The Unquiet Darkness of West Egg

"I was confused and a little disgusted as I drove away. It seemed to me that the thing for Daisy to do was to rush out of the house, child, and arms," he writes. "As for Tom, the fact that he had some woman in New York was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book." Gatsby's first meeting with Buchanan's mistress took place on his way home from West Egg.