The main theme of Chapter 7 seems to be truth. Tom finds out what he initially suspected to be true: the affair between Daisy and Gatsby. Wilson also finds out that Myrtle has been cheating on him as well, although he doesn’t know it’s with Tom. Gatsby finds out that Daisy has a child and the audience learns that Gatsby is truly an Oxford man even if it was only for a couple of months. The audience also learns that what Daisy does is ultimately for show. For example, when her daughter comes out she only seems to care about showing off her appearance: “That’s because your mother wanted to show you off.” Her main interest is the reaction of her guests, in particular Gatsby, rather than the child. Jumping back to the beginning of the book, it is ironic that Daisy says that little girls should grow up to be “beautiful fools”, because that is exactly what Daisy is. She is naive and concerned about only the beautiful materialistic things in life that she can show off. It is also aggravating that Tom is angry about the affair between Daisy and Gatsby. He really has no reason to be mad because he, after all, is cheating on Daisy as well. He has no right to mock Gatsby and confront Daisy and tell her what she is doing is wrong because he has done the same thing.
Later in the chapter, there is a big fight and Daisy drives home with Gatsby to try to calm down. This doesn’t work obviously because she is so worked up that she hits Myrtle Wilson with the car and kills her. Gatsby, willing to do anything for her, takes the blame for the murder. Now, with Daisy upset and Myrtle dead, Tom has nobody and he looks to Daisy to work things out because he needs somebody in his life. This goes back to the materialistic things to show off to people to increase status. In the end, Gatsby is left by himself with a murder on his hands and waiting for a love that will never come back to him.
Later in the chapter, there is a big fight and Daisy drives home with Gatsby to try to calm down. This doesn’t work obviously because she is so worked up that she hits Myrtle Wilson with the car and kills her. Gatsby, willing to do anything for her, takes the blame for the murder. Now, with Daisy upset and Myrtle dead, Tom has nobody and he looks to Daisy to work things out because he needs somebody in his life. This goes back to the materialistic things to show off to people to increase status. In the end, Gatsby is left by himself with a murder on his hands and waiting for a love that will never come back to him.