Harkness Discussion Chapter 4 (11/27)

So today in class we had another one of our harkness discussions. And as it says in the title, it was indeed chapter four. Now a lot of important pieces of plot and knowledge come to light in this chapter. And there is also a completely different perspective instead of the main narrator, Nick. In our groups we discussed about these inquires further by bring up select passages and explaining them. The best conversation that was sparked over a passage came from the perspective of Jordan on page 73. Now I will not give you the quote for you to read I expect that you can actually pick up a book and find it your self but it talks about Daisy being obliviously drunk and saying that she doesn't want to marry Tom and she wants to call the wedding off. Now while she is doing this she is also ripping up a letter that we never learn who its from. So what my group was discussing was, did Nick leave out any unflattering evidence that might help up see a more clearer image? And who actually wrote that letter? For the first question my group and I all unanimously voted that Nick is 100% leaving something out because of the fact we have absolutely no reason to trust him and that he has lied to us before. And for the second question that was more discussed when the class came together as a whole, there was actually only one answer while in our group we had another. My group thought that yes this letter may have been from Gatsby, her secret admire if you did not know, or what we also thought is that it was actually from a old lover of Tom since we know he has a history of cheating and Daisy actually got her hands on. Now since we don't know this was highly argues among my group but as a whole, the class agreed it was Gatsby that wrote the letter.
Now stuff like this happens fairly often. Women almost all the time get nervous and panic a little before their wedding night, and even the guy panics! It's almost natural. But what isn't so natural is to get absolutely blackout drunk by yourself the night before your wedding and the day of your wedding. It does seem a little fishy. Now in today's standards,  the woman has equal say as the man and can choose to back out of a wedding if they want to and are not obliged to do what the man says. But back then, women could not if they wanted to or it was highly frowned upon. So Daisy really had no option then to marry him, plus who wants to upset a man with that amount of power. So Ladies, if you are 100% sure you don't want to marry someone, call off the wedding it will save you and the spouse so much pain.