Thursday, December 18, 2008

Chapter 2 (GG)

This chapter opens up to Nick talking about a place in the middle of the distance between West Egg and New York where the motor-road and the railroad join each other where there is a Valley of Ashes, like a dirty swamp.
One Sunday afternoon Tom and Nick where going to New York and Tom makes them get off the train and they head over to a repair garage where the owner's name is George B. Wilson. They go in and and his wife comes in and goes straight to Tom, and she seems promiscuous. They all go to New York and it's obvious that Myrtle Wilson is Tom's girlfriend and they go to an apartment and get hammered with Myrtle's sister Catherine and a couple named Mr. and Mrs. McKee. Mr. McKee is a photographer and his wife is just annoying because she doesn't shut up about how he's photographed her 127 times. Catherine tells Nick that she was at a party at Gatsby's a month ago and she thought he was a little scary. She keeps talking about Gatsby and then tells Nick that Tom and Myrtle should divorce their spouses because they both hate their significant others. They drink more and Myrtle tells Nick about how Tom and her met on the subway. Around midnight Tom and Myrtle started fighting about Myrtle saying Daisy's name and Tom broke her nose! Nick and Mr. McKee leave the party after that.

Response- This chapter was interesting because they got drunk and fought.

Question- Will Myrtle talk to Tom again because of this incident?

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