Chapter 2 Analysis:
- Nick Carraway describes woman as if they are insignificant to the males.
- During the 1920's though women were insignificant to their male counterparts, so Carraway's characterization of them is not wrong.
- Tom B. buys Myrtle a puppy and gives her enough money to by ten more dogs.
- Tom B. hits Myrtle who is supposed to be his mistress
- The fact that he hit Myrtle shows that their relationship is not evolved, it is more like an arrangement of money and sexual favors
- Mr. Wilson is more interested in males than in females, which is not uncommon for men because they have more in common with other males than with females, what is interesting is that he is uninterested in taking nude pictures of the woman.
- Mr. Wilson and Nick leave the apartment together and the next scene implies that something sexual has occurred: "... I was standing beside his bed and he was sitting up between the sheets, clad in his underwear, with a great portfolio in his hands."
- That scene could have just been as simple as it is stated, Mr. Wilson took off his pants because he wanted to be comfortable and sat in his bed, or, like the rest of the chapter, insinuate that a sexual event, or something that should not be happening, happened.