Chapter 6 The Great Gatsby

Nick describes this party in a way which starkly contrasts his wonder at the party of chapter 3. Nick wonders whether it is Tom's influence that "gave the evening its peculiar quality of oppressiveness" and makes him "feel an unpleasantness in the air, a pervading harshness that hadn't been there before." Nick also considers if this new mood is because he is "looking at it again, through Daisy's eyes." And describes it as "invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment".

"Daisy and Gatsby danced... Then they sauntered over to my house and sat on the steps for half an hour, while at her request I remained watchfully in the garden. 'In case there's a fire or flood,' she explained, 'or any act of God.'" (page 80)

"Almost the last thing I remember was standing with Daisy and watching the moving-picture director  and his Star. They were still under the white plum tree and their faces were touching except for a pale, thin ray of moonlight between. It occurred to me that he had been very slowly bending toward her all evening to attain this proximity, and even while I watched I saw him stoop one ultimate degree and kiss at her cheek."