Summary Of Chapter 6 Of The Great Gatsby

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This chapter put Gatby and Tom side-by-side. While this happened briefly in Chapter 6, here the two men take each other on, head-to-head. Tom can no longer deny that Gatsby and Daisy are having an affair (specifics about that affair are however unclear. The only thing of significance is that the affair is an extension of Gatsby's dream and it leads him to the destruction of the dream and of himself). Within hours of learning in his wife's indiscretions, Tom learn's that in addition to perhaps loosing his wife, he is most certainly losing his mistress. This doubly loss enrages Tom and he strike's violently at the man he perceives as being responsible- a man who is,in his eyes, a low-class hustler, a bootlegger that will never be able to distance