She doesn’t understand why they can’t get divorced and marry each other. “What I say is, why go on living with them if they can’t stand them? If I was them I’d get a divorce and get married to each other right away.” ( The Great Gatsby, chapter 2) Catherine tells Nick that “neither of them can stand the person they’re married to,” talking about Tom and Myrtle. Nick dislikes the energy of the party and wants to leave but finds himself amused by it at the same time. They all decided on the fact that Gatsby’s money is dirty. She heard that he is a member of the German emperor’s family. Gatsby becomes the subject, and Catherine expresses her fears of Gatsby. While the party gets louder and wilder, they start gossiping about other people. Nick confesses that it is the second time in his life he is drunk. Catherine is a redhead girl who overdoes it with makeup, and the couple, McKees, don’t make the best impression either. They decide to have a party, and Myrtle’s sister, Catherine, and another couple join them. Later, Nick, Tom, and Myrtle go to the apartment in New York, which Tom keeps just for his love affair issue. Wilson leaves the house, telling her husband she’s meeting up with her sister. She should come to the train station and meet them there. When George walks out to get some chairs, Nick tells Myrtle he wants to see her. “Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment and as she expanded the room grew smaller around her until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot through the smoky air.” ( The Great Gatsby, chapter 2) His wife, Myrtle, on the other hand, makes an impression of being lively and seductive. Wilson is a handsome man but tired of this life and covered with ashes. They walk to George Wilson’s garage, where Tom wants to speak to George about selling his car. Tom suddenly wants to get off in the Valley of Ashes. One day Tom and Nick are on a train riding to the city. Eckleburg, eye practitioner, looking after the people covered in ashes. Two eyes, “blue and gigantic - their retinas are one yard high,” stare down on the valley through glasses from the billboard. “This is a valley of ashes – a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.” ( The Great Gatsby, chapter 2) Nick describes it as abandoned land, which was once advanced, totally buried under ashes to the point that everything seems ash-grey. The Great Gatsby‘s Chapter 2 starts with Nick describing an area called “ Valley of Ashes.” It’s the valley between West Egg and New York City where all the ashes from the city are dropped.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |