Blog #2

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Analysis over chapter 1 pages 12-21

As all the guest join the table for dinner, things get a little scandalous in the second section of The Great Gatsby. A tiny bomb was dropped when Miss Baker announces, "Tom's got some woman in New York."(Fitzgerald,15). Okay, so he is married and has a kid and this big lovely house and he is fooling around with some lady from New York?! He sound like a catch to me. I'm not quite sure if Daisy knows about this other woman or not, but I am leaning more towards she does know. She quickly follows Tom inside when he receives the phone call from the gal and mentions to Nick that she,"thinks everything is terrible anyhow,"(Fitzgerald,17). She obviously isn't a very happy person these days and I think a rather large amount of that has to do with Tom. On the other end of the love spectrum, Daisy mentions that she would love to get Nick and Miss Baker together. I'm not quite sure how Nick feels about this. He didn't really say anything significant about Miss Baker or appear to be exceptionally intrigued by her, which leads me to think nothing we happen between them. On the other hand, Nick was extremely observant and interested in Daisy. Constantly noting her beauty and her sweet way of talking, it seemed as if Nick has a thing for his married, cousin.(what is it with these books and cousins?) My only other assumptions is that Nick is just simply describing Daisy for the readers, but I felt like there was a lot more chemistry there. The section ends with Nick returning to his home in the East Egg, but noticing a man reaching his arms toward a green light located on the West Egg. My first instinct is that this is clear symbolism. Being located on the more middle class island of the two, the man appears to being reaching his arms out to wealth and power of West Egg. I'm very curious to see if my prediction is correct.