Blog #36

Chapter 1:
"No thanks," said Miss Baker  to the four cocktails just in from the pantry, "I'm absolutely in training." Her host looked at her incredulously. "You are!" He took down his drink as if it were a drop in the bottom of a glass.

This except is in reference to the dinner party at Tom and Daisy's house. The book was written in 1922, a time when prohibition was in full swing. Prohibition was when the sale of alcohol was banned and illegal. Of course some alcohol was still made and known as moonshine. But at this party I do not believe that the Buchanan's were serving moonshine or even had it. Tom was very, very wealthy, and he probably had many connections and all the finances in the world to be able to get his hands on alcohol. Wealthy people had the ability to have alcohol because of their social connections and of course their money. 

Chapter 2:
"Daisy! Daisy! Daisy! shouted Mrs. Wilson. "I'll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai----"
"Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand."

Throughout The Great Gatsby Tom is the character that stands out to me for the wrong reasons. He is violent and controlling with his wife, mistress, and Nick Carraway. He grabs the narrator and controls what he is shown and in turn what the reader reads. With his wife there has been some foreshadowing that maybe he is abusive to her. When he hits his mistress that is a clue that he has no respect for women at all. Not only is he cheating on his wife, but he is also physically abusive. Even though the Women's Suffrage had just ended. Women had equal rights and the ability to vote. But it seems that Tom still views women as objects that he can do whatever he likes with. They are his punching bags and he has no respect for them, regardless of Women's Suffrage. 

A picture of Jazz musician, Louis Armstrong

Chapter 3: 

By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived, no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitiful of oboes and trombones and saxophones, and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low high drums. 


The Jazz Age was up and coming in the 1920's. It was a time when there was a lot of wealth and music was becoming a big hit. Jazz was started here in America and famous musicians like Louis Armstrong were making their name. Gatsby had a party where he brought in music to his party and was following the trend of great music and jazz. 


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