The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
A reading guide on chapter 7 from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
introDUction
During chapter 7 of Gatsby, Nick and Gatsby go to Tom and Daisy’s house where they lounge with them and Jordan for the afternoon. They drink and spend time with one another and as the afternoon stretches towards evening everyone decides to go to the Plaza Hotel. Gatsby and Daisy take Tom’s Blue Coupé to the Plaza Hotel while Nick, Tom, and Jordan take Gatsby’s yellow Rolls Royce. On their way, Nick, Tom, and Jordan stop for gas...
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an author during the Jazz Age, a term he popularized after WWI to convey the “era’s newfound prosperity, consumerism, and shifting sexual mores.” Although his most popular book was The Great Gatsby, he originally rose to fame in 1920 at 23 years old when he published This Side of Paradise.
