The Great Gatsby. CHAPTER 7 The communication of this invitation through Gatsby suggests initially to Nick that something was up.

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CHAPTER 7
The communication of this invitation through Gatsby suggests initially to Nick that ‘something was up’. The air tension is increased by Fitzgerald’s use of pathetic fallacy: the weather is “Hot!…Hot!…Hot!” so that it, like the atmosphere in the chapter ‘hovered on the edge of combustion’.

It is almost the last day of summer, appropriately. There is a feeling that the last chance for Gatsby; that the darker days of autumn and winter are on their way; that things are drawing to a close with the demise of the summer.

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The telephone call received by Tom at luncheon (from Mrs.Wilson) adds to the air of expectancy and tension. It is also the first time the reader has seen all of the main characters of the play gathered together, adding to the idea that the climax is due soon. Daisy and

Jordan’s skin is powdered over, suggesting a papering over of cracks, and the falsity of the situation.

Nick contemplates ‘the scalloped ocean and the abounding blessed isles’, almost palpably desiring an escape.

Daisy’s public kissing of Gatsby, suggests that she is ready to make the ...

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