The first thing I realized in these chapters was the dinner they all had together. Having a meal together is symbolic of communion of some sort. Instead of Daisy and Tom eating alone at their house, Gatsby eating alone at his house or with Nick, daisy eating alone ect. Everyone is together at one table and the lies start to come to the surface. It was just said, when Tom was on the phone, that he was talking to his girlfriend. Daisy also comes up to Gatsby and tells him she loves him after they kiss. She continues to act this way even when Tom is beside her at the table and it makes him angry and jealous even though he’s having an affair too! Which he’ll later find out is being taken away from him and soon after, completely impossible…
Another thing that caught my eye was the fact that it was Tom’s wife, Daisy, that killed the woman he was having an affair with, Myrtle, and who was going to be “taken away” by her husband. Also Gatsby, the man having an affair with Daisy, was with her in the car. Could this have been a foreshadow of when there was a car accident in his yard after a party? Maybe, maybe not.
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