Chapter+7

Summary:
===Daisy and Gatsby are spending more time together, so he fires all his servants that might leak the gossip around town. Daisy invites Gatsby and Nick over and the two arrive at Daisy's house where Tom and Jordan Baker are. Daisy suggests the group go to the city for the day. She then insists on riding in the car with Gatsby. In the city, they spend time in a hotel room, and Tom confronts Gatsby about his suspicions about Gatsby wanting to seduce Daisy. A big fight erupts, and they all decide to leave for home. Daisy drives Gatsby's car and runs over Myrtle which kills her. She continues to drive away. ===

Time Period:
===Gatsby brags about going to Oxford which shows how people were concerned with achievements and statuses. At the hotel, they tried to be sophisticated and order fancy drinks for the appearance of being rich and worldly people. Finally, a man at the scene of the crime is continually referred to as the "Negro," which shows the discrimination of the time period. ===

Relation to Fitzgerald's Life:
===Gatsby is in love with Daisy just as Fitzgerald is in love with Zelda. Gatsby realizes he never stopped loving Daisy and was waiting for the moment that they would be together again. Fitzgerald loved Zelda even though he had mistresses throughout their marriage. Daisy still loved Gatsby even though she was married. ===

Common Themes:
===Towards the end of the book, the reader notices a common theme: very nearly all the characters in the novel are not, at their cores, good people. Daisy especially is hopelessly spoiled, but all of them excepting Gatsby and Nick are deeply selfish and have no real morals. Senses of love, friendship and affection are warped and the characters see nothing wrong with adultery and even manslaughter. Seeing as Gatsby started out poor and Nick is not as well of as the others, it can be inferred that this lack of moral character is a result of extreme wealth. It's not a good portrayal of the rich, but it may be an accurate one. ===

Marxist View:
===Daisy runs over Myrtle, and doesn't stop. She thinks that Gatsby will take the blame if someone ever finds out. This shows how the wealthy weren't responsible and didn't think that anything bad could happen them. If they were of a lower class, they probably would have had enough of a conscious to stop the car. ===

Feminist View:
===Daisy is in the middle in this chapter. She has the man she used to love come back, and her husband both fighting over her. This makes her unstable and unable to think clearly. Women were not able to handle stressful situations, and when they were put into situations like this, they folded and could not mentally handle it. ===

Colors as Symbols:
===A woman next to Nick on the train "perspired delicately for a while into her white shirtwaist." ( Fitzgerald 114) While in the hotel suite, Daisy and Jordan are both wearing white dresses. Again, Daisy's neck is described as small and white. Using the color white in reference to women symbolizes how elegant and graceful they are. ===

**Sources:**
===//Dictionary.com | Free Online Dictionary for English Definitions//. Web. 08 Apr. 2011. < http://dictionary.reference.com/> ===