hot afternoon. When Tom leaves the room, Daisy
kisses Gatsby and tells him she loves him.
Daisy’s daughter comes in and then leaves again.
Daisy and Gatsby have this moment where Daisy
tells Gatsby that he looks very cool and Tom
realized that she and Gatsby are in love. Tom is
astounded. Daisy decides that they should go to
town. They go to town, Tom taking Gatsby’s
yellow car with Nick and Jordan. Gatsby taking
his car with Daisy. Tom stops at Wilsons. Wilson
is sick because he found out that his wife is
cheating on him. He plans to move to make her
happy. They decide to get a room at the Plaza.
Daisy wants to make drinks. Tom breaks and
starts getting mad at Gatsby. Gatsby says that
Daisy loves him. Daisy eventually says that she
loves both of them. They leave, taking their own
cars. Tom, Nick, and Jordan pass a car crash in
front of Wilson’s. They find out that Myrtle was
hit by a car and killed. A witness says that she
was hit by a yellow car. Wilson is very distraught.
Pammy - Daisy and Tom’s
daughter

When they get back Daisy is home. Nick sees
Gatsby outside in the bushes. Nick finds out that
Daisy was driving the car. Gatsby says that he
will say it was him. Gatsby says that he is going
to stay til Daisy goes to bed. Nick goes to check
the house and finds that Daisy and Tom are
sitting in the kitchen talking.
8
After the day’s traumatic events, Nick passes a
sleepless night. Before dawn, he rises restlessly
and goes to visit Gatsby at his mansion. Gatsby
tells him that he waited at Daisy’s until four
o’clock in the morning and that nothing
happened—Tom did not try to hurt her and Daisy
did not come outside. Nick suggests that Gatsby
forget about Daisy and leave Long Island, but
Gatsby refuses to consider leaving Daisy behind.
Gatsby, melancholy, tells Nick about courting
Daisy in Louisville in 1917. He says that he loved
her for her youth and vitality, and idolized her
social position, wealth, and popularity. He adds
that she was the first girl to whom he ever felt
close and that he lied about his background to
make her believe that he was worthy of her.
Eventually, he continues, he and Daisy made
love, and he felt as though he had married her.
She promised to wait for him when he left for the
war, but then she married Tom, whose social
position was solid and who had the approval of
her parents.
Gatsby’s gardener interrupts the story to tell
Gatsby that he plans to drain the pool. The
Michaelis
- witness to Myrtle’s
murder

previous day was the hottest of the summer, but
autumn is in the air this morning, and the
gardener worries that falling leaves will clog the
pool drains. Gatsby tells the gardener to wait a
day; he has never used the pool, he says, and
wants to go for a swim. Nick has stayed so long
talking to Gatsby that he is very late for work. He
finally says goodbye to Gatsby. As he walks
away, he turns back and shouts that Gatsby is
worth more than the Buchanans and all of their
friends.


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