Gatsby's "social mask" begins to slip as he gets rejected by Daisy, one can discover that the main purpose of Gatsby's parties are not for pleasure but rather for the hope that Daisy will notice the extravagance and come back to him. Nick's "curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night- and his career as Trimalchio was over . Gatsby puts on a show for Daisy and the people, one can notice that Gatsby is emotionally unstable without Daisy.He remains a rather mysterious character with changes and he changes into his true personality without the extravagant parties. He hides behind a amour of steel perhaps in chapter seven he can be perceived as weak character.
When Daisy kisses Gatsby it seems that he’s won. But even Gatsby senses that Daisy’s daughter symbolizes a shared past between Daisy and Tom that Gatsby can’t touch. "Afterward he kept looking at the child with surprise.I don't think he had ever really believed in its existence before. A child which is supposed to represent something pure and innocent however in contrast it represents a sense of gloominess and melancholy. The child is perhaps a hint that Tom and Daisy do love each other and that Daisy may not love Tom for his money.
Through Nick's narrative voice the point that is being put across is that Daisy and Gatsby's relationship cannot work due to the child, Tom and the strict marriage values of the era.In the oppressive hot weather the main characters decide to take a suite at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. The idea that they would decide leave the Long Island beach to go to the scorching city is completely absurd. Tom suggests that they all take "the less explicable step of engaging the parlour of a suite in the Plaza Hotel", perhaps Tom wants to rent the suite so that he can create a more claustrophobic atmosphere in order to target Gatsby for kissing Daisy and also to watch the bond between Daisy and Gatsby.
Although Tom wants to create tension he wants to use the plaza a symbol to show Gatsby that he is "old money" and that he and Daisy belong in the Plaza hotel with the other people who also come from a wealthy aristocratic background. Nick goes onto say that "the notion originated with Daisy's suggestion that we hire five bathrooms and take cold baths", it can be suggested that Daisy can feel that Tom is going to cause trouble between himself and Gatsby and she has only the best intentions for Gatsby in order to protect him from Tom by suggesting the idea.The reader can sympathise with Wilson's situation, when Tom orders Daisy to come with him she refuses, going alone with Gatsby in Tom's blue coupe. Tom, Jordan, and Nick stop for gas along the way at George Wilson's auto garage, where the discover "that Wilson was so sick that he looked guilty, unforgivably guilty-as if he had gotten some poor girl with child". George having realized his wife has been unfaithful, just not with whom informs the trio that Myrtle and he are moving west immediately.
Nick quickly points out the irony of Tom who has been cheating with Myrtle Wilson making the similar discovery less than an hour before. Ironically George Wilson for the scandal between Myrtle Wilson and Tom Buchannan and there is a certain juxtaposition between the characteristics of the two. Perhaps, Myrtle only wants to be Tom's mistress because of his wealth and his strong appearance that he gives of rather than Wilson who adores his wife. It shows the inequality of society and how it can affect people even if they have good qualities about them.
