Background

Tension

"'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.'"(Fitzgerald222)

"Tom coldly"(Fitzgerald 29) "Tom Buchannan's mistress"(Fitzgerald 28)

"..attempt to find my host"(Fitzgerald 46) "those who accepted Gatsby's hospitality and paid him the subtle tribute of knowing nothing whatever about him"