![]() The party breaks up abrubptly and Nick heads home on the 4 am train to Long Island.Ībout half way between West Egg and New York the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. However, Myrtle screams the name Daisy at the top of her lungs, at which point, Tom hits her, breaking her nose. ![]() ![]() Tom warns Myrtle not to talk about his wife under any circumstances. Myrtle’s sister tells Nick the rumour that Gatsby is the nephew or cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm.Īs the party goes on, the group spend the afternoon becoming increasingly drunk, and Myrtle starts talking about her life, her marriage, how she met Tom and finally, Tom’s marriage to Daisy. At the apartment, Myrtle calls her sister and her friends, the McKees, to join them, and the group throw an impromptu party. While on the way to Tom’s apartment in Morningside Heights that he keeps for his affair, he buys Myrtle a dog from a man selling them. They converse, and Myrtle, who is sensual and desperately energetic, joins them, then excuses herself from her husband on the pretence of seeing her sister in New York. The men arrive at a car repair garage owned by the downtrodden and lifeless George Wilson, Myrtle’s husband. Tom insists that he and Nick stop on their train journey on the way to New York to meet her. ![]() ![]() Nick states that he first met Tom’s mistress, Myrtle Wilson, in the Valley of Ashes. A decaying billboard featuring the large, spectacled, blue eyes of Doctor T. Nick describes the Valley of Ashes, a grey expanse of formerly developed land between West Egg and New York City, where New York’s ashes are dumped. ![]()
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