THE GREAT GATSBY CH.2

• Transcendent means to be go above and beyond
• Tom has a wife which is Daisy,Nick's second cousin,
• Tom is cheating on Daisy and he also has a mistress
• Tom's mistress's name is Myrtle 
• Myrtle was acting like the lady of the house even though it's Daisy who is the lady of the house 
• Tom hits his mistress because she was talking bad about Daisy
• Catherine told Nick that Daisy is a catholic but it's a lie
• Nick feels like an outsider while sitting with them
• There are run on sentences to show that the narrator is drunk and to make us feel his emotions
• Contemptuous means judgmental expression but borderline anger or hate