Chapter 2 questions 1-14

1) it is halfway between West Egg and New York, and it is a farm where ashes build up, like an old industrial site. Everything is grey, and it symbolizes shadow of death.

2) They are the eyes of God. His face is on a billboard, they are watching everything and they see everything, even though there is no one there.

3) Spiritless, Anemic, faintly hansom. His wife, Myrtle Wilson, is kind of opposite because she is so lively. She walks by him like he is dead and metaphorically he is.

4) New York is the place where dreams hit reality. Every time they go there their dreams run into reality. Myrtle dream disappears in New York and realizes Tom will never leave Daisy for her. And Tom smacks Myrtle in the face and breaks her nose.

5) It is a gossip magazine, it symbolizes that New York is a gossip town. And it is a foreshadow that they are going to be in the Town Tattle.

6) They live below the apartment that Tom and Myrtle have their affair in. He is not very successful, he needs an entry into the photography business.

7) She is the only one sober and she is Myrtle’s sister. She likes to butt into everyone’s conversations. Not the nicest character.

8) That she is catholic and she doesn’t believe in Divorce.

9) Everyone has dreams, he dream is to be rich and famous and admired. But when she married George he lied about what he said he was and so now she resents him for it.

10) She thinks of the dog the way Tom thinks of women, and her. “I want to get one for the apartment, they are nice to have, a dog.” She wants dogs of really true breading but gets a mutt, like her.

11) All of her money was stolen in Monty Carlo.

12) She says he is related to Kaizer, which makes people think that he is from old money when they really don’t know that he comes from new money.

13.) She married George because he had dreams and she thought he was going to do good things. She found out thought that he had become worthless and she regrets the marriage. When she was choosing her dog she first asked for a police dog an then a few more pure breeds but there were none so she had to get the mutt, now she has a mutt instead of a pure bread just like her marriage she is married to a worthless man instead of a rich confident man.

14.) Myrtle was bugging Tom about Daisy she was saying Daisy’s name repeatedly in order to anger Tom, so he hit her. This shows how much Tom really doesn’t care about Myrtle. Myrtle feels way more for Tom then he does for her. To Tom she is just another woman to sleep with, but to Myrtle Tom is this life that she has always wanted.