Chapter Seven

Question 1

What comes to an end?

Answer 1

Gatsby’s parties.

Question 2

What has developed between Gatsby and Daisy?

Answer 2

She now often visits during the afternoon.

Question 3

What did Gatsby do because of Daisy?

Answer 3

Fire all the servants and replace them with Wolfsheim’s men as Daisy feared they would gossip about their relationship.
End the parties as he had already gotten Daisy.

Question 4

What can Gatsby not escape?

Answer 4

The way he corrupted himself in order to get Daisy through presence of Wolfsheim’s men.

Question 5

What happens on the hottest day of summer?

Answer 5

Daisy invites Nick and Gatsby to lunch with her, Tom and Jordan.

Question 6

What happens at this lunch when Tom is out of the room?

Answer 6

Daisy kisses Gatsby on the lips and tells him she loves him.

Question 7

What happens when the nurse leads in Daisy’s young daughter, Pammy?

Answer 7

Daisy ignores the child but Gatsby keeps glancing at her in surprise.

Question 8

What does Pammy symbolise?

Answer 8

Even if Gatsby might feel as if he has won with Daisy’s kiss - there is a past shared between Daisy and Tom that Gatsby cannot touch.

Question 9

What is another meaning of the Buchanan’s and Gatsby’s house facing each other?

Answer 9

The opposing rivalry between Tom and Gatsby.

Question 10

What does Daisy ask when the lunch gets awkward because of the heat?

Answer 10

What they should do with the rest of the day and the next thirty years of their life.

Question 11

What comment does Daisy make about Gatsby?

Answer 11

When they lock eyes says he looks like an advertisement.

Question 12

What can Tom see in Daisy’s eyes?

Answer 12

That she is in love with Gatsby - then suddenly agrees to go to the city as Daisy suggested.

Question 13

What is the comparison between Gatsby and an advertisement a sign of?

Answer 13

Daisy being corrupted by consumer culture of the Roaring Twenties - love is just another material thing that can be advertised.

Question 14

Before they leave for the city, Gatsby and Tom have a moment alone and agree on what?

Answer 14

That Daisy is indiscreet and Gatsby says her voice is ‘full of money’.

Question 15

What does Gatsby’s comment on Daisy’s voice signal?

Answer 15

That Gatsby has also recognised the impact of consumer culture on Daisy - assuming she sees herself as a commodity.

Question 16

What does Tom insist on driving?

Answer 16

Gatsby’s big yellow car whilst Gatsby and Daisy travel alone in Tom’s coupe.

Question 17

Where does Tom pull into?

Answer 17

Wilson’s garage because the car is low on gas.

Question 18

What does the car swap come about as?

Answer 18

The new versus old money rivalry.

Question 19

What does Wilson inquire about when Tom is getting gas?

Answer 19

Reselling Tom’s old car to raise money for him and Myrtle to move West, startling Tom.

Question 20

What does Wilson make clear he knows about?

Answer 20

That he has ‘wised up’ - he has become physically ill after learning Myrtle is living a double life - realises she is having an affair but not with Tom.

Question 21

What does Nick think about Wilson and Tom?

Answer 21

That they are identical apart from Tom is physically well and Wilson was ill - Nick sees through class lines - wealth just makes Tom happier and healthier.

Question 22

What does Nick notice in the Valley of Ashes?

Answer 22

The eyes of Doctor T.J Eckleburg and then spots Myrtle staring down from the garage windows at Jordan Baker whom she mistakes for Daisy.

Question 23

Where does the group take a suite at?

Answer 23

Suite Plaza near Central Park.

Question 24

What does Tom challenge Gatsby on?

Answer 24

Challenges Gatsby’s history as an Oxford man and when Gatsby answers successfully Tom questions the split Gatsby is trying to cause between him and Daisy.

Question 25

Why does Daisy try to quieten Tom?

Answer 25

Daisy likes things the way they are - she does not want the old versus new money rivalry to come out into the open.

Question 26

What does Gatsby say about Daisy’s love?

Answer 26

That Daisy loves Gatsby and has never loved Tom - Daisy says this is true.

Question 27

What change to her answer does Daisy make that stuns Gatsby?

Answer 27

Tom encourages Daisy to think of their past - Daisy says she has loved Tom as well as Gatsby.

Question 28

What does Tom use to scare Daisy away from Gatsby?

Answer 28

Tom reveals Gatsby is involved in organised crime and a bootlegger which terrifies Daisy.

Question 29

What does Tom tell Daisy to do as a final insult?

Answer 29

Go back with Gatsby who won’t ‘annoy’ her anymore.

Question 30

What does Nick remember about the day?

Answer 30

It his thirtieth birthday - believes there is a ‘menacing’ decade stretching out before him.

Question 31

What does Nick realise Jordan does differently to Daisy?

Answer 31

Jordan does not hold onto irretrievable dreams.

Question 32

What does Nick describe the the car as?

Answer 32

The car is driving towards death.

Question 33

What does Nick envy about Jordan?

Answer 33

He believes she is not haunted by the past (although she is) - the comment about the car foreshadows a death and the end of Roaring Twenties.

Question 34

Who does the point of view shift to?

Answer 34

Michaelis - a Greek man who runs the coffee shop next to Wilson’s garage.

Question 35

What is Michaelis a key witness in?

Answer 35

A police investigation - He saw Wilson sick in his office and Myrtle struggling upstairs.

Question 36

What did Wilson tell Michaelis about Myrtle?

Answer 36

That he had locked her upstairs until the next day when they would be moving West.

Question 37

What did Michaelis see later that evening?

Answer 37

Saw Myrtle run downstairs, shout at Wilson and then run into the road where she was killed by a car that may have been light green.

Question 38

What does the believed colour of the car link with?

Answer 38

Connects the green with the dream embodied by the green light.

Question 39

What dies as a result of Myrtle’s death?

Answer 39

Nearly every other characters dreams.

Question 40

When the point of view swaps back to Nick, what happens?

Answer 40

Tom, Nick and Jordan arrive at the scene - Tom and Wilson are overwhelmed by grief.

Question 41

Who does Tom suspect killed Myrtle?

Answer 41

Gatsby - Myrtle must have thought Tom was driving the car as he was earlier.

Question 42

After Tom, Nick and Jordan arrive at the Buchanan’s house, who does Nick see after Tom called his taxi?

Answer 42

He sees Gatsby hiding in the bushes - Gatsby tells him that Daisy was driving the car but he will take responsibility.

Question 43

Gatsby is more interested in if Tom will harm Daisy over what?

Answer 43

Than his interest for Myrtle.

Question 44

Nick checks on Tom and Daisy through the window. What does he see?

Answer 44

The pair of them sitting either side of some fried chicken - they are reconciled but not exactly happy.

Question 45

What does Daisy choose over Gatsby?

Answer 45

She chooses the security of Tom over Gatsby’s love just as she did whilst Gatsby was at war.

Question 46

What does Nick tell Gatsby?

Answer 46

That everything is ‘quite’ - Gatsby refuses to believe this and Nick leaves him ‘watching over nothing’.

Question 47

What can Gatsby not do?

Answer 47

Give up his dream even though it is dead.