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8. Through Jordan, Nick and the reader find details of Tom’s behavior after his honeymoon at Santa Barbara.Jordan reveals how “Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night, and ripped a front wheel off his car”(77), which made it onto the newspapers. But it s shown that he was with a maid from the Santa Barbara Hotel, who broke her arm in the acident. The reader learns that Tom started cheating on Daisy since the beginning of their marriage and still continues. But the worse thing was that Daisy knew about it, but she did nothing about it since she did not wanted to be seen as the antagonist of the relationship. Causing her to stay with Tom and giving birth to their daughter a few months later.

9. When Daisy enters into Gatsby’s room she is fascinated of everything she sees. For example, when Gatsby takes out his shirts and throws them into the air; Daisy expresses how they are “beautiful shirts” and begins to cry. Daisy cries because all of the unfolded shirts represent freedom,spontaneity, and variety. Since Daisy has always worn white, she has never been introduced to freedom in which she can have for herself. This is also Daisy’s epiphany of Gatsby’s love, in which she realizes that Gatsby has done everything only to win her over. Overall, Daisy was surprised on the wealth Gatsby has received, that she can no longer contain her emotions about materialistic items around his mansion.

10. In chapter six Gatsby talks to Nick about his past, from being a child of two unsuccessful farmers to a rich person and how his real name s Jay Gatsby. In response Nick states about Gatsby that “He was a son of God… and he must be about his father’s business”(98)./ Nick alludes to the Bible because he sees Gatsby as a deity who has powers to create his own world. Gatsby is called “son of God” because he believes that he was destined to become successful instead of being a poor farmer like his parents from North Dakota. Overall, Gatsby has gained his fortune with a religious zeal that can not be tampered with.