Twice as long as every other chapter<span>, it first of the ratchets up on the tension of the </span>Gatsby<span>-Daisy-Tom triangle into a breaking point in a well being claustrophobic </span>scene<span> at the Plaza </span>Hotel<span>, and then ends with the grizzly gut of punch of Myrtle's death. </span><span />
Victories in the battles of Trenton and Princeton helped raise morale when the Patriot cause seemed to be lost.
