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- Tom taunts Wilson and then orders Myrtle to follow him to the train. Tom takes Nick and Myrtle to New York City, to the Morningside Heights apartment he keeps for his affair.
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Tom taunts Wilson and then orders Myrtle to follow him to the train. Tom takes Nick and Myrtle to New York City, to the Morningside Heights apartment he keeps for his affair. Here they have an impromptu party with Myrtle’s sister, Catherine, and a couple named McKee.
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The tone of Nick’s narration suggests that many of the...
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Myrtle seems to believe Tom genuinely loves her, and would marry her if only Daisy would divorce him. Nick knows that Tom would never marry Myrtle, and the lopsidedness of the relationship makes Myrtle a more sympathetic character than she would be otherwise.
Tom, Nick and Myrtle catch a train into New York. Myrtle does some shopping and buys a puppy. All three then go to an apartment which Tom and Myrtle use for their extra-marital affair.
Quick answer: In The Great Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson buys a dog while out with Tom and Nick. This purchase signifies her attempt to establish herself as Tom's main lover and hints at...
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- 🔬 The Great Gatsby: Analysis of Chapter 2
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The Great Gatsby‘s Chapter 2 starts with Nick describing an area called “Valley of Ashes.” It’s the valley between West Egg and New York City where all the ashes from the city are dropped. Nick describes it as abandoned land, which was once advanced, totally buried under ashes to the point that everything seems ash-grey. Two eyes, “blue and giganti...
The description of the Valley of Ashes at the beginning of Chapter 2 strikes with the shocking contrast. It is a counterpart to the glamour of rich areas. This is where people with no money, no purpose in life, and no dreams live. In the novel, the Valley of Ashes symbolizes the rotten souls of the richthat are covered with dazzling clothes and man...
At the ash-heaps halfway there, they get off in order for Tom to pick up his mistress, Myrtle Wilson. In the sole building near the "valley of ashes" (28) the two men find Myrtle and her husband -- George Wilson -- in his auto repair office.
Myrtle Wilson's body wrapped in a blanket and then in another blanket as though she suffered from a chill in the hot night lay on a work table by the wall and Tom, with his back to us, was bending over it, motionless.
