1. The chapter opens on a blistering hot day in the days before air conditioning. How is the behavior of the characters linked to the weather?

       answer：天气热，人就容易心浮气躁，失去理智，昏头昏脑，毫无顾忌；太热了，天天待家里无事可干也会让人心烦，想寻乐子

    2. What does Tom discover that unnerves him, and how did he discover it?

      answer：发现了盖茨比和daisy之间的不同寻常，daisy和盖茨比毫无遮掩的眉来眼去打情骂俏，想不发现都不难。

‘Who wants to go to town?’ demanded Daisy insistently. Gatsby’s eyes floated toward her. ‘Ah,’ she cried, ‘you look so cool.’

Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table.

‘You always look so cool,’ she repeated.

She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. He was astounded. His mouth opened a little and he looked at Gatsby and then back at Daisy as if he had just recognized her as some one he knew a long time ago.

‘You resemble the advertisement of the man,’ she went on innocently. ‘You know the advertisement of the man——‘

‘All right,’ broke in Tom quickly, ‘I’m perfectly willing to go to town. Come on—we’re all going to town.’

He got up, his eyes still flashing between Gatsby and his wife. No one moved.

      3. What had Gatsby understood about Daisy’s voice, that Nick had not?

        answer：金钱

‘She’s got an indiscreet voice,’ I remarked. ‘It’s full of——‘

I hesitated.

‘Her voice is full of money,’ he said suddenly.

That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it…. High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl….

         4. In what cars do the five of them travel into the city?

         answer：Tom，Nick，Jordan三人坐盖茨比的车，盖茨比和daisy开Tom的coupe

He opened the door but she moved out from the circle of his arm.

‘You take Nick and Jordan. We’ll follow you in the coupé.’

She walked close to Gatsby, touching his coat with her hand. Jordan and Tom and I got into the front seat of Gatsby’s car, Tom pushed the unfamiliar gears tentatively and we shot off into the oppressive heat leaving them out of sight behind.

      5. Why do you suppose that Tom decided to finally let Wilson have the car he had been promising him?

      answer：   因为Wilson已经发现了他妻子的外遇，虽然目前还没有找出是谁，但是Tom知道如果Wilson不能和他妻子立马离开，极有可能发现他妻子的出轨对象是Tom，破财消灾

‘Your wife does!’ exclaimed Tom, startled.

‘She’s been talking about it for ten years.’ He rested for a moment against the pump, shading his eyes. ‘And now she’s going whether she wants to or not. I’m going to get her away.’

The coupé flashed by us with a flurry of dust and the flash of a waving hand.

‘What do I owe you?’ demanded Tom harshly.

‘I just got wised up to something funny the last two days,’ remarked Wilson. ‘That’s why I want to get away. That’s why I been bothering you about the car.’

‘What do I owe you?’

‘Dollar twenty.’

     6. What indication is there at this point that Tom means quite a bit to Myrtle?

       answer：她想把Tom当做自己的私有物，对拥有Tom的人充满了嫉妒与疯狂

        In one of the windows over the garage the curtains had been moved aside a little and Myrtle Wilson was peering down at the car. So engrossed was she that she had no consciousness of being observed and one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture. Her expression was curiously familiar—it was an expression I had often seen on women’s faces but on Myrtle Wilson’s face it seemed purposeless and inexplicable until I realized that her eyes, wide with jealous terror, were fixed not on Tom, but on Jordan Baker, whom she took to be his wife.

       7. Besides Myrtle’s, what other eyes “kept their vigil”?

        answer:That locality was always vaguely disquieting, even in the broad glare of afternoon, and now I turned my head as though I had been warned of something behind. Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg kept their vigil but I perceived, after a moment, that other eyes were regarding us with peculiar intensity from less than twenty feet away.

       8. As always, there is a grain of truth in what Gatsby says. In what sense is he an Oxford man?      

‘    answer :It was in nineteen-nineteen, I only stayed five months. That’s why I can’t really call myself an Oxford man.’处于懵懂状态，我也不是很清楚，哈哈哈

        9. What does Nick mean and why did he say, “Angry as I was, I was tempted to laugh whenever (Tom) opened his mouth. The transition from libertine to prig was so complete”? 

‘      answer：Tom是典型的只准州官放火，不许百姓点灯，Nick生气于Tom说话太过分了，完全不顾这么多人在场，将在场的人弄得颜面尽失，而对于Tom那么厚脸皮的将自己出轨的事儿决口不提，只职责别人对他的不忠，说的道貌岸然，让人又好气又好笑

 Self control!’ repeated Tom incredulously. ‘I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that’s the idea you can count me out…. Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions and next they’ll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white.’

          10. Why does Daisy say to Tom that he is revolting? 

       answer：  因为Tom理直气壮的将自己的出轨说成是逢场作戏，说自己全心全意爱着daisy，虽然身体出轨了，精神没有出轨；并且还说daisy蠢的不行。哈哈哈，确实挺恶心的

You’re crazy!’ he exploded. ‘I can’t speak about what happened five years ago, because I didn’t know Daisy then—and I’ll be damned if I see how you got within a mile of her unless you brought the groceries to the back door. But all the rest of that’s a God Damned lie. Daisy loved me when she married me and she loves me now.’

‘No,’ said Gatsby, shaking his head.

‘She does, though. The trouble is that sometimes she gets foolish ideas in her head and doesn’t know what she’s doing.’ He nodded sagely. ‘And what’s more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.’

         11. Why does Daisy have a tough time saying, as Gatsby wishes, that she never loved Tom? 

          answer：因为daisy和Tom在这五年的相处中确实有过美好甜蜜的时刻，那时的她肯定心动过，不管是因为Tom的钱还是Tom给她的温柔浪漫，所以她没有办法干脆的说她从未爱过Tom，她很清楚她若是这样说了，对Tom也是一种巨大的伤害

‘I never loved him,’ she said, with perceptible reluctance.

‘Not at Kapiolani?’ demanded Tom suddenly.

‘No.’

From the ballroom beneath, muffled and suffocating chords were drifting up on hot waves of air.

‘Not that day I carried you down from the Punch Bowl to keep your shoes dry?’ There was a husky tenderness in his tone. ‘… Daisy?’

         12. Why is it important to Gatsby that Daisy say she never loved Tom, only him? 

            answer：因为当初的daisy是全心全意爱着他的，没有Tom，没有第三者的介入，但是他当初太穷了，导致了他们五年的分离，现在盖茨比有钱了，他想将事情都修补回当初那样，只有二人的世界，圆了他心中的梦想，如果daisy只爱他一人，那么他还能骗自己这五年的分离并没有任何的改变，他们依然如初，相互爱慕，但是如果daisy还爱Tom，那么这就说明时间确实改变了许多，任何人都不能将过去重演，就算再有钱，也没有能力扭转过去，这让他觉得就算有钱了也不是什么事儿都是他说了算，感到挫败

         13. How did Gatsby get some of his money, and what does Tom say that startles Gatsby?

‘      answer：走私卖酒I found out what your ‘drug stores’ were.’ He turned to us and spoke rapidly. ‘He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That’s one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him and I wasn’t far wrong.’

       Tom说的关于他是如何起家做的那些违法的事情让盖茨比很吃惊，Tom查到不少事情

‘What about it?’ said Gatsby politely. ‘I guess your friend Walter Chase wasn’t too proud to come in on it.’

‘And you left him in the lurch, didn’t you? You let him go to jail for a month over in New Jersey. God! You ought to hear Walter on the subject of YOU.’

‘He came to us dead broke. He was very glad to pick up some money, old sport.’

‘Don’t you call me ‘old sport’!’ cried Tom. Gatsby said nothing. ‘Walter could have you up on the betting laws too, but Wolfshiem scared him into shutting his mouth.’

That unfamiliar yet recognizable look was back again in Gatsby’s face.

‘That drug store business was just small change,’ continued Tom slowly, ‘but you’ve got something on now that Walter’s afraid to tell me about.’

         14. What was Daisy’s reaction to this news? 

         answer：和盖茨比彻底掰了，既想享受，又想享受的心安理得，不沾风险，所谓既想当婊子又想立牌坊吧 

          I glanced at Daisy who was staring terrified between Gatsby and her husband and at Jordan who had begun to balance an invisible but absorbing object on the tip of her chin. 

It passed, and he began to talk excitedly to Daisy, denying everything, defending his name against accusations that had not been made. But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.

Her frightened eyes told that whatever intentions, whatever courage she had had, were definitely gone.

         15. Why does Tom make the point to Wilson that he just drove the coupe from New York and the yellow car isn’t his?

        answer：因为Wilson见过他开过一辆黄色的车，而现在目击者对警察说撞死Myrtle的是一辆黄色的车子，所以Tom要撇清自己的嫌疑，并且可能他以为是盖茨比在开车，正好可以趁机坑盖茨比一把

A pale, well-dressed Negro stepped near.

‘It was a yellow car,’ he said, ‘big yellow car. New.’

‘See the accident?’ asked the policeman.

‘No, but the car passed me down the road, going faster’n forty. Going fifty, sixty.’

‘Come here and let’s have your name. Look out now. I want to get his name.’

Some words of this conversation must have reached Wilson swaying in the office door, for suddenly a new theme found voice among his gasping cries.

         16. What indication is there that Tom really was fond of Myrtle? 

          answer：想来也并不是全无感情的，至少难过了那么一个瞬间，至少留了几滴泪

Tom drove slowly until we were beyond the bend—then his foot came down hard and the coupé raced along through the night. In a little while I heard a low husky sob and saw that the tears were overflowing down his face.

     ‘The God Damn coward!’ he whimpered. ‘He didn’t even stop his car.’

        17. Why doesn’t Nick wait for the taxi inside the Buchanan’s house? 

           answer：因为很清楚这些人之间的纠葛，突然看到Tom的情妇被车撞死了，Nick受到了巨大的冲击，想要自己独自呆着            I was feeling a little sick and I wanted to be alone.

        18. What does the reader know that Tom doesn’t? 

         answer：读者知道是daisy开车撞了他的情妇，Tom以为是盖茨比，应该是这个吧

      The God Damn coward!’ he whimpered. ‘He didn’t even stop his car.’

       19. What is the scene that Nick observes taking place between Tom and Daisy in the kitchen?

        answer：厨房密谋，ε=(´ο｀*)))唉

        Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table with a plate of cold fried chicken between them and two bottles of ale. He was talking intently across the table at her and in his earnestness his hand had fallen upon and covered her own. Once in a while she looked up at him and nodded in agreement.

They weren’t happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale—and yet they weren’t unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.

         20. What is Gatsby waiting for at the end of the chapter?

        answer:痴情不悔，到了这个地步还想守护daisy，怕她受到Tom 的虐待，希望能守护她

She’ll be all right tomorrow,’ he said presently. ‘I’m just going to wait here and see if he tries to bother her about that unpleasantness this afternoon. She’s locked herself into her room and if he tries any brutality she’s going to turn the light out and on again.’

‘I want to wait here till Daisy goes to bed. Good night, old sport.

@TS  第七章问题打卡完成，已经打了两次卡了，不知道是否要按照你那个表格打四次卡？