CHAPTER 7 - COMPLICATION
- After finding out that he cannot rekindle his love for Daisy, Gatsby calls of his parties which were used to lure in Daisy in the first place.
- Nick describes the day as being the hottest day in summer.
- Gatsby finds out about Daisy's baby.
- Gatsby asks if Daisy would like to go into the city, this is where Tom finally finds out about their love affair.
- During the trip into the city, Tom learns that Wilson know that Myrtle has been cheating on somebody but he does not know their identity.
- During a meal, Tom confronts Gatsby of calling people old sport, he then goes on about how Gatsby never attended Oxford and asks about his relationship with Daisy, to which Gatsby replies that they both love each other.
-Driving back to Long island, Nick discovers that somebody had been hit by a car on the border of the valley of ashes.
-They soon find out that Myrtle was the victim.
-Tom then blames Gatsby and Daisy of running her over and tells Wilson.
How is the story told?
- When Nick describes how it is the hottest day of the year, he is foreshadowing that the day ahead will be full of events such as Myrtle's death. The heat represents the rising tension towards the climax.
- This chapter mirrors chapter 1 as they all go for a trip to new york and also pass through the valley of ashes. Maybe Fritz done this to show why Nick used past tense in the first chapter, also why he was judging Gatsby so critically because he has the thought that Gatsby ran Myrtle over.
- Fritz uses the theme of a hidden identity of who ran over Myrtle which really helps make Nick change his perception on all the characters, he wonders who must of done such a thing and beleives that it could of been Gatsby and starts to why.
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