Gatsby pages 27-38

Second post of my Gatsby thoughts, we're on a roll :)

Vocabulary Learned
Transcendent: to go above and beyond
Supercilious: behaving or looking as someone superior to others
Contiguous: sharing a common border; touching

• the topic of eyes was brought up a lot, symbolizing vision 
• vision probably relates to the future or the unseen (?)
• his eyes were looked up to by everyone in the valley of ashes (the place is like a dump) like they were God

The eyes see Tom's mistress (the other woman besides Daisy)

• tom and his girlfriend made plans almost in front of her the poor husband (quite the opposite of Tom)
• tom bullies his mistress' husband
• teased him about not selling a car to him

Nick is someone who gets told many secrets:

• Nick learns that Tom has a mistress
• Myrtle's (Tom's mistress) sister explains to Nick that Tom and Myrtle are together because they both can't stand their marriage partners
• Nick is told that Daisy (Tom's wife) doesn't believe in divorce because she's catholic
• (spoiler: she's not.)