The Great Gatsby chapter VII

« takes the blame of the accident.

Nick checks if everything is alright when he saw Daisy and Tom reconciled.

Nick through: “They weren’t happy, and yet they weren’t unhappy either.

There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy…” Transition: The reader attends to another description of the Buchanans’ house.

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II- The Buchanans’ house description faithful to previous description: At the end of the chapter 8 we notice the description of the Buchanans’ house remained the same as the other one at the beginning of the first chapter.

Nick says that “at the second floor two windows bloomed with light among the vines” or that “A glow was escaping from Daisy’s pink room on the ground floor”.

Here again the lexical field of the light is used.

It underlines, a second time how glittered and rich their house is.

Nick also reminds us of the splendid line of French windows which occupied the front wall of the Buchanans’ house.

Moreover Nick said he “walked on the lawn and crossed the porch where they had dined together three months before” and glancing through the window, he found out that Daisy and Tom are having dinner together holding each other’s hand.

The atmosphere is no longer tense and lethal but has become rather calm and peaceful.

As Nick, we perceive that nothing has changed, we are outsiders and observer.

Transition: We see the scene as though the accident had never occurred or as if Gatsby had never entered in Daisy’s life.

That is why at the end of the chapter we can discuss Gatsby’s role. 3.

III- Gatsby’s role as an outsider: Gatsby decided to stay in the Buchanans’ garden until they go to bed in case Tom became violent.

In addition he took the blame for the accident although he wasn’t driving but Daisy was driving.

He is crazy of her and by this action allows her to live normally.

He seems to be her guardian angel and should have a really important role in Daisy’s life.

The reader expects Gatsby and Daisy to be together.

On the contrary, at the end of this chapter we understand that his role is no longer that of the guardian angel but rather that of the intruder or the outsider.

Daisy doesn’t need him anymore.

However Gatsby doesn’t want to believe that she doesn’t love him for he looks after her all night long and in the last chapter he dies while awaiting her call.

In this chapter Gatsby experiments the role Nick has always experimented.

He is both an insider since he knows the truth about the accident, and an outsider because Daisy turned toward her family.

Gatsby is born to be separated from Daisy, their relationship is the reflection of the beauty that doesn’t last.

Here the author suggests a tragic end, the lector forebodes Daisy will not go with Gatsby and she appears more selfish and coward like ever because Gatsby blames himself for the accident in order to save her. Transition: In the other hand his role is crucial and enables the story to progress.

Nick seems to be the only one to understand that because contrary to Daisy he chooses to turn towards Gatsby, their roles are no longer different.. »