Gatsby, Jordan, and Nick go over to the Buchanan's house for a lunch, but later decide to go into town, on the way stopping at Wilson's garage. While in the city, because of the unbearably heat they check into a room in the Plaza Hotel. (which is the only new location introduced in this chapter) It is in the Plaza where the affair between Gatsby and Daisy is revealed out into the open. Gatsby and Tom proceed to fight over Daisy in a very tense and dramatic scene. I think this happened while in a suite in the Plaza because it's such a perfect, pristine place and it's ironic that their "perfect and pristine" lives were unraveling right in its very rooms. Underneath them they could hear music and a party taking place which contrasted the awkward fighting in their suite. Their wealth changed nothing about the secrecy and immortality in their lives; lying beneath it all they were still ordinary people. Even standing in one of the most famous hotels in New York City, could not change what they had done or felt.
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i think it was really cool that this hotel suite was the center for all the struggles in this chapter, it was such an appropriate setting for the events that transpired
I completely agree with you about how you said the room was in a way representative of the pristine life syles unraveling and at the base of it all (downstairs) was the corruption (the partying.)
I liked what you said about how the pristine hotel clashed with their fighting. Also, I think that have the characters go into the city, notoriously known for it's corruption, foreshadows what happens later in the chapter when Gatsby and Daisy are driving.
I think that it is realized in this chapter that feelings are so important between characters that even being at the Plaza doesn't change anything about what goes on between them. It doesn't matter where they are.
BTW, I liked that you included a picture! :)
I really admire that you picked up on the symbolism of the hotel! This, more than anything, highlights how corruption can lie within even the most "pristine" of places.
I agree with how you said it was ironic how their "perfect" lives begin to have a struggle in this "perfect" hotel. Do you believe that Gatsby has a real shot at becoming married or Daisy having real fealing for Gatsby?
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