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Write About Some of the Ways Fitzgerald Tells the Story in Chapter 7?
Gatsby's "social mask" begins to slip as he gets rejected by Daisy, one can discover that the main purpose of Gatsby's parties are not for pleasure but rather for the hope that Daisy will notice the extravagance and come back to him. Nick's "curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night- and his career as Trimalchio was over . Gatsby puts on a show for Daisy and the people, one can notice that Gatsby is emotionally unstable without Daisy. He remains a rather mysterious character with changes and he changes into his true personality without the extravagant parties. He hides behind a amour of steel perhaps in chapter seven he can be perceived as weak character.
When Daisy kisses Gatsby it seems that he’s won. But even Gatsby senses that Daisy’s daughter symbolizes a shared past between Daisy and Tom that Gatsby can’t touch. "Afterward he kept looking at the child with surprise. I don't think he had ever really believed in its existence before. A child which is supposed to represent something pure and innocent however in contrast it represents a sense of gloominess and melancholy. The child is perhaps a hint that Tom and Daisy do love each other and that Daisy may not love Tom for his money. Through Nick's narrative voice the point that is being put across is that Daisy and Gatsby's relationship cannot work due to the child, Tom and the strict marriage values of the era.
In the oppressive hot weather the main characters decide to take a suite at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. The idea that they would decide leave the Long Island beach to go to the scorching city is completely absurd. Tom suggests that they all take "the less explicable step of engaging the parlour of a suite in the Plaza Hotel", perhaps Tom wants to rent the suite so that he can create a more claustrophobic atmosphere in order to target Gatsby for kissing Daisy and also to watch the bond between Daisy and Gatsby. Although Tom wants to

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