Gatsby ch. 7 (Part II)

I believe this is the climax of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Gatsby seemed to be fairly effective at smooth talking his way past most of Tom's accusations about his past, but at this point I do not believe a thing Gatsby says. He is a part of some acts that are not exactly legal. He probably does have something planned with Wolfsheim.That would explain his phone calls. A part of Tom's rant was amusing because of its irony: "'Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white (130).'" Of course, this statement is beside the matter at hand. Gatsby puts himself, Tom, and Daisy all in a difficult situation when he tries to make Daisy say that she never loved Tom. Now Daisy is confused, but she still claims that she is leaving Tom.

There is some clear foreshadowing here: "So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight (136)." Gatsby's car hit and killed Myrtle. Tom is clearly upset but he can not show that. Gatsby is in a world of trouble now because of Daisy's driving. Daisy is in trouble because now marrying Gatsby is not very ideal since he will be suspected of killing Myrtle. All the while, Nick and Jordan have been bystanders throughout this whole quarrel. Nick's relationship with Jordan seems to be strained just because of the fighting between Tom and Gatsby. I feel like and their relationship will not work out. I think this book can only end in disaster now.