Summary: Just when everyone is starting to become even more curious about Gatsby, he stops throwing his parties. Nick went over to his house then to see what was going on. When he rang the doorbell, an unfamiliar butler answered. He had replaced his servants with new ones who will not gossip about him because Daisy comes over quite a lot in the afternoons. His new servants are brothers and sisters who used to run an old hotel. They are people that Wolfshiem wanted to do something for. Gatsby called to tell Nick this and that he wanted Nick to go to dinner at Daisy's. When Gatsby and Nick arrive, Daisy and Jordan are laying on the sofa because it is too hot to move. Tom is busy talking to his mistress on his phone. When Tom comes back in, Daisy asks him to go get drinks. When he leaves, she goes over to Gatsby and kisses him. She also tells him that she loves him. Daisy and Tom's daughter then comes in with a nurse. Nick and Gatsby said hello. Gatsby kind of is awe because he had never really believed in her existence. Daisy says that she looks like Daisy and not Tom. Tom then comes in and invites Gatsby to go outside. Gatsby says how he lives across the sound from them. At dinner, Daisy says how she wants to go to town. Her and Gatsby look at each other then and Tom can tell that something is going on. Daisy says that Gatsby looks like the advertisement of the man. Tom then interupts and says that they will all go to town. When the boys are outside, Tom goes back in to get some whiskey. When he leaves, Gatsby turns to Nick and says that he can't talk in Tom's house. He also says how Daisy's voice is full of money. Tom then takes Gatsby's car with Jordan and Nick. Daisy and Gatsby ride in Tom's car. When they get in the car, Tom asks Nick and Jordan if they saw what he did. He says that he's not stupid. Tom goes on to say that he has had Gatsby investigated. Tom hints that Gatsby didn't really go to Oxford. They then stop at Wilson's garage to get gas. Wilson comes out and says that he is sick. You then find out that it was Wilson who Tom was talking to at lunch. He says how he wanted Tom's old car. Tom then says that he can have the yellow one that he is driving. Wilson says how he and his wife want to go west. Tom is very surprised. Wilson says that he has just found out something two days ago and that is why he wants to move west. Nick then notices that there is no difference between Tom and Wilson. Nick then notices Myrtle watching them from upstairs. Myrtle was looking at Jordan with jealously because she thought Jordan was Tom's wife. Tom is angry because he realizes that he no longer has control over Daisy or Myrtle. When they got into the city, they got a room at the Plaza because Daisy wanted to take baths, but they fought then and just rented the room to drink. Tom tells Daisy to stop complaining about the heat. Gatsby then tells Tom to stop bothering her. Tom then remarks how Gatsby always says old sport. They then hear wedding bells. Daisy remembers how someone named Biolxi that no one really knew fainted at her wedding. They brought him to Jordan's house where he stayed for three weeks until her dad kicked him out. Biloxi had said how he was class president at Yale, but they didn't have a president. Tom then says how he has heard that Gatsby is an Oxford man. Gatsby then sort of denies it and says how he went there for only five months. Tom then asks Gatsby why he is having an affair with Daisy. He calls Gatsby a Nobody. Gatsby then says how Daisy never loved Tom. He says the only reason she married Tom was because she was tried of waiting around for Gatsby to become rich. Gatsby says that they have loved each other for five years. Tom says that Daisy loved him when she married him and still loves him now. Tom says that he has always loved Daisy even though he has had affairs. Gatsby wants Daisy to tell Tom that she never loved him and always loved Gatsby. Daisy says it, but she is reluctant. Daisy then says how she did love Tom, but she loves Gatsby now. Tom says that there are things between him and Daisy that Gatsby will never know. Gatsby says then that he wants to talk to Daisy alone. Gatsby says that Daisy is leaving Tom. Tom then says that Gatsby is a bootleger. Tom goes on to say that Gatsby is doing something now that his source is afraid to talk about. Gatsby looked then like he had killed someone. Tom then tells Daisy and Gatsby to leave in Gatsby's car. He says that Gatsby now knows that the affair is over. Nick then realizes that it is his 30th birthday. Nick thinks that 30 means the promise of a decade of loneliness. When they are leaving, Nick says that they are driving towards death. A boy named Michaelis then goes and finds Wilson sick. Wilson tells him how he has his wife locked up and won't let her out until they leave in two days. He leaves then and forgets about Wilson. He remembers Wilson though sometime later. He sees Myrtle run away towards a yellow car. The car hit her and killed her and just kept going. Nick, Tom, and Jordan are soon there. Tom wants to stop to see whats going on. When Tom sees Myrtle's body, he is upset. When Wilson says it was a yellow car, Tom realizes who hit her. He tells the police how his car is blue, but the car that hit her was yellow. Tom says how Gatsby is a coward. When they come back to Tom and Daisy's house, Tom tells Nick to wait for a cab. As he is waiting, Nick runs into Gatsby who is waiting in case anything happens between Daisy and Tom. After they talk about the accident, Gatsby reveals that Daisy was driving when they hit Myrtle. She had veered away from her but then went back into the lane. Gatsby says though that he will take the blame. Nick then is looking through Daisy and Tom's windows and see them just sitting there not looking unhappy or happy. He says that it looks intimate. Nick then leaves to go back to West Egg, and Gatsby stays there.
Response: This chapter seems to be when everything came together and kind of like the climax. Tom feels completely out of control because his wife is having an affair with Gatsby and now Myrtle is going to leave with Wilson to go out west which probably makes him feel very angry. It is also odd how Nick almost feels like his life is over because he is thirty. He feels like 30 means you are lonely, but he has Jordan. I think Gatsby may not be all there. He insists on Daisy telling Tom she never loved him, but she really did. I think he feels like Daisy needs to be exactly like him and feel as much for Gatsby as he feels for her. The Doctor in the advertisement also seems to kind of be all knowing like he is watching over everyone. I think that is who Daisy thinks Gatsby looked like. When Tom said that Gatsby knows this flirtation is over right before everyone leave the hotel room does that mean that he knows that affair is over? Does Tom think that Gatsby will no longer go after Daisy because Tom will find out some deep dark secret that Gatsby does not want Daisy to know? I don't really think Gatsby will ever leave Daisy though. He had waited so long for her and now they are finally together. I don't think he would let Tom's threats scare him. I think Gatsby would want to stay with Daisy no matter what. He was probably crushed when she said that she had loved Tom because Gatsby had never loved anyone else which he feels should be the same for Daisy.
Question: Was the man in the advertisement really Gatsby? Because Daisy said it looked like him, and Gatsby did own drug stores, so there is a possibility he could be that man.
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