Instead of focusing on the exterior I wanted to focus on the Interior design of Toms apartment for his marital affair for this blog post.

The apartment has various design choices that say a lot about Myrtle and Nick’s judgment at this point in the Novel. Nick describes the apartment as small but crowded in the novel and he feels as if everything is too big for the rooms their in. Which I think is alluding to the fact that Myrtle has this need for superiority and her plan to satiate it is to further her relationship with Myrtle. Unfortunately for Myrtle, the apartment is small and ordinary which is what her character ends up being, but it doesn’t stop her from trying to change this throughout the novel. The furniture inside of the apartment is more luxurious and large, the largeness is used to allude to how ridiculous her ideas of being in the upper class are. Fitzgerald uses Myrtle’s illusions of the upper class to cause and create more problems and turmoil for the other main characters.

The apartments are compared as “one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses.”(Nick) Which is Nick comparing the apartments to themselves and how ordinary they are. We see in other portions of the novel Nick speaking about how grand the mansions of people are on the West and East egg and the apartments are just not that.

On a side note I feel as if in the movie the use of the color red plays a very big role in setting the mood and tone for this section of the movie. Everywhere we’re shown in this apartment is a shade of red or undertone, setting a tone heat, sexuality, and Toms power for this portion of the book. Nick was still in his honey moon phase with all the people he had met in the novel and everything feels like a rush so his better judgement was hazy. After this party and with his honey moon phase leaving he soon began to see these characters and their relations with better judgement.