Daisy Wants to Run Away, Explained：make a point of

What's really going on

The party has stopped being a spectacle and become a chessboard. Daisy's wish to run away is real, and so is her fear: "I wish we could just run away," she says, then turns it down because it wouldn't be respectable — the same line between desire and duty she has been circling all along. On the phone, two people insist "We're having a row" about the future, in a conversation that sounds less like a marriage than a merger. Gatsby, meanwhile, disappears to settle "a dispute of some sort," and Daisy is left waiting — a rehearsal, in miniature, of how the relationship will end. Tom's closing line, "I think I'll make a point of finding out," turns him from careless husband into investigator.

Theme

このチャプターで学べること

• Use run away for wanting to escape
• Hear have a row as a real fight
• Use make a point of for a firm plan
• Catch make a scene as a public fuss

発音のポイント

• run away — liaison
• looking for — weak form
• how much fun we had — liaison