Chapter Seven Flashcards
What comes to an end?
Gatsby’s parties.
What has developed between Gatsby and Daisy?
She now often visits during the afternoon.
What did Gatsby do because of Daisy?
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.
What can Gatsby not escape?
The way he corrupted himself in order to get Daisy through presence of Wolfsheim’s men.
What happens on the hottest day of summer?
Daisy invites Nick and Gatsby to lunch with her, Tom and Jordan.
What happens at this lunch when Tom is out of the room?
Daisy kisses Gatsby on the lips and tells him she loves him.
What happens when the nurse leads in Daisy’s young daughter, Pammy?
Daisy ignores the child but Gatsby keeps glancing at her in surprise.
What does Pammy symbolise?
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.
What is another meaning of the Buchanan’s and Gatsby’s house facing each other?
The opposing rivalry between Tom and Gatsby.
What does Daisy ask when the lunch gets awkward because of the heat?
What they should do with the rest of the day and the next thirty years of their life.
What comment does Daisy make about Gatsby?
When they lock eyes says he looks like an advertisement.
What can Tom see in Daisy’s eyes?
That she is in love with Gatsby - then suddenly agrees to go to the city as Daisy suggested.
What is the comparison between Gatsby and an advertisement a sign of?
Daisy being corrupted by consumer culture of the Roaring Twenties - love is just another material thing that can be advertised.
Before they leave for the city, Gatsby and Tom have a moment alone and agree on what?
That Daisy is indiscreet and Gatsby says her voice is ‘full of money’.
What does Gatsby’s comment on Daisy’s voice signal?
That Gatsby has also recognised the impact of consumer culture on Daisy - assuming she sees herself as a commodity.
What does Tom insist on driving?
Gatsby’s big yellow car whilst Gatsby and Daisy travel alone in Tom’s coupe.
Where does Tom pull into?
Wilson’s garage because the car is low on gas.
What does the car swap come about as?
The new versus old money rivalry.
What does Wilson inquire about when Tom is getting gas?
Reselling Tom’s old car to raise money for him and Myrtle to move West, startling Tom.
What does Wilson make clear he knows about?
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.
What does Nick think about Wilson and Tom?
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.
What does Nick notice in the Valley of Ashes?
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.
Where does the group take a suite at?
Suite Plaza near Central Park.
What does Tom challenge Gatsby on?
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.
