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Chapter 2.  Went to meet Tom’s mistress, Myrtle.  What happened at the end of the chapter? ◦ Nick is experimenting with his sexuality. Nick has intercourse.

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1 Chapter 2

2  Went to meet Tom’s mistress, Myrtle.  What happened at the end of the chapter? ◦ Nick is experimenting with his sexuality. Nick has intercourse with Mr. McKee

3  More rumors…

4  Is not afraid to show off his mistress.  Buys Myrtle a dog  Has a furnished apartment for Myrtle.  Brakes Myrtle’s nose.

5  Lives in the Valley of Ashes with her husband.  Treats her husband, George Wilson, as if he is a ghost.  Having an affair with Tom Buchanan.  Buys the Town Tattle, waits for a new taxi cab, wears her best dress.  Gets her nose broken after screaming the words “Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!”  Says George isn’t fit to lick her shoe.

6  Is married to Myrtle  Lives in the Valley of Ashes and owns a repair shop.  Is waiting for Tom to sell him a car.

7  A desolate area where empty people labor  Symbolizes the “wasteland mentality” of the materialistic middle class.  Spiritual emptiness of society  “Watched over” by the giant eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg.

8  Watch over the Valley of Ashes.  Godlike  Sign from a doctor trying to make more money for himself

9  White: purity  Gray: dark, gloomy, desolate, death

10  1. Myrtle wants a dog.  2. Wilson and Tom  3. Myrtle at the hotel party  4. Myrtle’s sister, Catherine gossiping  5. Myrtle gets her nose broken.


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