Chapter 7

1. Picture:

2. Picture Explanation:

Above is a picture of New York City. In this chapter everybody goes to New York City. One day when everybody is together, Tom, Daisy, Gatsby, Nick, and Jordan Baker, there is tenstion in the air. Tom is catching on to Daisy and Gatsby's love affair. Tom plans to confront Gatsby about his feelings for Daisy. Gatsby suggests that he take Daisy to New York City, but instead Daisy suggests that everybody go to New York together as a group. Tom insists and urges this to happen, because he really wants to confront Gatsby. Once everybody is in New York, Tom does confront Gatsby. Tom tells Gatsby that Daisy loves he and only he, and that Daisy and he have a history that Gatsby would never understand.

3. Quotes:

"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. Wilson was so sick that he looked guilty."

This quote shows that people with morals and people without morals are similar to people who are sick and people who are well. People who have morals are good people. Good people are usually well-minded, and normal. People without good morals tend to be the people who are sick-minded and a little on the crazy side. In this book examples of characters who symbolize this is Tom, Daisy, Gatsby, and Myrtle.

"I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out."

This shows the part in the book where Tom confronts Gatsby about having an affair with his wife. Tom caught on quickly to Daisy having an affair with Gatsby. It angered Tom greatly so he plotted his confrontation. He wanted to humiliate Gatsby, as well as get Daisy back under his control. After Tom planned the confrontation, it did not backfire in his face, it worked very well.

"There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind, and as we drove away Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic. His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control."

This shows that Nick realizes that Tom is a very bold, angry man. When Myrtle is killed in the hit and run car accident, he lost all control he had of her because she died. Also, when Tom realized that Daisy was having an affair with Gatsby, he felt like he lost all control of Daisy, although it only took him one try to get her back under his wing and away from Gatsby.

"Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table....They weren't happy...yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together."

This shows the time in the book after Tom confronts Gatsby in New York. Gatsby stays outside Tom and Daisy's house because he is worried that Tom might hurt Daisy. Nick decides to stop by and catches Gatsby hiding in the bushes. Gatsy explains to Nick why he is there and askes Nick to go inside and check on Daisy for him. Nick does and realizes that everything is well in the house. Tom and Daisy are sitting at their kitchen table eating and talking. Nick doesn't go back outside to tell Gatsby because he knew it was not what Gatsby would want to hear.

4. Theme and Significance:

In this chapter, we learn more about the characters true colors. Nick, Gatsby, Jordan, Tom, and Daisy decide to go New York for a day. During that time, everybody is realizing who is having affairs with who. Tom gets angry that his wife is having an affair, though ironically he is too, and he immediately wants to confront Gatsby about it. Tom trys to tell Gatsby that Daisy is not in love with him, and that he and Daisy have had a history that Gatsby would never understand. On the way home from New York, Daisy hits Myrtle killing her, though Daisy drives away. Gatsby is worried about Tom hurting her when she gets home so he stays and watches in the bushes, ironically showing how obsessed with her he really is. Not knowing that Tom is getting his control of Daisy back, Gatsby sends Nick to check up on her. Nick realizes all is well.