My Pleasure Reading. Summary (pages 97-145)

   Nick decides to tell the truth about Gatsby’s past. He grew up in a poor, uneducated family, and would  have stayed that way if  he had not met the wealthy and elderly magnate Dan Cody, who took him in as a companion and taught him what he needed to know. Afterwards, Gatsby managed to become a successful man by his own efforts. 

   One day, upon visiting Gatsby at his mansion, Nick realizes that Jay fired his former servants and replaced them with some fishy characters , because Daisy has begun visiting him  almost every day, and Gatsby wants to make certain that their relation will not be revealed. 

   On the hottest day of the summer, Daisy invites Gatsby, Nick, and Jordan to lunch, during which  Tom realizes that Gatsby and his wife are romantically involved. They look at each other with passion and, after a while, Daisy  remarks, in the presence of Tom, that she loves Gatsby. Tom, desperate and furious, forces the party to drive into New York.They stop for gas at Wilson's garage. Wilson tells them that he has decided to move with his wife to the west, since he  learned that she has been having an affair, though he does not know who her lover is. Upon leaving the garage, they see Myrtle peering down at the car from her window. She stares at Jordan with an expression of jealous terror, since she assumes that Jordan is Tom's wife. Feeling that both his wife and mistress are slipping away from him, Tom becomes panicked and impatient. 

   To escape from the summer heat, the group engages a suite at the Plaza Hotel, where  Tom and Gatsby start quarelling. Tom reveals that Gatsby  has made his fortune in bootlegging and that's why Daisy is unable to leave her husband for her lover. As the party drives home to Long Island, Tom’s mistress, Myrtle, is struck and killed by Gatsby’s car (in which Jay and Daisy are riding). Gatsby tells Nick that Daisy was driving, but  he is going to take the blame for it.