F. Scott Fitzgerald has continued to change directions in The Great Gatsby. James Gatz is a minor character that was thrown into the novel. I was a tad confused here. It seemed to me that James Gatz was just a jounalist or a reporter who was trying to get Jay Gatsby in trouble some way. Also, this may just be me, but doesn't James Gatz and Jay Gatsby sound the same? I wonder if this is foreshadowing or will be relevant later on in the story.
Here again in this chapter of The Great Gatsby, I noticed that women remain subordinate to men. Being written at this time period and about the 1920s, this isn't so rare. On page 103, Fitzgerald writes," 'I wonder where the devil he met Daisy. By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish." In this quote right here, I noticed that maybe by his words "old-fashioned ideas," Tom Buchanan meant that women were becoming more and more involved within society; however, the mindset that these women are to remain in the home and stay within supervision is still extremely prominant.
I also learned some new information of Jay Gatsby between these pages. Daisy knew Gatsby from years ago. She explains that he got a great deal of money from his drug-stores. She admits that he owned and operated alot of these stores. This was new information that may explain why maybe he was being so secretive.
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