Chapter 2

1) It is halfway between West Egg and New York, and it is a farm where ashes build up, like an old industrial site. Everything is grey, and it symbolizes shadow of death.
2) They are the eyes of God. His face is on a billboard, they are watching everything and they see everything, even though there is no one there.
3) Spiritless, Anemic, faintly hansom. His wife, Myrtle Wilson, is kind of opposite because she is so lively. She walks by him like he is dead and metaphorically he is.
4) New York is the place where dreams hit reality. Every time they go there their dreams run into reality. Myrtle dream disappears in New York and realizes Tom will never leave Daisy for her. And Tom smacks Myrtle in the face and breaks her nose.
5) It is a gossip magazine. It reinforces the gossip about Gatsby going around
6) Chester McKee. He needs an entry, that is why he is not successful.
7) She is a gossip queen, she talks a lot of trash. She
8) She was a catholic, it was brought up by Tom so that he could keep up his affair and stay out of trouble easier.
9) That is the life she wants to live. It represents the American Dream in that anything is possible, so go for it.
10) The dog is a mutt and that is what she is considered in the social class.
11) She is a high maintenance woman. She needs money in her life to bring her joys.
12) "They say he's a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm's. That's where all his money comes from." This means that he is REALLY rich. He's been making bank. So Catherine knows that he has power, but could also buy her things. It would be in her best intrest to be there and be careful not to break his trust.
13) Myrtle wants a police dog. Police dogs are pure bread, meaning high class. Myrtle wants to be in high class, but she gets a mutt, and is in the mutt, lower, class.
14) He broke her nose, which basically means that he obviously doesn't care about her, and that she doesn't belong in his class.