The Great Gatsby

The second chapter of The Great Gatsby started out confusing, until I read on. It is talking about how Nick is going with Tom to New York. Then on the way they stop at a gas station where Tom is getting a car and the guy there, Mr. Wilson, really likes Tom. Apparently he doesn’t know about Tom and Myrtle and their secret relationship. I’m really not sure why Tom took Nick to see her and completely prove the fact that Tom is in fact having an affair. I also really don’t understand why Nick is going along with it. I don’t understand why Nick is not getting mad about Tom and his other woman. Tom really isn’t my favorite person in the book at all. I can understand why there are times when you want to have an affair and why he would want to because he doesn’t love Daisy apparently, but it doesn’t make it any less wrong. Then they arrive in New York and Myrtle buy some things including a dog. They go to her apartment and she calls up her friends and sister. I personally think that the sister, Catherine, was totally hitting on Nick and all. The photographer and his wife were very annoying people all they talked about was taking photographs and who would be good in what picture. I don’t think I could last too long with them. The billboard with the picture of his uncle has a very strong meaning to it and it gives him a glance at the past and at his life and how it has turned out.