"Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!" shouted Mrs. Wilson. "I'll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai----"

Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand."
-When Tom does not want Myrtle to mention Daisy, it could be a way of hiding the affair. However everyone in town apparently knows about Myrtle, this may not be the reason. Rather, it would probably be that Tom does in fact hold Dairy in a higher regard than Myrtle.  Therefore he would have felt offended if a lower class woman batters his own upper class wife.

"So Tom Buchanan and his girl and I went up together to New York- or not quite together, for Mrs. Wilson sat discreetly in another car"   

 

-Tom feels no shame or guilt for betraying his wife Daisy. 

Insists on making Daisy's cousin meet his girl, but is afraid to be seen in public with Myrtle.

“She didn’t like it” was the first thing Gatsby said to Nick after the party ended and everyone had left his place. Gatsby was very persistent that Daisy did not enjoy herself that night and went into a kind of sad state. Which further supports the point even from previous chapters that Gatsby had only wanted to impress Daisy and possibly get to spend time with her at all these parties. 

“I’d like to know who he is and what he does”. Tom is very curious and determined to find out more about Gatsby and how he came about to be so wealthy. He also goes on to say that he is some big time bootlegger as that’s how most new money people earn their wealth. This may be because, Daisy believes that Gatsby earned his wealth through lots of drugstores and Tom may want to prove her otherwise as he may be scared that Gatsby may steal her away from him. Therefore, if he finds out how Gatsby really makes his money, that Daisy would stay away from him.

“Her voice is full of money” Gatsby said. As Daisy is from the East Egg where money isn’t an issue, and she is high up the social class, she also speaks very elegantly and has the voice of the highly privileged. When Gatsby hears her speak, it may remind him of money. Therefore, he may see Daisy as a investment or trophy of some sort as if he gets her, he may also be able to rise up the social chain.

Towards the end of Chapter 7 there was a horrific scenario where Daisy took the wheel and ran over a woman named Wilson, but Daisy didn’t slow down or stop to check if she was alright, instead she drove even faster. This may also show that Daisy is very careless and reckless as she may think because she is old money and has a lot of connections due to her social rankings she can do whatever she wants.

‘I found myself on Gatsby side….some vague right at the end’ 

Highlighting the death of Gatsby and the importance of his death towards the end of the story. The fact that he did not have anybody by his side and the lack of compassion from his previous relationships he had held. The only people who stood by him were Nick and Mr Gatz, Gatsby’s father, who had his ‘mouth ajar’ with ‘eyes leaking isolated and unpunctual tears’. His response to his son’s death, showed the only naturalistic response from someone who cared for Gatsby. This is in contrast to the people Nick had invited for the funeral, who had plans elsewhere; not even Wolshiem had time for Gatsby’s funeral. The lines ‘ When a man gets killed…. I keep out…’ - The use of a self indulging and forged reasoning to not attend to his friend’s funeral objectifies the friendship, branding his company  for convenience, further exemplifying the behaviour of Wolfshiem and the reflection of people in general in the book. 

‘Daisy hadn’t set a message or a flower 

Theme of abandonment and forgetting the past is brought several times. His resentment towards Daisy is epitomised when he realised that Daisy had moved on, not even bothering to turn up for her ex-lover’s funeral. Nick’s opinion has always been in disdain of Daisy especially of her unforgivable proclivity to move on as she pleased without cherishing or being grateful to the person who always respected and cherished her - Gatsby. 

His distaste towards them was shown in the lined ‘They were careless people….they had made’ - This was what Nick felt about them; it summarised who they were as people; people who are selfish and manipulative. Despite having a complicated and dysfunctional marriage, they managed to find ways to satisfy themselves and each other without taking their own actions into any accountability. 

The idea to live and forget the past for the potential outcome of being successful, devalues the importance of companionship and virtues. 

Encompasses the essence of Gatsby’s loneliness and failure to achieve the one goal - to attain the respect and love that he yearned for. The grief and intensity of the father’s entrance in the last chapter, further solidifies the ‘ghastly surprise’ that each of the two characters felt for Gatsby’s death and the loss of someone important. 

The chapter further reflects on Gatsby’s life, and the how he was unable to relate to anybody else other than Nick, and this unreciprocated respect that he could not possibly attain from the rest of his acquaintances. It also further highlights the sheer tenacious nature of his guests who had no care for the host who went out of his way to be hospitable towards them. 

‘On last night….on the white steps an obscene word…I erased it…’ 

The responsibility for Nick to always cover Gatsby is the symbolic action that represents the entirety of this book, as Nick fails to see the objective view of Gatsby (despite claiming him to a non-partisan member in the story), instead views him out of of great respect as well as he wants us, the readers, to sympathise the lamentable life of the great Gatsby and his wretched woes. The need to protect Gatsby’s identity is further highlighted a he tries his best to protect Gatsby’s reputation. 

‘Gatsby beloved in the green light…. No matter tomorrow we will run faster stretch out our arms farther’

There is this recurring theme of the American Dream that was never really achieved by Gatsby and its sense of hopelessness and sheer destruction of a personality that wanted so much but got nothing out of it.