Ead the excerpt from the great gatsby. the telephone rang inside, startlingly, and as daisy shook her head decisively at tom the subject of the stables, in fact all subjects, vanished into air. among the broken fragments of the last five minutes at table i remember the candles being lit again, pointlessly, and i was conscious of wanting to look squarely at every one, and yet to avoid all eyes. i couldn’t guess what daisy and tom were thinking, but i doubt if even 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 the situation might have seemed intriguing—my own instinct was to telephone immediately for the police. the phone calls that tom receives during the dinner are an indicator that he is trying to prevent his marriage from failing. he and daisy are not a happily married couple. he would rather be in the city than on the island. he has important business deals in the works.

The phone call that Tom receives during the dinner are an indicator that he and Daisy are not a happily married couple.

In chapter I of The Great Gatsby, a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tom receives a call, which indicates that he is having an affair with another woman. This leads Nick to believe that Tom and Daisy do not have a happy marriage as they pretend to show. Jordan Baker, a good friend of Daisy, is the one that tells Nick that Tom has another woman in New York. Throughout the novel, the reader finds out that the woman that tries to break up their marriage is Myrtle Wilson, a married woman that belongs to a lower class.

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.