Mood In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick attends several gatherings; In which Nick’s mood is explored in different ways. How does Nick feel when he is a at Tom Buchanan's house? If I were to direct the movie, The Great Gatsby, during the scene at Tom’s house I would include a lyric in the song “Speak Now”, by Taylor Swift. When Nick gets to Tom’s house, he feels awkward when he has a conversation with Tom, Daisy, and Jordan, people he does not know. Specifically, Nick feels most tense when the woman Tom is having an affair with calls at dinner: “...but I doubt even if Miss Baker, who seemed to have mastered a certain hardy skepticism, was able utterly to put this fifth guest’s shrill metallic urgency out of mind. To a certain temperament

Nick is uncomfortable consequently, he compares it to calling the police. To illustrate this, Nick almost thinks it is necessary to receive outside help to calm down the internal shock and troubled feelings among the people at the table. While some are able to barely retain calm faces, internally they all could not bare the feeling of uneasiness. Since everyone's reaction to the phone ring is alarming, we can assume they knew, what was on the other side of the phone was not pleasant. In Taylor Swift's song, “Speak Now”, she introduces the idea of a hostile situation: “All eyes on me, Horrified looks from everyone in the room but I'm only looking at you”(Speak Now, Taylor Swift). Similarly to the quote, there is an uneasy feeling between the guests at Tom’s house and the people that Taylor describes in the lyric. While in reality, not everyone in the room looked horrified, having someone call in the middle of dinner, commenced Tom, Daisy, Jordan, and Nick, to have horrified inner emotions, accordingly pushing Nick’s urgency to want to escape the situation or metaphorically call the