1. Points most crucial to the plot in chapter 2 are: seeing that Tom is abusive and violent towards Myrtle, meeting Myrtle, and slowly finding out information about Gatsby. We also see that Myrtle becomes louder and more obnoxious with the more alcohol she has. We see that Myrtle treats her husband as if he does not exist, and that her husband and Tom actually know each other. 2. Nick meets Myrtle, Tom’s mistress, when he brings Nick to the garage where she lives with her husband. Nick was going into New York with Tom and Tom pulls him off the train when they are stopped by the ash-heaps. "We're getting off!" he insisted. "I want you to meet my girl." 3. "She smiled slowly and walking through her husband as if he were a ghost shook hands