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.
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