The Great Gatsby: Chapter 7 cont.

Continuing chapter 7 of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, chaos unfolds.  The theme of the entire novel is modernism.  Modernism is the idea of the American dream, the pursuit of happiness, and the quest to have exactly what one wants.  Gatsby is finding this to be difficult.  All he wants is Daisy, who symbolizes his ultimate happiness, but he is struggling in getting her because she is married.  In this chapter the newest obstacle is she killed a woman with Gatsby's car and stop to see if the woman was okay.  Gatsby plans to take the blame, because he believes that he will have immunity from the police like he did when he was pulled over.  I believe that in the chapters to come he is going to have a rude awakening when he is throne in jail or when Daisy is found to be the guilty one.  Throughout the novel the theme becomes progressively more important, especially in this chapter.

" 'I want to wait till Daisy goes to bed.  Goodnight, old sport,' " (Fitzgerald, 145).

Gatsby said this to Nick.  This just goes to show how much Gatsby wants the perfect life, which is found in the theme of modernism.