Chapter 2 15-25

Chapter 2 begins with Nick describing the valley of ashes and Doctor T.J. Ecklburg focusing however on the ashes produced. They arrive in Mr. Wilson's garage where Tom and Nick arrive after leaving the train. Also Nick meets Tom's lover, Mrs. Wilson, her description is a stout women in her middle thirties, and always has smoldering nerves.  Soon after they leave for an apartment where Mrs. Wilson, Tom, Catherine, Nick, and Mr. and Ms. Mckee, and  get drunk. Nick and Catherine gossip about Tom, and Mrs. Wilson about how they will get married to each other. The chapter however ends with Tom breaking Mrs. Wilson's nose.

Mrs. Wilson:

- "...but there was immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldeirng. She smiled slowly and walking through her husband as if he were a ghost, shook hands with tom, looking him flush in the eye. The she wet her lips.."

-Mrs. Wilson is: eager, vitality, and hauteur.

-Immediately Mrs. Wilson plays the roll of Tom's lover. It is seen that Tom doesn't respect her, and treats her terribly. This is shown when he hits so hard he breaks her nose. Furthermore, Tom's personality change from his dealing with Daisy and Ms. Wilson, creates a binary opposition. With Daisy he acts like it is expected in East egg as an aristocrat, but when in West egg he changes into the extravagances of the roaring twenties.

The Great Gatsby Ch: 1-14

-The novel begins with the introduction of Nick Carraway and a reflection of his character. The story unfolds to tell the reader about his arrival to the east coast, New York, to become a bonds man. He arrives, and compares West Egg and East Egg and their inhabitants but he settles in West Egg. He has a dinner with old friends named Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan. During his time at Daisy’s he meets Miss Backer, who tells Nick that Tom has, “women in New York.” After dinner he leaves content that they each took an interest in his engagement. 


-Nick Carraway
-"In consequence, I'm inclined to reserve all judgments a habit that has opened up many curios natures to me and also made the victim of not a few veteran bores."
-Nick is a good listener and allows himself the opportunity not to criticize and understand the full person. Something his father has taught him.
-Nick Carraway, is the protagonist and narrator. His role in the novel still is developing because of his recent change in atmosphere and environment. 


-"And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler."
I identify with this quote because I like to think of myself as "a pathfinder" and "an original settler." Although I am not a lonely person.