposedly where Tom and Daisy met.

__Marxist Criticism:__
There is many instances where Marxist criticism could be applied in the story, but one time in chapter 7 is at the gas station. The gas attendant could represent the working-class man and how he serves the wealthy such as Tom Buchanan. This small occurrence represents the differences between the social classes and how the wealthy have more power.

__Feminist Criticism:__
Throughout the entire story and in chapter 7, the women are portrayed as being free-spirited. Daisy and Jordan seem very independent and can think for themselves. They determine that they would like to go to the city, and the men agree to it and they all go to town. Daisy however is portrayed as being kind of a flapper, due to her affairs with Gatsby and her love towards him and her husband, Tom.

__ Common Theme: __
** Love: ** Chapter 7 displays the love triangle between Daisy with Tom and Daisy with Gatsby. She loves both men, but is stuck between the two which angers Tom, her husband, and Gatsby. She told Gatsby, "You know I love you," but later tells Tom that she never loved him, and then says that she, in fact, did love them both.

"Portentous | Define Portentous at Dictionary.com." //Dictionary.com//. Web. 08 Apr. 2011. .

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. //The Great Gatsby.// New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Print.