The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald (pg 119-142)

At the start of chapter 7 it sounds like Gatsby has lost himself.  He fired all of his staff and hired a smaller number of more reclusive people.  He stopped having parties as well.  You discover that Gatsby is not having parties because Daisy is coming over many afternoons and she did not like his parties.  Gatsby and Nick are invited to Daisies for lunch. At this lunch Tom is their and much hostility is felt between Tom and Gatsby.  The whole dinner party goes into town and stops at a hotel. While there everything explodes and Gatsby and Tom get in a fight over Daisy.  “‘I just got wised up to something funny the last two days,’ remarked Wilson. ‘That’s why I want to get away. That’s why I been bothering you about the car’” (Fitzgerald 130).  On the way into town Tom stops for gas at Wilson’s station. While there he learns that Wilson suspects something with his wife and is planning to move west.  This is ironic because at the same time Tom is finding out about Gatsby’s and daisy’s relationship.  Tom seems to be on both sides of the mistress equation.