The Great Gatsby: Chapter 7 Analysis

The communication of this invitation through Gatsby suggests initially to prick that something was up. The air tension is increased by Fitzgeralds use of pathetic fallacy the hold out is HotHotHot so that it, like the atmosphere in the chapter hovered on the edge of combustion.It is intimately the last day of summer, appropriately. There is a feeling that the last chance for Gatsby that the darker days of autumn and spend are on their way that things are drawing to a close with the demise of the summer.The telephone telephone call received by Tom at luncheon (from Mrs.Wilson) adds to the air of expectancy and tension. It is also the first eon the reader has seen all of the main characters of the play gathered in concert, adding to the idea that the climax is due soon. Daisy andJordans skin is pulverised over, suggesting a papering over of cracks, and the falsity of the situation.Nick contemplates the scalloped ocean and the abounding blessed isles, about palpably desiring an escape.Daisys public kissing of Gatsby, suggests that she is ready to make the relationship public, but her clogging on the fireplace suggests an close to hysterical desperation. Tom notes the change in the footing of their relationship, as Daisy exchanges apparently trivial comments that betray their tightfistedness you always look so cool. His response to this is an attempt to shield Daisy from Gatsby, by trying to cast off her travel in his car to New York. He clearly recognises that she had told him that she loved him.Daisys presentation of her child, Pammy, to Gatsby and the assembled company has striking feat upon Gatsby she is concrete proof of the marriage between Tom and Daisy, inescapable evidence that Daisy has shared the last 5 years of her life with someone else.Tom agrees to Daisys suggestion that they go to town as a congenial distraction from the almost surreal scene that appears to be brewing at the house. As the girls prepare for the outing, Nick notes the moon hovered already in the Western sky, suggesting that time is again running out.As Tom gets whiskey, Fitzgerald has Gatsby beg off the irresistible allure of Daisys voice her voice is full of money, This clarifies the whole moral stance of the characters in the text drawn to the money in her sirens song. Nick thinks of her at this moment as high in a white palace the kings daughter, the golden girl in a vision that simultaneously draws together the multiple images of silver, gold and white that Fitzgerald has used throughout the text to suggest money and wealth.The drive to town provides another opportunity for Gatsby and Daisy to be alone together as Daisy evades Toms suggestion that he drive her in this circus wagon Gatsbys car. This description clearly demonstrates the contempt of the patrician for the vulgar display of wealth by Gatsby, the parvenu.