El gran gatsby resumen capitulo dos

Chapter two starts out in a dirty part of the long island outskirts of New York City. Nick and Tom are passing through this area on the train commuting from West Egg to Manhattan when Tom forces Nickto get off the train with him to pick up his lover, Myrtle, who lives in the area. They all head to New York , and Myrtle and Tom decide to host a party at their apartment. Many people come and drinka lot, and at the end Myrtle gets extremely drunk and begins rambling on about her relationship with her husband and with Tom, and Tom`s relationship with Daisy. She talks nastily about Daisy, andupon hearing her do this, Tom promptly hits her and breaks her nose. Thus ending the night with sore feelings and a fresh load of drama.

Introduction to Selected Quotation:
This excerpt is fromchapter two, during the party at Tom`s apartment in New York City. They`re all sitting around gossiping and discussing unsubstantial subjects, meanwhile drinking a lot of whisky and other drinks. Nick islistening and sometimes contributing, but mainly just sitting with the group in a detached manner; taking the whole scene in.

Quotation:
“I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the parkthrough the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair. Yet high over the city our line of yellowwindows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneouslyenchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” (pg. 35)

Analysis of Quotation:
In the above quotation Fitzgerald utilizes figurative languages to relay his message. He uses simile todemonstrate how difficult it was to escape from the unfortunate situation he was in “each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild, “strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes,...