Chapter seven is filled with a lot of tension as Tom and Jay go head to head over their views on how they believe a woman should be treated, particularly Daisy, and it becomes clear to Tom that Daisy may not be the innocent girl he believes her to be as he comes to realize that she and Gatsby have something much more than just a friendship. This makes Tom act out of sorts as he then comes to find out on a trip to the city that his mistress, Myrtle, is being forced by her husband to move as he suspects her of cheating on him, forcing her to end her relations with Tom. As a result, Tom loses both his wife and his mistress, as Myrtle moves and Daisy is clearly still in love with a boy from her past, and he realizes that he is no longer in control of things, causing the insecurities of the wealthy life to become apparent: he acted so controlling towards Daisy because of what he was doing to her and he didn’t want her to do the same, however she is and, unlike Tom, is not trying to hide her relations as she flirts with Jay in front of Tom and kisses him in their own house in a room full of people. However, because Gatsby is so obsessed with the notion of the past Daisy that he knew when they were younger, and Tom has developed such an emotional relationship with her over the years, when asked to choose between the two she is unable to make the decision as she admits that she loves both and will be unable to choose. Tom becomes dissatisfied with the fact that that she loves another man but is not deterred as he is confident that because she was unable to choose, their relationship is steady and he can still have control over her to do what he wants of her as at the end of the chapter he and her talk amongst themselves in their house while Gatsby watches from the outside. The chapter ends in a similar way to how Gatsby was introduced as he was watching over the green light imagining what it would be like to be reunited with Daisy and being so sure that she would leave her husband for him, to now being aware of reality and knowing that after all of the old feelings that arouse over seeing each other again, Daisy still chose to end her day with Tom, causing Gatsby to be forced to face the reality that he thought would never come true. Suffice to say, you cannot buy everything you want in life and things that come easy will never last.
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