The Great Gatsby- chapter 7.

This is the most important chapter in the novel. It is the longest chapter as it is the most significant. It is the most dramatic, so it couldn't be split up, it deserves more time. Nick cannot forget it, the way that it is written down is the way that the processes it in his mind and recalls what happened.

• Personification of the cars-  ' drove sulkily away'.- cars are mentioned again, and they become the main part of this chapter. 
• The telephone conversations between Gatsby and Nick tell the story, it is the structure. The use of dialogue, through the phone, we find out that Gatsby has changed all his staff,so that no-one can gossip about Daisy coming round. Gatsby doesn't even trust his staff?
• Arrange to go to Daisy's house.
• The weather is not just boiling but 'broiling'.It is building up the mood for something to happen. Narrative expectation. Use of weather when something happens that is substantial to the novel's development. Setting up for drama.
• The repetition of 'hot'- to exaggerate.
• When Nick and Gatsby arrive, the women are lying on the sofas like they did in the first chapter.
• Gatsby is in awe of Daisy's house- he is love struck.
• Tom is again on the telephone, to the rumoured mistress, but it is Wilson. The atmosphere is tense, when Tom is in the room, but when he goes out Daisy tells Gatsby she loves him and kisses him in front of Nick and Jordan.
• Daisy's child shocks Gatsby.
• Weather present again- daisy is nearly crying.
• Daisy publicly gives Gatsby compliments, and this annoys Tom, he realises something is going on- weather reflects Tom's mood.
• The use of  the narrator pointing out that 'no one moved' and 'a pause' shows how slow time is going.
• Tom is sexist again.
• 'Her voice is full of money'- Daisy .
• Get into separate cars and go into town, Tom goes to see Wilson, with Gatsby's car.
• Wilson and his wife are planning to go away, more like Wilson is making Myrtle go, it makes Tom 'startled'. Wilson knows that Myrtle has been seeing someone but does not know it is Tom, how ironic!! Myrtle is locked in her house, her face is at the window.
• At the plaza hotel the genre changes to a tragedy, 'a moment of silence' from a romance.
• Tom questions Gatsby angrily, why does Gatsby call him 'old sport', the readers would have thought it was a friendly term, but they are not friends, and only Nick would be called that. Gatsby is keeping on the good side of Tom??
• Silence broken by music, 'a burst of jazz'. The world carries on, but their group are separate, in their little bubble. 
• The juxtaposition of Tom and Gatsby. 'snapped' and 'politely'
• Daisy tries to break the tension by getting alcohol.
• Argument between Tom, Daisy and Gatsby- who Daisy really loves/ did love.- Truth revealed. Gatsby is basically making Daisy say she doesn't love Tom.
• Sadness for Gatsby when Daisy says she loved both of them.
• In the middle of everything Nick remembers its his birthday- flash back to reality- maybe this is also why he remembers this day so well. 
• The sentence on its own sums up the whole chapter- ' So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight'.- reference to weather, it has changed again. It leads up the future.
• A shift dramatically after that sentence talking about a coffee shop owner- ' principal witness at the inquest' what happened???
• Myrtle was knocked down by a car- and  killed!!
• 'We saw three or four auto mobiles and the crowd'- reference to cars again, build up of the drama.
• At first tom is excited about the crash- cruel and arrogant.
• Changing genres- crime/ detective
• There is little imagery, Nick or Fitzgerald creates the dramatic sense, it has the biggest impact and it is straight to the point.
• Tom becomes authoritative he takes hold of the situation as Wilson is in shock, and clears his name- he is innocent, but they (Gatsby and Daisy) were driving his car.
• Tom cries- its a change in him, we saw a little bit of love before, and his voice breakswhen Daisy was talking about  love. Maybe he really loved Myrtle, but then he wouldn't care so much about the cars?!
• Nick has had enough of the group. He is a self- conscious narrator as seems to question himself for including Jordan . Realisation. 
• Colours - pink, and imagery of the suit under the moon.
• Next we hear Gatsby's story of the crash- story told through dialogue first hand not rumours. Flashbacks and story telling.
• The significance of names- Wilson, how ironic that Gatsby didn't know who she was or even check.
• Dramatic.
• Pink again the glow of Daisy's room. Gatsby and her are connected. 
• How vivid Nick's memory of the snapshot with Daisy and Tom sitting together, through the window, how Tom- ' his hand had fallen upon and covered her own'- very sad and sweet image,  forgiving almost. The most intimate they have been in the whole novel. How the bad things bring people together. It is a homely image- the chicken. Contrasting to the Plaza hotel that was too hot and uncomfortable.
• Gatsby is hiding in their garden hedge, he is very worried.
• Nick leaves Gatsby alone. Themes of loneliness, obsession.