Summary Of Chapter 7 Of The Great Gatsby

In chapter two of How To Read like Professor, Foster explains to readers that act of communion can be any time people decide to eat or drink together. He continues on to explain some concepts such as that eating is so uninteresting that there has to be some reason authors write about it, that acts of communion only happen with people you're comfortable with, and that there maybe an underlying emotion or message hidden in these meals. All of these ideas can be found in chapter 7 of The Great Gatsby where Tom Buchanan invites everyone over for lunch; things escalate while sipping wine and waiting for the food. Eating brunch with you best friend might sound fun, but Foster brings up the point that it is infact fairly boring to write an eating scene. This causes readers to assume

Miss Baker would be there. Half an hour later Daisy herself telephoned and seemed relieved to find that I was coming. Something was up”(Fitzgerald 126). In this part readers can come to the conclusion that F. Scott Fitzgerald is up to something when writing his lunch scene. Additionally, another idea of Fosters appears in The Great Gatsby, and it's that usually, people will only commit acts of communion with those they feel comfortable with. Tom gets angry as he picks up on Daisy's compliments towards Gatsby, ““Come on!” His temper cracked a little. “What’s the matter, anyhow? If we’re going to town, let’s start.””(Fitzgerald 140) Lunch, the main act of communion, was pushed aside as they became angered with one another, breaking the comfortable bond. Furthermore, the last idea becomes evident that there's an underlying meaning in communion. Name finds herself swooning over Gatsby which during their gathering,”Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the